I love Christmas!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? I love wrapping presents and it's more fun watching people open them.
2. Real tree or Artificial? artificial
3. When do you put up the tree?Thanksgiving day
4. When do you take the tree down? a week into January
5. Do you like eggnog? not my favorite. hot chocolate is better
6. Favorite gift received as a child? I loved my homemade barbie house. Mom, Tyson and Dad helped santa build it. It was my favorite. Thanks fam and santa
7. Hardest person to buy for? my brothers.
8. Easiest person to buy for? kids 12 and under and sterling
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes! I got it when I was younger
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail... I love getting mail and I love sending it. I am excited to send a christmas card out this year.
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? coal. just kidding um... I don't think I've ever recieved a bad gift. Never look a gift horse in the mouth. I think that if someone is nice enough to take time to get me a gift I appreciate it no matter what.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? The ultimate gift, Elf, and Christmas Vacation
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? We started in October this year but mostly in november early december.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? no I've recycled the gift wrap though
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? oranges, nuts and chocolate
16. Lights on the tree? of course!
17. Favorite Christmas song? "Step into christmas" by Elton John and I love "O Holy Night" especially the one by Josh Grobin the words are so good.
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Home for sure.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixon, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolf
20. Angel on the tree-top or a star? A star, it is more classy in my opinion
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? One on Christmas eve and the rest on Christmas day.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? People getting stressed about getting all of those gifts and losing sight of the what Christmas is all about. Also Black Friday. Big shopping crowds. Sure it's good to get a great deal but I think some people just go too far. I don't like when people get selfish and greedy either.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? I love my parents tree. Every year each of us would get a new ornament to put on the tree. So all of them are different. I am excited for the day that my mom will give them up to each of us. :) ha no rush mom I know you love them.
24. Favorite food for Christmas dinner? Honey baked ham and mashed potatoes
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? I'm not sure yet.

Things I am thankful for

A. America

B. bed. I love bedtime.

C. The church. I'm thankful for the direction it gives me in my life and for the peace I feel from it every single day. I am also thankful for cars. I am so thankful that me and sterling are able to get to work everyday

D. dogs. Nice ones at least. Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies. :)

E. ears so I can hear music. Music is awesome what would life be without it.

F. Family.

G. Grandmas. My grandma Harper is the most amazing happy lady. She is so funny. We love her.

H. health and happiness

I. Internet. It's so convienient when you are looking for something and I love all of the things you can learn and find.

J. Jobs.

K. kids. They crack me up.

L. Learning. I am thankful for the chance to be able to have a clear mind that is able to focus and understand things.

M. Marriage and the Mateer family. I love being a Mateer.

N. new inventions. What an amazing world we live in with new technology and inventions

O. orange dream machine from jamba juice. I'm thankful that sterling learned how to make a shake at home that tastes exactly like it. YUM

P. Pictures. I am a huge fan of them. I love looking at memories and scrapbooking them so we can look at them easily.

Q. Quiet times. Those quiet times are times I learn the most.

R. rain, especially at night and early mornings. I absolutely love it, it makes me sleep like a baby.
S. Sterling...that's a given. I am so happy to have him in my life forever and ever. I couldn't ask for a better husband.

T. Temples. I'm so thankful that we have so many that are so close. I am so happy and excited to be living near the new Draper temple.

U. underpants. i couldn't think of anything but underpants are a pretty good invention.

V. Vaccums. There is nothing like clean carpet under your toes.

W. Weekends and weather I love being home on the weekend when it snows! I love cuddling and being a home body.

X. X-tra time with my hubby. Ok this doesn't really start with an x but I wanted to think of something that I am actually thankful for, instead of a xylaphone or something because I'm not thankful for those. :)

Y. Being YOUNG!

Z. the zoo. Animals are cool and I'm grateful for them because they are cool.:)

These are a few of my favorite things

I haven't posted anything for awhile so here is a random one......are ya ready?.......These are some things that help me survive crappy moments. My life is not really crappy in anyway, but there are times where you just don't feel well which brings me to my first crappy moment zappers.....

This stuff is so great. I've been feeling a bit sick the past few days and this helps make the symptoms less crazy. It helps a lot when you are feeling a cold coming on. This has saved my life so I can go to work. The next thing I love is fuzzy socks. Wearing scrubs and fuzzy socks to work can make working a lot more enjoyable. :)

The next thing I really really like are those microfiber cloths. If you have black furniture that shows dust all the time these are amazing. I actually enjoy dusting with these things! Sterling can't get me to stop dusting!

The next thing that is great is this silk hair product. Ya know those days where your hair just doesn't work. This stuff is amazing. It defrizzes my hair and untangles it and makes it soft and shiny it's great if you have a lot of crazy hair.

The next thing I really like is cheddar beer kettle chips. They are so gooooooooooooooood!

Last but certainly not least.... I absolutely love this guy! He is so incredible! I think I could advertise all those products above but this guy is mine.

I've been tagged

This is the 4th picture in my 4th file on my computer. This is Sterling and his dad playing wii boxing. Sterling always seems to break out in a huge sweat it's great. I remember Melissa almost showed him up.

I'm 21

I am officially 21 as of this last thursday 10-9-08 and I was born on 10-9-87 (kind of fun numbers that count down don't you think). It was a pretty fun birthday. Sterling brought home some very pretty flowers that he picked out himself. It was so cute and so nice! Sterling also took me to the cheesecake factory because I've been wanting to go there for so long. It was reallllly good. We only waited 10 minutes too which is pretty unusual I hear. The next day sterling took me shopping and I got some diffusors from costco. I love making our bedroom smell really good! I also got a clock that matches my decor perfectly! The week before, me and my mom went to girls night out while the boys were at priesthood and we got this clock for $20! I love great deals plus I love this clock! I also got a nice gift certificate from mom and dad mateer to get a pedicure. I've never had one and I am so excited to use it. On saturday we went with mom and dad harper to dinner and then today we got together to eat my favorite soup that sterling makes. The best part of my birthday was spending a lot of time with sterling and seeing family. I have one more very important task for next weekend. I am going to visit my grandpa...the person I share the birthday with Happy Birthday on thursday Grandpa. We talked on the phone which was great but I think it will be good to go visit him since we weren't together on our birthday this year. Anyway... it was a great weekend. I had a good birthday. Here are some pictures of the weekend. Sterling and I at the cheescake factory

The pretty flowers that sterling gave me
The clock and the diffusors
Out to dinner with mom and dad
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