**Birthday**

Me and my aunt at my birthday party

Me and Kasyn at my birthday party Me and my sister at my birthday party :)

Haha well my birthday... Hmmm... I had class til 10 that night... (So no I didn't get trashed) But I had a break from 4 to 530 and Kenny took me to this really nice restaurant for dinner... I loved it and had so much fun :) And then I went to class and came home and did some homework... And then went to bed... Nothing too extravaggant.... I did get a lot of birthday texts and a few birthday calls :) Which was nice :)

This is what my sister and justin got me, my own longboard :)

This is Kenny and I headed to the elephant bar :)

Pretty flowers my aunts got me :)

Me And Darrell at my birthday party :) Haha well the night before Wednesday night, but aunts made me dinner and we all went over there and I opened presents from everyone... Got a whole bunch of cute clothes, Kenny got me a giftcard to the mall to buy more clothes, and a bunch of movies and candy and fun stuff :) He got me this movie called The Gifted Hands... If you haven't seen it I HIGHLY recommend it... I call it my inspirational movie... When I'm having a really hard week or feel like giving up I watch this movie and somehow decide to keep moving forward :) It has Cuba Gooding in it :) Anyways so after that I went home and did some more homework...

And Friday, my friend Candida took me to a movie and dinner... We went and watched Dear John (Another really good movie) haha I cried in it, I know I'm lame it's ok... And then we went out to Japanese Kitchen and they sang to me and threw food at me haha... And then we headed back to the house... When I get there I walk in and "SURPRISE!!!!" Haha there were like fifty people there for my birthday party (I know I still have birthday parties lol) It was so sweet of Kenny to plan a surprise party, especially cuz I didn't really get to hang out with any of my friends during my birthday or anything... This was right after the movie, as you can see I look like I have been crying haha :)

So overall, I had a wonderful birthday :) And I can't believe that I'm 21, it seems like I just got out of highschool and then I think about it and I have almost been out of highschool for 3 years, and am about ready to graduate from college...Life really does go by fast when you're having fun :)

Awww me on my birthday :)

Haha sorry the pictures are all over the place... This thing was not cooperating with me....

**Valentine's Day**

Ok... So I have decided that I just never get around to this blogging thing and it's terrible... But basically all that has happened for me in the last few months is school... That is literally all I do this semester... I am taking a full schedule and then on top of that I have an MCAT class that is 3 hours a night 3 days a week... And on top of actually going to the class, every other night I have 8 or so chapters of homework for it... And this is on top of all my other classes... But I take my real MCAT April 17th... So I'm hoping this class will pay off then :)

So needless to say, my days have consisted of school, homework, frequent breakdowns, little bit of sleep, and then repeating this process... So I'm both mentally and physically exhausted most of the time... I know this probably sounds really sad, or you may think I'm overexaggerating, but this semester has definitely been hard for me... I have even questioned being a doctor several times (always arriving at the yes I do want to do this)... But nevertheless it's been hard...

So I am pretty sure all that sounds like a bunch of excuses, and it probably is just that... But now onto Valentine's Day...

Kenny's family (his mom, dad, lexy, and kayden) all came up Friday night to spend the long weekend with us... They stayed til Monday (even though I still had school Monday, BOO on UNM) Anyways... So Friday I actually cannot remember what we did... But I am pretty sure we just relaxed :)We got up for breakfast... Bacon egg and cheese sandwiches, and the girls all went shopping and the boys went to some gun show or something... We didn't eat much for lunch cuz we were saving our appetites for Texas Roadhouse... So we went to dinner with his cousin, we were planning on going to Texas Roadhouse like I said, but it was a 5 hour wait for a party of 12... INSANE!! So we ended up going to Monroe's a really good New Mexican place here :) And then came home and watched some movies...

