I'm done with highschool forever! I finished up my last day last week. I am so excited to be done and to have one less thing to worry about. It also gives me a lot of extra time...I'm talking gobs of extra time. I find myself being way more bored than I've ever been before. I know that it's only gonna be about 4 more months before this whole school thing starts back again so I'm trying to savor this short stage.

Things are really starting to fall into place as far as college living situations go. I didn't want to live at home and commute, but I really didn't have another option. Come to find out one of my friends is needing a roommate for next semester! One thing I've been learning lately is that the very moment you stop worrying about something God always opens a door.

They told us it would snow, the weather people that is, and to our luck that's just what it did. Down south we get very little snow if any at all. So when it is forecasted to snow we are sure to be excited about it. Everyone was one facebook, twitter, and instagram posting their cliche posts about how excited they were that it was coming.
My mom was so excited she stayed up most of the night waiting on it to start coming down. In the morning all five of us that actually slept woke to a beautiful white blanket of white. A thin white blanket, but I blanket no less.

My parents always lay out a tarp on the ground outside when they hear that it is going to snow that way we can make a "clean" snowman.

We had a blast throwing, eating, and frolicking in it.

Have you ever saw a picture, smelled a scent, or heard a sound and all of a sudden had the urge to go? Go somewhere far away from where you are sitting? Somewhere. Someplace. On and adventure? I have those urges every once and a while, wait that isn't true. I actually think I have one almost everyday! Anyway. Moving right along.

I was sitting on the couch one day two weeks ago with laptop in hand or lap rather. I don't remember what exactly I saw, it was most likely a pin on pinterest. :) When all of a sudden I had the urge to go on an adventure! I turned to my mom and half way serious half way joking said "Hey Mama, can we go the beach? Like for just one day and then come home?". Then in all seriousness my mom replied with "Sure. When do you want to go?".

Okay, if you don't know my mom you don't know how amazing this was to hear! My mom likes to have fun, but the last thing that I expected her to say was "Sure!". I was so shocked by this statement that it took me a moment to collect my thoughts and think about whether she was being serious or not! Well, she was serious so this past saturday we packed up the car and all of us and at 3:00 in the morning headed out from our Louisiana small town to Gulf Shores Alabama.

We were there by 7:30 and after a few complications we were on the beach to take family pictures with my new amazingly awesome 5D! After that we played on the beach for 6 hours straight and then loaded up and drove home. It was awesome! Talk about a mini vaca!


traveling.sand in your hair. sun on your skin. family time. relaxing.

Grace