Halloween

I hope that you all like the new header and the pretty music and the beautiful background. I love Halloween. It's my favorite holiday of the year. I love the fall weather, the falling leaves, the oranges, reds, yellows, and browns that come with fall. I love the smells. I love everything about this time of year.

Derek, Stratton, and I are going to be painting pumpkins tonight so keep an eye out for the pictures to come! Hopefully they will turn out well.

Day 9 of 30 Day Blog Challenge

Day 9: A Picture Of My Friends

Here are a few pictures of my best friends.

 This is my friend Maggie. We met through my other friend Lauren.

 

This is Lauren. As you can see Stratton is in love with her.

Maggie and Lauren are two of my best friends. They are always there

for my no matter what and always so supportive and willing to 

listen to me moan and groan about day to day stuff. Lauren gets to 

moan and groan to me too about the same kind of stuff. I love both Maggie 

and Lauren like sisters. I'm so glad I have both of them in my life.

 As you all have read...my sister and I haven't always gotten along 

but lately we have become close. I'm so glad we are finally able to 

be close friends and close sisters.

 Marcus is my big brother. He has always been there for me 

when my heart has been broken or when some jack@$$ 

tries to hit on me. He truly is family and no matter what I 

hope that he will always be a part of our family.

 

Corny as it might be...Derek really is my best friend. 

I spend more time with him than I do anyone else. We have 

truly been through so much together. We didn't start off our

life together as nicely as we would have hoped but we 

have tried our hardest to be good parents as well a good

husband/wife to each other.  I love him so much and I'm

so thankful for everyday that we get to spend together.

Day 8 of 30 Day Blog Challenge

Day 8: A Place I've Traveled

I've been very fortunate to have had such great parents. When I was little we may not have taken awesome extravagant vacations but I can always remember having such a good time wherever we went. I remember having to share the gameboy games with Casey and having to have a time limit on each game so we could both get turns playing the "good game" (which was Mario Bros). There's SO many different places that we went that it's hard for me to pick just one. Look.

  Any state that has a blue star is where I have either visited or driven through. I can remember every state too. I remember what I was doing and how much I either loved or hated the weather. 

I remember going to Grandfather Mt when I was little and getting to go to the highland games. That was always my favorite growing up. I remember doing mission trips in Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Colorado. I remember going to Colorado for my senior trip with my dad and the a.c. breaking in the middle of Kansas and the temp being almost 110! I remember going to visit a boyfriend in Texas for the first time by myself. I remember going to California on my first trip alone with Stratton. I remember going to Washington D.C. with my mom and sister. I remember going to California to visit family and getting to play with the puppies on the pecan farm. I could seriously go on and on about all the different places we went while I was growing up. There were SO many. 

The summer between my jr and sr year of high school I was fortunate enough to get selected to go to Europe with an elite group of students to play my violin in 7 different countries. 

  Here are a few pictures from that trip. I had SUCH a great time!