Merry Christmas Eve Eve! {{2012}}

  Merry Christmas Eve Eve, everyone!  {{Or the day before Christmas Eve, if all of my eves are confusing you.}}  I can NOT believe that TOMORROW is Christmas Eve, and the next day is CHRISTMAS!  It's crazy to think that I wrote a post on this day exactly one year ago, and also exactly TWO years ago {although that post was lost with my old blog}.  It's becoming a tradition, and I think I quite like it.

  Christmas Eve Eve has been a good day, a day of both relaxation and preparation.  We're getting our meals all sorted out for Christmas Eve and Christmas day, baking cookies for family gatherings, and just generally being excited for Christmas, of course!

  Good smells are wafting through the house, tickling my nose.  Snow is lying on the ground, obviously staying put for quite some time.  These little scenes just make Christmas seem like it's really here, just waiting for the official day where it can come out and make its grand entrance.  There's no hiding that everyone in this household is most definitely excited for that day.

  These kinds of days make good days for reading, especially reading Christmas-y books.  I mean, who wouldn't want to curl up by the Christmas tree, a warm blanket covering your toes, hot cocoa sitting next to you, and read Little Women?  Sounds good to me!

  So I know I have written this post all . . . seriously, I guess, but I did just have to say that I AM SO EXTREMELY SUPERLY DUPERLY EXCITED RIGHT NOW.

. . . 

not.even.kidding. 

  I'm going to be doing some vlogging on Christmas Eve and Christmas day, too, so I hope you guys head over to my YouTube channel on those days and check out the videos!

  Hope all of you guys have had an AWESOME holiday season and winter break so far, and that it just keeps on getting better!

xoxo,
Carolyn

Five Sleeps 'til Santa!

  Well, since my last post, quite a few things have happened . . . 

Pictures in this post were taken last night when the blizzard started!

1. We had a BLIZZARD!  {{Last night!}}
2. We had a SNOW DAY! {{Today!}}
3. We're having ANOTHER snow day! {{Tomorrow!}}

  So, needless to say, I'm a very happy girl.  :)

  Christmas is coming oh-so soon, and I still have some presents to buy!  XD  I might be getting some presents for friends, my cousin, and my dad tomorrow, if the stores downtown are open, that is!

  Sorry for not much of a post today, but I'll probably have more snow pictures tomorrow night!

xoxo,

Carolyn

Seven Sleeps 'til Santa!

  I can NOT believe that in just a WEEK, it'll be Christmas day!  I am honestly so extremely excited for Christmas, I can not even begin to explain it.  XD

  So, Christmas break is coming up really soon!  It's Tuesday,-obviously-and I'll 100% be going to school tomorrow.  Then, Wednesday night, we're supposed to get a huge winter storm!  :D  So, the likelyhood of actually having school on Thursday is becoming slim, which makes me oh-so happy.  ;)  So, if we have a snow day on Thursday, that means that we only have FRIDAY until break!  I honestly would have no problem with going to school on Friday because we're having winter activities all day instead of actual classes.  OH YES!  XD  {{And, my dad also said that-due to the weather, since it's supposed to snow all Thursday, too-we might not even have school on Friday at all!}}  I am SO happy!

  Really, Christmas is coming so fast, and I can't believe it!  Just a week and I'll be waking up and feeling way too excited.  XD  Eeep, I am so excited that I am seriously feeling excited RIGHT NOW, as I right this.  Carolyn, calm yourself.

  As you can easily tell, I am just a tad excited for Christmas!  :D  I've been posting some Christmas videos on my YouTube channel, if you'd like to check those out . . . and I'd really love it if you did.  ;3

  MERRY WEEK-UNTIL-CHRISTMAS!  <3

xoxo,
Carolyn

Tis the Season!

  I don't know about you guys, but I am completely and totally in the Christmas spirit!  Drinking hot cocoa, putting up decorations, painting my nails all festively, and the like.  ;)  I just can't wait for Christmas!  <3

  I actually had my Nutcracker Ballet performance yesterday, and I think it went pretty well!  I don't usually remember much of it at all, since it's so fast and I can basically hear my heart pounding.  XD  I guess I'll see how well I did when I get the DVD.  ;]

  But really, Nutcracker was great!  I had such an amazing cast and an awesome "fan club" that came to support me, and I just loved every moment of it.  I'm so sad to know that it's all over, though!  Now what I'm thinking about is how I need to practice for the parts that I want next year!  XD

  Today was our first ACTUAL snow, but our technical third snow!  :D  YAY FOR SNOW!  <3  I absolutely adore snow, even though it brings lots of cold.  XD  But still, snow = white Christmas = HAPPY CAROLYN! XD

