No longer a Teenager!

Its weird to think about, but I am no longer a teenager. I am 20 years old... wow!

Well before my birthday was Peter's birthday and with moving back to Idaho and all the craziness his present was a little late. But I think he enjoyed it all the same(:

The first thing I sent him was actually a late Christmas present. While in Orlando I went to the Christmas store in Downtown Disney and had a ornament personalized for him. It turned out pretty good!

Then for his birthday present I got him Voldemort's Wand(: 

Then for the next 10days he got to tease me about being so young and still a teenager. haha. But then it was my turn and for my birthday I had a celebration with my roommates and friends on Friday night. Before that I had some father/daughter time with my dad and then Saturday I spent time with family. 

Procrastination, darn you!

So another thing that I said I wanted to do while I was there was go and get pictures with as many characters as I could find. Sadly I kept putting off because I didn't want to stand in the lines. But FINALLY on my last day off before I left I made it a goal and just went and got as many pictures as I could. It was lots of fun and I am glad I did it, if only I had done it earlier and more often so I could have gotten more. I didn't even get the classics like Mickey Mouse or the Princesses. Oh well ... here are the ones I was able to get pictures with:

Characters in Flight

I worked in Downtown Disney, and every day on my way to work I walked past the Characters in Flight Balloon. Every time I would say I wanted to do it, but it wasn't until my very last night there that I FINALLY did it, with my friend Molly. It is a giant tethered balloon 400 feet above Downtown Disney Area! I am so happy we finally did it, I had lots of fun(:

Graduation!

I am a Walt Disney World College Program graduate! It is a pretty cool thing to be able to say. The 'graduation' wasn't much of a ceremony, but rather more of a stand in 3 different lines to get your stuff. Mickey and Minnie and a few other characters were there, but the lines were way to long to get a picture with them.

Christmas just wasn't the same...

I absolutely LOVE Christmas lights! They are probably one of my favorite thing about Christmas, going to look at all the lights(: Well at Hollywood Studios they have this wonderful thing called the Osborn Festival of Dancing Lights! It was so cool!! 

Working on Christmas and Christmas Eve made it not even feel like Christmas at all. However, I did have a small Christmas celebration by myself after I got home from work on Christmas Eve I opened the presents my grannee sent home with me(: Then I woke up Christmas Morning and opened the stocking from my parents. 

A few days later, I got a package from Peter, I was so surprised because we had already exchanged gifts when I was in California. He sent me the cutest thing ever. It was white chocolate shaped fortune cookies with personalize notes. It was perfect because I got the package and I had exactly 5 days until I left, it was the perfect pick me up to help me get through the last week. 

SURPRISE!!!

While I was in Florida kinda sad because no one was able to come visit me, my friend (who also happened to be from California near to where I was) told me she found a great price on tickets and was going back to California for a few days. At first I figured I wouldn't be able to afford it, but after some thinking and figuring I decided I wanted to make a surprise visit home and make it my Christmas present. So I made the plans, my mom and Peter's sister Christy were the only ones in on the surprise. I worked it with my schedule to get a Friday and Saturday off of one week and then the Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of the next week. I flew into Oakland and my mom came to pick me up. On the way home I texted my dad on her phone and we arranged to meet at Applebees. We got there before him and I hid in the bathroom until he got there and then came out and walked up to their table and said "fancy meeting you here". The look on his face was priceless. After visiting and eating some lunch I then headed over for a quick visit at my grannee and papa's, Aunt Shannon's, and brother Dave's house. It was so much fun to surprise them all(: I have to say the best reaction out of those was probably Alissa and Jaiden, they started jumping and screaming as soon as they saw me outside the window and as soon as they opened the door ran and gave me a big hug! 

I wasn't quite sure how I was going to surprise Peter and then his sister told me that they were planning on going to a pancake breakfast in the morning so I thought it would be fun to just show up there. So the next morning my mom drove me up there, but then we were almost there and Christy texted me saying she couldnt get home out of bed. haha I was shocked, I figured something like that would happen, but luckily we were already close and so we decided to just stop by their house(: I knocked on the door and he answered in shock. He was speechless and just couldn't believe I was actually there. Here is a picture Christy got right after I got there, he was still in shock. 

Then after the surprise we went to the pancake breakfast where we got to see Santa! 

Then visited and just had an amazing time together. 

That night I spent the night at his sisters house. We exchanged Christmas presents, he got me a bunch of scrapbook paper and then using his sisters cricket we made a bunch of stuff to use for scrap-booking. It was really cool. I got him the final Harry Potter Movies to complete his collection. 

The next morning before church we took a few pictures together at their house, just to have some nice pictures of us together(: 

After church we headed back down to Elk Grove where I went by my grannee's one more time to surprise my cousins and then headed to a good-bye party the ward was having for my parents. While I was doing that Peter went over to his friend's parents house that he is really close with and visited with them. After the party my parents dropped me off with Peter and then we got to spend a little more time together before he took me home and I had to say the hardest goodbye ever. 

Then next day after taking care of a few things, my parents and I headed to back to Oakland because my flight left the next morning really early so we decided to stay in a room for the night.