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Some of you who know me may or may not believe this but since I got back from The Netherlands I have been taking Taekwondo. I absolutely love it! It’s such a great work out and a wonderful way to relieve stress. It’s a lot of high kicks and turns and things to so it’s more like dancing than a lot of other kinds of martial arts so that appeals to me as well obviously. Tonight I tested for the first time and got my orange belt. My mom and sister Liz also tested for their yellow belts (they started about 2 months before I got back) *smile* Here are some pictures, enjoy!

My mom, sister Liz and Me waiting our turn

Hiya!

Our teachers judging our work

As a special treat for getting all their work done early Joel and I took Anna and David sledding today. We had a blast. I haven’t been sledding in ages and of course no longer had snow pants or any snow gear in general. My coat’s not even water proof! lol. It worked out for me to borrow stuff from my mom and sisters (being around the same size as your mother and three of your sisters definitely has it’s benefits, hehe). We went to a golf course near my house that has a really great hill. It’s actually open and they rent sleds and things on the weekends but we were smart and went during the week so we had the whole place to ourselves. It was just so much fun and we got to bond with my two youngest siblings really well.

Anna, David and Me

A very cold couple, hehe

After about an hour and a half we headed back to the house for hot chocolate and watched Elf. *smile*

My nephew Hunter is about nine months old now and LOVES food. Absolutely anything you give him he takes a minute to think about and then makes mmmm noises while signing “more” (yep, he speaks some sign language). Today we were having hot dogs and just to see what kind of face he’s make I gave him a little taste of the mustard on my plate. He liked it so much! He kept signing “more” so I got out his little spoon and gave him the rest that was on my plate, hehe.

He’s so adorable!

I went Christmas shopping today finally. I put it off until now…but seeing as the big day is less than two weeks away I figured I’d just get it over with. The problem is, I’m not a normal girl who loves to shop. Nope, I’m a weirdo who is finished on a normal day after an hour or less. Then, when you throw in the hundreds of crazed Christmas shoppers, I would MUCH rather just stay home… However, I realized that the closer to Christmas you get the the worse it is so, I finally sucked it up and went. I took Joel along with me to drive (because I don’t drive anymore…long story.) and to keep me company.

Unfortunately, Joel hates shopping more than I do so after the second store he was very done and a little cranky because he was hungry. Luckily for him I was pretty done as well so we went to one more store and were off to Taco Bell. I even got a free t-shirt out of the deal cuz Q101 was there doing…I dunno some promotional stuff I guess, I couldn’t participate because I’m not 21 yet (geeze I miss Europe) but they did take my picture so who knows, I may end up on the site somewhere, hehe. After that we headed home and wrapped everything.

So I’m half done, yea! Tomorrow I should be able to finish up almost everything and then I can just relax and try to actually enjoy the season.

Hey Everyone! In keeping with the new chapter I’ve begun in my life… I decided a new blog was appropriate. I’m keeping my old posts up at My Life as an Au Pair if you want to read about my adventures as an au pair in The Netherlands. And since I finally have internet access at my house you can expect regular updates from me once again *smile*