Hmmm, not much to say. Woke up at 5AM to talk to Ben. That was fun! Now I am dead tired and ready to take a nap. I had to be at the boys house at 8 this morning to watch them which has been fun. Dylan has been running a fever all morning so I've had to take care of him. Austin has been watching The Polar Express movie. It's actually cute. I thought it would be dumb but I think it was made very well.

Ben is supposed to be calling today!  I am more then happy about that. Hopefully things will work out so he is able to get through to me.

Well I am off to put the boys to bed I'll talk to you all later.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

I can't believe it is already Christmas time! This year has seriously seemed to fly by but at the same time, go by so slow. Ben is coming home in a few weeks and I'm extremely excited to see him again. I am flying home in February to see him and I am SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!

College was awesome! I have made tons of friends that I love to death and wouldn't trade them for anything. I also did something really dumb like the first two weeks while I was at college. So dumb that I will not even talk about it but, I have learned and grown from it and am now moving on with life.

I thought I'd post some pics of me and my friends from college. There's not that many pics but oh well, enjoy.

Me with my good friend, Becky, from Philly

From left to right around the table:
Theresa, Debbie, Sonia, Bea, Holly, Kristi, Nikki (ya can barely see her), Tiffany, Shyla, me, Becky, Christina

My sister with our friends, Kara, Scott the punk (in the white shirt) and our Michigan buddy, Nathan, who I must say is like the coolest person on campus . . . uh, yeah.

My sis, Missy, with her boyfriend, Chris

Ok this is just one of those dumb pictures that me and my friends decided to take. What the heck even possessed us to take this picture I have no idea. But anyway, from left to right, is: Ben, Robin, Steven, Rose, Maggie, Paul, Chad, and me

For Thanksgiving my sis and I went to Arizona so here's a few pics from that trip:

Me and Kallista

Reagan, Missy and Kallista

And here are two boys that I missed terribly while gone . . . Austin and Dylan . . .

I love this pictures of Dylan copying my dad

I have some more pics on my camera that I'll put on here later but first I have to find the coard to so I can get them onto the computer. Hmmm, hope I didn't leave it in CA. I have been busy since being home watching the boys that is why I haven't had a chance to update this thing yet. Sorry about that.

Well, I hope ya'll have a Merry Christmas and I'll be back on here to update soon!

Hey everyone!
 
My life has been so crazy lately. I am now in California and I am pretty pumped about starting this new phase in my life. Even though it was very hard to say goodbye to my friends and family, I am excited to see what God has instore.

I do not have much time to update but I know you all deserve to know what has been going on with me lately so I'll just sum everything up for ya . . . 
 
Two Saturdays ago was our going away party which was fun. A lot of people showed up and it was awesome just to see everyone one last time. Two kids got stung and so did Brandon . . . five times on the same hand, poor guy! I must say that he gave us quite the show though! Good times Brandon, good times! Here are some pics from the day . . .

Austin, Me, Dylan, Missy

Me and Maggie

My boys family, Shawn, Nicole, Autin and Dylan
 
Sunday was a sad day. Last Sunday at home. Last time going out to eat with Jason and Teresa. My family and I went out to eat with them to Bob Evans. Good times were had and I am gonna miss those Sunday dinners so much.
 
Monday was CEDAR POINT! Oh, that was such a blast! The Carmacks and Sturgills came with our family and it was just fun to do one last thing with them. The lines were long which wasn't cool, but at least we were able to be together. Pics turned out pretty good.

Dragster

MaxAir

Us 3 girls at the resturant

Us three girls with the worlds most awesome friends, Jason and Teresa

The group: My fam, Carmacks, and Jason and Teresa
 
Tuesday I went up to Midland to see Ben's family one last time. It was sad to say goodbye but I hopefully will be home whenever Ben comes home on leave!
 
Wednesday night Shawn, Nicole and the boys took me out to Olive Garden. I am gonna miss my boys sooooo much! They gave me this awesome scrap book filled with pics of the boys.
 
Thursday was my dad's birthday. Oh I got my haircut too and dyed back to its natural color . . . well it's a little bit darker but that's ok. We took my dad out to the Outback then my sisters and I went to Jason and Teresa's. They gave us this totally awesome gift, an MP3 player! I was so stoked! I stayed at their place until 1:30AM talking and dreading saying goodbye. I was doing fine until I gave Jason a hug and he just had to say to me "don't cry" and I lost it! Here's a pic with us and two of their kids:

Chloe, Missy, me, Colton, and Mindy

Friday began the craziness of packing and shopping for last minute things. I was basically packed by 5PM which was good cause several of our friends came over to say goodbye. Cari, Baldwins, Bruces, Nortons and even the Sturgils! I was very excited that they stopped by but I was upset that we had to say goodbye all over again.

My family!

I never went to bed Friday night, I only got about 30 minutes of sleep and that was on the couch after my mom yelled at me to lay down. We left for the airport at 4:30AM and arrived in LA at 11:45AM. We drove from LA to Santa Maria, which was 4 hours away to see my cousin, his wife, and daughter. We went to church with them this morning then we left to go shopping and head to a town 10 minutes away from Lancaster. We shopped more tonight and I went to this kodak place to print off pics of me and Ben and Jason and Teresa, etc and they actually turned out very good!

Tomorrow starts a new beginning. A new era. A new life. Oh how I miss and will continue to miss my family. I miss Jason and Teresa bunches already too and it has only been about 72 hours since we said goodbye! We are pathetic guys, truly pathetic. I even miss Ben so much more. Instead of us being 8 hours apart, now we are 11 hours apart and I feel like he is so very far from me now.

Well guys, I better get to bed. I will try to stay in touch as well as I can. Hit me up through my email address and I'll try to keep in contact with you all that way if I can't update this thing that much. Take care ya'll!

P.S. I LOVE CALIFORNIA!!!!!

This day has just been swamped! Ugh. I will update later tonight, I promise ya'll!

Some thing cute that happened today though really quick. My sisters and I went to the mall and at the mall we saw Teresa and three of her kids. Well Colton knows we are going off to college and after walking away from them to do our shopping we heard Colton say . . . "Where'd those girls go mom? Did they go to college?" It was so cute!!! Definetly one of those had to of been there moments. But oh, I'm gonna miss that kid bunches . . . and his siblings! 

I'm off to dinner with my boys and their parents so I'll talk to ya'll laters.  

Well everyone, there is much to talk about but sadly I am so tired I will not be updating tonight.

I will update sometime tomorrow though and put some pics online from my awesome past couple of days.

The next few days will be flying bye. I can not believe it is time for me to go already. I was going to say goodbye to my closest friends last night after Cedar Point but I couldn't do it. I got choked up just tellin them that I'll come over later this week to say goodbye. I never thought it would be this hard . . . and tomorrow I have to say goodbye to Ben's family. I'm sad!