I love Thanksgiving!

The post before was what I was looking foreward too. This is the After post. It isn't the same, but it is just as good!
I drove down by myself on Wednesday at 1:30. I was going to hitch a ride with someone, but they were all leaving at like, 4. No good. I was in a good mood driving home anyway because I filled my car up with gas and it cost LESS than 20 dollars!!!!! I did a dance in my car when I was driving out of the station.
I love living on my own and away from home because it makes going back so much happier! I get home and everyone gives me a hug and says Yay! It's like they really do like me! :) Funny story of when I got home. This will probably get my father in trouble, but it was just too funny to me! I am sitting at the dining room table just chatting with my mother who is right beside me, and my dad walks in right behind her. He gets my attention all sneaky like and MOUTHs to me, "You need to dye her hair!!!" He does all this pointing to me then to my mom, and then does the whole begging gesture with his hands together like he is praying or something! I wanted to laugh so hard!! But instead, I sneakilly(?) say, "Hey mom, you want to dye my hair?" And she says, "Not tonight. I'm too tired." And I say, "If you dye my hair, I will dye your hair!" She says, "OK!!!!" He gave me his cheesy smile with two BIG thumbs up. Ha Ha!!!
So, yeah. I dyed my hair. Last time I dyed it brown, it actually LOOKED brown. I remember that the name of the color I had last time had something to do with something edible or a spice or something. I found nutmeg. The picture on the box looked brown. Just like the color I had last time. Good thing this isn't a permanent color, because it looks BLACK!!!! I will have to get used to it.
I had fun WATCHING football! It was too dang cold for me! Janiel and I sat in her car and danced to music, but migrated to grandpa's truck with Meagan when she spilled her Large soda all over her seat. Ha! I mean.... sad. So sad. It was fun watching all the bloopers out on the field. We were the comentary for the whole thing. It was fun! We laughed at Cohen and his huddling, we gasped when Matt and Jeff collided, (That was the extent of our worry. We weren't about to run out into the cold to see if they were alright. There were plenty of people out there already.) and we liked looking at the full rainbow and breaks in the clouds over the mountain. So pretty!
I love the Udall Family Choir. We rock. Hallelujiah Chorus, Angels We Have Heard on High, Silent Night, Because I Have Been Given Much, Far Far Away on Judea's Plain, Candelight Carol, My Son, My King, and of course, Love At Home.
I love volleyball!!! It has to be the best sport in the whole entire world. I love, love, love it!! I can always count on a group of us playing during Thanskgiving. I miss it! I got a bruise, and I even gave a bruise! Sorry Jill.
Anyway, I felt loved again with all the hugs when I was leaving. I was excited to come back home to my own bed and see my roommate(s). I wasn't excited about getting back into the swing of school again, though. Every time there is a break where I go home, it feels like I shifted from first gear to third gear, meaning everything is slow and taking its time, and then I correct it and go back to second, which is where I speed back up and get back into the flow of traffic. Nice analogy, huh? I won't do it again, I promise. Anyway, Christmas isn't too far away. Which means Yay finals?? No. Not Yay....

Why I Am Excited For Thanksgiving:

1. Food, duh. That one doesn't have to be explained. It is tastey, but it is also such a fun meal! Everyone crowded and eating and talking and laughing and in everyones business! Doesn't sound very happy, but I love it!
2. The large quantity of family that comes every year! Well, should come. I love having so many people crowded into the one living room that has tables from wall to wall. It makes things more exciting/interesting/chlaustrophobic. Its great!
3. Football is fun. It usually morphs from co-ed to just guys because the girls only touch the ball during the first 5 minutes of the game, but whatever. Its fun running around pretending like you know what your doing. The crazy plays are fun too. There is always the one where you put the ball in someones shirt and make them run down the field while another person fakes that they have the ball. Works every time, right?
4. Singing!!! Thanksgiving is like the transition to Christmas. And there are no Thanksgiving songs, so the Udall Family Choir just whips out the Hallelujah Chorus. Also Angels We Have Heard On High. Thats a favorite. I love our singing time! What the primary?
5. I am way excited for the ZipLine! It just seems like Udall houses are meant to have one. I have many memories zipping from the old pear tree, and now I will get to do it again! Yay!

I LOVE THANKSGIVING!!!

I love Ebay!

I think it is my new best friend. Only because it gives me movies that cost as little as $4. That includes shipping costs. I've purchased at least 6 movies for under $20. My movie collection keeps getting bigger and I love it. I am now the proud owner of:

I love movies!

Jumping Pictures!

When we take pictures, we take jumping pictures. Why you ask? Because they are really cool!

Jeanie came to our house one time and we played on the trampoline in water. What a perfect place to take jumping pictures! Trampoline, duh!

I think this one is so cool! This is Sarah grabbing the sun.

Backflip!

HAAAIIYAAAH!!!

I skydive without parachutes and live to tell about it!
Or I use photoshop and make it look cool!

Wake-boarding! I love this picture!

Fully clothed.

We are Vampires!

Roommates!!!

This one is destined to be a Header someday...

I WANT LONG HAIR!

NERTZ!!!

Attention all Udall family members! I have an awesome roommate who has an awesome family who play a very awesome game called Nertz! I vote that we adopt this game into our card playing tradition! It is very very fun and competitive! Also, a lot of people can play. I guess it would be for people who don't want to play 10 to 1. So, younger generation family members? Don't get offended, anyone. Also, you use decks of Rook cards so if there are people who think that using face cards is of the devil, you can feel better about that. ? There you go. Lets start a new tradition!

Happy Halloween!

Jeanie invited me to carve pumpkins at her brother's house. We picked out a cool template and we had all the right tools to do it right. It turned out so awesome! I am so proud of our pumpkin. It rocks! If you can't tell what it is (two of her brothers couldn't tell what they were looking at) it is a vampire face. Sort of looking off to the side. I love her family! They are awesome!

We did a vampire pumpkin because that is what we dressed up as. I will have pictures of us later!