Starting To Get That Christmas Spirit...

Good evening awesome people! :)

I hope you all had a fantastic Sunday, hope you are all relaxed and ready for the week ahead....we nearly done because tomorrow is the 1st of December, which means Christmas holidays are coming soon! :D

Super Exciting!!!

Today we really got into the Christmas spirit and went and got our little Christmas tree. We bought a real one this year and we love it so much. This is our first Christmas together in our new home and for a family that had to leave everything behind including ornaments and decorations, we did a pretty good job...

I just love our little area and I love our tree, most of all I loved decorating with my family <3 was good decorating with just us four again <3
I did think about last year when we went with my Tia and Uncle to get our tree, we were still mind blown about the fact that you can get REAL Christmas trees...well my mind was blown, I don't know about my brother or my parents LOL

I did miss decorating the tree with them, but I also missed decorating our home with just us four <3

This was also my Jax's first Christmas with us <3 He was really confused with what everything was and why we had it in the house LOL. He was all over the place, which is not the best thing since we were trying to get everything up and running haha, but other than that I loved seeing the curiosity in him.

Tonight was also Walking Dead night, which is kind of funny seeing as we watching something so horrible on the same day of putting up Christmas stuff LOL, but we made it into like a family tradition and we love it either way. Tonight's episode was.....WOW! For those of you that watch Walking Dead too, I bet you all know what I am talking about haha, and I bet you are all in shock as well. You should have seen our faces, I wish someone had recorded us or taken a picture LOL!

Well now I am sitting on the couch with my family watching Earth to Echo, looks cute and so far I am enjoying it.

Hope you all have a fantastic night and hope you are all ready for the week ahead!

God Bless

xxx

Lazy,Lazy Weekend!

Good evening friends! :)

I hope you all had a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving with your loved ones, I know I did. The food was yummy and with family around to share the moment, there is nothing in this world that could possibly top that.

I'm sorry I haven't posted for the past few days, I've just been really lazy and to be honest I kind of hate it, it makes me feel yucky and gross so last night I did a little workout before showering and hopping into my pjs. I did 20 ab rolls with the ab roller my Tia and Uncle lent to me, I did 60 squats and I even stretched a little. Being a dancer or "ex dancer" I would really like to keep my splits and flexibility, and today I am paying the price for it all.....and it feels gooood! B-)

The whole day yesterday we watched movies!! FUN!! LOL my mom had a day off from work and we all just sat on the couch in our pjs and watched 2 movies....the one was called Dream House, we thought it would be a scary movie, but it was just about a guy that went crazy after his family was murdered because he thought he killed them, meantime it was the neighbor who hired a guy to kill them, well not them he wanted the guy to kill his ex wife, but the idiot he hired got the wrong house and family instead LOL and the second movie we watched was.......wait for it......Step Up: All In <3 I don't know about you guys, but the Step Up movies have always been my favorite and I have been dying to watch that movie since it came out. My boyfriend Jose' went and watched it back in South Africa and with him being a dancer too...well "ex dancer", he absolutely loved it!!
(Let's just say I wanted kill him when he told me he was going to watch it! LOL but I gotta love that nerd <3) 

Anyway...last night I wanted to have a Step Up marathon when I went to bed, but I watched the first Step Up and it was already 1:30am, and as much as I wanted to watch the second one, I just couldn't keep my eyes open. I tried to stay up as well to hear from Jose', he is on what we call "matric vac" it's like a vacation you go on once you finish school and he went with 4 other guys, now me being the girlfriend, I am not there....and yes I am jealous of the friends LOL but also with him having to drive 7 possibly 8 hours with the traffic, I kind of worry and especially with them being in South Africa. They went to the beach...(lucky fishies) and that is where they will be staying until the 5th which is Friday. I miss my monster so much, I barely hear from him with him being with his friends and having fun, but I'm just proud that he made it through High School and is now able to tackle the real life LOL

Good Luck Babe!! <3

So today we cleaned up the house, I took care of some overdue lessons for school and after that we made a quick run to Walmart to get a few things...the main idea was to get Christmas decorations for the house, this being our first Christmas alone in the new house hehe, we managed to get a few cute things for the tree and once we got home we just started rearranging and making our own little display for the Christmas village...

 Look at our cute little village! <3

 It looks so beautiful when all the lights are off and just the village lights are on :D
Just love it!

This is my dad's favorite thing at the moment, he just loves this train and he set it up so it would go around the Christmas tree once we get it  hopefully tomorrow or Monday.
Cute huh?

