Happy Birthday Traci!!

Instead of being the typical friend and mailing my friend Traci a birthday card I decided to dedicate a blog post to her birthday plus she's one of like 3 people that reads this blog. (It may also be that I forgot to mail a birthday card, but that's not the point-instead the point is how really awesome of a friend that I am).

My friendship with Traci started in high school. It started out as me being scared of her (like most people who meet her because she's intimidating) and eventually we became friends (I'm not exactly sure how this occurred). Throughout high school we hung out a lot whether it was sports, school, church or just hanging out at one of our house we had a lot of fun. She also became apart of my family and my dad refers to her as his favorite daughter. Once she left me for college we still hung out when she was home or I would go visit her. I also started a tradition of staying with her the weekend of her first home indoor track meet so that was always fun.

I'm really glad that we've stayed friends when we both went off to college and that we've kept in touch. Whenever we hang out it's like we haven't been apart for too long and we can quickly catch up on each others lives. I'm very blessed to have her as friend.

Now here are some wonderful pictures that I could find on my computer of our friendship.

Happy 24th Birthday Traci (you're getting pretty old)!

Thanksgiving Break Recap: Sunday

On Sunday we also slept in since driving to and from Brookings wiped us out. We then headed back to my grandparents and had lunch. We then got to work on making a family Christmas tradition of cookies-that I don't know how to spell.

After making the cookies we also set up my grandparents Christmas tree (we're getting really good at this) and then we hung out for a bit at my grandparents before we each headed back to school.