hello everyone!

soooo this week is a very lonely one. trevor (my little brother) left for camp this past sunday so i've been home alone by myself for two days (or atleast until my parents get home around 5pm). i dont mind being by myself, but i just get bored! SO bored that i end up cleaning. today, i made my bed, swiffered the floor, carried the desktop computer from my room back downstairs and hooked it all back in, and dusted my desk. yea..........im one bored chick! haha

well...i dont think there's anything else to talk about :( oh well.

talk to ya next time!!!

so I'm taking my sister-in-law's advice and I'm going to to try to update my blog through the app, Blogpress. seems easy enough :)
anyways, we're taking Trevor
to camp cowen today. that place is truly heaven on earth! I'm so sad that I can't go back and be a camper anymore. I would love to be a counselor though! maybe next summer?


-- Post From My iPhone

these past few weeks have been soooo hectic! my sister got married; i went out of town to my matt's parent's house/went to washington, dc; and took a trip to cincinnati with matt. so let's start from the beginning...ALLL the way back to June 23rd, the night of my sister's bachelorette party!

June 23rd: for katelyn's bachelorette party, we went to olive garden for dinner and came back to my house to make ice cream sundaes and watch movies. the girls who came were britney clagg (bridesmaid), sabrina ellis (bridesmaid), jessie pierson (miss west virginia...yes, the miss west virginia who participated in the miss usa pagent and made it all the way to the top 10!), lauren sayre (friend of katelyn's), katelyn (the bride - obviously), and myself (sister of the bride and maid of honor). dinner was amazing and so were the sundaes. for the movie, we watched bride wars (how fitting - hehe) and it was a really good movie. everyone left around 10:30 or 11pm.

June 27th aka the day before the wedding!: today was fun :) the rehearsal dinner went well, and i managed to hold back my happy tears despite seeing my mom and mammaw cry and seeing katelyn tear up a tiny bit. for the dinner we had buddy's bar-b-que...MMMM!
another awesome thing that happened on this day was that i finally got to see my boyfriend for the first time in two months!!

June 28th aka KATELYN AND CURT'S WEDDING DAY!!: my day started out at 10am by getting my makeup done with my sister and all her bridesmaids. then hair appointments were at 11am. the girls were supposed to meet at the church at 1pm on the dot to get dressed and go to the rose garden at ritter park for pictures, but the hair appointments ran over a little and everyone made it to the church at 1:30pm. i think katelyn was the last to get dressed haha. anyways, terry brought the van to the church because katelyn's dress wouldn't be able to fit in any other car and guess who ended up with the responsibility to get the bride to the rose garden? yea....me. so we finally make it to the rose garden and everyone is waiting, but katelyn doesn't want curt to see her yet so we tell him to go to the other side of the garden and wait for katelyn to walk up behind him. i had to hold katelyn's train up so it wouldn't get dirty. the pictures taken were beautiful. finally, it's time for the ceremony. it was beautiful and it went off without a hitch. time for the reception. everything was beautiful and the food was delicious. unfortunately i didnt get any cake :( not even from the whole sheet cake my parents brought home. but i am happy that i got through my toast without throwing up/stuttering/freaking out! haha even though i didnt introduce myself :( oh well. im sure people knew!

June 29th: matt and i left around 1pm to drive back to his hometown.

June 30th: matt, his parents, and i all go to Washington, D.C. for the day. Dinner was at Ruth's Chris, which just happens to be the most amazing steak restaurant in the entire world!!! Pictures to follow later!

July 2nd: matt's mom makes the most amazing waffles! i always look forward to the last morning that we're there just so i can have two of his mom's waffles! haha matt and i leave maryland to come back to logan, wv to spend time with some of our college friends. we went to the freedom festival and got to see camels, llamas, goats, and pigs!

July 3rd: matt and i finally make it back to huntington.

July 4th: matt and i make a trip to cincinnati for the reds game against the cardinals. good thing about the game = we won!!! bad things about the game = it sprinkled rain the whole time and i didnt get a Jay Bruce bobblehead...and that was the whole point in me wanting to go to the game on july 4th in the first place!!!! ughhh and we were going to go to King's Island after the reds game but it wouldn't stop raining so we went the the Kenwood mall, ate dinner at The Cheesecake Factory, and then spent the night with matt's college roommate, tyler brumfield.

