The one where I catch up on almost 9 months.

Well, I kept thinking, I'll start blogging again tomorrow, or the next day, or the next. Needless to say, that never happened and here I am 8 and a half months later with so much to post about. I want to remember my college years, One day I want to have enough entrys to get one of those blog/books printed to look back on all my fun times! I want to be able to look back at big events like birthdays and anniversaries as well as silly days spent with friends. So I'll try this again.

August 2009

I moved into my dorm room August 27th at Austin Peay State. This is my super cute dormroom. Mom and Dad drove up and Grandma and Grandpa met us in Clarksville. My roomates in Meachem 101 are Megan, Lukita, and Bridgette. Im living with Bridgette next year and can't wait.



Also on this day Kevin and I had been dating for 3 years. :]
So excited about that.

September 2009.

I cant think of anything particularly exciting about September... I pretty much stayed busy going to classes. I took English, Biology and Bio Lab, Apsu 1000, American History I, and Statistics.

Family Day was September 26th. Mine and Kevin's families came up to watch an APSU football game, and stay the weekend.





October 2009

Halloween 2009 Kevin and I dressed as a doctor and nurse. :]



I loved our outfits and was excited about the Halloween Party we were going to with our friends. Luckilly, we drove seperately because after about 15 minutes, and 2 idiots spilling drinks on me, I was ready to GO. We went through McDonald's and got a redbox. Oh Well!

November 2009
No excitement in November.

December 2009

I LOVE CHRISTMASTIME! :]]

We decorated our dormroom and had a Christmas Secret Santa Party before midterms started.

And hung our stockings..:]



At home, Kevin and I went to our churches college biblestudy called NextStep. We had our annual Tacky Christmas Sweater Party. Our sweaters won us some Itunes Gift Cards! :]



Although I dont have any pictures, I had a wonderful Christmas break home with my family. Its soooo nice to wake up in my own bed! I got a GPS system that I ADORE. I was sad to go back to college and miss my family more, but excited to go back and see all the people i missed at college too.

January 2010
January is always good month. Im still in the Christmasy spirit, I love New Years (which Lauren Pesce had a a New Years party and thats always super fun), and Anne's birthday is in January. She turned 16 years old and got her liscence. Go Anne! She passed the drivers test on the first time. I, on the other hand did not. I got stuck with a black guy who had no teeth and mumbled. Mumbler + Hearing Impared Claire= Disaster. I though he said left lane, but he had said turn lane, and he screamed at me, which made me pannick and swerve almost hitting a truck. I cried and cried and cried. In 30 days, I went back and passed the test.

The only pictures I have from January are from January 18th. Kevin and I went to the zoo. I had forgotten it was January when we went to the zoo! It was such a beautiful day!!
I absolutely loved their exhibit called "critter encounters." They had Brushes for you to brush the animals. SO CUTE! At the bird house this bird would NOT get off Kevin's head. We think he liked his own reflection in Kev's sunglasses.




Feburuary 2010

February was a pretty eventful month.

We had a super big snow on the 8th. It caused school to be closed for I think 3 days. Kevin, Bridgette, and I went out and played and made this huge snowwoman and snow ice cream. :]




Valentines Day!! We went to Nashville. Our plans were to shop at the green hills mall, see the movie Valentines Day, and go to the cheesecake factory. We saw the movie, it was completely full. I sat next to a man who was by himself other than his Subway sandwhich he pulled out of his pocket as soon as the movie started. The movie was awesome though. SOOO good. The restauraunt had a 5 hour wait. Obviously, we left, and ate at macaroni grill. Still good. :] Kevin got me flowers, I made him chocolate covered strawberrys.

*** ALSO I wore my new Christmas boots, and I love them Oh SO MUCH.





March 2010
Hillary came up to visit me in March and we had a blast. It was her spring break. She stayed at my dorm 3 or 4 nights. I LOVED it. Unfortunately she has not posted pictures of her visit.. SOOOO.. yes. Get on that Hillary.

I got a JOB! :] I was searching Craigslist for local jobs and saw that they needed people to help with the Easter Bunny at the Governor's Square Mall here. I called the lady and she set up an interview. We chatted and she was awesome. She needed one more girl so I suggested my lovely roomate Bridgette. We both got hired and had the BEST time. We greeted the families, walked the kids to the bunny, set them on his lap, took their pictures, went over prices and packages, and printed them from the computer. SO FUN. I wish they needed me to do this all year round.

