Friend Weekends

Happy #6
Spending time with my friends!!!

I am a person who hates being alone. Yes having time to my self every once in awhile to do what I want, when I want with no one else's voice in my ear is nice every once in awhile. But for the most part I don't like being alone and I am afraid of dying alone. So the fact that I spend more than 90% of the life I currently lead alone kinda sucks and bums me out. Right now I get up, alone, drive to school, alone, attend school, drive home from school, alone, and go to bed, alone, two days a week. The other 5 days a week I am not in school...and right now I am not working. I have nowhere I have to be and not much I HAVE to do...so I spend my time in bed doing nothing. If I don't go anywhere I wont spend money right? Well spending almost 3 weeks in bed all day besides the days I go to school has really put a damper on my mood. I have been very down, my sister was out of town, my friends are busy with stuff to do and I have...not much. So I think you could see how this might affect me. Well my sister came home and had a party so I went and I had so much fun. I spent the night and the next day with my sister and her two amazing roommates! These weekends...and there have a been a few that I just stay at their apartment all weekend and we have fun doing random things, are so much fun and just what I need. So this is my 6th happy of the year because without these people I would be sitting in my bed this weekend doing nothing...probably sleeping. I know that on Thursday this week I will stay in bed probably all day again until there is something I HAVE to do...but at least it's one less day this week...and one less weekend this month! Thank you H8! I love you guys so much!!! ♥

And thank you Ashley for your Japanese Party! I had a blast!!!

♥Harajuku Girls ♥

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday: Feeling a sense of job well done :-)

Best Wishes Stephanie and Alfred ♥

That "New Car" smell

Happy #5

♥♥♥Melodie Elise Ard♥♥♥

I make a joke called oh how I love that new car smell...but I mean that new baby smell. Remember that friend I mentioned in a previous post? Sure ya do! Well if not you can read about her here.

One of my best friends had a baby a few days ago and I didn't believe in love at first sight until I saw her for the first time. Her mother was glowing and as beautiful as ever. I only hope I can be half that put together and beautiful right after I have a baby. And then when I went in to see her she wanted to know how I was and how things with me were going. I love her. She is so selfless. Nothing makes a day more than a new baby...but this new baby...so perfect with all that hair...it was a perfect day.

I love you Brie and Melodie!!! ♥

The second they met...Melodies cord isn't even cut yet!

Me holding Melodie Elise

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday: Leaving a cake I made too close to the edge of the table when I have tall dogs!

Before:

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Almost Wordless Wednesday: Sleeping Pup

Now I wish this could be a Wordless Wednesday but I feel as this is my first one I must explain...

I have a friend from Angry Julie Monday who has Wordless Wednesday. She posts a picture instead of a whole blog post. I love this thought and I am going to try and do this as well. So this is my first one...next week it will be Wordless!

Kindle App

Happy # 4

The Amazon Kindle App for the iPhone

I love reading but I don't have a lot of time or money for books. I used to be in my car twice as much as I am now so audio books were nice but it just isn't the same as getting to read the book myself. As much as I love turning the pages of a book, holding it in my hand and feeling that satisfaction as I look to see how far I had read, I put the Kindle app on my phone. For Christmas my mom got a Kindle. She loves it. The first book she bought for it was Dear John by Nicholas Sparks. This is a book that I was also interested in reading so I thought since the app was free for my phone all I had to do was go in and download the already paid for book to my phone.

Well I am so glad that it works that way. I am able to read the book whenever I have some free time and because I am not carrying a book or anything extra it is VERY convenient!

Thanks Mom for letting me sponge off your amazon account! Oh and so far I am halfway through the book and it's sooooo good!!!

Baby Shower Cupcakes

I have this friend Brie. We have been friends since we were 12. We were the BEST of friends when we were in jr. high and into high school. As high school went on we drifted apart for one reason or another but we always knew that we would have each other's backs when needed. It was unspoken but well known. After high school we went years without talking to each other. I would wonder from time to time how she was doing hoping that she was well. And then came Facebook. After years of not talking to people you can find almost anyone on there. I don't remember who found who and it doesn't really matter. What matters is we found each other. We got together to catch up and even though we were catching up on almost 6 years of events it felt like we had just been apart a little while. After a few meetings of lunches or breakfast she asked me to come over to tell me something. I do not know why but the thought came into my head that OMG she's pregnant. So I went over and that is what she told me. She didn't know what to do or what she wanted. Her head seemed to be spinning but she has always been very smart and she explored all her options knowing some might be right and some never would be. I knew I would support her no matter what her decision was. Well after lots of research and time to think and tears cried she came to the decision that she was going to keep and raise her baby. She then got engaged to her baby's father, found out it's a girl, had a falling out with him (he doesn't deserve her anyway), and is about to give birth to a baby girl in just a few weeks (after 2 on a Thursday Brie :-) ...thanks). So being that she has had a very rough pregnancy, put on bed rest multiple times, it finally came time for her baby shower. She texted me asking me for my address so she could send me an invite. I gave it to her asking if there was anything they needed. And I sincerely meant the offer. I am so glad they took me up on it. I was able to make cupcakes. She needed a lot of them so I knew it would be quite the undertaking. But I was up to the challenge. Besides it's what I love to do. I am so happy with how they turned out too. They are my favorite cupcakes that I have ever made. Now if I remember correctly Brie is allergic to chocolate...either that or she doesn't like it so I knew not chocolate but I thought ok not ONLY chocolate so I did three different flavors so that some could have chocolate if they wanted. I also made the three flavors look different from the top so that if you just walked up and grabbed a cupcake you would know which you were grabbing. I didn't want someone to bring Brie a chocolate cupcake! I also knew that she wasn't the person that would just want a cupcake with a rattle on top or something babyish on it. Yes it was a baby shower but it was also for Brie and since she was getting gifts for the baby, the cupcakes were for Brie!

So here are the cupcakes:

These are the lemon cupcakes (they are really just white cake with a hint of lemon flavor)

These are the Strawberry Cupcakes


And these are the Chocolate Cupcakes

Thank you Brie for letting me do this. I had so much fun making them, fun eating them and the most fun at your shower! Congrats to you and I can't wait to meet Melodie Elise Ard!