Christmas

This year, we flew out to Arizona to celebrate this holiday season with G-Dog (we even made him a Facebook!). We got here last night, Christmas Eve and are staying until January 4th. It will be so nice to be out of the snowy Michigan/Illinois weather!! It was sure different this morning already having opened our presents and not having snow, but warm, wonderful, pleasant sunshine!! It was such a great holiday season this year. . . early Christmas and all!! I hope you all have a fantastic holiday season!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!!!

Eventful Weekend!

What a wonderful time this weekend was! Not only did I get done with all my finals and got to see my brother, but he graduated from college!! It was such a lovely service! Long, but nice!! Mom and dad got to Kalamazoo Saturday and then we grabbed a quick lunch. After lunch, we made it to graduation where we got really good seats!! We sat right up close and Jonathan walked RIGHT by us!! After gradutation, Sarah's family and our family went out to eat at the Radison. After dinner, we went to the Jevnikar's (Sarah's house) to have cake and cheese cake. As we were all serving out dessert, Jonathan PROPOSED!!! I was sooooo excited, after all, I have waited 20 years for a sister!! It was so nice and so fun to be there and witness Sarah actually saying "yes"!! So proud of my brother!

Finally Done with Finals!

Today I finished up my last exams!! I had Children's Lit exam this morning and then Calculus right after that. After Calc, I loaded my car up and out I went. I got to Jonathan' s apartment about 7 Michigan time and we have had fun. Right now, he is a little upset because I am not watching his movie with him, but updating this thing!! When I got here, we went out and took $30 of pop cans back and then went to Kohl's to see Gina. She went on break and we went to Taco Bell together. After Taco Bell, Jonathan took me on a nice tour of Kalamazoo, Western, Downtown, etc. It was really fun! Tomorrow should be even more exciting! CANT WAIT!!!

The Turkey Has Clothes!!

If you dont remember, in my second grade class, one of my lessons was to have the students make feathers for the lovely big blue eyed, red heart lips, chunky turkey! Well, finally, the Turkey has clothes!! He was getting pretty cold out there in the hallway with nothing on. The students finished up their feathers and their acrostic poems I had them do and there they are. Hanging so proudly in the hallway outside of their classroom. If you cant see, some students really took time to color everything nice and neat, inside the lines . . . some others took lots of time to color very dark over all their precious words! Oh, second grade!!

Roommate Christmas

Tonight, we had our roommate Christmas. We all got each other little gifts and put them under our Charlie Brown Tree. Sarah got I Tunes gift card and a Nerf gun. . . right up her alley! Andrea got Bath and Body Works stuff and Pepsi, her favorite! Caitie got a shirt, a tote and a coffee mug. I got Forrest Gump the movie, Lola goes to the Library, and we all got cookie mix in a jar! It was so wonderful!! We had such a good time enjoying each other and celebrating Christmas in our cute decorated apartment!! Hope you all are enjoying this wonderful, cold winter season!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Crunch Time

This semester has FLOWN by. FFFFSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHH. . . done! I cant believe it is already time to take finals again! Last time I looked at the calendar, it was Novmeber 2, now its already December 10! Finals here at ONU start Friday and continue to Monday and Tuesday. I get to take all six of mine Thursday and Friday. I am taking them early so I am able to go to Jonathan's graduation! I am so happy for him! Until Friday, after my last exam, it will be crunch time. I will be busy studying my butt off!! Sounds fun, right!? Wish me luck and keep me in your prayers!

Roommate Bonding

{top left to right: Andrea, Caitie, me, Sarah/ us with our stockings/ Andrea, Sarah, and I decorating our stockings.
middle row- left to right: working so hard/ put the camera on a timer and ran into position/
I am so focused on getting it just so.
bottom row- left to right: working hard again}

Last night, we decided to have roommate bonding time! We have our apartment all decorated for Christmas with lights, Christmas tree (1 foot), stockings, etc. We had such a good time as well all decorated our stockings and made them fit our personality. It was humorous because two of us had Type A stockings and two of us had Type B stockings. It is funny because the two type a had stockings were going to the left and the two type b were going to the right. It was just funny to see the differences in everyones stocking!! We played Christmas carols and had hot chocolate while we focused on our stockings! After we let them dry overnight, we hung them with care on our pretend mantle!!

Winter Time

Bur. . . its getting cold outside! Tonight, its a bitter 15 degrees outside! Last night it snowed all through the night and was still snowing this morning when I woke up. It was a cold walk to class at 8am! It has been nice that the snow and cold weather has waited so long, but now i just cant get used to it!! I go outside thinking that it will be like November weather and I freeze my bottom end off!! I hope you all stay warm and bundle up when you go outside!!! Enjoy the beautiful white season!