Snow Day

With all the snow that we got last night Buster and I decided to go out and play. He loves the snow and loves trying to catch snow balls. Which is great when I make snow balls just for him, not so great when I'm trying to make a snowman. I was trying to make a 'normal' sized snowman but Buster wasn't letting me get much past snow ball size before he dug into the ball.


So I had to resort to making a mini snowman.



You can see that I had to make him on the deck rail just so Buster wouldn't eat him.


As I sit here and watch out the window, I see one of my neighbors out shoveling the steps to their house in pjs and slippers. Oh my. I couldn't help but laugh.

Birthdays are the best time of the year

Woo hoo! I love my birthday! I don't care about presents and stuff on my bday. Just the fact that its my day and I always get a phone call at 3:02 pm. That's what time I was born 24 years ago and I've always made a big deal about that exact time on my bday. I normally don't consider February 2nd a good day until 3:02 pm. Because I always wait for that specific time of the day before I start celebrating, I've remembered what I've been doing for a lot of different years at that moment.

Here are just a few...

2000 - Freshman year of high school. I was in gym class playing volleyball. I was getting ready to serve the ball and because it was 3:01, I made everyone wait until it was 3:02 before I served. My classmates just didn't understand.

2005 - Freshman year at IWU. I was sitting in World Civ. One of the most boring classes for me. This birthday was the worst birthday I have ever had but I won't get into that.

2009 - I was sitting at my desk at work on the phone with a customer. My cell phone starting vibrating (my mom). I wished I could hang up on the customer (didn't happen). I'm still on the phone when I see my mom's number pop up on caller ID. Dwight answers the phone and when I finally get off the phone with dumb customer, my mom starts singing to me. Then my sister called my cell because she knows I make a big deal out of 3:02.


2010 - These didn't happen at 3:02. They were a couple hours earlier. Eric brought me hot chocolate with whip cream and cheesecake from McConn (just what I wanted.)

Brian brought me flowers. I was very surprised. :)

So HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

For real this time

Today is finally the day I get to go home. All of the kids leave today. I am so ready to get out of the dorm and off campus. Its not even the kids that I am annoyed with. They have been surprisingly good this year. Its the people who should be more responsible and have more common sense because they're in charge.

I've had a week of cleaning up after people down here and when I get back home, I'll have a week of cleaning up after people up there.

I'm now waiting for all of my girls to finish packing and such so I can check their rooms. T-minus 5 hours (ish) until I will be out of here. Can't wait.

Oh and its my half birthday! :)

Finally...sorta

The big group from Journalism camp is finally leaving today. Woo hoo! Some of these kids have absolutely no moral compass and no idea what common sense is. I don't understand them. And those some really give the good ones a bad name. My 40 girls have not given me any problems besides the normal, "I'm away from home so I can act a little crazy!" Not a big deal.

Just for this portion of camp, we sent a kid home after the first night because he had chew (he didn't want to be here for some reason). We had a guy (not with us) jump out from some bushes and scare a few girls and then start chasing them. I, along with some other people, don't know how much we actually believe this. One night I had to yell at a boy for wearing a bra down in the lobby over his shirt. He was going to go do something with his friends and he had already made 1 group of girls really uncomfortable. He didn't like me after that. Oh well. This year the bad ones haven't been too bad but things have still happened.

There have been fun encounters too. I have a group of guys that I had to tell to go to bed every night. So after the first night, they wanted to know my name. From then on, whenever they would see me on campus, they wanted to know if they could stay up late. I had a girl on my floor who had the same personality as me so that was a blast. She kept apologizing because she didn't want to come off as mean but it cracked me up.

But most of the kids get to go home today :) For the first part of camp we had roughly 300. Thirty of them will stay through for the second part. Total for the second part we'll only have 150-200 so it won't be as bad, I saw that now but watch - something will happen.

Oh and I haven't had to go to the hospital for any injuries yet! We will see how the next part goes.

A New Toy

Jaye got Buster a new toy while on vacation. I liked it because it said Jeep. Buster liked it because he could play tug-o-war with it and it squeaks.

He slept with me the night he got it and he took it to bed with him and I fell asleep to him chewing on it and woke up the next morning to the same thing. That's how you know you got a good toy. :)

Signs of Our Times

I like to take pictures of signs. Especially when they crack me up. So here are a few that I took on my way to and from North Carolina.

I wonder if a lot of raccoons live in the valley.

I saw these numbers along the road for a good stretch. I couldn't figure out what they were and still don't know.

Some people must think the bridge needs to go on a diet.

Katie says that North Carolina people really like icing so that's why they have these signs up :)

This is in Tennessee and everytime I go by it, I take at least 1 picture of it. I want to travel the road sometime but doubt I ever will.

I see these signs and don't really think much about it. Except this time...

there were really fallen rocks. And these 2 pictures were taken in order.

Seriously. At a Taco Bell drive thru in Florence, KY.

This was in Indy. It kind of makes you wonder what on earth they were really doing to the roads in town.

Biltmore Pictures

The Biltmore Estate. Magnificant does not even describe everything about this house. Click here to learn and see so much more about the house and everything else with it.

The Bass Pond. It seemed like it was a few miles from the actual house and took us forever to get there but I don't really know how long it was.

How would you like to have this turtle, Wes? He wouldn't even come close to fitting in your tank. He was big.

These trees were massively tall. We found them on our way to the Bass Pond.

Katie was being a dork and decided to do something goofy in mid shot. Come on Katie Lyn.

How pretty is this?

Love the color.

A huge tree.