The Best Friends a Girl Could Ask For....

This past Saturday evening I was up in Simpsonville, near Greenville, visiting with/reuniting with some of the best friends a girl could ask for. Pretty quickly after school started my freshman year, I joined a Bible Study that Campus Crusade for Christ was starting in my freshman dorm. Little did I know that when I joined that Bible Study, that I would be making some of the best friends in the world- the kind that last a lifetime. We all stayed in the Bible Study from freshman year through graduating.... losing a few people along the way and gaining others as the years went by. Saturday night, most everyone was there. We were missing a few people, but it was great to see these friends who I love like family.....

I am so blessed to have these women in my life. God chose these people and put them in my life for a reason. Each one is unique and special, each one a wonderful example of a Godly woman. All I can say is Wow. I am so blessed!!!

Christmas Lovin......

So I saw this on one of the blogs I frequent... so I decided to do it here!!

1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper (unless it is a weird shaped gift, then MAYBE a bag... but only maybe) I like to wrap presents so that they are so beautiful people don't want to even open them!!!
2. Real tree or Artificial? REAL... the fatter the better and must must must be real!
3. When do you put up the tree? no set day... just depends. Sometimes right after thanksgiving some times only a week or 2 before Christmas. Just depends.
4. When do you take the tree down? New Year's Eve-ish
5. Do you like eggnog? Love it! Especially Egg Nog Milkshakes!!!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? probably baby dolls.... one year I asked for anatomically correct twins (a boy and a girl) I still have them for my kids one day. And a few years later I asked for the boy twin to match the girl twin I had gotten for my birthday that year. Still have those twins too..... I had a thing for twins!!!
8. Easiest person to buy for? My niece... she is only 7 weeks old, so I can buy her the cutest little outfits!!!
9. Do You have a nativity scene? Yes, several. One from my childhood, and then 2 that Brad brought us back from Ecuador.
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail...
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? probably when I was about 15 years old... no I was a sophomore in college and my dad's mom got me this little 6" long baby doll...... weird. I was in college and had long since stopped playing with baby dolls, but she said it reminder her of me. So I smiled and politely said thank you for thinking of me. I think my mom probably gave it away to goodwill or something....
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Miracle on 34th Street
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? usually a last minute shopper for the most part.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? not that I can remember... but I have nothing against it. One man's trash is another man's treasure.
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Christmas Cookies
16. Lights on the tree? Lots and I prefer classic white lights.
17. Favorite Christmas song? "O Holy Night"
18. Travel for Christmas or stay home? Depends... some years we stay home and some years we go out to Washington to spend Christmas with my mom's family!
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Yes... but I would have to sing the song to do it!
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Usually a star but this year a bow... my mom did it because the star that we usually use is mine and therefore at my house. I forgot to bring it home. so. bow it is...
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Christmas MORNING!!! and we have strict traditions.... we come down stairs and open our stockings in the living room. We go around the room, one at a time. Then we eat breakfast and then we open the presents under the tree. Again, going around the room one at a time. We savor the moment and enjoy seeing what everyone gets!!! Plus it makes Christmas last close to all day!!!
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Rude people and people forgetting the REAL reason for the season! It is not about Christmas presents or Santa. It is about the birth of our Savior!! Jesus's birth is what we celebrate!!! not Santa.
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? My tree at my house is red, green, white/silver but my parents tree, which is also sort of my tree in that I help decorate it every year and I have some sort of emotional attachment to the idea of the Christmas tree at their house and a deep emotional attachment to the ornaments, it is just all glass ornaments with sparkles of red..... I will post picture of it all soon!!!
24. Favorite Christmas dinner? Beef Wellington
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? I asked for mostly stuff I need, but because of my pea-sized budget as a student I cant afford.... make up (i am almost out of concealer and foundation), shoes, a bra, thumb drive.... nothing too exciting. Just stuff I can actually use and need!!!

Enough for now. I am heading to bed!!!

DONE! D-O-N-E!

DONE! Yay for being done with this semester... officially half way done with my degree!!! Yay!

I will post more this weekend once I have had a normal nights sleep. This week has been a crazy week, but God has really revealed himself to me in some crazy ways so I will post some about that.... But since it is almost 3am... I am off to bed!!!!!

Long time no post

Long time no post. Sorry. This semester is coming to an end... so I am in crazy school mode. I promise I will write something and get back on track over the weekend when I will be officially done with school for the semester. For Now... a picture of me and my niece from Thanksgiving and then another of just her sleeping!!!

(sorry her head looks a little greasy... it would be because we have a problem with petting her sweet little head....)