  Recently, I haven't done anything else/nothing much has happened that's been all that exciting.  Nutcracker has definitely been the highlight of my December!  :D  I've been vlogging today, since-it seems-that nearly every other YouTuber on the PLANET is doing Vlogmas . . . and it seems like a bunch of fun.  ;)  I've barely posted anything on YouTube, though, so this will be a good pick-me-up for my channel.  :)

  So, I will end this post with some Instagram photos for you to enjoy!  :D

Getting ready for Nutcracker dress rehearsal

Hot cocoa <3

The best socks EVER from my cousin {Nutcracker Gift}

First snow!

xoxo,

Carolyn

P.S.- Sorry for no posts recently!  I've been really busy!  But don't forget to check out my YouTube! :D  Vlog going up soon!  :]

Snow Day To-Do List {{And Please Vote for Me!!}}

  Yes, you heard me right, we have another snow day!  :D  This has been really nice, but it's no fun knowing that we'll have to make it up eventually.  XP  Also how cold snow is!  I love it, but it's so cold I can't go outside to take pictures of it, or pictures of my dolls in it!  I don't even want to it's so cold. :P

  But on these snow days I don't get too much accomplished.  I did do homework on Friday, so I feel pretty accomplished with that, but besides that I did basically nothing all day.  So, here we have my snow day to-do list, and some of the things will be crossed off if I have already done them.  ;)

1. Make a photostory with my dolls
2. Practice piano
3. Try to upload video
4. Work out some stuff on Picasa
5. Edit pictures
6. Take pictures of Ivy for Chinese New Year
7. Go to "We Bought a Zoo"

  So, I have quite a bit to do yet today.  XD

Yeah.  I'm weird.

  But anyways!  I would really 100% love if you voted for me in a photo competition I am in!  It's by The Doll Wardrobe and the winner gets a doll, and then second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth place get a $20 American Girl gift card!  :D  So, PLEASE vote by emailing nora.demington@gmail.com and voting for number 19!  :D  That picture's mine, obviously.  :)  To see it and the other pictures go HERE! :D  You can vote for as many pictures as you want!  :)


  I'd love to vote for your pictures, too!  So, if you have one, please tell me the number and I'll vote!


{Love, love, the snow is cold, love, love}

Snow Daze

  Hallelujah, IT'S A SNOW DAY!  :D  Snow is falling as we speak, and it's been falling all morning!  Man, it could've been falling all night, too!  :O  Well, all i know is this is more snow than we've had all year, AND all winter!

I can stay in my pajamas too long and not care about how I look.  No one will see me!

  

 I can wear fuzzy socks and not care that the blues don't really match. {It looks like I'm either standing or walking on the ceiling!  XD  I just had my feet in the air!}

I can curl up on my favorite couch, watching as the snow falls silently to the ground, building up taller and taller.

I can look out the window and see the snow swinging on the swing and sliding down the slide, having a play date of their own.

I can eat warm pancakes with hidden chocolate chip surprises, drenched in butter and syrup, and sip tart orange juice, the smell of my father cooking and coffee brewing in the air.

{Love, love, snow day, love, love}

{By the by, please check out my 365 blog!  I have four followers on there {so thanks to you girls! :D} and I post photography on every day.  I don't post every day here, and most definitely do not post PHOTOGRAPHY here every day, so I think you might like it.  :)}

Snow

  You know, I am just now noticing how often we take the little things that make life special for granted.  How did I start feeling this way?  Well, it all started with the weather.

  Today is a GORGEOUS day outside.  Two of my neighbors {they're boys and both in third grade} were outside, playing basketball.  They were BOTH wearing shorts and weren't cold.  I should be ecstatic, it's BEAUTIFUL outside!  But I want snow, Christmas will be so different without it.

  I was thinking to myself, "I really love snow."  I usually say I hate it because of the cold and the mess.  But really, truly, snow is gorgeous and beautiful.  Think of all those little snowflakes piling up and making those feet of snow.  Did you know that all of those snowflakes look different?  Not one is alike.

  In that way, they're like people.  Not a single person is alike, and together, we can amount to more.

  So, even if you think this sounds cheesy, just think a little.  You'll notice how the little things-the little snowflakes in your life-make life extremely special.

lovelovesnowlovelove


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Yawns and Stuffs

    HIYA THERE.  HOW ARE MY LOVELIES?!  :D

. . . **awkward** . . . 

  But SHALOM!  :D  I'm in a sort of odd mood, probably still tired.  I'm sure you're all like, "OHH EMM GEE, CARO, WHY ARE YOU TIRED?!"  And so I tell you.  And if you're NOT all like that, then . . . well, GET LIKE THAT.

