Celebrate The Day

It has been way way WAY too long thanks to my laziness.  It has been a long time, but nothing really has happened at all.  The entire week leading up to Christmas I feel like I went to Huntsville every day!!  I got to eat at Rosie's TWICE, and I think I went to LifeWay at least 5 times.  One day we even took a trip to the wonderful, fabulous Nashville.  My mom wanted to go so we just took a family day trip.  It was glorious, and I cannot wait to live there!!
The lovely day of Christmas Adam our family went to go see the Galaxy of Lights in Huntsville.  I can't remember ever seeing them before, and I want to go every year now for sure.  They were absolutely gorgeous!  There were SO many!  I want to go back again before New Year's but idk whether or not that will happen.  Let's move on the Christmas!!!  Christmas Eve was so very busy.  We had Christmas with my mom's family for lunch, then Christmas Eve service at church (where we didn't even sing O Holy Night.  CRAZINESS), and then Christmas at my dad's family.  I receive the most beautiful red coat from my mom's family.  It was the EXACT one I wanted and I'm wearing it everyday for the rest of my life!  Okay maybe not, but a lot!  I just want to say that I am very very very thankful for everything I receive for Christmas because I honestly don't NEED any of it, but it was absolutely ridiculous how much my cousin's received at my mom's family Christmas.  Meredith and I were completely stunned.  It was just crazy.  Anyways we stayed there until time to go to the service and then after that off the my Granny and Peepaw's!   My family on that side is so insane and I have the most adorable cousin ever, Lily!  My grandmother painted this gorgeous dolphin statue type thing.   Okay it's really hard to explain, but it's pretty and I love it.  We then played dirty santa and I almost lost my gorgeous "winter wear" I brought for the game.  Luckily I got to keep it!  After a little bit we came home and attempted to open our "pajama presents."  Things didn't really work out, but it didn't bother me any!
Christmas morning was absolutely amazing.  I woke up around 7:30 to go to the restroom and then when I laid back down in my bed I checked fbook on my phone and saw everybody's status about snow.  I jumped up, and looked out my window.  I have NEVER seen that much snow on Christmas day.  I can't remember having snow ever on Christmas day.  It was so gorgeous, and amazing I forgot to go look at my gifts from Santa.  I ran in Meredith's room to show her, but she didn't care.  Crazy girl.  Anyways I most definitely got fabulous gifts for Christmas.  A brand new tv was a huge, unexpected, gift. I also got some books I wanted, Harry Potter Clue, a awesome muffin pan thing with swoosh A's, some movies/tv show series, jewelry, too much money for clothes that I am very thankful for and can't wait to spend on a million cardigans, awesome daisy lights for my bug, candy, cute picture holder thing, pocket book calendar, an Alabama toiletry bag thing, a game that we must take back because "Santa" bought the naughty version on accident, and of course pajamas.   I am very thankful for everything I got, and definitely feel very spoiled.  Meredith got Glee and our mom is totally addicted.  It's so funny, but I think it's kind of awesome.
Now that Christmas is over I am just awaiting Passion!!!  This week is sure to be filled with shopping and packing.  I can't wait for New Years, but am not looking forward to be going back to school extremely too soon.  Oh well I am happy to be home now.


CHECK OUT SOME PHOTOS! :)

My adorable dog Daisy on Christmas day!

Meet Lily!  (I stole this picture from her Christmas card pictures)

Oh, it's salt.

Can I just say the past weekend has definitely been pretty awesome.  First let me start off by saying that finals week was very hard, and I legit thought I failed a class but that's just me for you.  I actually ended up with all A's and B's!!!!  Craziness has occurred.  I have NEVER done that in college.  God is just amazing!  Okay enough about school, it's Christmas break!


Saturday my wonderful, fantastic, fabulous, awesome, amazing, Jesus-loving/serving friends came to Tuscaloosa!  I met Courtney and Lacey in the best city, Nashville, at SLA.  Needless to say these girls are absolutely some of my favorite people ever.  It had been way too long since I had seen either one of them.  The weekend was just filled with just sitting around and talking about our lives and the stuff that's going on.  It was just so awesome to have deep conversation with such Godly people.  There were definitely tears and laughter during these conversations.  I love being able to be so honest with them and not worrying about what they are thinking and they feel the same about me!  It's amazing how we can go so long without talking, but nothing has changed with our friendship.  It just shows that Fuge can provide you with some very quality friends.  


Tuesday I came home and did absolutely nothing!  It was fabulous.   I just laid on the couch and talked to Meredith.  We had to go to the G'parents house and on the way home we just cranked up the radio and sang 12 days of Christmas by Relient K as loud as we could.  It was so much fun, and just shows how crazy we might be.  I love just being home not have to worry about absolutely anything.  I also love the cold weather, and I hope it stays freezing especially since the heat is actually turned on in my house unlike in Tuscaloosa (most of the time).  


I feel like this is appropriate and I hope everybody is enjoying the Christmas season thus far!  Enjoy!
Merry Christmas!

iPad

So I want an iPad.  I probably wouldn't use it for this, but it's still very awesome.

