Lauren's Happenings

Thursday.

I had so much anxiety all day because something very exciting was going to happen that night: MY SISTER WAS GOING TO GET ENGAGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She is my first sibling to get married, so it is a big deal!

I have known how he was going to propose since November 17th, but I wasn't hard to keep the secret until the day of. I almost slipped so many times!! I was just so excited for him to get here, I had so much anxiety. Eventually I had to just go into my room and do homework (I'm doing a winter class).

Finally 9:20 came around and my dad said it was time to pick Payson up from the airport. He was surprising her by coming to AZ, she had absolutely no idea.

Once we picked him up, we came back and the rest is history.

Here is a link to video if you'd like to see.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDq1KisqIrs

I pretty much documented the whole thing..

Christmas Adam. 

1. Miss Lit (my high school dance teacher), euporea alumni and I all went to lunch at Wild Flower. It was so fun to catch up and hear about everyone. It's crazy how much everyone is growing up!

2. I finally sent Sheridan her Christmas package! It is so fun to be a "missionary friend".

3. The Bloomfields (a neighborhood family) and my family all went out on the town. We went to dinner and then saw "The Forgetten Carols". I thought the performance was going to be more like a choir performance, but it was a musical. It was really good though. It really got me in the Christmas spirit.




Christmas Eve. 

1. Morgan, Alie and I all went over to my grandparents to help wrap presents. My grandma spoils us all with so many gifts, it only makes sense that we help.

2. That evening we went over to our cousin's house for our annual Despain Christmas party.

First we always eat yummy food and socialize. My favorite part of that was hearing my cousin may come to UofA and study the same major!! Great choice!! Now we just have to convince her ASU headstrong parents that UofA is a good school!

Another popular topic at dinner was Morgan's love life. I should have counted how many times Payson, and marriage came up. They gave her such a hard time.

After dinner was the nativity- you are never too old to be a part of it. In fact the best part was that Morgan (the oldest granddaughter) was Mary.

This is the day it finally hit me that Christmas was coming up! Yes a week before Christmas… It was my first day of break, so I guess I was finally able to breathe. I knew I needed more money to buy Christmas gifts so I sold my books, and some clothes. Oh and I even listened to Christmas music!!! That was my first day listening to it voluntarily.

After a few errands, I went to Christmas shopping! I ended with having 3 out of 7 gifts I needed. That was a good start I guess.

Later that night I had been assigned to help decorate and arrange goodies on a plate. My ward was going to go caroling to old people in the stake, so they wanted to give them a little treat with they were done. Anyway, that went well. Steph was a sweetheart and came with me to help get things started! There was a good turnout and we got it all done!

When we were done, the night was still young. All my roommates were gone, as were Cody's so we decided to go on Mt Lemmon and use his night vision goggles. It was fun driving up, listening to country music and talking. Once we got to the top, we saw snow and so of course we had to get out of the car!! We had a mini snowball fight… well Cody hit me more than I hit him.



After graduation we all headed over to Native New Yorker! I had somehow forgettn to eat that day, so by 8, I was so ready for dinner!! Shoutout to the Richardsons for paying for all of us. It was very nice of them!


Steph and I ended the day with watching Cow Bells, and falling asleep on the couch.