happy father's day!!

As you all know, today was father's day. i spent a few hours with my daddy and grandma, then came home and went to mamaw and papaw ellis's house. i didnt take any pictures today :( but here is a picture of something i painted last friday at The Pottery Place



It's called a medium-sized nesting tray, but I decided that I wanted it to be my cookie tray :) I can't wait to get it back this coming Friday so I can make cookies and put them on it haha

Anyways, for those of you who havent heard about The Pottery Place, it is a place that recently moved to Pullman Square (it used to be on 1st Street and 6th Avenue) and you can paint pieces of pre-made pottery, from 4x4-inch tiles to piggy banks to XL platters, any color you want. It's a really great place to go if you want to make something special for that special someone lol I've made a garden stake for my boyfriend's mom, multiple tiles for different people, a plate for my grandma (I painted a family tree on it with birds on the branches), an ice cream bowl for Terry, and magnets for my boyfriend and Sabrina. I'll try to find some pictures of them and post them (keep in mind that most of these haven't been fired in the kiln yet so they look a little different now than in these pictures lol).

HOOAH!!!!!

Terry told me to post this picture of my brother on my blog for his parents to see. It seems a little intimidating to me haha

hey, hey, hey!!

hello everyone!

We are back from the cruise! It went by wayyy too fast, but we had an AWESOME time! I took over 350 pictures with my phone, and mom and terry took over 100 pictures with their camera! that's a LOT of pictures...here are some:


This is our ship, the Carnival Dream. It is currently their newest and largest ship. They are making two more ships after this one.


This is a picture of the multiple slides on the ship. One turns into a big bowl that you go around in 2-3 times. Terry came into the bowl so fast that he almost didnt stop haha


Terry and I on the 12th deck before we left Port Canaveral


Here is 1 of the pools that was in the middle of the ship, and the ginormous movie screen that they played concerts, movies, and very pretty scenery on. I watched Julie & Julia one night out there. So fun!


This is the view from the 10th deck down to the 3rd deck. There are four glass elevators to the left. They were really neat to ride in.


This is the sunrise on the very first morning after getting on the ship. We were so close to Nassau, Bahamas (about an hour or less away). You can't really tell, but there's a little bit of the island is the far, far distance lol just along the top of the water


We found this in one of the shop areas. Here's trev haha


THEY HAVE BURGER KING!!! lol


This is one of the pictures we took on the catamaran while we were on our way to the first snorkeling spot. I really thought that I would have freaked out about snorkeling in such deep water, but I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!! Trevor freaked out a little at first because the guy basically threw him into the water before he was ready. He was fine after about 15 minutes, then it was like he was a natural and had been snorkeling for years! It was GREAT!


Here is the coral reef that we snorkeled over. There were tons of fish around it.


This is the beach we visited after snorkeling. Isn't it beautiful?


Look at how beautiful the water is! I wish I was still there...


FOUND A STARBUCKS!!!!


Trevor and mom at dinner on the second or third night!


Trevor and Terry...


Mom and I at dinner...


Terry and I...


This is the casino on the ship. You are able to gamble at sea if you are 18 or older, so Terry gave me a $20 and I went to work. I played the penny slots first, but had to bet 20 cents each time. At one point I won up to $12.04 (+ the $20 I already had, so I was up to $32.04!), so I left that machine to go cash in. When I left the machine, I felt like I wanted to play some more so I found some different machines to play at. At a different one, I had got down to 50 cents (I had lost almost EVERYTHING!), but this machine was really cool. There were 5 reels or whatever they are, and if you got BONUS on two reels, they locked those and let the other three spin once to see if you could get one or more BONUS's. If you got another BONUS, the machine gave you FIFTEEN FREE SPINS! how awesome is that? So I just so happened to get 15 extra spins (plus some since I got a couple more BONUS's in those 15 spins). In the end, I ended up winning $12.96 cents :) pretty good for a first timer, especially since I was down so much!


Here is a picture I took of the picture we had taken after dinner one night. We clean up nicely if you ask me!


The back of the ship while we were sailing. The second pool was located back here. Both pools were salt water pools


Here we are pulling into St. Thomas on the fourth day of our trip!


YEA, MON!!


WENDYS!!!!! lol


Ok, this guy totally saw me taking a picture, so he decides to step in and pick his nose....awesome.


Here is a really great picture of our entire ship. we were a couple miles from the port and there was an open area for people to go to the ocean so I took a picture :)


The kids here were still in school here.


You're Welcome! :)


Pulling into St. Maarten. There are two sides to this extremely small island: the Dutch side (where they spell it St. Maarten) and the French side (where they spell it St. Martin). The island is 37 square miles, with the Dutch side being the smaller of the two sides.


Welcome the St. Maarten :)


Everything in this shop is made out of bamboo! sheets for your bed, shirts, towels, etc.