So that was our weekend so far, tomorrow I am going to be finishing up all my schoolwork and then it is time for Walking Dead with the family, sounds like a pretty good Sunday to me! :)

Have an amazing evening everybody...
God Bless

xxx

Sleepover!!

Good evening everyone! :D

Hope you are all having a wonderful Tuesday evening, I know I am haha.
Tonight my brother and I are sleeping over at my Tia's house and so far it has been one crazy, but productive day. We started off with school and as usual, got side tracked and just started talking and having fun :D I have been going through some personal issues lately and I just love my family for their amazing support and love <3 don't know what I would do without them!

So this is what tonight has been all about...sitting in front of the fire with my family and roasting up some marshmallows to make smores <3 nothing says a sleepover without a warm fire and yummy treats :D

Jas and I actually put together a little vlog about tonight for both mine and her blog called Sparkles and Red Lipstick and I will also be updating it onto my blog just in case any of you can't see it on our blog.

I am really starting to look forward to Thanksgiving this Thursday, I know I am thankful for so much...and I will make a list of all the things I am thankful for on Thursday, it would be wonderful if you would all share what you are all thankful for too <3 I would also love to know what you are all cooking up for Thanksgiving :D other than the Turkey, the pies and all the yummy traditional stuff ;) haha!

Well I hope you all enjoy your night further and have the sweetest of dreams <3

Goodnight and God Bless <3

Monday Once Again

Happy Monday Everyone :)

Hope you are all ready for the week ahead, especially for Thanksgiving this Thursday which is quite exciting! Another highlight to my week is no school from Wednesday to Friday, but I think for me it's not going to be much of a break with the amount of work I have to do...the joys of being a senior haha but I know I have no room to talk considering all the adults out there working their butts off for their families, I take my hat off to all of you! <3

This is the love of my life <3 hehe my little Jax, he is my whole heart and my life would be so dull without him. Yesterday we stood by the front door crying and asking to go for a walk, so since I had nothing better to do, I took my baby out for a well deserved walk. The weather was perfect, it wasn't too cold and he just loves it, so that was good enough for me.

After the walk, I came home and started catching up some overdues I had...not something I was looking forward to and was kind of trying to find a new, longer route to take just so I wouldn't have to go home and do this nonsense! HAHA!

School is school and there is nothing you can do except get it done and out of the way!

And just look at who decided to lay there and mock me while I was stuck doing school!
Wanted to just put that blanket over him haha.

Well time to go and get school started, doesn't anyone want to save me?????
Anybody????

Haha have a fantastic Monday all, if you don't have the drive to get through this day just close your eyes, say a little prayer and smile...I can guarantee you'll feel a whole lot better! <3

Have a Blessed and wonderful day!

Smells Like Winter

Good evening everyone...hope you are all keeping warm this Saturday evening, I know I am haha I'm sitting here with my hot chocolate and trying to find Disney movies to watch, I don't know why but these past few days, all I've wanted to watch were Disney movies...who says an 18 year old girl still can't enjoy the classics??

So far I have watched Brother Bear 1&2, Mulan 1&2, The Fox and The Hound 1&2, and right now I am watching Mickey Mouse Tales...I absolutely love Mickey Mouse, my Tia actually got me Mickey Mouse jammies for my birthday and I just love them, they are warm and comfy, and...well...covered with Mickey Mouse haha

So I said I would put pictures up from my birthday, to be honest I am still waiting to get them haha, I still need to steal them from my mom and my Tia. To be honest I haven't even looked at them, talk about being a bad young adult haha, my mind has been all over the place, been trying to still catch up everything at school and improve my grades. My algebra teacher actually phoned the other day and gave me a retest to try and boost my grades. So at least I know my teachers this year really want me to graduate and I am thankful for that.

As I said in my previous post, I want to try and start vlogging, lucky for me, my dad's friend actually gave him these 2 small little cameras used for vlogs and stuff like that, so I'm going to try and use that and see how far I get.

Well I'm off to bed, it's late right now and the sound of rain just makes it so easy to fall asleep.

Have a blessed evening all!

The Day Before Adulthood

So tomorrow is my 18th birthday, tomorrow I am officially an adult and I can tell you I am excited and scared all at the same time. I guess we all have to grow up whether we like it or not.

I either want to go bowling or go to dinner at Wingers with the family...either way I don't care, as long as I spend it with my family. I already got a few early birthday presents from my parents and my aunt and uncle which was very exciting LOL. So far I have nail polish and a jacket from my Tia and my uncle and I got a gift certificate to get my hair, nails and a wax done from my parents. So far my birthday is really starting to coming together!

