Count Down

Yes stuff might happen before December 20th but really .. nothing count down worthy!!

16 days: Sherlock Holmes comes out and I am going to it with my bestie for the midnight showing!
20 days: Kris gets home from his mission
21 days: When I will most likely get his phone call and temple trip
24 days: Christmas Eve
25 days: Christmas
28 days: My last day at work
29 days: I leave back to Idaho and the very last time I ever take that stupid Salt Lake Express
31 days: New Years Eve
32 days: New Years day and my first day in my new ward
33 days: I go up to Rexburg and help Jenn move in and see Kris for the fist time in 2 1/2 years and hopefully go to the temple up in Rexburg
34 days: I start student teaching .... and I didn't say on my blog.  I will be teaching 4th grade!!


<3  Erin Christina

November 24

November 24th  I am thankful for family traditions. The holidays have always been such a great time filled with things we have done for years. Each little thing we do really makes the holiday because we do it together. I look forward to each year with lighting the lights on Thanksgiving, watching The Muppet Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve and many other traditions. There is a different feel that comes along with the holiday. It is more then just retail craziness. Remembering the reason for the season that is what brings us all together. I am grateful for all my many blessings. I am thankful every day for everything I have. Just not this last month, but to remember all of these things and more all year long. 

 

 

<3  Erin Christina

November 23

November 23. I am thankful for books. Dr. Seuss is one of my heroes. I loves his books and the influence they can have in children's lives. He has done so much with the words he writes and the imagination he has. "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells." His written and made up words have even become real words we use today. Reading can open up so many doors for children and even the not so children. I love reading. I keep this book mark and use it for every book I read. I am grateful for the fact that I can read and for the fact that I will be able to share my love for reading as a teacher. Books really can take us all to knew places and teach us so much.


<3   Erin Christina

November 22

November 22. I couldn't really figure out how to take a picture of what I was thankful for so I took a picture of facebook. Really it is forms of communication. I have family that I can't talk to very often due to the fact that they live so far away. With missionary's I can write letters. With friends we can text all day if we want. Some friends we get weekly, monthly, daily phone calls to catch up. Facebook is huge that I can communicate with Canadian family or even Idaho family and keep in touch on what's going on. Email is also a good way that my grandma Elliott uses to talk to us. I am so thankful for these things to get to talk to my family and friends that I really don't ever get to see. Technology or a piece of paper and pen and a stamp either way I am so grateful for the fact I can talk to those I love who are far away.
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November 21

Nov 21. I am thankful for clothes. I love color and wearing stuff my own style. I am happy that I have things to wear when hot or cold and stuff to wear on normal days and when I want to dress up. I really enjoy the fact there are so many different styles out there everyone can make up their own style and should be afraid to be who they are. I do not shop by label. I refuse to by anything that is advertising for where I got it covered in symbols. I am my own person and can make my own style (yes the majority of my clothes do come from kohls) I am grateful that I am able to have what I have in my closet. I probably have more then my fair share of what to wear. I really am blessed. Such a simple thing as clothes but it really is something over looked to have a different shirt to wear and a skirts and dresses and anything. I really am thankful.


<3  Erin Christina


PS ... also a happy happy birthday to my best friend Tamara who turned 23 and also brought home her boy friend this week for Thanksgiving!!  <3  I love that girl so much!

Nov 20th

November 20th. For starters, no I was not trying to be in the pic I was making noises trying to get him to make a face but every time I try to take a pic he changes his face right as the camera snaps. I cannot win!) I am thankful for this guy right here. My sweet 5 month and 5 days old nephew Orry William Elliott who finally officially made me Auntie Erin. I love this guy so much, and he is pretty spoiled with attention because we all want to hold him and play with him. Who knew how much you could really love another person so much, even before the first time I held him at 6 weeks old. I am grateful so such an amazing thing,Orry is the first of the kids of the kids. He is the continuation of our family. What a blessing a baby alone is. I am so happy this guy is my Nephew and he holds a huge spot in my heart. 