Tommy Hilfiger


Polo Ralph Lauren


A cute hotel


MCDONALDS!!! I saw it about a mile away :) lol it was two stories long. I got a kit kat mcflurry. They didn't mix it up like we do here, and they added a layer of hot fudge under the kit kat pieces lol it was YUMMY!!!! Oh, and they sold Beer here, and chicken wings lol


Haagen-Daz <3


Lacoste


an AWESOME candy store. Everything was 3cents/gram, and he had EVERYTHING!!!


The picture doesn't do it justice, but this lizard was big! lol


Mom and Terry on our last snorkeling trip


This is the sail that was on our catamaran


Mine and Trevor's room. It had NO windows so unless I set an alarm, we never knew what time it was! lol


A pretty sunset. I took this on the serenity deck. That was the "Adults Only" deck. It was very pretty!


I found out that I can FLOAT!!!!! I'm a terrible floater lol


It was Trevor's birthday the last day we were on the ship, so mom suprised him by ordering a cakem and they delivered it to him during our dinner. Our waiter made him ears our of this napkin and put it on his head lol


When we got back to Florida, mom and Terry agreed to take me to DOWNTOWN DISNEY!!!! yayyyyyyy!! my very favorite part of the whole trip hahaha


ALRIGHT!!!! that's a lot of pictures for you guys to check out so let me know what you think of them!! :)

i've been waiting...

...for a vacation to finally get here :)

as i said in my last post, my family and i will be going on a cruis soon :) this is going to be my first cruise i've ever been on. can you say "ENDLESS AMOUNTS OF FOOD"?!? my little brother says that him and i are going to have to order one of every single dessert :) i always knew he was a smart boy!

so anywho, my friend told me about this website that is REALLY cool. it's called StumbleUpon.com. what you do is you go to the site, check the things that you enjoy and click "start stumbling...". it will take you to all sorts of amazing sites that you would have never found without it! i've found all sorts of photography sites, cute little animal pictures, and countless other things. give it a try and let me know what you think!!!

Happy Memorial Day!!

first post in over a month...better make it good!

today is Memorial Day. My parents decided to have a cookout with my stepdad's parents, so I am actually typing this post from their house! They have an AWESOME computer.

My family and I are going on a cruise soon :) I've never been on a cruise! should be fun :)

in about a month, I plan on flying to Baltimore to see my boyfriend for the first time since he went home after finals. He actually lives in the southern part of MD, so I'll have a long day of traveling.

Dinner's almost ready...I can smell the hamburgers! mmmmm....

well, i'm not really sure what else to write so I may just write more later.

Sarah Beth Napier

i started to write a lengthy blog post about my school life and what my spring break plans are, but i can't help but feel as though i need to tell you about my "cousin"/family friend, Sarah Beth Napier. Sarah Beth was diagnosed with breast cancer in (i believe) 2005. She never let that stop her faith in Jesus Christ. To this day, Sarah praises God for the many things he has done for her in her life and feels as though she is the most blessed person in the entire world. Anyone else in her situation would be blaming God for "what he has done to them" and asking him "why me?" Since her diagnosis of breast cancer, Sarah has had multiple brain tumors, along with multiple brain surgeries. Today, doctors found a new brain tumor sitting in her frontal lobe (the part of the brain behind the forehead) and they believe that there is nothing more they can do. She will soon be going to Hospice in Huntington. everyone PLEASE PRAY FOR THIS AMAZING WOMAN! her story has touched so many lives, including mine. She is loved by so many people in this world. please visit her blog, loveyourguts.com, and leave a comment or send her a card. This exerpt is from my Aunt Jan's blog:

There is a lady from Pea Ridge Baptist Church that is going to make a book of encouragement/memory for Sarah Beth. Her Aunt Leigh Ann sent us all a FB message about it today. I already know what I am going to do. Some special little thing that Sarah Beth and I laugh about almost every time we are together. She has touched so many lives that she doesn't even know about. If you have been reading the blog and know about her journey or you have gotten one of my Prayer Warrior emails asking for prayer, would you please send her a card letting her first know how you came to know her story and what it/she has meant to you. I am seeing in my minds eye a book filled with love and encouragement so big that it is going to be hard to carry. Please make sure that they are in the hands of this wonderful and creative lady by Sunday, March 7th. (addresses below)

Please keep this a secret.

Here are two addresses you may use...

Pea Ridge Baptist Church
5945 East Pea Ridge Road
Huntington, WV 25705

Leigh Ann Creasy
7 Permele Circle
Barboursville, WV

I know she is going to love this more than words can say. I remember when she was first diagnosed there was a huge map of the world hanging in her dining room with little push pins of everywhere people were praying for her. She was overwhelmed by all of the support. And I know that that support is one of the things that makes her such a fighter.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!!

WE LOVE YOU, SARAH BETH!!!