So that's my new look now :D I've always wanted to do my hair that bright red color. but I'm not that crazy as to do my whole head that red LOL so I decided to do the peek-a-boo and I think it looks amazing and I love it so much!! <3

There has been a lot of snow so far and now that it has stopped snowing, the whole of Mountain Home is still white and looking stunning...

This how it looks like here by us...nothing but white <3
The only problem is all this ice, I always close my eyes every time my parents turn a corner on the road haha my nerves just shut off on the road.

It snowed big, beautiful flakes the other day and I just had to go outside and watch, I even managed to snag some flakes in my hair.....okay....that doesn't sound very good or attractive LOL but you get the idea!

In South Africa we never got snow so for us, even though we have experienced last year, we still get very memorized and think it is the most beautiful thing ever yet every other person moans about it snowing LOL my dad being one of them.

I have been thinking about starting to put up some vlogs of like my day and my life here, but I don't know if I should....any suggestions??

Well I will tune in tomorrow as an 18 year old :D

Hope you all have a Blessed night and keep warm

xXx

Just Another Thursday : Part 2

Okay so I'm back :D 

Wow I am sitting here with my Tia and I tell you we just don't stop talking about random things LOL I am actually supposed to be doing school and I was so dead set on doing it and keeping to it today, but somehow whenever we are here not much gets done LOL. It's moments like these that I will treasure for a lifetime <3

As we are sitting here in the warm cozy house, it is snowing like crazy outside. It looks so beautiful right now even though it's not completely white yet, I just love watching the snow fall and blow with the wind. 

So this is how we spend our snowy days! ~Hot Chocolate with Marshmallows~
Nothing says a snow day without a nice hot cup of hot chocolate <3

So my birthday is next week Wednesday and I am kind of feeling on and off about it, like I am excited to turn 18 and all and I can start becoming a more responsible woman, but I kind of don't want to grow up and I can see that it is taking its toll on my family too, they clearly don't want this baby to grow up LOL

I think the hardest part for me is not being able to share my 18th with my Bio Odete. She is the most important woman in my life and to be honest the strongest one I know<3 She has been through so much, losing her husband, her mom and her youngest son, the only blood relative she has left is her oldest son and my grandfather Dario. She turned 91 this year in October and it killed me that I couldn't be there to share it with her. I miss her more than words will ever be able to describe and I just wish she could be here with me.

I love my life here in the States, and as I sit here looking out the window I am just so grateful to be here with family that I have not been able to share my life with. Its all so new and different but in a very good way. Not only am I happy that I finally get to be with my family here, I am so thankful that we are all in a safe place. Back in South Africa, you were never safe and that is not the life I choose to live. If it were up to me, all the people I care most about would be here with us right now, but so far my boyfriend is the only one working on that, he just can not take that country anymore and I honestly don't blame him. They have been through so much already and he just can not wait to get out of there, and honestly I can't wait for him to get out of there either. I would love for my family to work on coming here, but it is just so complicated and especially my old relatives, they can't take those long plane rides and I just don't want them to go through that, but I don't want them suffering in that country either. I guess all I can do is look to God and ask that he protects all of them until they are able to make a plan.

Well now that I got all of that off my chest...lets move onto some more good news :D LOL
The house behind us has just put 3 more horses in their corral and I am super excited. They are stunning!! I believe, well I've heard, that the people here in the town go up to the mountains and pick up wild horses to take care of for the winter and once summer comes around again then they set them free again. I would LOVE to do something like that, words can not describe how much I would love to take care of a few horses, but knowing me I would probably hop on their backs and just RIDE! <3

Yeah I'm a crazy one, but whatever...I can't be a grump all my life LOL

I will definitely post pics of the horses as soon as I can. can't wait to show you guys!!

Well that's all for today, I hope you all have a good day further!

God Bless and Keep you always <3
 

Just Another Thursday

Good morning everyone!

Well it's just another Thursday, another cold Thursday LOL I am so ready to just fly right back into summer and get those dresses and shorts back on...I do not like the cold, it has its moments with me but other than that...NO!!

So today I am going to be working extra hard to try and catch up on my school work and portfolios. I am so sick of schoolwork right now I can actually just throw my hands up and say "screw it, I'll take my chances in that big, bad world out there", but we all know I am smarter than that ;) LOL

I am sitting under the blankets at the moment typing up this post and I have the heat running in the house as it is freezing cold outside. They say it is supposed to be snowing today, and it has started a little bit but let's just see how long that lasts. I love the snow, but it honestly does not need to be this cold. Who else thinks it should snow but be all sunshine outside too? :D

As you can see, it is getting dark very quickly over here and it is a horrible feeling. Around 5pm the sky is already dark as night and the moon is already for his shift. Now I don't know about you, but I could just sleep when this time of the day comes around.

