I promise I haven't forgotten you!! Its in my planner to write a real blog post tomorrow... (yes, procrastination, a man's best friend). Don't worry though - all is well with me! The break has been treating me so well-do I really have to go back to school? I have some good pictures and things to update you all with tomorrow!

Sit tight - I'll be back :)

If a picture is worth a thousand words...

The pictures to follow are ONE HUNDRED PERCENT a joke!! Please don't forget that at anytime while looking at this post! We KNOW that we look ridiculous, but we did have a blast taking them :) Sarah works at JC Penney so we decided to go take some roommate Christmas pics!!

I'm going to do my best with the captions so you feel like you are actually there!

What an excellent start... I know I can't wink, YOU know I can't wink. Why must people constantly ask me to prove this fact? And why must my mouth be open like that when I try...?

What? Are we standing next to a beautiful white fence with perfectly snowy trees in the background?? This calls for a back-to-back picture for SURE!

She looks so pretty when she laughs!!

This REALLY is what my face (and hands) look like when a phantom Santa arm hands us a present! Codi is just ready to graciously accept the gift and get out of there!

Totally natural to have strings of ornaments around your neck. We were going for "be the tree" on this one. It IS my favorite one though!

Ummmmm I don't think words can describe this.

You have no idea how LONG this took us to set up. Maybe as long as it will take for me to get rid of that wrinkly chin!!

All I remember about this one is whining about being in the front...so we switched :)

Yeah, this is a totally natural looking pose for roommates huh? I feel like she should be feeding me grapes or something as a recline on the couch and she kneels behind me!

I believe right as this one was taken, Codi said: "Devery, a boy just brought you 24 roses to church!"

Don't judge. I really wanted that cookie apparently - even if it was a mysterious glove handing it to us!

See how excited I am?? I must have wanted it really badly!

I hope you enjoyed all of those picture. Thanks again to JC Penney Portraits for a good time and great pictures...well...at least a good time ;) Sarah you are the best!

Oh, and I almost forgot - we ALSO made Holiday greeting cards - so let me know if you would like one haha!!

Picture Update!

Okay, this is going to be quick - just pics with captions. I am definitely NOT feeling creative at all...not that I ever am...

I NEEDED a burger this day. So bad! So we went to Red Robin. Seven glasses of ice-less water and one Mount Olympus Burger (burger with spinach artichoke dip and garlic mayo) later, I was satisfied :)

This was the stoplight dance at the YSA conference in Rolla. The deal is that you wear green if you are single, yellow if "its complicated" and red if you are taken. We rebelled. And wore a stoplight.



Jorin and Jantzen after their play, Babes in Toyland. They were ADORABLE!! Both of them are so talented. They each and singing and dancing parts and did fantastic!

Yes, this picture is kind of...well...I will just say that I do not claim the double chin of the girl in the hat... It has a funny story though! Its when we are on our way to shop at walmart on Black Friday, at eleven o clock on thursday night. Don't even worry about it, we were at walmart in line until 5 the next morning. What an adventure!!

I really loved this book. (Since I didn't have much textbook guilt this semester, I decided to read a REAL book instead!) It made me really want to work as an SLP in a medical settting. It also really made me happy I decided not to be a doctor.


...I'm also glad I decided not to be a dolphin trainer...just sayin'

Holiday Weather!

This holiday season in Springfield MO has brought some pretty...uncharacteristic (at least for me) weather - especially for the END of November!
We've had:

• hail
• rain
• severe wind
• tornado warnings
• 75+ degrees
• coldish (cold enough to see your breath

Did you catch that, NO SNOW!! I'm honestly a little bit torn. I thought that I would be so so excited, but its getting hard to feel 100% festive when the weather is so crazy! Don't get me wrong, I still think that if I was in charge of the weather, I would only have it snow around Christmas...ok on Christmas Day...between the hours of 4 am and 10 am...only in front of the window :) Is that too much to ask??

When I got HOME from work at 7 this morning, my roommate had this playing (don't worry I had listened to it three, no, four times at work between 4 and 7). LOVE THIS SONG!!

A funny thing happened on my way out of Kinkos...

...but I don't remember what it was.