Looking back on 2011!

A RECAP OF 2011:

In January 2011: My friends took me to see the broadway Beauty and the Beast in ATlanta. My husband planned a surprise party for me and I turned 24 years old. The GREATEST thing though was that my neice Kyleigh was born!







IN FEBRUARY 2011: I learned more about how to make homemade jewelry. And me and Jonathan spent our second Valentine's Day married!






IN MARCH 2011: I went to my best friend's home town for the first time. She lives right outside of Lynchburg, VA. Also, my family came up to see our home in Raleigh, NC for the first time!







IN APRIL: Me and Jonathan went to the local Carnival in town and spent Easter here in Raleigh, NC together. I also went on a women's retreat with North Wake with all of my good friends.








IN MAY 2011: We went home to Atlanta for the wedding of Kristin Melin and Steven Link. Also, we got to meet our twin nephews Huxton and Eli and see my family while in town.







IN JUNE 2011: Me and Jonathan celebrated our one year anniversary and took a trip to Charleston, SC. It was wonderful!










IN JULY 2011: We celebrated Jonathan's 24th birthday by going to a baseball game. My family took a family vacation to Gulf Shores, AL. Everyone was there. My aunt even came back from overseas. It was a WONDERFUL time. The BEST.









IN AUGUST 2011: My best friend Ginny Marstin got married to Robert Vilushis in Brook Neal, VA. It was a wonderful time with friends!







IN SEPTEMBER 2011: I had Labor Day off of work and Me and Jonathan got to spend some time together. We spent the day playing Mini Golf and eating out.




IN OCTOBER 2011: Me and Jonathan carved our pumpkin into ET, attended a fall festival at our church (The Summit North Raleigh), went on a beach weekend trip with girls in my small group, I attended a Taylor Swift concert with my sister, and we had a family cookout with the Melins.










IN NOVEMBER 2011: I spent my first Thanksgiving away from my family. It was sad in that regards, but I also got to spend it with one of my closest friends who is about to go to India for two years (Danae). Also, my friend Christina Wingo got married to Michael Anderson. I got to see my friend, Ginny again too :) Me and Jonathan also decorated for Christmas.














IN DECEMBER 2011: I got to go home for Christmas. Not just home, but to Clarksdale, MS as well where my Grandparents live. My aunt got to come home from overseas again. It was WONDERFUL!











This year has been really good to me! God has blessed me richly! I am so thankful to all of my friends and family who add good things to my life everyday! Love you guys! Looking forward to a 2012! It will have to be good because I will be sharing it with you guys!

A Crazy Night

Tonight was a rough night. I was so relieved to get off of work because it was the start of the weekend. However, it quickly turned into CRAZINESS. Jonathan took me to a Hurricane's Hockey Game on Thursday night (which is usually our grocery night). So that meant grocery night was changed to Friday. It took us a while to get everything in Target. This time around we had to get him razors because he had run out (that's always a kick to the stomach because they cost about half of what we usually spend on our groceries anyways). They are crazy expensive. We get to the check out and the guy is new. So he is going slower than I've seen short of a lady I got once with a broken arm who was about 80 year old (it really did happen). This was (ironically) driving Jonathan nuts and wasn't even bothering me (it's usually the other way around). He finally got done bagging our groceries. But as we headed out the door the alarm in the store went off. Jonathan, being the honest and caring person he is, walked back through the alarms (they went off again). No one even looked up from what they were doing. We searched our cart because we had a feeling it was the razors. They put sensors on them nowadays because they are SO EXPENSIVE that I am sure a lot of dishonest people are tempted to steal those things. WE searched and searched out cart but couldn't find the culprit. We actually began to wonder if we had not picked up a bag from the checkout line. Finally we looked around and saw that no one cared that we were standing there. So, we decided if no one else cares about the beeping we will just proceed to our car. The second run through the alarm system suddenly brought over a policeman. Who stopped us and questioned us about what we had bought that evening. He decided to let us go on without looking through all of our merchandise. WE got to the car and Jonathan finally found the razors. He took it back in with the receipt to get them to take the sensor off because there's no way you can get those things off at home. After all of this it was about 7:00 and I decided I didn't feel like cooking dinner. Since Jonathan works at Pizza Hut we get a discount. So we decide to order a pizza. I was super excited about finally getting home, eating some pizza and watching The Santa Clause. lol.

Pizza Hut was REALLY busy and they told us it would be about a 30 minute wait. We live five miles from the store. So we decided to take our groceries home and come back out later. We unloaded all of our groceries and headed back to pick up our pizza. It was pretty crazy in the store and there was a HUGE line. But when we got up to the counter Jonathan realized he had forgotten his wallet at home. So, we had to get back in the car and go back home to get his wallet. When we got back to Pizza Hut the third time it was even crazier. When we finally talked to the person behind the counter they told us our order was 284 and they were already doing orders around 320. Apparently they had forgotten our order altogether. And we weren't the only ones they had forgotten. There was a long line of people who were getting really angry. The lady also stated they had run out of boxes and could not make us what we had ordered. So, I decided to just save them the trouble and let those who didn't work at Pizza Hut have their orders. I figured they would be more angry that Jonathan and I would since he works there and can kind of relate to teh craziness that sometimes goes on. After all of this it was nearing 9pm. I was STARVING because I hadn't eaten since 12:30pm. We just decided it would be best to go get something quick and just call it an evening. So we split a quesadilla and then got some frozen yogurt. ha.

What a night. In light of that bad night I decided to share three commercials that are on right now that I LOVE And make me smile. ha. ENJOY (although you might not get why I love them so much...that's ok). Also, you may have to copy and paste them to watch them because my link was not working when I put it into blogger:




In honor of that here are three new ADORABLE commercials that make me smile:


1. Pop Tart Commercial 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL-W3pXU84c



2. Hershey Commerical 2011


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpP51j74Iyg



3. Biltmore Commercial 2011


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etdzDxH6F6c