*** the fan was on the bunny (Jwuan) when the picture was taken, blowing up my dress making me look about 893 pounds heavier. But, here is the bunny! :], Kinda creepy, I know.



Also, some time in February or March my family and best friend Kathy, came up for the day. We went to the mall, the blackhorse, the riverwalk, and the thai house. It was such a good day, I am so blessed.






April 2010

Easter was April 4th. This was also the day we had to put our Callie cat to sleep last year.
We still Miss her so much.
I had to work the day before Easter until 9 o clock. My mom drove up so that way i wouldnt have to come home late by myself. We got home at 2 am, went to sunrise service, had our usual Easter breakfast and pictures, and went to Nanas for lunch. I rode back with Kevin to school around 4 and napped in the truck. Easter is always one of my favorite days, and Im so glad i didnt have to miss being with my family.







The following weekend was Kevin's fraternity formal. I totally did'nt like the idea of him being in a fraternity at first, but I'm okay with it now. The Alpha Tau Omega Brother's are good guys. :]



The next weekend was my birthday. :]
i LOVE my birthday. Sunday was my actual birthday, but we celebrated the whole weekend.
On friday. Bridgette arranged for all my friends and I to go to Casa Blanca mexican resturaunt for dinner together. My friend Kathy came up for the weekend. They had bought me a cute cake, and the waiters sang to me.

Then on Saturday we went to Nashville to meet Kathy's boyfriend, Chris. We shopped, ate and we bowled at Dave and Buster's. We ate at Macaroni Grill. MMM.





SOOO its been a great two semesters and im ready to take my exams and have fun this summer, that is IF we ever get to take them because of the FLOOD OF MAY 1st 2010. Im going to post about that seperately.

The one with the nose peircing, girlfriends, orpheum, zoo date, and petting zoo.

So its been a while. In the midst of all my sleeping late, watching movies, and hanging out with friends and family I forgot all about my little blog.

*Wednesday August 12th

So Hillary turned 18 FINALLY.
I spent the night and that morning we went to get her oil changed, bra shopping for her impossible weird bra size. :] love you. Annnd to get her nose peirced. EEK. The guy was joking with her telling her he thought her friend would pass out before she ever did. For some reason i was sooo much more nervous than she was. I felt like i was going to throw up. It went well though and the guys at Kat Daddys were really nice. It looks cute on her too. Heres pictures:

Of course this whole blog basically talks about Hillary and I. Heres a collage I made of all the wonderful girls I love the most ald hide in and wish I could hide in my dormroom. I would'nt be the same without them. <3

KASSON.LAUREN.STEPHANIE.SHELBI.MIKAYLA.KATHY.ME.REBECCA.

*Friday, August 14th

Last year was our familys first year to attend the Orpheums screening of the Wizard of Oz. We love the orpheum and its fun to go no matter the occassion. Before the movie plays they host a costume contest. I dressed up last year but this year Anne and her friend Hunter did. As cute as they looked the didnt win. Instead a creepy monkey child and skanky Dorothy won.

*Tuesday (August 18th)

Tuesdays are wonderful at the zoo because of FREE DAY! ESPECIALLYYY, when all the little memphis city schools are in session. Kevin and I have made several trips together this summer and we always do the same thing. Arrive at 2:30 and get a snocone next to the elephants after passing the girraffes and zebras. Then we see the 3:00 sea lion show. Afterwards we visit the birds exhibit and then leave to go eat somewhere. This time we ate at kooky canooks. Kevin is probably the best boyfriend in the entire world. :] just so everyone knows. <3>

Finally today.

*Friday August 19th

Today I took my car to have the front tires changed. Woo. Then i went to kroger and bought everything to make my specialty mermaid marshmallow pies from the movie the waitress. I found the recipe online and make them whenever i need a dessert for somewhere. There was a cake contest at church today and i figured other people would make pies but mine were the only ones. Oh well. I made 3 and Dad took one to band practice with his friends. Needless to say the snotty old ladies at our church judging the contest took no pitty on my pies and I recieved third place in my category. Only three cakes were entered in my category.

The highlight of the churchwide picnic however was the petting zoo. I LOVE ANIMALS AND PETTING THEM. :]

The one with the square-head.

