North Carolina, you better raise up!

AHH, I love North Carolina so far. We are living in a small-ish town called Goldsboro. It's the biggest town I lived in since leaving home, but it is still lacking a lot of fun. However, we are living in possibly the coolest house EVER. It was built a loooonnnggg time ago by a very eccentric man. And you can tell by the decor. (pictures to come!)

While we are here we are working for Habitat for Humanity. Building two houses, and LOVING IT. Our sponsors are absolutely amazing. I am learning so many new skills, that will help me when I become a homeowner. For instance, the other day, Matt and I built and entire deck. Anyone in need of a deck? I can build you one!

For Memorial Day weekend, my team leader, two teammates, and I took a vacation to Atlantic Beach, North Carolina to soak up some rays. Atlantic Beach is the cutest beach town I have ever seen. And they have a killer aquarium that costs only 8 dollars!!! If you are ever looking for a place to vacay, choose Atlantic Beach.

I really love working with Habitat for Humanity. Just the other day, I was working along side the future homeowner of the home we were working on. You could tell how excited he was to have such an amazing opportunity presented in his life. Habitat is not only an amazing corporation, but it is an amazing life changer. Get out in your community and find a local Habitat for Humanity to volunteer at. It is well worth it.

They tell me I'm {beautiful}

Going into Americorps there was a lot I didn't know. A LOT.

But one thing I defintely did not know, was that my confidence would be sky rocketing.

Complete strangers tell me I am beautiful.

They tell me I am beautiful when I haven't even tried.

They tell me I am beautiful every day. 

And the reason they do it is not because they feel like they have to, but because they want to. 

The word beautiful has never been said to me this many times by virtual strangers.

I don't know what I did to deserve this sort of princess treatment.

The people of Americorps NCCC are special, lovely people that I wouldn't be happy without. 

The people are what makes the program so enjoyable.

Amanda and Taylor. My girls. My support.

Destine to be BFFs since we first Facebooked! <3

My main boys. George and Brendyn.

Matt. Teammate and awesome friend.

Some of my favorites before a night out in Vicksburg.

Nick. The best hugger EVER

Joe. <3 <3 <3 

Katelyn! The first person I met in the airport. Sweetest girl ever.

Class 19. The best class ever. Love them all.

"You have serious time on your hands."

That's the response you will receive from your sister after sending her this beauty.

Weekend in Washingtonnnnn

"Uhm, I think my tire just fell off..."

Monday's are never good.

We always dread them. 

Only to find out that really, they are just another day

or just how you make them.

Heck, we could start dreading Tuesday's and just because we knew it was Tuesday we would have a bad day. 

Jusss sayin.

Anyways, I am pretty sure I took the trophy for a Bad Monday yesterday.

It started out pretty normal, just working till 4.

All normal stuff at work, ya know.

Nothing bad, nothing amazingly good.

I left work at 4 to head home to grab my sister, Katie, then meet a friend, Kiefer, at coffee. 

Got home.

Left again.

As I am driving my car (sister in passenger seat) my car started making even worse noises than usaul.

{back story: my car always makes weird clunking noises}

but they were worse than ever.

Then as we continued, we hit a bump...and on as i pushed on the gas, I could feel something was up.

the noises got worse.

So, I'm driving, really slowly at this point. . . when. . . 

CRASH, BOOM, BANG, SCRAAAPPPPEEEEE.

*I stopped, thank goodness.*

"I think my tire just fell off."

*looks in side view mirror"

"Yup, it definitely did."

And so, here is my sister and I, stopped in the middle of a busy road, with 3 wheels attatched.

Luckily, my luck was in FULL SWING.

Right as this happened, a nice man stopped his truck and talked to us to make sure we were okay.

Then, literally 30 seconds after this, a cop passed by and stopped to help.

I called my dad, my sister called Kiefer to pick us up, the police man called a tow truck.

Kiefer came.

The tow truck came.

Katie and Kiefer sat in Kiefer's car.

I stood in the 12 degree weather for about an hour.

But, hey, it actually all worked out pretty well.

We had my car towed to my house. . . where it rests.

And nobody was hurt.

Quite a traumatic experience though. . . 

Good thing I took some pictures too, because these are gems. 

Feel free to laugh, I did. 

Bye bye, Priscilla (my car) you were. . . cute. 

how to win a date 101

It was a Sunday evening just like any other.

HAHAHA

okay, no it wasn't.

I had way too much caffine yesterday and as a result, I went slightly cray cray.

And by cray cray, I mean I went to all of my clostest FB friends...

and starting liking every. single. one. of. their. profile. pictures.
I'm pretty sure I liked about 1,000 pictures, no joke.

As I was doing this, I started to get a lot of cyber attention.

and everyone loves that.

This is in chronological order of how things happened...

Wall posts... :)

My status... 

Read these in the order I numbered them... :) 

Sydney's status...

Wall posts.... :)

My sister's lovely posting of this picture...

And then, this morning.........

 And, that, my friends, is how you win a date.
check all this out for yourself on my facebookpage...

the past little while.

the past two weeks have been the best time, practically, ever.

 And I want to tell you all about it, 

but I don't want to bore you. 

So, in picture form, the past couple of weeks have been like this. 

to start things off, MY BEST FRIEND CAME HOME!!!!

Christmas Eve. Sister Love.

Christmas Day we went to Les Mis with a ton of fiends.

My other best friend came home, and we played in the snow :)

I had an absolutely amazing night with best friends. Before we went to Chilies Friday, we had a mini photoshoot.

At Chilies we met up with a few other friends and my boyfriend.
Who isn't really my boyfriend.
But I pretend he is.
And that we have been dating for like 7 months.
He's okay with this.
Chase, btw. :)

After Chilies we went to my house and watched Pitch Perfect.
Always Pitch Perfect.

Next adventure was CSI basketball watching with my faves.

After the game, we got in the car and drove to Jack in the Box ( I know, ew)
But I ate my first bite of beef in 4 YEARS!
Big deal.
I felt sick.

And next came New Years Eve.
Which was possible the best night ever.
I spent it with so many people, and I just wish I had taken more pictures.
We went party hopping and saw a ton of old friends.
At midnight, I kissed Kable... because he is my best friend and there is no better person :) 

That about sums up the amazingness of my life.

At least my favorite moments.

Everyday was full, exciting, and fun. 

So blessed with amazing people. 

<3