Well I have to get going, need to get ready to go to Tia. I hate cutting this post so short but maybe later I will post again and show you something I am really excited about :D

Well I hope you all have a fantastic morning further and I will be back later with another update :)

God Bless and Keep you always <3

Busy,Busy Week

Well this week has been nothing but chaos for me, I actually feel stressed and scared with the amount of work I have piled up for school. I am so ready to finish it's not even funny...

With all the work going on I couldn't post on my blog and that to me isn't a very good thing because I don't want to lose followers or readers. I really want this blog to take off and get a lot of people reading my blog as possible. I don't know if that sounds bad LOL but it's the truth.

So this is what I ended my day with, talk about a great ending to a long, hard week. On Tuesday I was making my mom and I some green tea with honey, my most favorite thing in the world at this point, until my dad walked into the kitchen and pulled out the condensed milk and asked to make him a cup of coffee...well let's just say I changed my mind about the green tea before I could even blink LOL I honestly don't remember when last I had coffee with condensed milk so to me, that was like heaven.

This entire week while doing school, Tia, Jasmine and myself had some very interesting conversations. My favorite was trying to figure out what mine and Jasmine's babies are going to look like one day and what they will call our parents and aunts and uncles LOL. Now you probably thinking I am crazy for thinking about kids at only 18 years old, but don't worry I am not planning on having one anytime soon haha I just love the thought of a baby and how to dress them and who they would turn out to be like, one thing is for sure my baby girl is going to be sassy just like her momma ;) no jokes LOL

I just love having those conversations with my family because that just brings on the laughs and also it makes memories because one day when I do have my own kids, I can look back and smile at the conversations I had with my amazing family <3

Now how can you not think she is cute?? To me, this is exactly what my little girl will look like....just saying LOL

Yes I am a very weird and outspoken person, but that is one of the many things about me. Ever since I moved to the States, even though it has been hard to adjust, I have learned to calm down a bit more now and I am still learning not to have the knife handy whenever people are trying to tell me or teach me something (in other words I am trying not to jump down everybody's throats and get defensive all the time). I am a very stubborn and cheeky person but sometimes it is very unintentional, have the Bettencourt blood running thick in my veins and despite whether it is a good or bad thing, I will always be proud of it <3


I also want to just let everybody know that I am also a very good person to talk to if you are having troubles or just need a friend. If any of you feel the need to speak to anybody, I hope that you will consider me as a person you can run to and trust in. I will be there for you and maybe even say a little prayer <3 Please don't be shy!

Well that is it for today so I hope you guys had a better week than what I did and if not, always look up and know that God is always right by your side no matter what <3

God Bless and keep you always!
Tiffany

~Magnificent Monday~

Good Evening everyone<3

Hope you all had a MAGNIFICENT MONDAY!!
I know I did, wasn't bad at all LOL

So it's starting to get cold and I for one hate and love winter or as I like to say...it's a sweet and sour kind of thing ;) haha....that's a long story, I'll maybe fill you all in on that one another day.

So today started off a bit off, felt grumpy this morning but then again what is new. I can be very unpleasant in the mornings but it's not all the time. Just feel like I am missing home again...my friends, my family, my amazing boyfriend...it is hard, but I just keep looking forward to when my gran comes on down next year to visit and hopefully along with her will be my boyfriend Jose', so fingers crossed for that one.

I just love this picture so much and its starting to look a lot like this here by us and soon it will all be covered with beautiful puffy snow :D that is what I am looking forward to most!

In 3 weeks time I am turning 18 and I won't lie, I am super excited but so scared at the same time. I finally get to grow up and become an independent woman, but at the same time I want to stay this stupid little kid that doesn't know any better, and has to listen to mommy and daddy all the time, but unfortunately life doesn't work that way.

I just realized today that the courses I want to take once I finish school are just things that I like doing, but what about my passion? I think I have decided to become a horse trainer, train horses and even help troubled horses...that has always been a dream of mine so I was thinking maybe I should go for it of course I will have to learn how to ride and study but its something I really want to do and my dream will finally come true. So prayers for me on that one please.

Well this is going to be a short one tonight, hope you all have a blessed Monday night <3
God Bless and keep you always! <3