Tuesday, February 9, 2010

My 17th Birthday!

My birthday was January 19th - I can't believe I've waited this long to post about it! It was a fabulous day - although it was very strange not having Deanna here to help celebrate. We made up for it though by having some friends over! My "theme" this year was "A Night At the Movies". Mom put up pictures of my favorite movie stars (you can see a few in the picture below - they all were Michael Landon, Desi Arnez, Lucille Ball, Kirk Cameron, Charleton Heston, John Wayne, Tom Hanks, Gregory Peck, Yul Brenner, Carey Grant, and Audrey Hepburn). Mom gave Nikki and I a quiz about my favorite movies and that night when I had my friends over, we watched "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" starring Don Knotts. It was so much fun!

The concession stand

Lots of yummy snacks for during the movie














With my gifts

I got a birthday card from my favorite hockey player! As you can imagine, I was absolutely ecstatic! ;)

Playing 'Repeat Pete' with my friends - that's a really fun game!


I wish I had time to post some other pictures, but I have to go pack - Mom and I are flying out tomorrow to Kentucky to see Deanna! We are so excited! We were supposed to leave today, but our flight was canceled due to the blizzard hitting the Midwest/East Coast. So we are leaving tomorrow instead (if the weather cooperates!). We were joking about how we NEVER fly but the one time we were going to, it gets canceled! Crazy! I haven't flown in years, so I'm a bit nervous about it. We would appreciate prayers for us as we fly and for Deanna as she drives to Louisville to pick us up!

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Sugar Bowl Champs

We had an amazing Sugar Bowl party with my cousin on New Years Day! The unstoppable Gators were playing....and, of course, they won!!

All decked out!



Painting our faces up


Chomp! Chomp!

Touchdown!

The Gators are #1!

By the way, does anyone who has a blog have any idea why I can no longer put words above my first picture in a post? Is there a special trick to it? Now I always have to put the words underneath that first pic...hmmm! =)

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Snowy Days

The last day Deanna was home, we went outside and had a major snowball fight! We also made snow angels and attempted to go sledding on the small hill behind our house. It was such a good time!



Getting Deanna in the face with a bunch of snow!






How about all of you - do you have any snow where you live? I would really love to hear from each one of you - I'm beginning to wonder how many readers I actually have left! =)

Monday, January 4, 2010

It's 2010!


It's 2010! Happy New Year!

More Christmas Pics

Deanna and Nikki before opening presents



A shirt I got Christmas! I was so excited! The pic below shows the front of it


Mom's new sweatshirt

Before going out to eat the day after Christmas - wearing our new clothes we got for Christmas!




With my amazing new Tim Tebow picture!

Go Hawkeyes!

At Olive Garden - my favorite restaurant!

Wearing our new pjs!

We had just a wonderful Christmas!