Bootiesss!

I haven't wrote on here in forever! I'm such a slacker! I get caught up in running around and taking pictures but never posting them on here. This week has been so nice, just being able to leave things back in Lafayette and come home with no worries. Thanksgiving was great and friday was awesome. shop shop shopping!! i love it! i got FOUR new pairs of shoes for christmas. I don't feel spoiled though, because I haven't asked for anything this year! I just don't know what I want, nothing has just popped out and caught my attention I guess. Mom just let me get new clothes. I always seem to have plenty of summer stuff but no nice winter clothes. Explains why I still wear short sleeves and dressy tops when it's 35 degrees outside. haha. So shopping was really fun and I got a new pair of black boots. I just HAD to wear them last night! Mom was soo mad at me! She couldn't believe I was really going to wear my new shoes out. "just remember that's part of your christmas!!!!" I thought a party at stogie and regina's would be fitting to break out the new boots. I arrived and everyone had on boots! Perfect picture opportunity. =]Britt and I had the same boots on! =] Had to pose and show them off for this pic!Cuteness

Love these girls! haha.. Wow, dani, i think we could pass for sisters! lol

Opening Day..

I got my first deer ever on Saturday! I have been talking about it constantly ever since I dopped that thing! haha Derrick made me promise I would go forever ago, and I was actually really excited about it. I wanted a bow so bad so I could practice and go during bow season, but I didn't get that done. (I think i'm actually getting a pink camo bow for christmas from derrick!) maybe?! Anyways, we went to Deer Camp at Kirkman farm on friday night. I played with Avery all night. (Paul & Denise (Graber) Morris' daughter) I taught her how to use vice grips! hahaha.. We left there about 8:30 and headed hom e to go to bed so we could get up super early. Waking up to NASTY rain & wind was not fun! I got soaking wet, even when I had rain gear on, but I only complained once. That was when I got to the point that I couldn't feel my hands because my gloves were drinched! We saw some deer but they were too far away for me to shoot. We went back to Derrick's & took a nap then headed back out around 3. I wasn't even in the stand & Derrick was getting everything situated before I climbed up & he said "ALYSSA! DEER!" H really freaks out like a kid in a candy store! Well it was a good ways away and kept walking. I was bummed I didn't get to see it. Around 4:30 I said, "I'm getting mad, cuz you got to see that deer and i'm def not gonna get one today!" His reply was "Well, why don't you shoot that one right over there!" WHAT! haha Perfect Timing! I let it get a little closer and I dropped that poor thing! My first words after shooting were "AWW, i'm sooo sorry I just did that to you!" haha.. Derrick was like Get A Life! =]

Yay! my deer. It weighed close to a 100 lb before derrick had to take all the yucky stuff out! ha

One of the many reasons why I love this boy. He drags my deer out of the woods! I know that's kind of nasty looking!

what a terrible day.

I was woke up in the middle of the night by hysterical crying on the phone informing our family of Jim passing away. I at first thought I heard them say that they had wrecked. (Jason doesn't know how to answer our phone, and he pushed the speakerphone button instead.) So the whole house was filled with the awful noise. So finally after getting ahold of Derrick & my best friends I went back to bed... Mom, Kirsten, and I went to their house around 7 and I stayed the majority of the day.
EXCEPT for when I went to the doctor. I have been having really bad headaches for about a month. Mom thought it could very easily be my eyes. Welp, she was right. I'm obviously on my computer all the time for social and school reasons. I drove home at night & all that stuff, plus i'm texting about every other second of the day! A combination of all these has caused me to be a little bit farsighted, and it's hard for me to focus when I look at things up close. The only good part of my day was picking out my glasses. WELL not so much picking them out because I was trying to do this while my eyes were dilating. UGH that sucks! I started out liking a bunch of the glasses and by the time I got done I was asking the optician if they were cute because I couldn't even really see them!! haha. I had to hold them like a mile away to see what they looked like! So the good part was I got some pretty cute Coach glasses. I was so excited b/c my insurance paid all but $29! Thank goodness for my mom's good insurane! =]
I finally decided I should probably go home and take a shower at about 5 something. All of us girls were still in pajamas and clothes we had worn yesterday evening but we knew Britt sure didn't care. I went out to eat with Janell. I missed her sooo much! She invited me to eat at Knepp's with her mommy. =] Even though it's restaurant amish food, i still love eating it. I don't get amish food ever at purdue! haha. Anyways, i'm rambling, exhausted, and feeling like my head is going to explode from this headache! yuck. So i'm going to bed! Night, good morning, or whichever applies to when you read this! =]