Holiday Break!

This Thanksgiving, Austin came to visit me all the way from the land of ice and snow that I call Rexburg, Idaho. :) We (Austin, me, and my mom and dad) had an amazing time at the beach down in Corpus Christi for the holiday break. We flew kites, fed the sea gulls, swam in the ocean, played board games, and just generally had a good time. Here's some pictures!



This picture was taken in the car as we were travelling home to Dallas from Grandma's house in Austin. Yea for the comics! :D

This is one of my favorite pictures that was taken during our vacation, minus the kite string interrupting the picture.

Happy Holidays! I know it's past Christmas, so this Thanksgiving break post is "late", but I still enjoyed having Austin here, so I thought it deserved a post. :) Happy New Years!!!

2008 Election

Well, this week Early Voting was open for the Presidential Election this year. Today I got to vote and have a voice in my nation for the first time ever! :) The picture above was taken right after I got home from voting.The officials handling the proceedings were really nice, and very friendly. I hope that everyone else has as great an experience voting this year as I did! :) Happy voting!

"What are you gonna be on Halloween night..."

"A witch, or a goblin or a ghost? What are you gonna be? Now don't tell me...wait till Halloween and let me guess!"

I was a bunny! :) The song I quoted was one of the songs that my mom and I listened to when we were in the car when I was little. Halloween is just around the corner! :D It is so nice to have a Halloween that isn't H-O-T this year!!! It has been sooooo nice outside, I have really been loving all this fall weather! Happy Halloween, y'all! :D

It Starts...

So I have officially lived through my first week of college in Texas! The summer is pretty much ended, and except for this coming Labor Day Weekend, I'm all done with lifeguarding (until next year, that is). :( That's okay, I think I got as dark as I possibly could this summer. :)

Leah has already come to visit from Utah, and gone back to school for the fall semester again. :( Taylor leaves me on Tuesday, and then I will officially be alone once again (this time in Texas instead of Idaho)...well, except I'll still get to see my family and live in Carrollton. :) Make way for change!!!

I love my "new" room...if you check on Momma's blog you'll see what I'm talking about. I have been reading, taking quizzes, and writing notes like crazy this week! Luckily I will get a break this weekend--I have a date tomorrow afternoon, and on Saturday night! So that should be pretty fun. :)

It's strange for me to not be going back up to Idaho, but I know it's hard for Momma and Daddy too...but at least I get to enjoy the great Texas heat for another year! :) I like the snow, but sometimes it would just get so cold up there! Here's to hoping it will be a GREAT (A+) school year, and a fast one too! :) Only three more months until Christmas!!!!!! :)

Girls Night Out!

So, for the past several weeks, Thursday night has been my Girls Night Out with my best friend Taylor. :) We both work together on Fridays, so we decided to get together every Thursday night at either her house or mine, and have the night to relax and talk and just have fun being girls. :) This is what we did last night:

First we started out with a to die for foot scrub--the only word that can describe the way our feet felt afterwards: AMAZING. :) The scrubbing stuff looked really gross, though. Then--after our foot scrub--we did facials (a self-heating clay mask thingy that felt great and was way fun to do together!) to finish it off. I'm so glad to be a girl, and have Taylor for a friend! :)
YAY for friends and fun! :)

Only in Texas...

Okay, so today's my day off, so I thought I would post a blog. :) Yesterday it was 100 degrees outside, and today it's 72 outside, and it's been raining off and on. Sometimes I am amazed at the crazy weather here in Texas! Hot and humid one day, then rainy and cool the next...good grief! Too bad we didn't have this weather yesterday when I was out lifeguarding! Oh well...

Also, today I got a haircut! It's been really long for a while now, so today I got up and Momma took me to get it cut!!! Yay! It's shoulder-length now, and it feels GREAT! :) Thanks Momma for taking me to get my summer cut today! :)

Oh, and I keep forgetting to post some pictures of my bedroom. I moved it all around! I took down the canopy, and moved my bed against the other wall with a window, and shifted my little dresser to where my bed was. There is so much room! I also got a new picture to put up on my wall for $3 at Garden Ridge! It's so pretty, I'll have to post pics of my "new" room's look soon! :)

Happy Father's Day!

I just wanted to post saying HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! to a wonderful Daddy. :) For the past (almost) nineteen years of my life my daddy has held my hand when I've been scared, given me Father's blessings when I've been sick, and made me pancakes on Sundays (until I was big enough to do it myself...and even then sometimes he still makes me pancakes!). :) He is such a loving and wonderful daddy, and I'm so glad the Lord sent me to him and Momma! He is a one-of-a-kind Daddy, and I'm so glad he's mine. :)