Catch up. Slow down.

I feel as if the month of December has passed me by too fast.

Are people already coming home for Christmas already?

Is Christmas really in less than a week?

Am I really going to Mexico in one week?

Oh yeah I forgot to tell you bloggers. I'm going to Mexico! Not the vacation type but the serving type. Which is probably just as great. I don't doubt that I will have fun. My besty Shelby is going and also my Korean friend JongSu. It will be a party. Shelby tells me that there are going to be some cute boys on this trip. That's a bonus.

Instead of presents under our Christmas tree this year, our presents include our Mexico trip. Mexico does not come free, obviously, so instead of going to shows to get us in the Christmas spirit we just haven't been going. This has taken it's toll on me. The only Christmasy things I have done are Temple Square and one family party.

Temple Square was just grand. We rode the Trax and were completely obnoxious on them I'm sure of it. We got to Temple Square and I had my checklist of what I wanted to do. And I am happy to say I got the things within my control done. We watched the not so live nativity, listened to a choir, looked at the lights, went to the Joseph Smtih Memorial Building and saw the Christmas tree there and went to the top level and looked at the temple and went to the reflection pond and took pictures. When I say we I mean Rissi Hunter and I. We also wore gloves, hats, scarves, coats and boots and drank either hot cocoa or apple cider. Here's a fun fact for you, I prefer apple cider over hot chocolate. The one thing that I wish would have happened was that I would have been on a date with a handsome boy that I admire intertwining our fingers in our warm woolen mittens. Maybe next year.

The Hess family Christmas party was quite the...uhhh...exciting one this year. We ate lots of soup and sweets, held new babies, played Christmas Jeopardy, minute to win it, and a guessing game where you had to feel the items in a stocking and guess what they were. I won and received a T-shirt. The most interesting part of the whole night was my "Grandmas moment". One year she had us all join together and sing a song that I had never heard before. This year she decided to give us a chastity lesson. Here's what went down:

After shaking my body all over the place trying to get jingle bells our of a kleenex box on my back my grandma announced that she had a game for all those who were not married to stand in a line. That is very difficult for us Hess's to do, but call it crazy we did it. After doing so my Grandma then announced that it was not for the little kids. All that effort just to be killed. Somehow we got back in a line. My Grandma then proceeded to count us off as in one's and two's. She then gave us a piece of gum and had us chew it until it was good and ready. She then told the one's to give their gum to the two's, and the two's to the one's after rolling our gum into a ball. We were then told to put that other person's gum into our mouth and chew it.

As you can imagine this created some movement in the family.

And that's that.

Have a Merry December

What's left of it.