Costumes are great!

Nothing is better then making new friends.  Sometimes life changes and you see a shift in your friends.  I have been watching that happen these past few weeks.  Every friend has brought amazing blessings to my life and I am excited to see what is to come.

This weekend has been pretty fantastic.  One of the best this school year.  On Friday I went to the Aggie Men's Basketball game!  It was pretty good.  I am excited to see where this set of Aggies takes our basketball team.  The best part about basketball games is being there with friends.  I had a great time with Cam, Jerrica, Lauren, Mike and many others.

Saturdays are the best.  I love being lazy once in a while.  I was supposed to do some homework but Cam came over and distracted me... and then Jerrica and Lauren invited me to go to Walmart with them.  Don't worry though I did eventually get some homework done.  We had a regional conference this weekend, so Saturday night I went to a session.  After that a group of us went to Angie's and cleaned the sink for Eric's birthday.  It was a lot of fun.  Then we watched the Corpse Bride.  Basically one of the best movies to watch to celebrate Halloween.

Speaking of Halloween, I have been reminiscing on the costumes I have worn throughout my life.  Here is what I can remember:

• Little Bo Peep
• Tigger (When I was the tallest in my group of friends...)
• a Pumpkin
• a Clown
• a Fairy
• Pebbles from the Flintstones 
• a Star Bellied Sneetch 
• a Hick (black tooth and all)
• a Witch
• an Old Lady carrying a Baby (it was creepy)

These are a few of the ones I can remember.  What have you dressed up as?  What have your all time favorite costumes been?  

A Post Just for Cam

So it has come to my attention that I do not blog enough.  I will work on being better at this.

Today I am going to dedicate this post to my bestest friend Cameron James Decker.  Ladies he is the man.  I might be convinced to give out his number ;)

Here is a little poem I wrote just for him:

Cameron is the coolest cat

he doesn't often wear a hat

cause he has spikey hair

His nose is never in the air

He is a friend to one and all

little, skinny, fat or tall

He has a red jacket he wears everyday

He brings to my life many a sunny ray

If you invite him into your life it will be enriched

especially with all the jokes he has pitched.

I call it Ode to Cameroon

So what brings on this blog subject you ask?  Well I have had a pretty hard week and Cam has been here for me through thick and thin.  He really is the best friend a girl could ask for.  Tonight we made brownies and had some laughs.  I even ate a Corn Dawg just for him (not the good turkey kind but the chicken, pork and a little added beef kind).  

Well here is a toast to a day that started out really stinky and ended really great!

Beautiful Like a Rainbow

Sometimes a weekend at home is all you need to make life so much easier. Boy problems somehow clear up. Homework doesn't get done but it becomes easier when you go to do it. Basically being with my family is the best cure for anything. I am so happy that I can have them for eternity!

Life lessons:

• When you get to a wall of corn, don't worry, you can run through it (it's not made of brick Colin...)
• I have been so blessed to have one of my same best friends my whole life, literally since she was born
• Sometimes an old boyfriend can be the best friend you have ever had, he understands you in a way most don't
• Purple toenails make me smile
• Dancing to Sweet Home Alabama is basically impossible
• I am not a fan of shopping, sorry girls
• Your extended family knows more about your life than you do
• Waiting for someone you care about to be happy again is so incredibly hard
• The Beal family has every costume you could ever think of right in their basement
• Boy Meets World ROCKS!
• The smell of fall leaves is so amazing!
• In another life I am meant to be a Star Bellied Sneech.
• Phil Collins makes my day

One Year Older and Wiser Too!

So yesterday was my birthday!  It was one of my best ones ever!

Timeline:
 Wednesday night Steph gets home from work and we go to Walmart to buy food stuffs.
Midnight in Walmart Steph sings "Happy Birthday" to me.  Super awkward but hilarious at the same time cause random Walmart employees were staring.  Guess we were just their entertainment for the night :)
Come home and make delicious cake and ricekrispies even though it is 1 in the morning.
Watch Hitch with Steph and Ally, we all fall asleep :)
I get a phone call in the morning from my mom's kindergarten class.  They sang to me.  It was super cute :)
Get a zillion birthday texts and phone calls (I always feel really popular on my birthday)
At noon my best friend since birth, Jamie, and new friend Colin come and make me breakfast for lunch!  They are the best!
I went to class for a bit, it was super boring...
I got to walk home from class with Shalise.  She is the best.
I came home and watched an episode of "New Girl" and then my friend Cullen came over to chat for a bit.  (He was going on a date later)
Heard some bird calls from the parking lot and get a visit from my favorite Trevor.
At about 5 p.m. Landon came and got me and we went on a date to Hamilton's.  It was super delicious.  Landon is so good to me :)
We went to Smiths to get some soda for my party.  We love Smiths a lot.
When we got back Rachel was watching Eclipse and we got sucked in to that lovely movie.  Landon only liked it cause there was fighting.  (boys and violence....)
Then people came over and sang to me and we ate cake and chatted and had  a lots of fun.  I love being 22.



So some life lessons from this birthday:

• Never let Landon light a match... he will drop it on Steph's foot and then light the carpet on fire...
• I have some of the best friends ever to walk this earth.  Its the truth!  They are the best!
• Sometimes you can feel about 10 different emotions in one day.  
• Some friends are always going to be there for you no matter what and when.  
• Eric, Cam, and Mike can really provide some great entertainment in such strange ways.  
• My Heavenly Father loves me :)

Rainy Days

I love rain.  It is quite possibly my favorite type of precipitation.  It calms me.  I love to go for drives and just silently watch the windshield wipers move back and forth.  Very therapeutic.  Rain is also very fun to play in!  Puddle jumping is one of my hobbies.

Another thing rain is good for is kissing!  Seriously!   This is only a few examples of how much people love it!

So some life lessons from the past few days:

1. When it rains it pours... I'm talking about men here.

2. Horchata is a lot harder to make then I thought it would be.

3. Sleeping in a fort in the livingroom is not good for your back.

4. It takes days for your hair to untangle after you ride in a jeep through Sardine Canyon.

5. Pumpkins are a lot sharper then they look.  Just ask my arms.  

6. Homemade hot-chocolate made by my favorite Landon is the best tasting thing in the world! 

In the words of Luke Bryan "Rain is a good thing!!"