Love this time of year! I feel like as I get older years go by faster and Christmas totally snuck up on me!But I love seeing all they lights and the trees in the windows and the cooler weather finally makes it feel a little more real! I finally got my drivers permit so that has provided a lot of entertainment through out the week! With my first couple driving lessons with mi Padre!It's been really fun and i'm so excited to be one step closer to freedom of being able to go places by myself! I didn't really do a whole lot this week I was so busy all this fall that I got behind and it definitely has come back to bite me the past couple weeks!Been extremely busy getting back on track! But thank goodness for weekends to get a little break!Each year our church has a ladies Christmas Tea so I got to do that Saturday morning!  I also got the chance to hang out with a really good friend and his little sister this weekend!which was very awesome because those opportunities have become rare! Went ice skating for the first time this year!Then got a start on Christmas shopping! It was really good to hang out with them! We always have a fun time! I'm extremely thankful for a friend like him especially lately! God definitely gives us who we need when we need it! Not saying he is the only friend i'm thankful for, just that i've been extra thankful lately! Only 8 days ti'll my sister comes home i haven't seen her in 4 months this is the longest i've gone without seeing her! can't wait to see all my family and nieces! love Christmas time!

Thanksgiving is always a little bit crazy in the Messer house with lots of family and lots and lots of food. So when we found out only my three older brothers were coming we thought this year was gonna be a small thanksgiving, only to end up having my sister-in-laws entire family come and end up with 25 people for Thanksgiving! Although I missed it because at 6 in the morning on Thanksgiving day a group of 13 of us filled a 15 passenger van and headed for Denver, Colorado!And spent Thanksgiving day hanging out at our hotel. Then Friday morning we woke up and headed for the distribution center in Denver for Operation Christmas Child and spent 8 hours going through examining boxes, taking out financial contributions for Samaritans purse. If the children are caught with any money they're lives can be in danger ounce that is done they are moved over to where any inappropriate items are taken out and replaced with more appropriate items and then taped and put in boxes with their according ages. By the end of this we were all dead tired, exhausted more like it! But it was great to be a part of it we estimated that with the thirteen of us we probably were handling at least 2,000 boxes!crazy to think about but you can definitely get a lot done in 8 hours! Then we got up early on Saturday morning to head back home! And at first i was a little disappointed to head home it was great to be with good friends, but I got home to find out that I get to be an Aunt ounce again! I was so excited to find out my Brother Phil and his wife Jessica were expecting there second, you can imagine how excited i was to find out that my brother Dan and his wife Haley are expecting there first!!!So i will get 2 nieces/nephews! Best news i've gotten in a while!