Christmas

Today was a really weird day. It was Christmas but it didn't feel like Christmas at all. Except for the presents part but that was still kind of surreal. I guess the fact that I wasn't home when the whole house was decorated and that I left my "normal life" in Rexburg to come home to no snow and a weird house (because of the decorations), it just felt.... strange. My brain couldn't comprehend that it was Christmas time. And the fact that Nicole wasn't home made it even stranger. It was funny though because in like September, we watched some home movies from Christmas 1994 when it was just Nicole and I and we kept quoting stuff that we said in the video all day today. Like for instance, in one point in the video, three-year old me opens a present from six-year old Nicole and she gets really upset after I open it because I don't say thank you so she looks at me and says "Danielle, say 'Thank you, Nicole!'" Just the way she said it and looks at me is so funny. So we (mostly just Jack and I) kept saying it over and over today just because that Christmas video was hilarious.

Anywho, we got to talk to Nicole today! She told us in her email last week that she signed up to call at noon (her time) so we should expect a call from her today at 11 am. Well dad had the brilliant idea to get in his car so we could use his Bluetooth and all talk to her on speaker phone in there (because thats what we did when she got her call and she had to call everyone to tell them...) so we all got in the car and all ready to talk to her but at 11, she didn't call. She finally called at about 11:20 and when we answered the phone, she was sobbing. And when she cries, I cry. So my eyes got all watery and I was trying so hard not to cry. Luckily, I didn't but it was close. She finally composed herself and we had a really good talk with her. It was so fun to hear her voice. And just talking with her. She told us all about mission life and she even spoke to us a little bit in Mandarin which was cool. We only got to talk to her for 40 minutes though but its better that than nothing. I miss her.

The rest of Christmas was pretty good. Uneventful but just a lazy day, which is the best. We watched 'Elf' again which was my third time in the past two weeks. It was still funny. And we played Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games on the Wii for a long while yesterday and our arms were really hurting. haha but it was a fun Christmas of eating junk and doing nothing.

Its really weird to me that I've been home for more than a week. Crazy. Hopefully the rest of the semester goes by this quickly so I can return to my lovers in Rexburg. Since I miss them dearly. And when I say lovers, I mean Jessica. :) (I miss Josh too but he won't be there when I go back so I'm only mentioning Jess.)