Happy Driver's License Day To Me! :)

Finally, after 21 years of life, I went today and took my driver's road test...and passed! :) Hooray! Now I am officially a licensed Texas driver! And after Sunday, I will get the extreme privilege of driving my very own car, thanks to the very best Momma and Daddy in the whole world! :) Thank you!

As for my past first week of school, it has been AMAZING! I am so excited for this semester, and I think that it is going to be a dream come true! :) Life feels perfect right now...except that Leah left for college yesterday, and Taylor will be leaving for college in a few days from now. :( I guess we need to take the good with the bad...

Anyways, I'm so glad that I finally got my license!!! The whole rigmarole process took up the whole morning...but it was so worth it! :) I think I will go and celebrate! :)

Back To School

Well, everyone else is starting school, and so am I...again! I finished with summer school and had this past week off...now it's back to school for me! I must admit I am a little apprehensive about taking a full load again, and want to prove my mettle with this sign language interpreting. Here's to a good school year - wish me luck!

Twinkies!

This past Monday Austin and I welcome some little twinkies into our home! :) They weren't the edible kind of twinkies...but they were cute enough to be. :) When we originally got them at PetCO, I wanted to make sure that they gave us only two of the SAME GENDER. They assured me that they did not allow any unauthorized breeding...so since we got both out of the same cage OF COURSE they would be the same gender. Right? Wrong. I had previously read all up about Dwarf Hamsters...including on making sure that new pets were actually the gender the pet store claimed they were. We got home...I checked...sure enough, we got - ONE BOY AND ONE GIRL! :) Silly me, but...so much for that unauthorized breeding policy. :) The hamster you see before you in her cage is the little girl hamster (Austin's) that he named Peach Pit. He wanted to name it Peachy, but she was darker than peach...hence the Peach Pit, or Peachy for short. I like to call her Princess Peach.

We house our little hamsters in separate cages now. Doesn't our little Princess Peach look cute nibbling away on her food?

Here is Austin taking a picture. We were so excited to get our little twinkies home! Little Bear is really warming up to me, and loves getting out of his cage. However, he isn't the most...energetic...hamster, and although he will try to run around and escape if we are holding him, once you put him in his little ball to run around in...he falls asleep. I think he looks at his ball and his wheel in his cage as hammocks. Silly boy. :)

Here is Little Bear again. Since he is the boy, we let him have the blue ball. Peachy got the orangey-yellow ball since she is the lady. :) Bear is having a little peek to make sure all is well before he ventured out into the big world! :)

Fortunately for us, he was a brave little guy and determined that we were safe. :)

Isn't he so cute?!

Disregard me, I just wanted to show you just how little these cute little hamsters are. Here you see Little Bear climbing up my arms, trying to make a quick break and easy escape. He's a regular Houdini!

Here's to happy hamster-ing! :)