 

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November 19th

Nov. 19. I am thanful for my education. The road to where I am at now has been anything but easy but I am so grateful for it all. Graduating and getting a degree was something I said I would get and I wouldn't let anything get in my way of that. I am blessed to have gone to the school and did for the cost of each semester. I think my whole amount of schooling was still less then one semester at any instate university. I know I will treasure what I have accomplished for the rest of my life. I cannot wait to do and pass student teaching and get my degree and get out into the teaching world.


<3  Erin Christina

Nov 18th

November 18th. I am thankful for pictures. A picture is worth a thousand words. I love to look at pictures and relive memories and see the joy and fun someone else had. I am grateful for all the advancements in technology that give us the opportunity to keep our memories alive and have forever.


<3  Erin Christina

November 17th

November 17th. I am thankful today for missionary's and even the mission itself. I have seen friends go and come home and have become better people and have grown up and changed a little. I have also seen that change only last a little bit and they go back to who they were before. This kid, he changed before his mission. He worked his butt off to go on a mission. I met him at one point in his life and watched him change inside and out. I always knew he could do it. I never doubted him. I am so grateful for those who chose to go on a mission for the right reasons with the right mind set. Who really make a change not only in those they are teaching but those who knew them before. I am grateful for everyone who has, is, and will go on a mission. And I cannot wait till Kris gets home on Dec 20th and I get to see him in Jan.


<3  Erin Christina

November 16

November 16. I am thankful for the temple and the chance I have to be able to go and spend time in the lords house and do his work. I am grateful that I can go and spend time and feel the spirit and grow closer to my Heavenly Father. I love the temple. I am blessed to have one close by.


<3  Erin Christina 

November 15

Nov 15th. I'm thankful for best friends. This amazing woman is just one of my most favorite people. My rock and such a huge support. I am grateful for all the people in my life who have been there for me and supported me through many hardships and trials. I would be lost if it wasn't for all my amazing friends. I love all of you. I am so blessed to have and know the people I do in my life. Thank you all. I love you so much.


<3  Erin Christina

Novemeber 14

November 14th. I'm thankful for my laptop. It has been a good yet hard 4 years with her but we are going strong. I am grateful she has gone a year now without any huge problems. She has had 3 hard drives, a new charger cord and a new battery. She has fallen off of stuff and over heats badly. But she has so much of my life on her and the times I have not had her because she didn't work were hard times. I am thankful my parents got me the laptop for school and I was able to use it and not have to have everything on a flash drive and live in the library . I love my laptop.


<3  Erin Christina

Nov 13

November 13th. I am thankful for my two favorite drinks. I LOVE pumpkin anything really and well I could not live without my DDP. I am grateful for such yummy things to either just drink with lunch or a nice treat to end the day with.

<3  Erin Christina

Nov 12

November 12. I am thankful for a bed and blanket. Yes important to have the 2. Up at school I didn't have a blanket and had to use sheets or little blankets. I am lucky to have what I have. Not everyone has a bed or has a blanket. I am grateful to be able to have a bed to sleep in and to nap in every night. To keep me warm and keep me comfortable.


<3  Erin Christina

Novemeber 11th

Nov 11th.  I know it is a really bad picture of a picture but it is of my friend who gave his life for all of us to live and have all we have.  Today I am thankful for all those who give up their lives so that we might live. Ben died for out rights.  I am so grateful for all of the people who died, who fought and who are fighting now for us.  I have a lot of friends who are fighting for us, and even family who did fight.  We have the chance to be thankful, to be happy, to live, to laugh, to love because of what these men and women have, do, and will do for us.


<3   Erin Christina

#10

November 10th.  I am thankful for my daddy .. because I kinda needed a daddy to be here.  Hah.  But really  I am so happy I have the dad that I have.  We may not get alone 100% of the time but I love him so much.  Today was his birthday (He doesn't look his age does he?  He is a grandpa .. I mean a "papason")  I am grateful for all that he does for me and how he supports me in all I do.  I am a very lucky girl to have him for my daddy.   I love you daddy and once again Happy Birthday!