Fun day today. Mom woke me up and I took a shower before she left for work. I even dried and fixed my hair, which I haven't done in two days. I took a pain pill and went back to bed. Kevin (who knows the garage code) came in and woke me up around 11:45. He and Hillary agreed to spend the day with me because I'm still a little loopy and my parents had to go back to work. So Hillary got there a little later and we all went downstairs. Hillary and Kevin fixed me mashed potatoes and potato soup... which is the same thing I've been eating since the surgery. Kevin rented movies for us to watch and I stayed awake through Little Miss Sunshine. Later after more medicine i went to sleep and they stayed and watched Harold,... which is a wonderful movie, however never went to theaters so not many people have seen it. Harold, my fish, is named after Harold from the movie. :] Later Kevin left and Hillary helped me get pretty. Its hard to feel pretty enough to go anywhere when your head is as swollen and as square as mine is right now. But,... i realllly wanted to go to the Vera Bradley party. We love going, and have been to the other ones. They give away free gifts and have snacks and drawings. SO fun. We didn't win but we had a great time anyways. We all went to chickfila afterwards and while it took me 30 minutes i DID finish an entire chicken sandwich. Teeeeny bites. I had to flatten it a little with my fork to fit into my mouth too, haha. Anyways we had a great time thinking of all the other sqaure things we love that match my head. :]] Later my family and i watched the final movie of our Shirley Temple marathon... The Little Colonel. LOVED it.

Fun day. Tomorrow Kevin and I are going school clothes shopping. That should be fun. :] He'll have a great time waiting while i eat, and helping me stay on all my medicines. haha.

Me, my square head, and Hillary goin to the party. :]

OTHER SQUARE THINGS..

Jay Leno's head.



The monsters from target.

Tator tots.

Johnny Bravo's head.

My sweet little fish Harold.

His namesake. :]

The one with the wisdom teeth.

So Tuesday morning at 6:00 i woke up and got ready to go to the dentists. I took my valium at 6:30 and felt all tingly and loopy. We got there at 7:30 and I got an I-V put in my arm by two nurses and that is all I remember. Apparently I was good through the whole thing until we left. Mom and Dad said I cried so hard, and kept spitting out my gauze the whole way home. I don't remember anything except waking up and having a pina colada icee. Then I went back to sleep and woke up to a chocolate milkshake. Around 4:30 Daddy and i watched Kit Kitridge the American girl movie, it was adorable. Kasson and Mikayla came over next and brought me a sorbet fizz Kasson made at TCBY. I had never had one, and I have to admit it was awesome. So around 8 Kevin came over and snuggled with me. My parents have me set up in the playroom of our house on an air mattress so i dont have to go back and forth from my bed to watching movies. I love it, :]. So back to Kevin, he brought over beautiful flowers and sweet peach tea from sonic and we watched Yes Man. I dont really remember much of that movie... I think I may have slept through it. I slept really well last night, of course I had plenty of drugs. :]]] love them! I woke up around 6 and played on my laptop and then went back to sleep till 10. So this morning I had more medicine and another pina colada icee. :] Daddy and I had a shirley temple marathon, we watched The Littlest Rebel, and Captain January. Kevin visited once today, he'll be over later and while Daddy's at band practice Mom and I are going to watch the last Shirley Temple movie she rented, Curly Top. I think my friend Katherines coming over soon, so i gotta get a nap in. :]

All four wisdom teeth, two broke, but they're still prettty cool. :]

Puffy cheeks, and heating packs.

Shirley Temple. :]]

How cute is she?!


The beautiful flowers Kevin brought me. He's SUCH a wonderful boyfriend.

The one with the surprise party.

Today is Wednesday although Mondayyy, the suprise party for Kevin's 18th birthday Hillary, his Dad, and I had planned while he was away in Italy finally took place. (By the way Kevin had a wonderful time in Italy and I'm soooo happy he's home.. plus he got me a beautiful olivy-brown leather purse there.) The party was sooo much fun. Kevin was so shocked. Hillary and i got there at 3:45 to set up his house and decorate with streamers and balloons. We made a cake which unfortunately melted a tad on the carride... but the cookies from the busy bakery looked absolutely adorable. All the guests arrived around 4:45ish and Kevin was out with Raleigh and Ben, they agreed to watch him for the day. He got there at 5 and we made a road block leading to his driveway with the words HAPPY B-DAY KEVIN spelled out. In the reinactment picture its spelled a little incorrectly, haha, oh well. Once Kevin got there we swam, and his dad grilled out burgers and hotdogs. MMM. we ate cake, cookies, and ice cream, and watched a movie, road trip. Kevin took me home around 12 since I did'nt drive and i had to get a good nights sleep for my wisdom teeth the next morning. (next post).

Kevin driving up to the party.

Reinactment of the sign!

Opening presents.

Everyone in the pool.

Cookies. Yummm.

Cake and cookies.

Professional surprise-party-planners.