Parade, Penguins & Parties

Dear Penguins: Thanks for coming to my office and decorating for Christmas. I love seeing all of your cute faces, and you did such a great job! Feel free to invite a few more of your friends to come before the season is over. We always welcome more penguins around these parts.




Dear December: I'm so glad you'll be here tomorrow! I'm already in the Christmas spirit, but you really kick it off

Powderpuff Days

Here are a few pictures from homecoming week my senior year of high school. From dress-up days, to spirit day on Friday, and then a few from the football game with friends. Our tiny little Christian school didn't have a dance then, so that's really all there is. I did however get to go to a homecoming dance with a friend from church at another school, and that was a lot of fun!

And this is

Proper Place

Here is my next set of 25 random lists I'm writing before my 25th birthday. These two are my Favorite Albums & CD's and 5 Reasons to Stop NOT Cleaning My Room... And back HERE is the first two lists from a few weeks ago. I've had fun with this so far, and I'm looking forward to writing more of these lists in the next couple of months! Tomorrow marks exactly two months until my 25th birthday, by

Proud of My Cooking

Today I want to share a couple quick easy recipes that I made last week during my Thanksgiving break. Seriously people, these are so yummy, and so easy. Just the way I like things :) I won't lie about this, I'm Proud of My Cooking, and I highly recommend both of these recipes. So grab a pen and paper to make some notes, because you're going to want to give these guys a try...

First up, I made

Post-Thanksgiving Update

It feels like it's been forever since I've written a proper blog post, because Wednesday's post was a scheduled post with a yummy recipe, Thursday's post was scheduled too (and it was just a ton of pictures anyways), and then Friday I quickly wrote a few simple letters. So really, it's been about a week since I wrote a real post, and that just seems strange! And I missed it, and I'm glad to be "

Picasa Is Annoying Me

Dear Thanksgiving: You were delicious, and I thank you so much for providing such yummy things for my family and I to chow down on. Yum! (I'm too lazy to import and edit pictures right now, so I'll have to share some Thanksgiving pictures one day next week, maybe...see next letter...)



My sister Megan and I on Thanksgiving, with me still wearing my cute apron :)


Dear Blogger/Picasa Web Albums

Party Like It's 2005

Here's another installment of my walk down memory lane! This was our New Year's Eve celebration during our senior year of high school. We all went out to our friend Brian's house, and we just hung around the bonfire and enjoyed some Welch's sparkling grape juice at midnight :)

For past walks down memory lane, visit them here, here, here and here.



Click "Read More" to see all the pictures

Pumpkin Cupcakes

I've shared this post before on my friend Hallie's blog, but I'm posting it here today, since it's Thanksgiving week, and pumpkin cupcakes would be delicious during Thanksgiving :)

This is a recipe for homemade pumpkin cupcakes as well as homemade cream cheese frosting! This is Jeff's Granny's recipe, so it's a tried-and-true winner. And let me be really honest here -  both the cupcakes and the

Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow

Good morning my bloggy friends! (Or afternoon/evening depending on when you actually read this...) Today I'd like to focus a little bit on Thanksgiving, since it is this very week after all! I just wanted to share a few things I am thankful for in my life, and then share a challenge at the end as well...



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The Bible tells us that we should give thanks in all

Palm Trees Wrapped in Christmas Lights

First up, let's talk about how cute my new layout and color scheme is. But more importantly, the cuteness of my header picture up there now! I am in love with it :) I think it's gonna stay for a while, but I'll probably change the pictures out occasionally as we go along!



And next, we can talk about today's installment of Mani Monday (which I haven't done in a while...), but this is my super

Pen & Paper

Remember my cute little notebook from last week that I bought just for blog doodling? Well, here's my next project with it! I have a list of 25 lists (who makes a list of lists I ask you? This crazy girl does...) that I'm going to doodle and write and make pretty, and share them with y'all up until I turn 25, in just a little over two months!

So, here's the list of lists... I won't be doing

Prizes Flooding My Mailbox

Dear Friday: Hooray!!! So glad you're here :) And after only 3 days of work this week? That's just great.






