Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and so on......

Hey everybody! So its been a couple weeks since you last heard from me, but a few things have been going on. First school finally came to an end. HAPPY DAY!!!! Finals week wasn't so bad, I had to turn in my portfolio for photography, I had two papers to write and then I had one test. Of course, it was the test that I dreaded because it was social statistics and I worked really hard in that class. Well yesterday, I finally go the courage up to take a look and see if they had posted my grades. I don't know why I was so worried though, because I walked away with a 4.0 for fall semseter. YEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAW!!! As you can tell I am ecstatic about it, because it was a lot of hard work through out the semester. But I'm getting there. If all goes as planned, I have two semesters left and then I am done!!! HAPPY DAY!!!!! Keep your fingers crossed. :) So to celebrate last night, Daryl and I were going to go and see a movie. But a really bad snow storm rolled in and it became a complete mess on the roads. So we opted for staying home, cooking steaks, and watching movies. It was an awesome night.
Moving on, in my last blog I talked about my car and how we were having some issues with it. Really BIG issues. Well after the new transmission was put into it, we went to pick it up, thinking all is good now. When we got there, the mechanics still hadn't test drove it to make sure that there was nothing wrong. Well there was something wrong, the car was STILL not running well. So the mechanic offered to take a look at it and give us a call, letting us know what the problem was. When he did call the next day, he said we needed a new catilic converter(I KNOW I spelled that wrong, but I don't really care.). So for a few days we had a car that sounded like a race car, because they had removed the converter. We took it to a muffler shop and we asked the guy to put everything back together and test drive it, to see if the other mechanic was right. When we got the call, it wasn't good news. The converter was being plugged up by antifreeze getting sucked through it. THere were several leaks, we needed new parts and it was going to cost us another arm and a leg to fix it all up. By this time, Daryl decided that the car wasn't even worth putting that much money into it. Already this mechanic is telling us that it probably wasn't our transmission all along. Which is really frustrating because we paid for something that we didn't even need. UGH! So guess what we did? You guessed it, we went shopping for a new car. And I already have my christmas present. A NEW CAR!!!!! See!

This is a picture of my new car. Its a 2008 Hyundai Sonata and I love it. Its a great car. Daryl said he would probably never buy a foreign car, but we heard great things about this car and we got an awesome deal! It took us about a week and we didn't get much for my other car because of the problems, but we got it off our hands so we wouldn't have to deal with it anymore. HAPPY DAY! It was much sooner than planned, but I'm happy with it. It sucks that we have to go back to a car payment after not having one for a year and a half. But we got the payment down around where we wanted it and its all good.
Here are a few more pics of my car.



Anyways, so that is what I get for christmas and thats fine. At least now we have a car we know is reliable and it has a great warranty on it, so if something goes wrong, we may not have to pay for it. Which is a great thing. Plus its a black car and I haven't had a black car yet. :)
For Christmas we'll be at my parents house and I'm really excited. Its going to be a lot of fun. We drew names this year and I got my Aunt Della's name. Which means my shopping for her was extremely simple. Just find the Utah Jazz stuff and we're all set. I even asked her if she wanted something else and she said no. No imagination I tell you. :) Oh well, it made shopping easy for me.
Not much else going on around here. We've got a ton of snow outside. Because we've had consistent storms for about two weeks now, the snow has just been piling up. I think we have at least a foot from all the snow, which is awesome. Daryl and I had a snowball fight and he won. ONLY because he pushed me into a tree and all the snow fell onto me. What a cheater.
Thats about all for now. I'll try and get some pretty winter pictures for my blog and I'll try and get on here telling you all about my christmas day. It will be fun!!! Can't wait! :)
See ya later!!!!!!