Are ya with me?

I thought I'd start of this update with a picture that I took. I saw this on a car the other day & snapped a picture of it real quick! I thought it was great!


I love it! It's so true!

Many of you have asked in so many words what I've been up to. :o) Well I guess since it's been about a month since I have really posted anything on here I should catch you all up.

I have decided to continue my schooling at the University of South Florida. They have about 5 different campuses, one of which is in Lakeland (which is a perfect location for me!) I had previously thought about attending classes at the Tampa campus (the main campus) but have decided that it will be better in more ways than one if I go ahead and take classes in Lakeland. The main reason though, is that I won't have to move & waste the extra $ on housing. Therefore, I'll be less 'in the hole' when I graduate than if I moved!

I plan on getting a (BSW)Bacholers in Social Work. As most of you (I think) know I've already received my AA. Well, I've official receieved it but as of today I still have no hard proof that I have it because my previous school has still not sent it to me (but then that's another story).

So I will begin class this coming spring semester. Please keep me in your prayers as I continue my education. I'll probably be taking summer classes so I can get as much done as possible! I also am looking into this center for the deaf & hard of hearing that offers American Sign Language Classes. I've always wanted to incorprate ASL in my plans, so maybe this would be a great place to take classes. It's taught be a Deaf Lady...so it'd be complete submersion ASL!

Well, that's what I've been up to. I'm just working right now and getting things set up for next semester. I recently started visiting this church down the road from my house, which I'm really enjoying. I've also been going to a "small group" once a week. It's kinda funny because the small group is made up of college-aged ladys but not all of us go to the same church. I dunno maybe that's not funny but I think it's a little unique since most the time you meet at small groups with people from the same church. But its fun.

I think that's it for now. I'm sure there is more & more I could talk about but then I'd be here all day. It's great to be able to just get on here & tell everyone what's going on since we don't see each other as often as I'd like!

And I'll leave you with a picture of me & my sister when she came home for her Fall Break.



Love you!

Darker

I got my hair done on Thursday and I went a little darker! I've been slowly going darker every time I've gone in to get my hair done. This is the darkest yet. I like it a lot.

The first thing my brother said when he saw it was "Are you trying to look like you aren't adopted!" LOL I thought it was pretty funny since when I had lighter (blonde) hair I looked like I was adopted when I was with the family...now...I guess I look more like the fam. lol I thought that was funny! Just thought I'd share the new 'do.

What da ya think??

FYI

This past weekend I went out with a friend of mine taking pictures. I posted some of them onto my photo blog. Check them out and let me know what you think!

Jess

You Know You Grew Up In The 80s if:

1. You've ever ended a sentence with the word SIKE.
2. You watched the Pound Puppies.
3. You can sing the rap to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and can do the Carlton.
4. Girls wore bikers shorts under their skirts and felt stylistly sexy.
5. You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a club of your own.
6. You owned those lil' Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls.
7. You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey on Blossom.
8. Two words: Hammer Pants
9. If you ever watched "Fraggle Rock"
10. You had plastic streamers on your handle bars...and spokey-dokes or playing cars on your spokes for that incredible sound effect.
11. You can sing the entire theme song to Duck Tales (Woo ooh!)
12. It was actually wort getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
13. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
14. You saw the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big screen...and still know the turtles names.
15. You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
16. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side.
17. You played the game "MASH" (Mansion, Apartment, Shelter, House)
18. You wore stonewached Jordache jean jackets and were proud of it.
19. L.A. Gear....need I say more?
20. You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in Kindergarten. (She's Truly Outrageous)
21. You remember reading Tales of a fourth grade nothing and all the Ramona books.
22. You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, Wax off"
23. You wanted to be a Goonie.
24. You ever wore fluorescent clothing (some of us head-to-toe)
25. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off and his cheeks shifted.
26. You had ever pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
27. You took lunch boxes to school..and traded Garbage Pailkids in the schoolyard.
28. You remember the CRAZE, then the BANNING of slap bracelets.
29. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence.
30. You remember Hypercolor t-shirts
31. Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band.
32. You thought She-ra (princess of power) and He-Man should hook up.
33. You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged handmade friendship bracelets.
34. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-shoes
35. After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you kept saying "I know you are, but what am I?"
36. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"
37. You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates.
38. You ever got seriously injured with a Skip-it.
39. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.
40. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
41. Don't worry, be happy.
42. You wore like, either pairs of socks over tightes with high top Reeboks.
43. You wore socks scrunched down (and sometimes still do..getting yelled at by younger hip members of the family)
44. You remember boom boxes and walking around with one on your shoulder like you were all that.
45. You remember watching both Gremlins movies.
46. You know what it meant to say "Care Bear stare!"
47. You remember watching Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales.
48. You thought Doogie Howser/Samantha Micelli was hot
49. You remember Alf, the lil furry brown alien from Melmac.
50. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool...and don't even flinch when people refer to them as NKOTB
51. You remember Popples
52. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.
53. You knew all the characters names and their life sorties on "Saved By The Bell" the ORIGINAL class.
54. You know all the words to Bon Jovi's "Shot through the heart"
55. You just sand those words to yourself!
56. You remember watching Magic vs. Bird
57. Homemade Levi shorts (the shorter the better)
58. You remember when mullets were cool!
59. You had a mullet.
60. You still sing "We are the World"
61. You tight rolled your jeans.
62. You owned a banana clip.
63. You remember "Where's the Beef?"
64. You used to (and probably still do) say "What you talkin 'bout Willis?"
65. You had big hair and you knew how to use it.
66. You're still singing Shot Through the Heart in your head aren't you?!!