Kenny And I agreed that we weren't going to get eachother anything for V-Day, because we just bought a 46 inch TV for the bedroom... however, I knew he wouldn't play by the rules and get me something anyways... So this time I did the same thing... So I didn't look like a loser when he gave me a present and I gave him nothing (this has happened before because I usually do play by the rules)So Sunday morning we woke up, and I saw a box with a card, but looked past it because I still had not wrapped his present yet and went to my room and wrapped his present (he thought I was oblivious and just didn't notice it)... So I gave him his box and grabbed mine... Inside my box was a beautiful butterfly necklace, made with mother of pearls and amethyst... And I LOVE butterflies (read one of my earlier posts if you're curious why)...

And he opened his box, and it the bottom inside a toliet paper roll was this picture and the money needed to buy it... He has always wanted a hedgehog, and I knew he would never buy it for himself because he will spend the money on more practical things... So on Thursday (that's when they come in) we will be picking up the newest addition to our family, Knuckles the Hedgehog :)..... Haha yes we have the most random animals.... A rabbit, Hutch, a Cat Power step betty, a dog, Mia and we had a duck Miko, but he flew away... So I'm pretty sure he is super excited about his present because he keeps saying he cannot wait for thursday :)

So this is Knuckles... We now have two of these little guys... The other is a little girl she is even smaller, 5 weeks... They are such low maintenance and great pets :) and this pic was taken the first day we got him, but now we don't use gloves or anything :)
So we then got ready for lunch and went to Texas roadhouse right when they opened at 11, and got right in... haha not ten minutes later was there a 2 hour wait and the waiting area was packed... we lucked out... And per tradition, his parents told the waitress it was my birthday, so I had to sit on top of the saddle while they sang and yee hawed :) (I have done this the last 3 years)

But overall, the weekend was wonderful, and was really good for me because I miss my family and it was really nice to see them... :) Last weekend my family came up for my birthday so I got to see both my families in two weeks... It seems like it had been forever since I saw them... (I will blog about my weekend with my familiy during my birthday weekend, and presents and all that fun stuff later, just figured this would be the shortest blog because I don't have many pictures to put in here...)

**Promise**

I PROMISE, I will try to get better about posting stuff... My life is just so completely insane this semester I don't have time to do anything... but I will definitely try to update everyone this weekend... (I have a big Organic Chemistry test tomorrow, or I would do it now)

Anyways hope life is treating everyone well!

Thanksgiving... WOW WAY LATE...

Ok... So for Thanksgiving we, Kenny and I, flew out to the Dallas/Fort Worth area to celebrate it with his sister and their family (Miranda, Derron, Dayon, Adaryan and Avyonne)... So anyways, we were supposed to fly out thursday morning (cuz Kenny had a debate in his wednesday night class) however, that got cancelled so we called the airlines at like 10 at night and got our flights changed to wednesday night so we could leave earlier :) Anyways so we get there Wednesday night and sit and visit... Some of the food was already cooked, rolls, haha and we went through 70ish rolls the night before Thanksgiving... which is basically all of them, so we had to run to the store and get some more for the next day... Just for the record pretty sure Dayon ate the most of those!! haha... we stayed up pretty late wednesday night visiting and such...

Ok... So Thursday, we got up and helped finish making lunch... oh and by this time the pumpkin pie was already gone as well... haha! But Derron's family came over for lunch... we watched some football games and visited... I don't think we ever took a nap but some of us dozed off for a few minutes, but it was literally minutes, maybe seconds before someone woke you up... well rested our eyes, while we watched the games :)

So, everyone left, and we all decided we were going to get up early and do some shopping... (DayDay, me, andi and miranda) Our plan was to leave at 4 AM... So my bright idea is that I am going to stay up all night and play video games with the boys... I have never seen anyone sit and play games as much as those boys did (COD6) haha... So we played, and somehow I got conned into playing... I suck... But one game I made the rules and said they could only use throwing knives and I get to use my machine gun :) I still lost (sad I know) But I did get 12 kills out of 20 :) haha... But for the record Kenny cheated and threw a flash grenade at me and killed me... I was so mad (I know way to competitive) so I decided to play some pool... I suck at this too like very bad... I usually play Adaryan and he runs the table... But I think me being as mad as I was I actually played really well... I was making cut shots that NO ONE makes haha... And I ended up beating Adaryan 8 games in a row... go me!

