Yet another family party

It is really going to suck once school starts again because I have made a habit of waking up around 11.00am every morning. Well today I woke up at 10.59am, is that progress?

I got up and grabbed my new phone that I got for Christmas, got dressed and went upstairs. I ate breakfast then got on the computer. At around 2.00pm we left to another party, this time it was at my aunt’s house. When we arrived my aunt put us to work. She told me to go shovel the driveway.

When I got out to the driveway it was pure ice. I have never had this hard of a time shoveling a driveway. I was relieved when I found the rock salt, but it didn't help much. About an hour and a half later I was semi-done. I decided to just give up. I walked into the house and sat down. Dave, my aunt’s husband, came home and tried to sell me one of his old computers.

I told him that I will think about it and continued to watch TV. At about 4.00pm some of my relatives arrived and we ate dinner. After dinner we decided to go see a movie. My dad, my aunt and my uncle were all debating what movie to watch. They argued about the golden compass. We finally agreed to just go rock climbing.

We all left the house and went down to the Solomon center in Ogden, Utah. When we got there we all signed a form to go rock climbing. We entered the building and put on the gear that we needed. Everyone over 16 years old was trained on how to belay. My cousin Matt was the first to go up. When he reached the top my dad let him down... FAST! I didn't see the whole thing but I look over and saw Matt it the ground full speed! It was scary for me so it must have been frightening for him. Luckily the ground was cushioned so he wasn't injured.

I was next to go and I was kind of scared because of what my dad just did. I went anyway. It was really difficult and my dad helped me on some parts by pulling on the rope. When I reached the top my dad let me down too slow and it hurt my nuts.

When I got to the bottom I thanked my dad for not killing me and I walked over and talked to my cousins. I went up once more after that then we left. I bought some cheese fries and walked to the car. My forearms hurt and I felt week.

When I got home I learned that my senile grandma was spending the night. It sucked. I was angry, so I went to bed.

Awkward Family Christmas Party (Pics!)

I kind of feel like I am wasting my Christmas break because I don't feel like I have done much. I probably have done more than most people but I have just been sleeping in until 11am every morning and that pretty much wastes half my day.

Well today I woke up around 11.30am and took a shower. Then I came upstairs, ate breakfast and got on the computer. I did various pointless and boring things all day until about 6.00pm. Today was the annual family Christmas party in Provo, Utah. My whole family gathers, except for my Lutheran Aunt. She doesn't play well with her Mormon relatives.

We got off to a late start after rushing to the store to get some last minute presents to exchange. We all piled in to the Dodge Spirit, which only holds six people and we had seven, and headed off to pick up my sister and her fiancé. When we got to their house we found out that her fiancé Josh was "sick"(he didn't want to go to the family party). Piper got in the car and we had to hold two little kids on our laps.

After an hour of driving we surprisingly got to the party at 6.55pm, five minutes early, which never happens, not even in a parallel universe. Anyway, we were kind of scared because no one was there yet and we thought we came on the wrong day. We walked up to the house and noticed that we were the second ones to get there. We walked into the house and were greeted by my Mexican cousins and my aunt Kelly. We sat and ate refreshments while everyone started to show up. I was very disappointed when I found out my favorite cousins couldn't make it. It almost made me wish that I stayed home. The refreshments were extremely good; they had cherry and blueberry shortcakes, chips, seven-layer salsa, olives, beef stick, crackers, a cheese ball, and plenty of soda. After eating and talking to my relatives for 20 minutes, I decided to go downstairs where all of my younger cousins were.

On the way down I ran into my senile grandma, she cant think right at all. Like she'll see something and then she'll say, "oh isn't that beautiful?" and it'll be a piece of paper! It gets really annoying after a while. I gave her a quick hug as I walked by and continued down the stairs.I got to the bottom of the stairs and walked into a room that was an entertainment room, it had a TV, computer, Atari, workout set, and various instruments of exercise. I headed straight for Atari because it had been at least eight years since I last played it. I dug through the games and found Super Mario Brothers. I was happy and I played the game for about 30 minutes. After that it was time to exchange gifts with the family.


We all sat in a circle and there were at least 15 people in the room. First my aunt had us all share a talent or a joke. One of the families got up and sang "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer" with a red ball on each their noses. Next we went around in a circle and shred jokes. My cousin was tempted to share these two dead baby jokes:

"Q: How do you make a dead baby float?

A: With two scoops of ice cream and one scoop of dead baby.

Q: What is the difference between a Corvette and a pile of dead babies?

A: I don’t have a Corvette in my garage"

But fortunately she didn’t share the jokes. When it was my turn, I shared a very lengthy and pointless joke called "The Pink House" and it goes something like this:

"There's these three men in a van and it breaks down. So one of them says hey I
think there's a house right up there I’m going to check it out so as he’s
walking up to the house he notices that the fence is pink so he reaches the
fence and the grass is pink. He walks up the green driveway and goes on the pink
porch then he reaches for the pink doorknob on the pink door. Hello he yelled
down the pink hallway no answer so he stepped in the pink house and look around
and everything was pink the floors the walls and the ceiling so he goes up the
pink stairs and into a pink room lies down on a pink bed and goes to sleep. A
while later one guy is wondering what’s taking the other so long so he walks up
to the pink fence down the pink drive way through the pink door up the pink
stairs into a different pink bedroom and lies on a pink bed and goes to sleep.
The third guy decides to see what the others are up to so he goes to the pink
fence in the pink house then he goes up the pink stairs into his own pink bed.
The first guy wakes up and goes into the pink bathroom and takes a shower in the
pink tub grabs a pink towel puts on his clothes and goes to the pink kitchen and
grabs a pink bowl a pink spoon pink milk and some frosted flakes. He pours the
pink frosted flakes, eats it and goes back to the van. Second guy wakes up takes
a pink shower gets a pink towel gets dressed goes to the kitchen pours himself
some frosted flakes and leaves the pink house and goes to the van the third guy
wakes up and takes a pink shower grabs a pink towel gets dressed goes to the
pink kitchen and grabs the box of cheerios and pours himself a pink bowl eats it
and goes back to the van. What’s the moral of the story? 2/3 people prefer
frosted flakes over cheerios."

After I told the joke everyone kind of got mad at how much time I wasted. It was funny. After the joke telling we exchanged gifts. My family got a game called sorry. And my grandpa gave us some food for storage. My mom uttered the comment, "all grandpa got us was a box of disappointment!" she was angry because my grandpa has half a million dollars in his bank and all he got us was some dry food. Later, my uncle John told my grandpa that she made that comment so it was really awkward for the rest of the night. I still gave him a hug because I want him to help pay for my LDS mission. The party was over and everyone headed home. I gave all my relatives a hug (except for my senile grandma) and we left.

I thought it was a lot of fun to see my cousins again and I can’t wait to see them on Christmas.