Christmastime is Near

So here is pretty much just a list of my most favorite Christmas songs.  Of course most Christmas songs have been done many different times by many different people, but these are definitely the some of the best in my opinion.  I hope you enjoy it as much as me!!! 
(These are in no specific order.)

O Holy Night- BarlowGirl

The Christmas Song- Michael Buble

Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song)- Amy Grant

I Celebrate the Day- Relient K

O Come O Come Emmanuel- Shane & Shane

Joy to the World (Unspeakable Joy)- Chris Tomlin

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen- MercyMe

Angels We Have Heard On High- ZOEGirl

This Christmas (Joy to the World)- tobyMac

Blue Christmas- Elvis Presley

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus- Jackson 5

Christmas When You Were Mine- Taylor Swift

Christmas Eve- Trans-Siberian Orchestra 

Happy Xmas (War is Over)- John Lennon

Wonderful Christmastime- Paul McCartney 

White Christmas- Rosemary Clooney & Early Brown Singers

O Holy Night- Shane & Shane

Silver Bells- Steven Curtis Chapman

Christmastime is Here- Sixpence None the Richer

12 Days of Christmas- Relient K

Silent Night- Rebecca St. James

Merry Christmas, Here's to Many More- Relient K

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas- Shane & Shane

Little Drummer Boy- Audio Adrenaline

Obviously these are only a few but my favorite Christmas albums at the moment have to the be Relient K's "Let is Snow Baby...Let it Reindeer" and Shane & Shane's "Glory in the Highest."  I completely love both of these albums and could listen to them over and over again even when it isn't Christmas!  Just go listen to both of them!  

"Slide" North to Nashville, TN

So let me start by saying that I absolutely, positively love Nashville.  If I could live in any city Nashville wins without a doubt.  

I love still being in the South, but so happy to be in a big city.  This wonderful Nashville trip was to go see tobyMac at Winter Wonder Slam.  First the problem was getting to the actual concert!  The Christmas parade was happening downtown, and therefore made it very difficult to cross Broadway to park in the Pinnacle parking garage thing.  Needless to say it was very frustrating.  I just wanted to yell, and cry, and scream, and just be at the concert.  Bethany (my very best friend that I am sure I will talk about a lot, who actually took the photos that you see because she is an amazing photographer) and I finally gave up and found a random parking lot to park in.  We were only about 40 minutes late and Skillet had just gotten on the stage which was definitely good.  The concert was absolutely wonderful.  I just love tmac.   I feel like I have been to many of his concerts, but they just never get old to me, which is a good thing of course.  The show was actually a little different this time which is good.  I didn't get to quote my part before he sings "Gone", but that's okay.  He did sing it which is all that matters!  

After the concert we walked around downtown to get some pictures.  It was freezing, and I thought my hands were going to fall off but that's okay.  They survived.  No worries.  Saturday we woke up and went to go eat at S.A.T.C.O.  I ate there after mega relay during SLA.  It was so good!  I love Mexican.  After that we went to one of the most wonderful places in Nashville, LIFEWAY!  I love LifeWay.  It is my favorite store, and I can spend hours in there.  I just love it so much that words cannot describe.  After spending some more time downtown, and dreaming about the life that I wish I had living there in a downtown apartment with exposed brick, we went to see a preschool that Extreme Makeover: Home Edition built.  It was gorgeous, and I hope one day things will fall into place and I could totally work there. That afternoon we had to drive back to my house so we could go eat at the best restaurant of all time, Rosie's.   It was delicious, as always. We went with our neighbors across the street and they totally paid for all 10 of the people there!!  I love them, not the boyfriend, but the family.  This morning we went to church and then Big Bob Gibson's!! Yummy Yummy!  Now I am back at school, and studying my life away.  Finals are going to be killer, and may very well be the death of me.  Prayers are much appreciated!!!  


Photos from Nashvegas!!

This gave us so much trouble

The fabulous TMac

So many jokes were made

Another reason I should live in Nashville

Lighthouse Preschool!

Meet Bethany!! :)

First

So I have definitely attempted a blog before, but this time I feel like I'm actually going to be more dedicated.   If you did not get it, my name is Emily.  I am a student at the wonderful University of Alabama.  I have recently changed my major to Early Childhood Special Education.  All throughout my life people have told me they see me as a teacher, but that is definitely not what I originally went to college for.  I was an accounting major because I love math, and I wanted to work at LifeWay in Nashville, TN.  God definitely has a different plan for my life though.  He has all along.  This is my third year in college, but I am technically a sophomore which means all my wonderful friends will be leaving me soon.  This post is very boring, and for that I am sorry.  The first posts are always boring though, right?  Good.  I am a very joyful, happy person (two different things).  I hate confrontation, and adore my family.  I have recently turned 21 and I definitely feel like I always have a lot of things to worry about.  I definitely worry ALL the time, and it gets tiring quickly.  I dislike myself for worrying all the time, but I cannot help it most of the time.  I freak out quite often, but nobody really sees it besides those closest to me.  College has put so much stress on me that sometimes I don't know how I deal.  I do know how I deal though, God.  He helps me all the time, and I know that eventually things will work out.  Preferably always sooner than they do, but that's okay.  You get used to it after a while.  I apologize that this post is so random, but the next ones will be better.  Promise.