Ok so 4AM rolls around, we go wake up Andi and DayDay and Miranda. Miranda is SO not a morning person, but once we got her moving around and some Diet Coke in her system everything was good :) So once we left the boys went to sleep... We stopped at Wal-mart first, and people were SO polite there, they hit you and apologized fifty times, no one was fighting over anything... Everyone was very helpful! I could not believe it, but I guess that's what happens in Southlake (the richest city in the nation) so we filled the car up there, had to drop off the load, and go to all the other stores :) I bought Kenny and XBox 360 for his 21st birthday (I know what was I thinking!!) I only get to see him a few hours a night and now it's gonna be less with that dang thing :) But it's ok, he really wanted it to play live with his brothers/nephews/etc... So we get home about 11AM. Boys are still sleeping... I was patient, woke them up at 12... We left to get some sushi and go check out Darrells apartment...

That night we went to Dave and Buster's, kind of like an Applebee's food place mixed with a Hinkle Family Fun Center game place... This was to celebrate Kenny and Adaryan's birthday... it was lots of fun and we spent like 3 hours there... Ok so I stayed up all of thursday, all of friday and all of saturday... I did go to sleep about 2AM on sunday night (we had to wake up at 430 to fly out)... And we were so close to missing our flight we were literally running... But basically, there was just so much to do and we had so much fun that I really didn't schedule any time in for sleep :) But I'm still alive :) So it's ok right :)

I hope everyone had a blast over thanksgiving :) I know I did!!!

P.S. I didn't even notice this was in my drafts, and I never posted it... Whoops...

**Thanksgiving Break**

Ok... So my thanksgiving break hasn't really started yet... I still have 2 more classes. (One today and One tomorrow) BUT then we fly out to TEXAS tomorrow night at like 5:10pm I think... I am so excited and I cannot wait... We are gonna be in Texas until Monday morning :) So the ENTIRE break... So I probably won't be posting anything over the break... But I will try to take a million pictures so I will have plenty to blog about when we get back :)

If I don't get on here again before I leave, or before Thanksgiving... I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving break... Enjoy the time you get to spend with your family... You never know when this will have been the last holiday you share together (to those of you who have lost loved ones, I know the holidays are hard, but think about all the good times and know they are watching over you) And remember to say a little prayer for our soldiers who won't get to spend the holidays with their families this year because they are fighting for everything this country stands for!!


Happy Thanksgiving!!! :o)

**Pictures, Pictures, Pictures**

---> Ok so this is how long my hair was.....I REALLY hate this picture of me, but I think Kenny looks so so so cute I love it :)


---> and this is my hair now... I cut 14 inches off :) (yes i donated it :))



---> this is me and the pic i got at the nickelback concert :) my sister used her KungFu skills and snatched it out of the air and gave it to me yay!!! we were right in the front


----> this is us after the concert... we were supposed to do our mad/gansta look but dav didn't get the memo haha... we were so exhausted and i could not talk at all :)


---> this is us getting ready to go into the concert :) yay!!! so much fun :)


----> these are our tickets for the concert :)

haha so these are a few of pictures that i wrote about earlier :) let me know what you think about the hair?? better long or short?? the nickelback concert again was AMAZING!!!

Mine and Kenny's first Jack-O-Lantern :)

This is the final product... Doesn't look too impressive right?? Some of you are probably asking yourselves what the heck is it.... Patience...


So this is what it looks like with a light in it :) Good right?? Haha let me just point out this is the FIRST jack-o-lantern we have EVER carved... And we were looking at things we could carve online and found this one... And guess what it says, VERY CHALLENGING... Haha but you all should know that kenny and i never do things the easy way :) It took us a few hours to do but we had so much fun doing it :) haha I hope no one has to ask me what it is... But just in case it is Yoda :)


This is after, haha we shoulda started earlier we were both so tired, and it was so late when we finished, but it was fun and definitely worth it :)