november.

November. It is the month which welcomes wintry weather and a chilly breeze to nip away at your nose. It is the month which you are permitted to pull out your bulky, insulated coat and sweater boots. It is the month which is perfect for bonfires, hay rides, and a mug full of steaming hot cocoa.

This past weekend, I was privileged to simply relax at our church's annual bonfire. Our pastor and his family always host it and to say that we have a "good time" would be a vast understatement.

There is just something about nestling up in your bulk of a coat and settling by the bonfire that is quite relaxing. Starting off with a splitting headache was not oh-so-fun, but after some water, protein, and a lot of praying it slipped out of my head {Thank you, God!}.

hello there kiley.

my mom is in the funky, hardcore red hat.

a couple of side notes:
- I ordered Lightroom 3 and it is on the way. swoon.
- I am currently borrowing Kiley's mom's Nikon f/1.8 lens. can we say in love?
- I  did a couple's engagement photos!
- I am sorry I have not been commenting on your blogs lately, I have just been extremely busy. To everyone who I follow: I have not forgotten about you all! Promise.
- Can you count how many times I said "I"?


Do you have any special plans for November?

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun....

and be witty......

and be smiley......

and be crazy......

and be happy......

and have fun with EVERY moment...

You're an awesome friend, Kiley! I had tons of fun with you Thursday/Friday! So sorry your computer crashed!

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Also, some of you may know that I take Cross Movement Dance Ministry. Both Kiley and I are doing hip hop and it is SO MUCH FUN.

Not only is it fun, but personally, I think that Ellen (our dance teacher) is making the dance so cool.

Here's a little bit about Cross Movement...

It is a Christian dance ministry about dancing for Jesus not people. There are three dance teachers (Meredith, Karen, and Ellen) and they are all 3 sisters.

The big dance night is not called a recital, but called The Night of Worship.

The costumes aren't skimpy or revealing, but modest.

We meet every Thursday for hip hop and Ellen is still thinking about a song for us to dance to. We have gone through two songs, but they didn't fit our dance and the speed of it.

Ellen is thinking we will dance to a song called Ordinary by Zoe Girl. Who knows, we may dance to something different, but hopefully if this this song fits, we will just dance to it.

I'm so glad I got new jazz shoes too! My old ones were waaaay to small and I desperately needed a new pair. (Thank goodness for Payless!).

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Well, Mom is making home made potato soup and yeast rolls. We're going to eat and watch Independence Day. I hope it's a good movie! I guess I'll find out in a bit.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

♥ Happy Blogging ♥

Happy Birthday, Kiley!

Hi everyone! Today is my BFF, Kiley's birthday, so I thought I would put a couple pics of her/us on here!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY KILEY!!!

Sorry

Hi everyone, sorry I haven't been blogging lately. I have been extremely busy and haven't really had a chance too. Well, I'll update you all on what I've been doing, later...but for now...I am very tired because I spent the night at my BFF's house for her birthday party with some other girls, and we stayed up until 4:00 in the morning and then got up at 8:30 or something like that.

Silly Avatar! Saturday

Hello everyone and welcome to Silly Avatar! Saturday. Sorry I am late posting this, but I spent the night at my BFF Kiley's house last night and I haven't really had a chance to post it. Soooo...anyway.....

Today's Silly Avatar! Saturday is (drum roll please).....MICHAEL JACKSON!!!

More pics from Concert!!!

Here are some more pics from the American Idols Live concert. Those of you who haven't seen the original pics, read/look at the post below this one. These pics are the ones Mom took from Kiley's dad's camera. So, they got sent to us a few days late. Oh, and I forgot to put one of Scott; that Mom took with her camera. Anyway, here are the pics. Enjoy!


Kiley and me waiting for autographs. This time the idols were actually COMING! LOL!



Scott and his brother!!! (the pic I forgot to put on from Mom's camera).




Lil!


Megan signing my paper!


Our picture with Megan.


Those are the 4 extra pics! We might, keyword might, be getting a pic of Matt Giraud. We're not sure if Mom took a pic of Matt or not. If she did, it was on Kiley's dad's camera.

Well, hope you all enjoyed the pics!!!

~A.G.~ :D :O :)

Silly Avatar! Sunday & what I've been doing this Weekend

Who likes busy weeks and weekends besides me? Well, I'll let you think about that one. First I'll start off with Silly Avatar! Sunday; and then I'll tell you about my week/weekend. I would have posted Silly Avatar! yesterday; but I slept in late and then went to a friend's house, so I had NO time whatsoever. Anyway, let's do Silly Avatar already. Ahem. Today's Silly Avatar! Sunday is (drum roll please)......BAILEY!




Bailey is a good friend of mine and she loves monkey's, pink (the color), singing, and LOOOOVES writing! I have known her for about three or four years now. We go to the same home school group too. If you would like to check out her blog simply click here
Alrighty, now that we've done Silly Avatar! Sunday, I will tell you about my week to catch you all up on things.

So, as you all know, I was helping with a backyard VBS this past week and unfortunately got eaten up by flees (turns out it WASN'T poison ivy...and thank goodness!). Yesterday I had a really great time at my BFF Kiley's house. We have been wanting to get together for a while now and we finally could! I always love going to her house because she/her sisters always have something interesting, fun, and creative to do. What we did was we did a TON of crazy barbie weddings (yes I play with barbies), watched Confessions of a Shopaholic (I totally recomend this to anybody), and Kiley taught me how to play Chess. It was surprisingly fun. I didn't think it would be; but it was!

After a couple games of Chess; we decided it would be best to turn the lights out at 10:30; so that we could talk until 11:00. Then, this morning, we woke up, got ready for church, had homemade cinnamon rolls and iced coffee for breakfast, went to church, then after church, we headed in downtown Winston Salem to have lunch at The Mellow Mushroom. After we had lunch, we went shopping at Whole Foods and then we went back to Kiley's house, I packed up my stuff and we met my mom in a restaurant's parking lot.

So yes, I had a very entertaining and fun week/weekend. Happy Blogging everyone!

~A.G.~ :D :O :)

P.S. Any tips on how to get rid of a bunch of itchy flee bites in a day or two?