Happy New Year!!

Welcome to 2012 earthlings!!!!

May this be the best year yet....may it be a year filled with happiness, new experiences, and awesomeness for all!!! :)

With love,

-C-

Merry Christmas To ALL

Merry Christmas to all!! 

 

 Since there is a vacancy of Christmas tree in my house right now, I thought I would entertain myself, and subsequently everybody I share this with...pictured is the dynamic duo in their own Christmas attire.  I hope everybody has a wonderful and safe Christmas. :)

Some Thanksgiving Pictures

Thought you'd like to see how my Thanksgiving was for me. :)

You can't go to Memphis without going to Graceland!!

You have to LOVE this house...absolutely gorgeous!!

St. Jude statue...that whole facility is amazing!!

Last time we had a family portrait, Biohazard shirt had hair and the tall fluffy haired one was going into the army...and therefore loosing his hair...oh how things change in a few years...

I figured ya'll would like to see some of this trip through my eyes...and inadvertently through my camera lens.  

I hope everybody has a wonderful and safe Christmas and a Happy New Year. :)

-C-

Happy Thanksgiving...and other stuff too

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!  I hope your days been as awesome as mine has.  I got to eat dinner with my entire family and my best friend.  I got to sit around and watch Punkin' Chunkin' with my brothers and my dad.  I got to talk with my mom for more than an hour about my upcoming plans that I am super stoked about and I finally got to visit St. Jude's!!  

I am in the heart of the music capitol of the country, Memphis Tennessee, with my family and loving every minute of it!

Though the drive was intense, being around the people I love has brought a renewed hope and feeling to what's been going on.

Before this trip, I never knew how much texting a picture of my dogs to my brother or getting him an autograph would mean to him.  My mom told me that when he found out I got him Jamie Farr's autograph, he was SUPER excited!  She also told me that two days after, he waited in line to get me a signed copy of Kellie Pickler's newest album.  If you knew my brother, you would understand how strange this is for him...he does not like country music....at ALL!  He is in pain most of the time and he stayed in line to get an autograph of an artist that he knows I like, but that he doesn't.

When it comes to my brothers, I'm not very "lovey dovey" at all...we kind of have this unspoken "thing" that we have...it's actually quite hard to explain now that I actually try to explain it...

It's things like this that help me see exactly what I have...and it makes me more and more thankful everyday for everyone in my life.  They've all been so supportive in all that I've done and all that I want to do.  All of my friends and family have been there for me in fun times and stressful times too.

I want everybody to be thankful for what they have and who they have in their lives.  I know that I wouldn't be where I am today if my family wasn't by my side.

Happy Thanksgiving to all...and to all a good night! :)

Fun Fun Fun!

It's been a wonderful week this week.  I've been having an awesome time in my classes and I have plans for the next several weekends.  Nick, my brother, is getting an awesome surprise on Monday.  My brother, his girlfriend and I are going to Tennessee for Thanksgiving which will be epic for pictures.  All I know is that everything's falling into place a lot easier than a couple months ago.

Lesson here: Be excited about spending time with your family! :)

It's All Good

I am finally back in touch with the world!!  My laptop is back where it should be and now I can keep up with posting more blog posts!

On another note, my little brother's surgery was yesterday and very successful!  You gotta love the wonderful doctors at St. Jude's!

I'll update ya'll on anything else that happens.

-C-

Quiet....

It is as I watch my fellow college students go about their free time activities that I write this...it started with hesitation and is moving onto something.  But what that something is, I don't know.  My music fills the empty space that resides in my head whenever I'm working.  It helps me concentrate in ways that the silence doesn't.  Sometimes it seems like the silence oozes from every wall of my parent's house and most of the time, I hate it.

It was only when my Mom and brother came back home that I realized JUST how quite the house was with just me in it...and how much I missed the noise.

But I am slowly learning the art of being surrounded by silence.  I don't always HAVE to have the radio on all the time anymore.  Sometimes it sucks but slowly but surely, it's changing into something more pure than anything I've encountered.

Sometimes it's the little things that count.  Until next time, "Just Keep Swimming" :)