Wow, I'm REALLY back this time!

I swear I'm not lying. First, I want to say that I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

I know I posted like a month ago that I was going to give an update, but I swear that life gets in the way. Oh yea, if you EVER plan on taking a break from blogging, take my word for it and DON'T DO IT! It is so hard to get back into it. I made a promise to myself to post what I've been up to, not only for you ladies who care about what I've been doing, but also for myself so I can remember what I did. Soo, where do I even start?!

By the way, I plan on clearing out my reader and starting from tomorrow because there is no way in the world to read everyone's posts from the months of November and December - I would go insane! I apologize and hope you ladies had great things happening then.

I finished my first semester of the Elementary Education Program with 3 A's and 2 B's. I was proud of myself :-) When the semester was over, the girls in my cohort had a little Christmas party and played secret Santa. There were only about 12 of us there but we had a blast.

Also in December, I went with my family (minus my 2 other brothers) to see the lighting of the community Christmas tree. It's literally 2 minutes down the street and afterwards, they serve cookies and hot chocolate in a restored home. It's cute and my little brother enjoys watching it light up.

Matt and I went to his aunt's mom's 60th birthday. We only planned on staying for about an hour, but we made a night out of it and had a blast hanging out with the oldies :) haha. The food was amazing and the music was fun to dance to. A random but fun night.

so he is cheesin' way too hard and

my face looks like I swallowed an elephant.

I could really use a tan as well.

Whatever.

I've also gotten back into the gym, not that I ever stopped but I have stepped my game up, haha. I gained about 3 lbs. during the semester. I know it was from stress and I'm determined to get it off. I even bought some cute new workout clothes today to get me going :-) Folled over yoga pants and tanks from Old Navy. I love their workout clothes.

My old phone, the LG Dare, died on me about a month ago and I finally became a big girl and got myself a smart phone :) The Droid Incredible. Basically, the same thing as an iPhone except from Verizon. (so my brother says who has the iPhone) I love it and all of the free apps :) Oh, and it didn't hurt that I got it for FREE when Best Buy was having a special. Thanks BB!!

That's what happened for the most part in December.. Then Christmas Came...

Oh Hey!

Only 3 weeks of school left!

Thank the high heavens :-)

I am jumping with joy.

However, I have quite a few BIG assignments

left so I can't celebrate just yet.

It's looking like I should be getting all A's in each class :)

On Saturday, M & I went with some friends to Delaware park
which is a casino about 1 1/2 hours away. I've never been
before but we had so much fun! Didn't end up loosing too much
money even after being there for 7 hours! I'm sure we'll be
going again sometime in the future! Sorry no pictures :(

Yesterday I celebrated my grandpop's 75th birthday!

My family all went to his house for dinner and cake.
He was so happy to have everyone there. He lives

by himself so he gets quite lonely sometimes.

I kid you not, my pop looks the same as he did

20 some years ago! I hope I age just as gracefully :)

I've really been in to painting my nails lately.
I'm a big time nail biter so having them painted

helps me to stop :) Ulta was having a deal on nail polish;

buy 1 get on free. So I got 4 polishes for $10! :)
Can't beat that and I think they're just as good as Essie.

Right now I'm wearing Chocolate Bliss

I think it's really pretty :)

Anyways, I just wanted to check in with you ladies!
I hope you're all doing well and as soon as school is over,

I will be back in the blogging world :)

Have a wonderful rest of the week!

An update - finally!

So since I haven't blogged since basically the end of September, here's what's been going on in my life...

We celebrated my brother's

21st birthday

Joined and had a blast on

our co-ed football team.

There's more than 7 of us but we're

the ones who always went out afterwards.

We didn't make it to the championship

but there's always next season. Right?

Me and lover boy M celebrated

4 years of dating :-) [10.28.06]

(a pic from the summer time)

Celebrated Halloween.

batwoman & the joker

the warrior & me
What happened to my cape?

me & a vampire

I had to take off the mask.

It was making me sweat!

robin found batman

(we don't know each other haha)

kisses for my joker

Snugs:

She's been good. Just doing what she does best:
Sleeping, playing, and being sneaky.

School

It's been nuts. There isn't a day that I don't have something to do for it. I honestly feel like we have the same amount of work as nursing students. The school I go to though does have the best education program in the state, which could explain why so much is expected from me. I cannot wait until Thanksgiving and Christmas break! I need a vacation big time.

Other than that, I haven't been up to much. My weekends consist of homework and watching football on Sunday's with the boy and friends. Fall is definitely here. I had frost on my windshield this morning. Life is a little hectic right now but good for sure :)

I hope you ladies are doing amazing! I'm sorry I haven't been commenting on any blogs but I'm sure you understand. Just wanted to let everyone know I'm alive and haven't fallen off the face of the earth because I know how worried you all have been (sarcasm). I hope to get around to reading blogs sooner than later! I miss you all and I promise to be back to regular blogging as soon as school lets me breathe for a minute :) For those of you who have stuck around, thank you! It sure does mean a lot.