Today was just the day I needed to get me through this coming week. This afternoon Alicia and I made a cake... it turned out kind of lopsidish and Dr. Suisseish, but good all the same. Then we had a wonderufl chicken dinner with Tracey. Tonight was also our K-6 Christmas movie night. We watched Santa Clause 1 and 2 and also Elf. Not all the girls ( Read more... )

As I'm reaching the end of Return of the King, I thought I'd share one of my favorite moments in the book with you. I love this passage because it speaks of hope, even in the darkest moments of life. I pray that I will always find wonder in the small things like Sam does ( Read more... )

I've been to a lot of Christmas festivities lately. Dr. Wood's house was fun. His wife made us chili and cornbread and lots of goodies. Dr. Mett's St. Nicholas Eve party was amazing! He goes all out. He had a melodrama where he played St. Nick, and he put candy in our shoes. It was nice ( Read more... )

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I have to admit that I've been a bit of a brat about this up and coming Christmas. I really wanted to stay home and celebrate Christmas with family and friends here in Michigan, but my parents told me a few months back that we would be traveling out to Washington again to see my dad's family. I complained about it. I didn't want to go because of my ( Read more... )

There was snow when I woke up this morning which was nice to see ( Read more... )

So my thesis will be completely done by Christmas! I can hardly believe it, I'm still in shock. Dr. DW said that all I need to do is make the corrections and then next week she'll Xerox copies of my paper to the other professors that will be a part of my defense. She said that we could even have the defense before Christmas, isn't that amazing? I ( Read more... )

Well everyone, I hope you're doing well. I have had an eventful week so far! On Tuesday I went to the nice Alltell store and bought myself a new phone because buying a battery for the old one was the same price... it's very nice and red though! Then I picked up my brother late that night from his carpool back up to Michigan, also very exciting. ( Read more... )

Well... the classic line from today is Christy answering her phone and saying "I'm sorry Andrew but I can't talk right now, I'm making Turkeys with Megan!" It sounded funny at the moment and even more so now out of context. (For those of you who must know, Christy and I were doing a craft today with pipe cleaners and brown cotton balls, we were ( Read more... )

A busy weekend I had. I homeworked on Friday, went shopping and to a concert in Grand Rapids on Saturday and worked out at Southern Exposure today. It was a good weekend though. I'm looking forward to seeing my family this next week, and eating lots of good food:) And decorating for Christmas. The countdown is on. Only 26 days until Christmas break ( Read more... )