Puppies & Santa "Claws"

Quick Update:
My new phone is awesome, still.
And:

Today we went to Petsmart to get Santa "Claws" Pics of our babies. It's put on by the Douglas County Humane Society. They had puppies there! SO adorable. Lucy & Chevy really took to one of them.........one day they will get another brother or sister! :) Just need to get a job and house first! Ha.
Anyways, this is distorted because I took a pic of the pic with my phone, you know how that goes. BUT it's an idea. :) They did so well! Friendly and didn't bark at other dogs and Lucy didn't do her "i'm excited so I lost control of my bladder thing." The only time anything even remotely went "wrong" was when we were leaving. Chevy had to relieve himself and started to do so as we were walking out. We cleaned it up. Crisis averted. :) And their sweaters are adorable. I love my fur-babies.

Boring

OKAY final grades are in! I got 5 A's and 1 B!!! :p I'm pretty thrilled about this. Now only 6 more classes and UNDERGRAD IS DONE! :p

Over the break, I suppose I'll be working on my application to Grad Schools. I'm a bit nervous, which is leading me to procrastinate. But it's okay. I'll suck it up and do it. :)

Sunday night, Hannah & I watched three chick flicks and laughed and joked and had fun until like 4:30 am. :p It was great! Hadn't had a night like that in a long time. Then, yesterday (Monday) I got the puppies back!! :) And took a pic of them with my new phone. :p

Wow, I'm late. WHAT a weekend.

So my last update was several, several days ago. There are a few reasons for this. Here's the summary. I made it through finals and writing tons of papers and whatnot. I have 5 out of my 6 final grades - so far, really good! So far it's 4 A's and 1 B!! My only one pending is Law & Society. It will either be an A or a B. SO all the stress was totally worth it! :p

AAAANNNNDDDDD Now, to this weekend!
Hannah & I went home to babysit Ava and do stuff and go to Danny's Christmas party. So here's how that went.

Friday: Friday when we got to my house I got my BRAND NEW PHONE!!!!!!!! :p I'm so excited about that. So after we played with it and started figuring it out, we went and picked Ava up from school. She was so excited! So then we went and babysat her for a while, played dressup, and then a lot of us (Me, Hannah, Ava, Zach, Will, Tyler, Savannah) went to El Charro for dinner. After that, we watched Will & his friends (plus some that weren't at dinner) play Twister and silly string & there were glow sticks and yeah. It was pretty fun. Then we put Ava to bed and stayed up watching stuff and hanging out w the boys and such.



Saturday: In the AM, Ava got us up at 8:30. YAY. hahaha. And we watched 101 Dalmations. Btw, I really missed that movie! I had forgotten a LOT of the details. So cute. Then we ate, hung out, played, did nails, etc etc etc. Then Hannah & I got ready and headed to Danny's (Seth's bfffffff's <--- that's for Hannah) house for a Christmas party. It was pretty fun. The "regulars" were there and it was interesting to talk to Hannah about it! :p Pictures to come.

So then today (Sunday): Today was Ava's Christmas Recital with her dance group. She was SOOOO freaking adorable and cute, like OMG. So this morning when we got up (she let us sleep until 9 something!) we got up and had breakfast, then we watched Beauty & the Beast: Christmas Edition or something, it was cute. I think I'd only seen it maybe once. By the way: It SNOWED a little bit. This is completely unheard of in December in Georgia. If it snows at all, that is usually in Feb or March. So after that we took showers, we got ready quickly and then played "dress up Ava!" Her hair is really hard to get to stay up, being that it is all straight, so we put tons of gel and hairspray and then Nanny brought her curling iron and it turned out ABSOLUTELY adorable. :D See below. I put green eyeshadow on her and some blush and lipstick and she loved it. Look at her work it! :)

Quick Re-Cap

So I made it through the week! Basically.
It was pretty crappy, but, I'm alive and done with four of my six classes.
Run-down really quick:

Monday: Did Practicum for 6 hours (10-4), then studied for Law & Society final with Hannah.
Tuesday: Did Practicum for another 6 hours (9-1 and then 5-7). Took Law & Society final in between those two sections.
Wednesday: Did Practicum for another chunk of time (9-12 and 1-3). Then met up with Hannah again and studied for Terrorism final. Then TOOK Terrorism final. THEN, came back to the apt and worked some on my 10-page Corrections paper.
Thursday: Finished said Corrections paper (12 pages total) and finishing putting together my powerpoint for Corrections (had started it Sunday). Then did Corrections Presentation Thursday night (got a 100!!!!!!!) and turned in said paper.
Came home and prepared to pass out and spend today sleeping the day away.

What actually happened today: Slept for a good bit of time, but woke up before noon. This was NOT in my plan. ;) Now I'm getting all my financial aid payment stuff worked out.
Tomorrow doing more Practicum hours and then all I have next week is MAYBE a few extra hours for that and an 8 page paper to do. OH and helping Hannah study so she ROCKS her final for Methodology. ;)

That's pretty much it and I am DONE with this semester and will OFFICIALLY only have ONE semester of College left!!!!!!!! :D :D :D That is my motivation for next semester.

HA.

Today, got some things cleared up I guess. Not fixed, but out in the open. I'm happy about that.

This week....oh, boy.
Tomorrow I have to do some practicum hours and study with Hannah for our Law & Society final on Tuesday. Then, Tuesday night we need to study for our Terrorism final on Wednesday. Wednesday I need to do a few more practicum hours if possible and take the Terrorism final and turn in my Terrorism Honors paper. Also need to finish the Corrections Paper and Presentation for Thursday. On Thursday I have the Presentation & Paper due for Corrections. On Friday, I have a five page paper due in Practicum. I also need to do more practicum hours that day, since I need to turn a paper in that day anyways.

