Sara- Half A Foot Shorter

As some of you may know my sister got in a accident

 a few weeks ago. Her foot was severely damaged,

 and they had to amputate half of her foot. She

 has been so amazing and strong. It blows my mind.

I don't think I could have handled it as well as she

has. The week that it happened was really hard 

for me because I was so far away. School had just

started, and all I wanted was to be at home with

my family. I was lucky enough that it was a four

day weekend, and I went home to see my family.

I was so grateful that I could go home. I spent

a lot of time in the hospital just hanging out with

my sister. Of course it was bad weather the day I

 wanted to go back, so I had to cut my trip a 

little short and go home the day before. Even 

though it was a short trip it was worth it! 

I love you, Sister!

New Years 2011

I had a wonderful New Years eve!

Probably the best in a really long time.

(not that the others were bad)

My day started out by getting my hair done

by my talented sister (with some help by 

my awesome mom). My nephew came over

for a hair cut too. 

After we got our hair done, all of us

hung out for a few hours and enjoyed

each others company. My dad was flying 

his helicopter, and Gavin loved it! It was

so fun to watch him.

 Gavin also gave me some kisses.

Later that night I had a few friends

over to bring in the new year. We played 

Kinect most of the night with a few breaks

 here and there. We laughed ALL night long.

 If I could sum up how many hours each of us

 laughed it would probably end up around 2 

solid hours, and a good 3o minutes of that 

was laughed at me trying to play Wipe Out. 

 It was some much needed fun for me. 

 [HIllarie with her serious tennis moves]

 [Carson and Jacob]

[Tennis]

 [Hill making us some drinks(non-alcoholic of course)]

 [Cheers]

 [Being Crazy]

 [Pretty much sums up our night]

[The after effects--exhaustion and headaches]

I'm hoping 2012 will bring lots of fun 

adventures and wonderful surprises!

BL # 8

Take a picture everyday for a month strait.

My December in pictures: 

Dec 1.

 Christmas wish-list shopping

Dec 2.

 Singing calculus carols in class

Dec 3.

 Watching Aunt Linda and Kayla put up Christmas lights

Dec 4.

Lazy Sunday watching a movie

Dec 5.

Sneaking into a classroom to do homework.

 Dec 6.

"Be cool. It's the Po-Po."

Dec 7.

 My "to do" list for school

Dec 8.

Looking at gingerbread houses in Macey's

Dec 9

 The stack of note card I made over the semester
for one of my classes.

Dec 10

Our Best Bites mint brownies

Dec 11

Study schedule for finals

Dec 12.

I was given "the best cheat sheet" award in my

Business communications class

Dec 13.

Fail. Finals were stressful and I forgot.

Dec 14.

Studying for my Calculus Final. My math tutor helped

me for 4 hours strait.

Dec 15.

Kayla and I celebrated the end of the semester

with a cupcake. 

Dec 16.

I'm FREE! Just finished my last final.

Dec 17.

My cute little grandpa at our family

Christmas party.

Dec 18.

My cousin Tessa and her hair-bow

Dec 19.

Small snowstorm. 

Dec 20.

A fun snow globe my mom got me

Dec 21

Warming up

Dec 22.

I made Alani into a present. She was super

happy about it too.

Dec 23.

Lunch time

Dec 24.

Our traditional photo

Dec 25.

 Tree and Gifts

Dec 26.

 Starting a puzzle

Dec 27.

Happy Birthday, Mom

Dec 28.

Not feeling so good :/

Dec 29.

My cup when I was little

Dec 30.

 
 Watching Gav-Man

Dec 31.

Getting my hair done by my talented 

sister, and my amazing mom.

It's been said many times, many ways...

Merry Christmas!

Christmas came and went way too fast!
It was wonderful though. This Christmas wasn't
much different from the past years, except for a
couple things.

The whole Culler side of the family got

together at Aunt Debbie's and Uncle

Kevin's house for our traditional Christmas eve. 

First we ate a yummy dinner

Then we had our devotional.
The only thing different about Christmas
 eve is that we didn't go to the Church for our
devotional. When My mom told me this I was a
little bit sad. It was our family tradition and we were
breaking it(Granted I didn't really enjoy going
to the Church when I was younger).  I think because
our family is growing so big, it is becoming a
 hassle to load everyone up and go to the church.
 It was still a wonderful devotional though. The kids
 did the manger scene for us and it was completely
 chaotic.

[My Grandpa built the manger]

All the little kids crowded over "baby Jesus" and
were running around. It was quite entertaining, but
there was also a wonderful sprit to it. I'm sure it wasn't
quite this chaotic, but I know that everyone  wanted to
see Jesus and I'm sure they crowded around to
 look at him (probably not sticking their hands in His
 face though). So seeing the kids crowding around, eager
 to see "baby Jesus" was very touching.

Then it was time for the gag gifts. One of the personal
favorites. When I was younger, the gifts really use
to be "gaggy". Lately, they have been getting less
"gaggy" and more exciting-- things that you really
want to fight over.

[mom explaining the game]

[mostly all of us]

  

Other pictures from the night

Christmas landed on a Sunday, so we went
to church at 9 for only an hour. After Church
we headed home for a little bit and then back
to my aunt and uncle's house for brunch.
After brunch, we went back home and took a
nap until it was time for my brother and sister
and their families to come over to open gifts.
We ended up opening gifts at 5. It was a
little bit strange opening up gifts that late.

 

I always enjoy Christmas, but for some

reason I felt like I enjoyed it a lot more then

usual. I listened to Christmas music all month

(which I never do) and really enjoyed the
 spirit of Christmas. I think that as I continue

to grow closer to my Savior, that Christmas is

becoming more and more meaningful to me.