I love this...it brought back so many memories for me...how about you?? Are you still singing??? (LOL)

It's all worth it

OK this is my *new* all time favorite picture!


Wyatt being silly with grandma....this is a really good one too!


How freakin cute is this picture, seriously! Like father like son!

Look at that tough guy!

Wyatt & grandpa...I really like this pic it's sweet!

Wyatt singing along with his Leap to the ABCs (he's had that since he was teeny-tiny!)

Updates from me

Surprisingly this is a post with absolutely no pics in it what-so-ever. I know that might surprise you since this is the first time in along time that I've had a post with just text.

I just wanted to catch everyone up on what I've been up to lately. Well I have officially graduated with my AA as of August 10th. I applied to two different schools, Flagler and USF (University of South Florida) to continue. I've just been waiting for them to get all the paperwork in and everything. I just had a chance a few minutes ago to check my application status on USF's website and this is what I got:

Congratulations! You have been admitted to the University of South Florida!

The track that I was looking at going into with Flagler and USF were similar but also different. I wasn't sure which I'd prefer most...but I've prayed that which ever direction was the best for me to take, that the Lord would open those doors for me. So I'm kinda excited I think the USF route is the one for me! I haven't gotten anything in the mail yet about everything (I'm sure it'll be here soon) but I just had to share the news.

Please do keep me in your prayers during this time, there's a lot of stuff I'm going to have to figure out! Thanks so much for all of your support!

And to other things....Meg was able to come home for a little visit this weekend. It was nice to have her here & her kitty was one happy camper! Well thanks for stopping by...I'll probably have pics to post soon & get back to the norm! lol

Love ya!

Meg Packing & Her Going-Away Dinner

Megan had everything packed & ready to go Wednesday night to move on Thrusday. We planned a special going-away dinner for her. We thought it would be fun to order pizza & we ordered a huge chocolate-chip icecream cake (it looked like an oversized chocolate chip icecream sandwinch thing).

Megan had requested that we all be at home for a family dinner with everyone there before she left (which can be difficult living with a bunch of adult with different committments) and the Lord worked it out that Wednesday night (the night before she moved to her dorm) that everyone of us were at home, no one working, out etc. it was nice! It was kind of funny because we were sitting at our long beautiful dinning room table with our "special" dishes & we were eating pizza & drinking sprite! It was great, pretty funny! We had a nice sit down dinner together (Me, Meg, Dad, Mom, Andrew & GGmama) Then we enjoyed watching the huge cake being cut b/c that was work in itself! But mom did a great job cutting us all pieces (it was really hard to cut b/c of the double cookie & frozen icecream. It was entertaining for us that's for sure.

Here are some pictures I snapped from Wednesday night!


Gift baskets that I made for Meg with different random stuff that she might need for her dorm

She's got the boxes packed

Megan's delicious dessert (It says "Good Luck Megan" in chocolate!)

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Yes that's right we brought out the fancy dishes for this special dinner (even though it was pizza! ) hehe

Angel declared that she wanted to go with Megan in her gift basket

Meg humoring her sister with a smile before digging in to the pizza!

All the guest for the good-bye dinner (minus the photographer odviously...)

Andrew & Meg giving good-bye hugs

GGmama giving Megan her good-byes

Mom giving Meg one of many hugs after dinner (wow they look a lot alike in this picture!)