July 5th: the perfect day to go to King's Island! we woke up at 9:30 and ate a yummy breakfast that tyler's mom made for us. we made it to king's island around 10:30am and rode rides until around 4:30 or 5pm, then went home to huntington. we went to blockbuster as soon as we got home and got a movie to watch the night before he left to go back home to maryland.

July 6th: matt leaves around 9am to go back home to maryland :(

well that's about it that has been going on with me! im going to try to blog more often so i dont have to write this much anymore! haha ok, now for some wonderful pictures!

first post in about 4 MONTHS!

ok so i know what you guys are probably thinking as you read this: "Alex is a terrible blogger!" haha well fear not people, i have now decided that from this day forward, i will (try) to post something every single day! next week might be a problem though because i will be in Maryland, but i can always attempt to post from my new phone :) which brings me to my first story. Ok, so last Friday (June 19th), i was supposed to wake up at 7am to go to the health clinic to get some shots for school [being a nursing student has SO many perks (sarcasm..hehe)] and i remind her that the new iPhone was coming out that morning also and, with fingers crossed, asked if we could go get one since i dropped my old one in water and was using my old razor. to my suprise, she said YES! so we hop in the car and head over to the nearest AT&T store and wait to get the new phone. afterwards, we head over to the clinic and it turns out that they were closed because it was West Virginia Day. mom thought it was too good to be true that the parking lot was empty haha. so i take her to work and head home to take care of trev. around 3:30, trev tries to call mom from my new phone and for some reason she can't hear him. so he tries again and she still can't hear who is calling, so he calls her from our home phone and is finally able to reach her. turns out the microphone on my brand new phone wasn't working. so i take it to the AT&T store and they tried to fix the problem but couldn't. then they told me that i could go home and restore the factory settings and maybe that would work and if it didn't, to call the 1-800 number to Apple and hopefully they would be able to help me. so i restore it and it starts to work. then the next day, i try to set up my voicemail, and the mic is no longer working. so then i call Apple and they told me i could take it to an Apple store and they could try to fix it, or they could send me another brand new phone, but would charge me $30. so my mom told them that the phone is not even a day old and we shouldn't have to pay to have it fix when we didn't do anything to it in the first place. so they told her that they will send me a brand new phone, and i just received it in the mail this morning at about 10:30am :) and i am happy to say that this phone WORKS! here's a picture of what my new phone looks like:

i decided to get the white one instead of the black because almost everyone has black and i thought that a white one would be a nice change :)

ok on to my NEXT subject: katelyn's wedding!

yes, the wedding is this saturday!!!! i can't believe that it's already here!! tonight is the bachelorette party and i'm really excited. two of katelyn's bridesmaids are unable to attend the party, but we invited two of katelyn's close friends so it's going to be an awesome night! it's going to be Sabrina Ellis, Britney Clagg, Jessi Pierson (MISS WEST VIRGINA!), Lauren Sayre, Katelyn, and me. we are having dinner at Olive Garden at 6 and then coming back to my house to make yummy sundaes and watch a couple movies :) im VERY excited!

so AFTER katelyn's wedding, i will be going to Maryland to visit my boyfriend. he is actually driving all the way to Huntington the day before the wedding, and then we're going to leave on sunday :) im so excited because i havent seen him since May 9th! here's a picture of him and i:

his name is matt cleer. he's from La Plata, MD. we met at a Marshall basketball game through a mutual friend (lauren), and we have been dating for almost 4 months. this picture was taken on the beach at night on our spring break trip to Outer Banks. we went with a big group of friends and stayed in a beach house close to the beach. unfortunately it was TOO COLD to do much so we walked around in jeans and jackets the whole time! here are some photos from the trip:

the first picture is of Kate, Lauren, and myself. we were the only girls to make it to Outer Banks. there were other girls but they decided that they didn't want to come, even though they had most of everyone's luggage (not mine and matt's thank goodness!), but everything worked out and im glad that the people who decided to go on the trip went because it was a blast!!! note in this picture that we are ON the beach, but we're freezing. yes, it was TERRIBLY cold there!

the second picture is another one of just the girls, only this time we're wearing the OBX shirts we all bought :)

the third picture is of wedding decorations at the Greenbrier. on our way home, the people in matt's car decided to take a detour and visit. i was in my PAJAMAS! how embarassing haha oh well.

