Christmas Break

Hello all!
Happy January! I can't believe it's 2010 already! 2009 went by so fast!
My Christmas break was wonderful. I did so many fun things :) It started a little early, about 2 class periods early to be exact. I got done with my first two classes and went home for lunch and my brother, Dan, asked me if I wanted to go with him and his friend, Matt, to pick up Dan's girlfriend, Shelby (she lives about 40 minutes away). So I asked my mom if I could and she was okay with it (I have such a cool mom). So we went out there and got her and on the way back we started talking about weird towns. Matt brought up that a town called Monica was only about 20 minutes away. I asked him if we could go see it (apparently it's for sale). So we took the detour and went out to Modina. The road there is long and Matt went 100 on it. It was the first time I've ever gone that fast in a car. How fun! We got there and Matt decided he wanted to check out the "hotel" (it's old and broken and made of wood...) so while he was doing that I hopped into the drivers seat and decided to drive clear across town (not even a block away) and hide from him :) I almost got the car stuck in mud on the way back to pick Matt up (he got chased by a dog). That was such a fun adventure to start out Christmas break.
That night Dan had a Christmas party and all his friends came over and spent the night playing games and watching movies. I quickly threw together some muddy buddies and rice crispy treats. It was a fun night. I went upstairs to bed around one though, most everyone else made it all night.
Dan and I went to St. George with my dad the next day and went Christmas shopping.
Sunday my mom got released from being the Young Womens president. She's been president for about 2 1/2 years. It was kind of an emotional day. She's had a lot of fun with us. But she got called into Relief Society to be a teacher. But I'm excited about the new presidency, they seem like they're going to be a lot of fun.
Our friends Kyler, and Holly came back to town to spend time with family on the 23rd. We were all kind of having a bad night, or at least everyone was really tired. Holly, Kyler and I had taken off in one car, and everyone else was at my house. Well Holly was noticing she couldn't find her phone, and then it called me. I answered it and it was Ethan. He gave me a riddle and told me to go where the riddle told me to. Well it was something that basically led me to the circle of dead guys at SUU. There was a funny note there that said in order to retrieve the phone we would have to follow the clues and answer the riddles to the location of the phone. We were so in! We went all around Cedar, we even had to go to Maverik at one point and sing a song for our friend who works there to get the next clue. Eventually the chase ended at Carl's Jr at about 11 at night (we started the race at 8 or so) what a fun night! :)
Christmas Eve we did puzzles all day. My family has this thing that over Christmas break we do all the puzzles we can. All total we usually do about 5000 pieces of puzzles (about 4 or 5 puzzles). It's so much fun. We watch all the Christmas movies while doing it.
Christmas was great. I got a lot of neat presents. I got a repelling harness, I'm so excited. And some cooking equipment, some tools, candy, and a new coat and new boots. I got a laptop in August so that was a lot of my present. Then Kyler and I went around town looking at cars (he rolled his on the black ridge coming up from California) and catching up. It was really nice. We parted and just when I got home Cameron called us. He's serving his mission in Switzerland. He is actually coming home on Monday. We're all so excited. Matt came over to talk to Cameron and he had Christmas dinner with us. Kyler came back over and we all went and saw Avatar. I thought it was pretty good. But my favorite movie for 2009 is still Star Trek.
The next week consisted of adventures with friends and studying. I have big tests coming up this month.
New Years was fun. We had a bunch of friends all come over again for an all nighter, this time Shelby brought one of her brothers, and her mom met my parents. We watched a movie and played games and watched the ball drop. I went to bed about at about one again that night, I was sick. But it was a lot of fun for what I got to see of it.
So in a lengthy but watered down version, there was my Christmas break. I had a blast. It ended soon, but I am glad to get back to school.
I hope that everyone else's break was fun too! :)