Whew.

Then over the weekend on Sunday is Ava's adoption party - 2 years. Wow! Also I need to work on my paper for Sexuality & Spirituality. It's due next Wednesday, I think. I need to finish up my practicum hours by December 10th (next Friday). I REALLY hope I do my best on all of these things, but I'm feeling overwhelmed by this. Having it written down helps though, so I can keep to a schedule. :/ Sigh. But then I'm DONE by December 10th for a few weeks!! :D Then I start my LAST SEMESTER OF COLLEGE. YES.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
This picture is of everyone except Mom, who likes to hide from the camera. And Will's eyes are closed, but hey. It's the only big group pic from Thanksgiving.

My stomach virus that I got on Monday am FINALLY went away late last night and I am SO glad! I was praying and praying that I would not be "that sick girl" on Thanksgiving, especially with all the yummy possibilities. :D

Let's skip the sick days (aka Monday-Wednesday) and get on to the good stuff. This morning I got to Seth's grandma's house around 12-ish and helped her finish up the cooking and setting tables and whatnot. We ate - and it was good. The ham was DELICIOUS and the squash casserole was a new Thanksgiving thing. I was told I'm not country enough since I don't eat collards - lol. I just don't like how they smell :/ Or look. lol.

We left there around 4:oo and went down to my Mom's house. OH MY. I hope that I can get the pictures that we took. The table alone was impressive! hahaha. It looked like the Brady Bunch was going to have Thanksgiving dinner there. It was the dining room table + the kitchen table put together. YEAH, so we have a big family. And they "figured out" that they'll have enough room for a kids table one day when we all have little munchkins. *sigh*

It was Ava, Zach, Will, Me, Seth, Mom, Mark, Nanny, Papa & Nic. We had yummy food again and Ava made us all turkey placemats - so cute. Of course all the food was delicious, but my favorite, as always was the casserole. That stuff. What would I do without being able to have that twice a year? :D Besides be thinner. ;)

Everything was good food-wise and family-wise. Lots of fun. It was Ava's second Thanksgiving with us. :) We left around 9 pm. And now here I am, with my puppies who are loving their REAL bones that they got. SLEEPING tomorrow!

OH, we got the disc of all the Family Photoshoot! Here's a sneak peak!

Confusion, Pictures & Harry Potter? :)

I have been in a state of confusion for weeks now! I keep feeling like as soon as I figure something out, it blows up in my face. I have expectations and they aren't met or I don't have any expectations and I miss something. I just, basically, can't figure out how to live my life anymore.

That may sound stupid and whiny, and I understand that. But it is the best way I can think of to put into words. I'm not sure what the date of my last post was, since I am no longer using this daily (even though I should).

Let's do an update of sorts, then.

On Friday (Nov 19th) it was my youngest brother's 14th birthday! Happy Birthday Zachy! I always feel old when a sibling has a birthday. Like I've said, I don't feel any older when I have my OWN birthdays, but when I have a sibling have a birthday, it is then that I realize how much older everyone in my life, including myself, is getting. Will is 16 now and will be 17 in March. *gasp* He's almost a legal adult! WTF! And Zach, like I said, is 14 now. He'll be 15 in less than a year - driving!! Ava will be 7 in April. WHAT?! Yeah. And I'll be 21 on my next birthday. How very strange. Even stranger? My Papa will be 80 - yes EIGHTY - in January. I feel so blessed that I've gotten to share at least 20 years with my grandparents. But at the same time...I've only ever had 2 grandparents at all. I never "really" had paternal grandparents because my grand-daddy died a few months before I was born, and my "ammama" <-- how I said it, passed away when I was just 3. But enough of that. So on Saturday (20th) I went home for Zach's birthday dinner and to do Christmas pictures for our Christmas cards. Seth was included this year. :) I guess that makes us more legitimate in my parents' eyes? haha. No one even blinked. My Papa kept asking when he got to help plan the wedding. Ha! Don't get me started on that. Our pictures were taken by a local photographer - credit to AshleyWhitePhotography. She did a good job considering what her subjects were - MY Crazy family. Here are a few "proofs" I guess they are called.














This last one will be a choice for our cards. :) That's Nic in the front (foreign exchange student). I'll post the ones we get on the disc later if there are any that are suppperrr cute. I liked how most of these turned out. So after this (it was a little less than an hour) we went to Nanny & Papa's really quick and I got to meet their new kitten! :) Made me miss my puppies. :/ :/ They are at their favorite boarding place (Seriously, they get excited when we get there, so I don't feel as bad leaving them.) We can't do pick-ups on Sundays apparently so we can't get them until tomorrow morning. It's soooo weird being here without my puppies. I don't like it.

OH, but dinner! We went to O'Charley's and had a really good waiter. :) haha. His name was Rich and he did very well with our table of 1000. Jk. But it was 11 people on a Saturday night. Food was good, company was better. (Just in case, it was: Bday boy Zach, Will, Tyler (Will & Zach's friend), Nic, Seth, Me, Ava, Mom, Mark, Nanny & Papa).

Afterwards, we went to see the new Harry Potter. :) It was soooo long - and I had no idea! It did NOT feel that long at all! (It was about 3 hours) And we also decided Will looks a little like Daniel Radcliffe (Harry) as far as bone structure. lol. It was good - I want to see the next one NOW. :p Movies are awesome.

Today we went to church. :) I love going to church, when I get to. My Mom suggested the chapel (not the sanctuary) for our wedding one day (in 2074, at this point).......... Whatever, man.

'So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your
God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my
righteous right hand.' Isaiah 41:10

I realllllllllyyyyyyyy hope this starts working sometime soon. I need it.