  I was just at a friend's house for a sleepover with two other friends.  We stayed up pretty late, looking at lots of videos on YouTube and playing the Wii, because we're just so easily entertained.  XD

  We were mostly watching "You Laugh, You Lose" videos {{eh kay eh, "Don't Laugh" videos}}.  You know, most of them aren't that funny, yet I totally and completely cracked up when I was watching one.  Yeah, no idea WHY, but I laughed extremely hard at a dancing crocodile from Peter Pan.  I'm a normal child.

  Well, we stayed up pretty late {not too bad for a sleepover with three girls-counting me}, just to about 3:00.  :P  We were talking A LOT and pairing up people in our classes, but-of course-Makenna conked out before that conversation even STARTED.  Thanks Kenna, for being interested.

  So, I tried to fall asleep.  Of course, I couldn't, it's just LIKE ME.  :P  So, really late/really early in the morning, I called my mom, just saying I couldn't sleep.  It didn't help that my friends showed me some extremely fake, yet kind of creepy, videos!  {{I don't like being scared, let me tell you that.}}  I finally fell asleep around four in the morning, and got up around eight in the morning!  FUN.

  So, that's enough of that.  Let us talk about CHRISTMAS!

  Again, I AM SO EXCITED!  My parents are currently Christmas shopping, actually!  :D  My mom told me this morning that they weren't predicting any snow for this year's Christmas, and . . . I am extremely sad.  :(  But, after all, Christmas isn't about presents, snow, and mistletoe {HAHAHA I RHYMED!}, it's about the birth of Christ the Lord, our savior.  :)  Without him, we wouldn't be Here today.

lovelovetiredlovelove

Christmas in the Air **TAG!**

  I ALWAYS love Christmas time, and all the wonderful blogging tags that come along with it, so why not start your own, right?  RIGHT!  :D

Rules/instructions:

1. Link to the person/blog you got tagged from
2. Do the tag
3. Tag three people!

  So, here's the tag:

Is your Christmas tree up?

How about the rest of your decorations?

Do you have an artificial tree or a real tree?

Do you have any lights or decorations outside?

Do you have a favorite ornament on the tree?

How many Christmas trees do you usually have up?

What is the best Christmas present you have ever gotten?

Who do you celebrate Christmas with?

What is your favorite Christmas song?

What is your favorite Christmas food?

What is your favorite Christmas memory?

Do you have trouble falling asleep on Christmas eve?

What time do you usually wake up on Christmas morning?

Do you do any special traditions for Christmas?

 Here are my answers:

Is your Christmas tree up?

They are both UP, but no ornaments.  ;)

How about the rest of your decorations?

We're getting there!

Do you have an artificial tree or a real tree?

All of them are artificial.

Do you have any lights or decorations outside?
No lights because of difficulties last year, but we have  a wooden snowman and a wooden Joseph, Mary, and Jesus by our front door/on our deck.  :)

Do you have a favorite ornament on the tree?

I have a lot of special ones.  The ones that I made when I was little, the ones from my Godmother, and all of my dancers. :)

How many Christmas trees do you usually have up?

Well, one fancy one upstairs, one casual one downstairs {it has all of the ornaments, basically.  Just the fancy ornaments are upstairs because people can see it out the window!  XD}, and two mini ones, one in my room and one in my brother's room.

What is the best Christmas present you have ever gotten?

I've gotten a lot of great ones, but when I got my Zhu Zhu Pets two years ago I was SO excited, same with my Dora castle when I was little!  XD  I don't have the Dora castle anymore {I gave it to a girl in need} and I don't really enjoy Zhu Zhu Pets, but they were fun when I was younger. ;)  But I really loved last year, I got some great AG stuff!

Who do you celebrate Christmas with?

My whole family, really!  Christmas Eve and Christmas morning are with my direct family, and then Christmas day we see relatives, and later during the break we see OTHER relatives!

What is your favorite Christmas song?

I love "All I want for Christmas is You"!  :)

What is your favorite Christmas food?

Ham!  XD

What is your favorite Christmas memory?

I'm not sure if I could pin-point just one, but I always love putting up the Christmas tree and how it smells like vanilla every time we take out our Christmas decorations.

OH!  When I was really little, I got up at-like-one in the morning because I couldn't sleep, and we opened presents.  So at two o'clock in the morning on Christmas day, I was playing my V-Smile happily in my parents' bedroom!  XD

Do you have trouble falling asleep on Christmas eve?

Usually, yes!  XD

What time do you usually wake up on Christmas morning?

When I was young, it was always really early.  I would just close my eyes for HOURS, hoping to sleep, waiting until AT LEAST five in the morning!  XD

Do you do any special traditions for Christmas?

Well, on Christmas Eve we go to Church, go out and see lights, and then we open some pajamas from our parents and the present that my brother got for me and I got for him!  :)

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  I tag . . . Zaidia, Quinlyn, and Kellee!  :D

Merry Almost-Christmas,
Carolyn