Dear St. Augustine: We're comin' for ya today after work, and we're so excited! Can't wait for the annual Nights of Lights festival tomorrow night! Haven't been back for it since I graduated, and I'm so glad I get to go back this year, and that Jeff gets to come too!



Dear Friends

Plane Ride Numero Uno

And here goes walk down memory lane numero quatro! These are fun for me, so I hope they are for y'all too, since I've done quite a few already! If you need to catch up you can find my past posts about cheerleading, prom and Jr/Sr, and senior girl presentation. Check those out too! :)



This was our senior trip out to Winter Park, Colorado. And guys, this was a BIG deal for me. Why? It was a

Potholing

This past Sunday, Jeff and I took a mini road trip over to Marianna, Florida, to check out another state park and do some exploring and have an adventure! We went to Florida Caverns State Park, and did the cave tour together! We didn't realize at first we were going to have to pay, but we ended up paying $8 a person, and it was totally worth it for the 45 minute underground tour of the cavern.

Pasta, Puppy & a State Park Weekend

Well, last Thursday and Friday were the worst days of whatever this sickness is, so I stayed home the whole time. I didn't shower or leave the house (except a quick doctor's visit) or eat hardly anything, and I was just pretty icky. I've felt pretty off the last five or so days, and my blogging seems a little labored right now, but I'm gonna just power through it anyways for a quick weekend

Postal Delivery

I love getting Postal Deliveries -- getting packages in the mail and opening up little gifts! It's just so much fun! Even if you paid for them yourself, it's still like receiving a present, and it just makes me so happy :) Well the other day, I got TWO packages in one day! One of which I ordered and paid for myself, and the other one was a free gift!




The first one (the one I paid for) was

Pitiful Sickie

Dear Random Sickness: You suck SO SO much. It's not a cold, it's not strep throat, I have no idea what it is... but you caused me to miss the Chris Tomlin concert last night, and now I can't go camping tonight with my Sunday school class. You make me angry!! Let's get outta here, OK? Because I really am a Pitiful Sickie :(

Dear Seminoles: Thanks for pulling ourselves together last night and

Presentation of Senior Girls

And here is number three of my walk down memory lane posts! My first memory lane post was all of my old cheerleading pictures, and then the second one was prom! So make sure you check those out too. :)



This is another thing that my school did, that I've never heard of with any other school. It's called Senior Girl Presentation. All the girls get fancied up, and each one literally gets "

Penmanship

I found an extremely lovely blogger and blog the other day -- Joelle from Something Charming. And I'm so glad I found her blog just in time to join in for her  "Write It Down, and Link It Up" challenge. It's simple - she wants to see our handwriting! It's something that is almost never included in our blogging world of computers, iPads and keyboards, but it's something that's so individual and so

Post 200 = Award for ME!

Oh hey there friends! Want to know what I'm doing for my 200th blog post?! I'm just chillin' over here, accepting my first blog award!! Hooray for accomplishing one of my goals for 25 Before 25 (200 posts & 10,000 views), because this post allows me to cross that off my list! And hooray for the award too, obviously :)

Sooo, actually the first time I was nominated was a few weeks ago by 

Partially Lazy Weekend

Friday
Went to a Thirty-One party, and ordered a cute little thermal tote lunch box (but not that pattern shown)
Ate some super yummy snacks/appetizers at that party and tried not to go overboard with it...
Hung out at my friend Lacey's house and watched part of a scary movie before heading home

Saturday
Went to one of my youth's cross-country race to cheer them on. Her team got 1st place,

Polls, Parties & More This Weekend

I'm really loving writing me some Friday Letters, so of course we're gonna go for it again this week as well...















Dear Fall Weather: Welcome to Florida! We're so glad you're here. Please feel free to make yourself comfortable and stay a while. We'd be so grateful if you did. Seriously.





Dear Weekend: We've got a lot of stuff planned for you, so get ready to be real busy. But at

Prom & Jr/Sr Banquet

So here's another installment in my walk down memory lane posts! In case you missed my last one, make sure to check it out for tons of pictures from my cheerleading days! 



So for 12 years, I went to a private, Christian school, from Kindergarten to Senior year. We did things a little differently there, especially concerning prom and the likes... The school put on a banquet for us, called