Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert

Yesterday I got to go see the Mormon Tabernacle Choir perform their annual Christmas concert! It was so good! Jacob, a boy in our ward, had some extra tickets, so Candice, Kathy, and I all got to tag along. We had fun figuring out the public transportation to Salt Lake and back, Jacob's basically a professional about it though. The show was spectacular. It was so cool being in the conference center, and Dieter F. Uchtdorf was even there! We didn't see him, but he was recognized at the beginning of the show. The special guest was a singer from Mexico named Rolando Villazón and he was really good. It was an awesome show, and I'm really glad that I got to go. It was also cool seeing Sister Appalonie, my Womens Choir director, singing with the Motab. She's awesome.

Waiting for the bus

On the train

Salt Lake City Temple!

The beautiful conference center with the choir, orchestra, dancers, and special guests.

Yule Ball

Tonight was the Yule Ball! It was so much fun! During the year each housing group at BYU hosts a formal dance, and Helaman's was Christmas! So we did the Yule Ball from Harry Potter. It was awesome. The decorations were amazing - Ice sculptures, huge water fountain, tons of Christmas trees, a bar with different Harry Potter drinks (the Butterbeer was on point), a lot of lights, and even suits of armor. I had so much fun. I went with my amazing group of friends, and had a lot of fun. My date was Steven, and I met him through my social dance class. He's also one of Gideons roommates! We had a lot of fun pulling out our social dance moves when songs came up that we could dance to. Overall, I had a lot of fun and I'm really grateful for the amazing friends that I have here at BYU that made it such a fun time.

Hot Cocoa bar and snacks

Picture frame decorating!

The suit of armor

Dancing it up!

The Floo Powder fire place

Social Dance friends, My BYU Fam, Me&Steven

Getting picked up!

Erin&Gideon&Steven&Me

We were twinning with the tree

Ice sculpture! (It's a stag, like Harry's patronus)

I detested the red light, but we got a ton of pictures with it so I figured one needed to go on the blog.

Doing Good

I've had a pretty good week so far - tomorrow is the last day of class and then it's finals week. But, with the end of the semester comes so serious fun like the Womens Choir Party where we took photos with Santa, going to the temple where there's now a big Nativity set, and feasting on Christmas dinner at the Cannon Center. Tomorrow is the Yule Ball, and I'm pumped for that.. photos to follow ;)

My hometeachers are better than yours

Abby&I with our Spanish teacher - Profe Ingersoll

Oh! And today is my 1/2 Birthday! So the lovely ladies of my hall made a sign and left nice sticky notes on my door for me when I got home. They celebrate half birthdays for the summer people so that everyone gets celebrated during the year :)

Celebration of Christmas Concert

On the 2nd and 3rd, the BYU Women's Chorus, along with Mens Chorus, BYU Singers, Concert Choir, and the BYU Symphony Orchestra, performed a Celebration of Christmas Concert! It was so much fun! We had one performance on Friday evening, and two performances on Saturday. We sang What Child is This and Mary Had a Baby, and a few group numbers. I really enjoyed it, I love being a member of the BYU Women's Chorus!

Me&Lizzy

Lizzy&Me&Abby

Abby&Courtney&Lizzy&Madison

Awkward Family Photo

Cute Family Photo

Awkward Family Photo w/ Sister A

Me Photobombing

Choir Gala - Sid&I on the right!

Photo with Santa!

Mens Chorus singing Baptism at the end of the concert

It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas!

It's so wonderful and snowy here!! Candice and I put up our Christmas decorations, the tree in the hall lounge has been decorated, and everywhere on campus you see people wearing hats, coats, gloves, and scarves. Getting out of my cozy bed has never been harder - it's just so cold outside! We haven't had a lot of snow either - we had one or two really good snow days and now it's stopped snowing so it's just cold outside without the snow. I'm really proud of our Christmas decorations though. We have a small tree on top of our fridge with lights and ornaments on it, snowflakes on our doors and closets, snowflakes and lights hanging off the ceilings, stockings in the bathroom with more lights, window clings... I love the decorations. It feels so festive. And everyone has an advent calendar! We're loving counting the days until finals are over... I mean until Christmas. Definitely until Christmas. ;)

My baby snowman <3

Spencer rocking my jacket

Our little Christmas tree

Our bathroom lights and stockings

Our wondrous decorations

Closet snowflakes!

Door snowflakes!

Merry 'Chris' mas! (Our tree has a lot of "ornaments" with attractive pictures of people named Chris on them)

And by the way! I got accepted to study in Spain for Spring 2017!!! WOOOOO!!!!!!!