christmas time is here!

christmas is finally here, well christmas weekend anyway! and i couldn't be more pumped about it. loving on family, eating yummy sweet treats, giving gifts, lounging around, watching movies, and laughing. i am also excited about anticipating the birth of jesus. this has been a season of waiting and anticipating. happy christmas.

“the story of the birth of jesus is open before us. we have a spiritual and holy account of the time when God himself directed preparations for that first coming of his Son into the world. what God ordains is always good. Therefore, those preparations may be the perfect pattern for our own this year again, this year too…”

what you do when you don't have your car.

you watch lots of fantasy factory.

you talk in british accents all day.

you sit in your pajamas because you aren't able to go anywhere.

you drink lots of dr pepper.

you watch lots of movies in the fort.

you wait for your mom to pick you up to take you christmas shopping.

you clean.

you read the hunger games.

you do laundry.

you catch up on glee, parenthood, and new girl.

i guess i have been pretty productive without a car. thank goodness for an awesome roommate who let me borrow her car while she goes and gets free chickfila. and thank goodness my little black beauty of a jeep is back!

cozy.

that's the only word to describe this rainy monday. it's been full of cozy blankets, sweatpants, karen kingsbury's new book, a candle, rain hitting the window, dr pepper, delta spirit. i guess i have a case of the mondays...but in a good way.

grateful.

here is my thanksgiving post a couple days later. it was a thanksgiving full of family and food. and lots of it! i don't think i have ever eaten that much, but then i think about last year and realize it is just something i do on thanksgiving! that's why it's one of my favorite holidays. you don't get judged for how much you eat. holler! but this thanksgiving was great:

-my brother came a day early and surprised us.

-i made pumpkin pies. (something i always did with my dad...one of my favorite things to do)

-laughed a lot.

-lots of family came in town that we hardly get to see.

-watched lots of football and movies.

-realized how thankful i am for my family! life would be pretty boring without my crazy family. here's to next thanksgiving...where i'll eat just as much food! hoohah!

sharp top cove.

well. another year at sharp top with some hardin valley girls. man oh man, what a weekend! it was so fun to see those girls let loose and love on each other. we laughed, cried, ate lots of food, double tapped our drinks, did the giant swing, zip line, take lots of pictures, listened to drew and ellie sing their hearts out, wore footie pajamas*(side note. you do not need to pack any bedding when you pack footie pajamas. it is your own personal sleeping bag. it was glorious yet hot), had cabin times, heard about jesus, and laughed some more. it was a great weekend with little to no sleep! but no complaints here. it was one for the books!

83 birthdays.

this little youngen has had 83 birthdays! unreal. she doesn't act a day over 82. my mom and i took a mini road trip to go celebrate my dad's mom. 83 years is something to celebrate! that's a heck of lot of life lived! we watched nascar...which is something she loves, (still don't get that) and then we went for a little birthday celebration at one of her favorite restaurants. i've never seen this lady smile so big! i think it was her favorite birthday yet...probably because i was there-her favorite granddaughter. here's to many more birthdays!!

fort building 101.

let's go build a fort! that's the idea my roomie and i had last friday. we decided it was a fort buildin', movie watchin', pajama wearin', candy eatin' kind of night. she brought her mattress into our downstairs living room (with only a little bit of struggle), we hung up sheets, made it cozy, pulled out chairs, brought mops into the picture...the perfect kind of fort if you ask me! i do have a confession. we became twihards this week. we have been bitten. we did watch all of the twilight movies in one night. some may think that is wrong, but if that's the case...i don't want to be right! the good news is, is that fort will be up for a while!! so here's to being 13 again because i still built forts then. didn't you? holler for fort building!