Life of a med students wife....: Merry Christmas!!

Merry christmas to all and to all a good life health and fun!!!

Well I'm going to start my Christmas week off on sunday the 21. Every Christmas season The Anderson side of my family will choose a family that is in need of help. In the past years I don't think i have understood or truly grasped the meaning of helping. It's always been fun and I'm always excited to help. Nevertheless this year was the Year i finally felt the true meaning. As a brief background of the family, the father wanted to go into helicoptor flying school (somthing like that) anyways the life insurance was dropped because the occupation is dangerous through schooling. He started and the family made sacrifices while he was doing this when he was diagonsed with a brain tumor, and later passed away, and left behind a Wife and two children, a boy who was 4 and a little girl who was 2. We wrapped the gifts and my Aunt Becky gave a wonderful lesson on the true meaning of christmas. We then proceeded to load all the gifts into the cars and drive to the house to deliever the gifts. In past years it was the adults who would deliever the gifts to the family, however this year the kids were able to. Each child brought up a gift or two or a sack of gifts. It was so spiritually touching. I learned a lot about what it means to give. Any person can give a gift, but it is the understanding of what it means for the person who recieves the gift that you give, that it truly touching. It was amazing to walk up to the door of this family singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas". Every Kid there had a purpose and knew what he was doing. When we walked into the house I could feel the spirit and i understood that this is what Christmas is about. It's about love for all. I didn't know the family that we took the gifts too, but i was amazed at the love I felt when we gave the gifts to them. I'm so grateful for this tradition that my family does. It is such a testimony builder, and to know that my little cousins are learning the true meaning of Christmas and to hear their small testimonies of their love for Christ, is the greatest gift i get every year.

NOW....bummer part....i Got sick with the flu. I swear it's a curse...every year Emily gets sick on Christmas. I was beginning is was all this psychological stuff and since i expect it to happen it will.....we'll that was ruined 2 years ago when i was suppossed to go try out december 26 for a college soccer team...but as luck has it i was down with the flu. So because i thought i wasn't going to get it, and tried my hardest to stay healthy and still got it....I just take this as it comes...

We had The Family Rackham party at golden corral. Basically a pretty good place, love the rolls. haha. but i was sick...and i didn't eat much. kinda sad when it's an all you can eat and you have one plate. grrr.... Also at this party was when i first realized that Pretty soon i'm going to be the Golden graddaughter by association!!! at least until Tyson goes Med School hardcore. You see My Grandpa Rackham is all about work...and working hard! He started his business Jerry's Heating back when he was young and he worked and worked and now a lot of my family works and Jerry's heating, a long with Tyson. So as we are walking around my grandpa walks right up to Ty and starts talking to him about work and installing things and working and how he stays late...(little does my grandpa know, Ty is broke and needs to stay late to earn money....) ha ha. while the whole time i'm standing at Tyson's side thinking and laughing to myself..debating on saying "Hi Grandpa!!! Merry Christmas....I'm going to be marrying Tyson..." haha. Well gotta love 'em both!!

Christmas eve i was still sick, but not as bad. Meaning if i didn't eat I didn't feel sick. So I went up to hardware ranch with Tyson's family. Well they were closed!!! This has been Tyson's family tradition ever since he can remember and this year was the first year they were closed!! Bummer. It was still Fun though. we did donughts in the parking lot and look from a distance at the elk, and then had lunch. Whoops...shouldn't have had lunch, plus a car ride back home. but i lived. (pictuers can come later. All of them are on Michele's camera...)

Christmas night We were with My family, at my Grandma Andersons. Everyone was there except for Kristin and Rob. And that's when i gave my Grandma her quilt. She cried, which made me cry...But i think she liked it. The blanket gave me a lot of heartache and caused a lot of stress on me and i wanted to pretty much rip it up and throw it away....I'm super glad i stuck with it. (and i forgot a picture...so i will take on next time i see it and i will post it!!)

Christmas Day!! Well I'm basically the coolest freaking sister in the world....and i give the coolest gifts ever...with some small help from Tyson. Tyler i got some CD's and a lamp (his room is fetchin dark) Nicole i got some pencils, sketch paper, pastels....She's an amazing drawer!! i'll post some of her art work some time! it's amazing!

and to my skater punk brother Spencer...he pretty much got the coolest gift!! sunglasses with bars across them. You can see out the glasses and they are like normal sunglasses but if someone was to look at Spencer when they are on it's a mirror! basically awsome!! then i got him a benie and a super cool green and black studded belt. i'm awsome!

Tyson had some problems with saying my ring was my Christmas gift. My father told him if it was a christmas gift, it was a gift and we aren't engaged because it wasn't an engagement ring, it was a christmas ring....blah blah blah. It was pretty funny! So Ty ended up getting me a matching scarf and gloves. I like them, they are darling. :)

also i don't know who thought it would be funny, but everyone kept giving me crap about this will be my last Christmas at home...next year i wont be there....(yeah right...I'm sleeping over...Cus i'm not being Santa!!!) but they kept making jokes like that. It was funny. everything said was a smart humours remark....But it's kinda sad...I like Christmas with my family. And i sorta just wanted to cry. It's not like i'm going to be moving away anytime soonish...and hopefully i wont live more than 10 minutes away from family, and i can still go see them. But the whole thought of leaving my family is sorta sad. :(

My trip to Yellowstone was canceled. dang. The Christmas storm came in and well the Idaho border was closed. oh well no biggy. i had fun at home.

Friday after christmas i had a pretty nasty allergic reaction to something and my eye lid swelled up pretty bad. what a Christmas!! but Saturday when i woke up i was healed. no worries!