<3  Erin Christina

Nov 9th

Nov 9th  I am thankful for good music.  For music you can dance to that makes you happy like the stupid look on my face.  Music that you truly love and enjoy.  That you can relate to and just completely fall in love with.  I LOVE music.  It is such a huge part in my life and that is why it is huge on my resume and why I get to teach music in my classroom.  I am grateful to all music.  I love music. 


<3  Erin Christina

Nov. 8th

November 8th.  I am thankful for the weather.  I love rainy cold cloudy weather.  It makes me happy.  It is this time of year that it starts smelling like Christmas outside too.  I am grateful that we can have all different kinds of weather, but this kind is by far my favorite kind of weather.

<3  Erin Christina

#7

November 7th.   I am thankful for my heritage.  My dad's side of the family comes from Canada.  I was even born there and lived there a few years before we moved to Texas.  I still have family up there that I love and miss so much.     I am grateful to know where I come from and to have pride and love for who I am.  I am not ashamed of where I come from.  I love learning about my family history and knowing about how we got to where we are today.  It really is interesting talking to both sides of my family.  I really am happy I can be a little different.  In elementary school I got to teach lessons on Canada and bring in money and treats.  My dad even came in one day to my history class in 6th grade after he got his American citizenship and taught about how he went about doing that.  I love my past.  Knowing where I have come from is a huge blessing.


<3  Erin Christina

November 6th

November 6th. I am thankful for Mr. Bo Jangels. I love this guy so much. He has been by my side for so many years now it is just like I have grown up with him. He is my best friend and has always been there for me. He has dried many tears and given me so much comfort. I will never forget that I begged my dad to let us bring him home when we found him down by the lake. He is pretty much my guardian angel. I am grateful to have this guy in my life. It is funny how use you can get to something/someone. The nights I have to go to sleep without by my side it is harder to sleep. I love my cat so much. He really is part of the family and such a huge part of me. I would do anything for this guy. Thank you Bo for being my cat and loving me and always being there for me. No amount of words could ever help me describe how much I am thankful for him, I could go on forever and ever about him.

 

<3  Erin Christina

November 5th

Nov 5th. I am thankful for my job. I absolutely love my job and I am so happy to have been able to leave and come back as I have for the last 4 years. I am grateful not only to have a job at a place I love but with people I love. My coworkers are my 2nd family. We know each other and talk and support. I can leave for 7 months and come back and its just like I never left. I love my job and my kohls family so much. I am so thankful for them. ♥


<3 Erin Christina

November 4th

Nov. 4th  I am thankful for Air conditioning and Heating.  AC is such a beautiful thing for Texas summers and heat for Idaho winters.  Also I don't know what is wrong with me but I get cold pretty easily and hot really easy.  As I drive in the car I am constantly going back and forth from heat to cold to heat to cold.  I am grateful to the amazing person who came up with the idea of heating houses and cooling them down as well.  Now if only I could be thankful that the cost was cheep .. sadly it is not.

<3 Erin Christina

Nov. 3rd Thankfulness

November 3rd. I am thankful for the gospel. It is a big part of my life. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I know that Christ lived and died for me and for all of us so that we might be able to live and to learn and to grow. There is a plan for all of us. I know my Heavenly Father loves me and he watchers over me and all of us. My life has been so greatly blessed. I am so grateful to have the knowledge I have, to live my life the way that I have chosen to live. I would be completely lost without the gospel in my life. Even in this time when so many people are bringing down the church and saying things that they don't fully understand. I stand proud and strong for what I believe in. I am a christian. I am happy to answer any questions anyone has about the LDS church. I am thankful for the gospel and the huge part of my life that it is.

 

<3  Erin Christina

I am Thankful for (2)

Nov 2nd. I'm thankful for socks. As crazy as it sounds I have abnormally cold feet and when the weather gets colder it gets worse and socks keep my feet warm. Its a super small thing I do not take for granted. I am grateful for the many things that help keep me warm during the colder months and more so as I live in Idaho

<3  Erin Christina

I am Thankful for...

Nov. 1st I am thankful for the sunrise. The start to each new day. Bringing another day of living and another day of growing and learning. Each day is a gift. I am grateful for each day I live.

 

<3  Erin Christina