Wednesday
I had to work all day. Work was a little slow. I got to decorate the Christmas tree in our office, and that was about it haha. When I got home from work, Robert and I headed to his parent's house in Springville, and we just slept over there. We ate some good pizza, kicked back and watched a movie. Movie choice: Mirror, Mirror. It was a funny movie, though some of the acting was a little cheesy at times. The weirdest part was the Bollywood dancing at the end during the credits. Weird.
Thursday
Two Thanksgiving meals!!! My side of the family has always had a Thanksgiving lunch, and then for dinner my grandma makes turkey noodle soup using the bones from earlier to make the broth. So, we had Thanksgiving lunch with my family, and then we had Thanksgiving dinner with Robert's... the perks of having both our families in Springville ;) At my grandma/grandpa's house, we ate our lunch and then kind of relaxed (I guess the turkey was getting to everybody... but me. For some reason the "tired" chemicals turkeys produce don't affect me). Robert, Tanaya, and my cousin, McKell, played on guitars for a bit, then we just played around with some apps on Robert's iPhone. Robert tried to get a nap in, but we were being to loud. Oops :/ After all that, we got a round of "Bang!" in. It's such a fun game! Robert had to leave during the game, so others took our spots.
Robert and I had another wonderful meal at his parent's house. We ate, got full, and weighed ourselves. I forgot to mention we (Robert, Emmali, dad, and I) weighed ourselves in the morning to see who would gain the most weight haha. Emmali "won", but she had extra weight from her jeans later on, when in the morning, she just had some shorts on. Plus, I don't know how accurate that weighing thing was haha. According to the scale, I only gained 2 pounds. So, after dinner, we all sat in the family room to process our meals. We talked, took pictures for Thomas (Robert's brother on a mission), and sat around. Then, it was game time. We played one round of Uno, then played a game of Yahtzee. That was a terrible game for me... just having no luck at all. After playing the game, we went and slept over at my parent's house.
Friday
I got to sleep in, and it felt great! Robert and I left my house around 11 to go shopping for Christmas presents. We went for Black Friday, but not really, because we found out that the deals on Black Friday aren't really the cheapest during the year. People really think they're getting great deals, when really, they're not. But, I did score a great deal because I had a card with 6 punches at Forever Young (the shoe store), where on my 7th punch, I would get a free pair of shoes. Plus, the sale going on at the store, buy one get one half off (which they have other times of the year... not special to Black Friday), made my purchase cheaper. I got a free pair of shoes, plus I got half off for the pair I was already buying. It was nice. We bought some other things for ourselves for Christmas. We still need to buy stuff for our family members.
Robert had to go to work from 2-9 on Friday, so I was at home doing homework, sorting the clothes, and doing some dishes. I may have watched a TV show or two as well... :P My mom called me and told me she'd pick me up because my family was playing glow-in-the-dark volleyball. I was debating on whether I wanted to go or not, but I was super bored at home, so I decided to have her come get me. It was a good choice. I was being active instead of sitting on my butt at home.
Glow sticks lined the volleyball net
We used a huge beach ball, put some glow sticks inside, and voila! A ball that glows in the dark. Haha.
One of the black lights we used
Everyone was wearing a white shirt. That way, people could be seen in the black light. It was a ton of fun. The ball doesn't look heavy, right? Wrong. People underestimated its weight, and it almost ripped my (and others') arm off a time or two. It was still fun (actually, super fun). We just played in the gym at the church next to my house, since my dad has keys to the church. My uncle Gary had the music blasting on the church speakers. We turned off the lights, and played some volleyball. Okay, not real volleyball, since the rules were:
1. no out-of-bounds
2. a single person could hit it as many times as they wanted
3. others could help get the ball over the net on a serve
4. pretty much just keep the ball off the ground
Good thing we had those rules because that freaking heavy ball would have gone nowhere if we played with regular rules haha.
Robert got off work just in time to arrive to our last game. Afterwards, we went back to my house and played two rounds of Zilch while we waited for Tanaya to shower (she was coming to sleep over at our house). Robert won both rounds. He was just having a lucky night!
It was a fun weekend, but it still continues, so I need to go and get ready now.
