December 17th - December 21st.

December 17th, I got up and did my laundry and started packing for my trip to Kalamazoo. I made sure my fire homework was all done. Then I had class. When I was at class Zach and I were talking about what we were doing that night. I, of course, was going home, eating dinner and going to bed, meanwhile he was going out to the bar. He kept giving me shit about it and finally I said I would go out. Well Jill asked me to go to her place to pre-game before the bar as a bunch of our friends from high school would be there. So I did. We went out. I got to see a bunch of people from high school that I haven't seen in years and I also got to hang out with some fire school people. Ryan brought me home and I crashed.

Day 270:

tired baby.

Day 270:

ready for bed.

December 18th, I got up fairly early, finished packing and got ready to go. I dropped Ryan off in town and headed down to Kalamazoo. When I got there, I needed to go to the mall to do some shopping, so Katie, Justin and I went to the mall. I did some Christmas shopping and then we had dinner there. After the mall we went back to the apartment and watched Survivor because I missed it the day before because of class. After Survivor we had our family Christmas party. In one word, it was insane. I was exhausted so we called it a night kinda early.

Day 271:

modeling the hat and scarf I made her.

Day 271:

at the Christmas party

December 19th, we got up early and got ready to go. Justin graduated from college! His parents came down and I rode to the ceremony with them. It was almost the EXACT same as my ceremony, therefore incredibly boring. When the ceremony was over, Justin and I took his gown back to the return site then met his parents at the apartment where we decided where we were going to lunch and went out to eat.

We went to Hobby Lobby to spend the gift card I got for Christmas. I know, I'm a dork, I get so excited over yarn and craft supplies, haha. Then we went to Meijer to get some stuff we needed. When we got back to the 409 we stopped at the girls' apartment, we (Krissi, Craig, Dave, Justin and I) decided to go visit my favorite girl at work and eat some dinner. So we ate, and picked on our poor waitress (Katie) then headed back to the 409. We played board games while waiting for Katie to get home from work. When she got back we got ready and went out to the middle school and went sledding. After sledding, we watched Katie's film projects and headed to bed.

Day 272:

tomato man.

Day 272:

sledding.

December 20th, Justin and I got up and got ready and headed back up north. It took a while because we had a ton of crap to pack. He was going to be staying here or in Grand Haven until mid-January. We had to drive two cars, so he followed me up. We got here in the evening and hung out with my parents for a while, then wrapped some gifts before heading to bed.

Day 273:

the flowers Justin got me for our semi-anniversary.

Day 273:

back home.

December 21st we spent the day moving all the boxes from the family room in to my back bedroom. I put away all of my clothes. I know! Shocking! It is so nice to be able to finally find all my clothes. And to finally know where all my clothes are! I love it. And it is also great to feel like I have something accomplished. When we were done working on that stuff we relaxed for a while before heading to bed.

Day 274:

a new shirt of mine.

Day 274:

in front of my closet.

♥ Sara

Random Fact of the Day:

The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.

"Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home."

-Carol Nelson