Merry Christmas

I just love Christmas! Here's what went down at the Chatwin's this year

Christmas Eve, family and friends came over for soup and yummy treats and the kids did the nativity scene.

Christmas morning opened presents and ate a delicious breakfast.

Isn't little David such a doll?

Emma and I have matching headbands now! 

This year I decided to make the kids blankets for Christmas with matching pillows. With a little bit of guidance from Stacie and my Mom here is how they turned out. I'm pretty proud of myself.  I usually don't have a lot of patience for sewing.

This was my first big sewing project but not the last cause I also got a sewing machine from Santa! I'm so grateful for a wonderful family and good friends to spend these holidays with. 

8 weeks

I've made it through the first 2 months of nursing school!!

Here are some things that I've learned so far:
I'm not as smart as I thought I was
Nurses in Nevada aren't very nice or helpful
I don't like old people
I'm paying a lot of money to teach myself

And now for the positives:
I still want to be a nurse
14 more months
And now I get to enjoy 12 days of winter break

Musicals

Sometimes I wish my life was a musical. I wish when I was walking down the street or in my car people would start dancing and singing along with me. I'm slighty obsessed with Glee these days although I shouldn't be cause it's getting kind of raunchy. But the music is awesome! I love musicals. Hairspray, Grease....love them! They are happy movies that just make you smile and want to sing and dance. So if anyone wants to

choreograph a little musical number with me let me know. :)

I love treats

I have a problem. All I want to do lately is bake and drink diet coke and not work out. I made peanut butter popcorn yesterday....delish! I crave mint oreos, haagen daz chocolate peanut butter ice cream, peanut butter chocolate chip cookies (Nestle has the best recipe), brownie/cookie dough bars, oh my gosh I'm getting hungry. Any sort of chocolate and pb combination is pretty much amazing to me. I think baking is my stress relief from school. I can't wait till I'm on break so I can do some holiday baking!! In the meantime I'm going to force myself to work out so I can do all that baking!

In other news

For Thanksgiving this year, my family and I went to California to visit Grandma. I love going to visit my Grandma. I wish I could convince her to move to Las Vegas. While we were there, she pulled out some old pictures for us to go through. I just love old black and white pictures and I love seeing what they wore back then. Here are a few...

This is my grandpa. My grandma keeps this picture of him on her dresser.

This is my Grandma's family. She is the bottom right with those red hot lips.

This one is my favorite. My Grandma in a cute little bikini and toned arms and legs! Classic! Everytime I brought up this picture she would blush. I told her she should have this framed but she just kept rolling her eyes at me.