Days Like This

Serenity: The state or quality of being serene, calm, or tranquil

The title of this post is a song by Kim Taylor. It basically hits my mood for the day right on a tee.

Days like this.
You look up at the sky above you.
Days like this.
Yeah, You think about the ones that love you.

And all I wanna do is live my life honestly.
I just wanna wake up and see your face next to me.
Every regret I have will go set free.
It will be good for me.

Days like this.
Yeah you think about the ones that went before you.
Days like this.
Have you ever seen the sky such a clear blue.

This is how I feel today.

Relaxed.

Reflective.

Peaceful.

Grateful.

Happy.

It's a nice change from the usual stress I've been feeling lately.

I really don't know what I'd do without Christmas Break.

Yesterday was a great "Day After Christmas." Or Boxing Day, as England calls it.

I went shopping with my mom.

She went into Walgreens to buy some medicine while I waited in the car.

I thought she'd only be five minutes.

Oh, how wrong I was.

So, to entertain myself, I took some pictures of my wait.
For your viewing pleasure

                           

Started out with taking a cute picture of myself.

Okay, getting a little bored. Where is she?

                 

This is getting ridiculous. Come on mom!

That's it. I CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE OF THIS NONSENSE.

Oh she's back! Okay, let's go.

Yesterday was also the birthday of one of my best friends, Miss Bailey Tuttle.

She's now officially EIGHTEEN.

So grown up.

We even put fishnets in our hair, like cafeteria ladies.
Does it get cuter than this?
I don't think so.

I love you, Bill.

I hope you had a magical birthday.

Last night my grandma took us to see the one, the only,

DONNY AND MARIE CHRISTMAS CONCERT!

Exciting, right?

I'm ashamed to admit that I wasn't very excited.
At first.

Let's just say it wouldn't be my first choice for a concert.

BUT, my grandma did probably spend her life savings on the tickets.

And I knew how excited she was.

So I put on an excited face.

And truth be told, it exceeded my expectations. 

Those two Osmonds have accomplished a lot in their fifty-ish years of being alive.

And they performed for two hours.

I was pretty impressed.

And it was nice to spend time with my dad, cousins, and grandma.

Just Grandma and the girls with Donny and Marie.
They were actually cardboard cutouts. Crazy, right? 

It was such a beautiful night in SLC.

We got home around midnight expecting all the kids to be in bed.

Instead we came home to my cousin, Wyatt, with his head and face covered in Duct Tape.

Shocked, we asked what happened.

His reply?

"I don't know."

Boys will be boys, I guess.

My aunt spent the next hour removing the duct tape from his head, using some orange cleaner stuff to remove some of the stick, trying her hardest to inflict the least amount of pain.

"Here we go..."

Half-way done.

Such relief that IT'S OVER. Only a few hairs were ripped out.

So that was really fun.

Then we went sledding today.

And I felt like I was ten again.

Oh, I also wrote a Haiku: 

Today is Thursday

It is also Christmas Break

I really love cows

Have a lovely evening.

♥ Bekah