WELLL people, i better go and get ready for this wild party tonight ;) see ya!

GO STEELERS!!! (even though im a Bengals fan!)

as most of u may know, the Steelers won the Super Bowl last night. i just wanted to share some pictures of me and my new friend, lauren.

Top picture: lauren and me during halftime

Middle picture: another picture of us during halftime, but i photoshopped it on facebook.

Bottom picture: this wasn't taken on sunday, but it was taken the night before. we went to the marshall basketball game, then hung out at her boyfriend's dorm and played pool. it was GREAT!

disregard the last post because........

MARSHALL CAMPUS CLOSED TODAY!!
http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x1280642123/Winter-storms-next-punch-is-freezing-rain

maybe we wont have classes tomorrow either..? i hope not! :)

snow days are over for me....

yesterday was a very crazy day. around 4pm i went to G.D. Ritzy's and the roads were clear. no sign of snow anywhere! i made it home and after being home for 20 minutes, realized that the ground was comletely COVERED in snow...and it was coming down hard! last night, grades k-12 had a 2-hour delay, then this morning school was cancelled. so before i went to class, i had to drive trevor to memaw and papaws house with his sled and a change of clothes so he could enjoy is day off...lucky! oh, and we're supposed to get even MORE tonight...hopefully this time they'll cancel classes for marshall :)

"when i grow up..."

i was driving home from school the other day and happened to look up and see the Cabell Huntington Hospital helicopter flying above me and it got me thinkin'...I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT TYPE OF NURSE I WANT TO BE!!!!!!!!! so i thought about it for a while and decided that i didn't want to have the same exact routine every single day. im not a fan of repetitiveness (i think that's why i don't like retail unless im working the cash register because if i'm working the floor, im just folding things over and over and over, but at the cash register, you never know what things people will buy), so i think that i am going to try to become a nurse in......THE EMERGENCY ROOM! eek, i know, but i have a feeling that i won't be bored in that area. yes, there may be a few "idiots" who will yell at me because they've "been waiting for 2 hours", but i think that i would really enjoy the atmosphere. now i think i just need to go do some clinicals first before i really dive into this because when i was watching then sew up trevor's knee from his fall in the yard, i had to sit down or i was going to pass out, but the reason for that could have been that it was my brother and i don't want them to hurt him or something. i've heard surgeons say that they wouldn't be able to operate on their loved ones so maybe it's the same? i dont know. i guess we'll have to see!!!!!!

IT'S BEEN WAYY TOO LONG!!

wow i can't believe i havent posted anything since practically my birthday! that's crazy...and unacceptable! haha so im going to start blogging more often and keep everyone updated with my life!

well last week, i started back to college. the classes i have this semester are going great (so far!) the only assignment that i had due last week was a crossword puzzle in sociology.

i just realized that i havent posted my classes on here yet! WOW it has been a long time!

Sociology - MWF 10-10:50am

English - MWF 12-12:50pm

Chemistry - MW 2-3:15pm

Physiology - TTh 11-12:15pm + lab - Th 1-3:50pm

Safety - TTh 4-5:15pm

it's not too bad of a schedule. i like it :)

now if only it wasn't so cold outside!!!!

speaking of it being so could outside, i was walking to class friday morning (which is only about a 6-minute walk) and my orange juice froze in my mug!! that's how cold it was (approximately 6 degrees).

OH!! my sister, her bridesmaids, her mom, and my mom all went to David's Bridal yesterday to find the bridesmaids' dresses for her wedding and after a couple hours, she finally found what she wanted!!! we all had fun yesterday. one of katelyn's bridesmaids recently became pregnant and when it comes time for katelyn and curt to get married, she'll already be 6 months into her pregnancy, so to make sure that the dresses katelyn had in mind would fit over a pregnant belly, one of us had to put on the "pregnant pillow". yes, david's bridal has such a thing called a pregnant pillow, and it is absolutely hilarious! we finally found one that would work and it looks gorgeous on everyone! im not going to post pictures because i dont know if katelyn wants everyone to see them yet or not. if i get the OK, then i will post some :)

well, i guess that's all for now. here are some pictures that i photoshopped:

this is me and my boyfriend, matt, on new year's!

me showing off my new tobagon and scarf

me being silly in my room