Dale Jr.

hahah.
last night Dustan and I went to his work christmas party. he works for dale jr as a graphic designer.
the christmas party was at whiskey river... hahahahah. now that's just funny. i had to go there. it's actually very nice inside... despite that... its still blasting it's country music for all the rednecks to get crazy to. it was a funny sight.

anyway, when we arrived we received 5 raffle tickets and 50,000 dale jr dollars to gamble, since the theme was a casino. the place was made to look like a casino. dustan and i do not know how to gamble or play any of the casino games... and no they didn't have slots. dang! ha.
so we traded our dale money in for a raffle ticket.... well 5 of them. we could buy more raffle tickets for 10,000. so dustan and i collectively callaborated to decide what we wanted to win. there were all kinds of prizes... digital cameras, camcorders, Flat screen tvs, money, polaris razors (the golf cart on steriods), even a party for 10 friends in the VIP section of Whiskey River with a 100 dollar gift card.

and guess what !!! we actually won! we won the Sony cybershot digital camera. YAY.

i was just excited we won.

next time i'll hope for the vip party because i know you are upset and wanted me to invite you to that!

12.12.08

i'm engaged.
wow.
i'm still finding it a little hard to believe but am excited none the less.

it all happened friday december 12, 2008.
well i had thought that's when it happened... but was informed the festivities actually began a week earlier for dustan. all that leading to an engagement full of christmas lights, savenger hunts and japanese food... some of my favorite things.

here's the story...

so for about a week dustan would hid the ring in different places each day that he knew i would look... and everyday for a about a week i never saw it. some places he hid it was in his glove compartment where i was busy digging through looking for his car manual. NOPE never saw the big white jewelry box. next, i was telling him about an ornament from the christmas party i was gonna hang on the little tree and he had the ring hanging on there.... right beside where i put the beautiful handmade ornament by tori.... once again, i never saw it...

after other attmepts... he texted me at work on friday and asked if i wanted to go to have japanese after we did some christmas shopping... and who can turn that down. still no clue on my end that he had anything in mind. after dinner which was great, we went to dustan's apartment to watch a christmas movie. i had gone into the other room and came back and all the christmas lights were on and he was sitting on the couch... i walked over and sat with him... and he was a little quiet. (nervous that is) :) he begins to tell me that he had a surprise for me. i got excited because hey i love surprises. he starts telling me that i couldv'e had the surprise all week if i would have just opened my eyes... he starts by telling me all the places he hid my surprise and how i never saw it. but that he would give it to me tonight. and he kinda glanced over to the christmas tree... so i look over there and saw this little white box opened up with something inside just sparkling in the lights. he walked over and picked it up and before i realized what it was he was on his knee asking me to marry him. i was shocked and happy surprised and everything at the same time. it was the most perfect proposal i couldve asked for. me being pretty low key and relaxed... i wouldn't have wanted anything more.

there were 2 things i learned from this night...

1) i shouldv'e known something was going on when all the christmas lights were all on without me asking or doing it myself. he never does that.

2) that i need to pay more attention in my life that there is so much that goes on and that is right in front of my face that i never notice. so my new years resolution is to stop and look around and enjoy life and see life for what God created it to be.

and for those of you who are wondering 12.12.08.. the 12/12 had no meaning... he wanted to propose on wednesday and had an elaborate plan for that but was very very sick, so that didn't work out. so i'm kinda thankful because i really liked the way it happened!
:) yay, now let's all dance and be happy and pray i'm not one of those people who get stressed out while planning a wedding!

Thanksgiving Time...

Thanksgiving has been yet another memorable time. Besides eating 3 giant meals in one day our family laughs enough to burn all the calories we intake. This year the big topic was my cousin Hope's speeding ticket. It started off kinda sad she had gotten lost in Charlotte on her way home... (she's not a fan of being alone especially at night) and she finally finds her way to I-85 and starts her journey home... driving a bit fast. She gets pulled over going 89 in a 65. My Uncle Scott is the comedian of the family and always has something to make us laugh. SO he over hears us talking about Hope's speeding ticket and preceeds to question her about speeding. She's telling us how she was already crying from being lost and the cop had made her even more upset and then goes on to say... "well, i didn't want to tell you this part but i pulled over on the left side of the highway and the cop got out of his car and made me go over to the right side." My uncle thinks this is funny. He's giving her a hard time about pulling over on the side where there is cars driving very fast by her on BOTH sides. She then goes on to say that it had rained and the roads were wet so the cop gave her a reckless driving ticket and how she had to do the defensive driving class online. I get upset at this point because i had to do the class in a classroom and waste a perfectly good Saturday morning of sleep. My uncle then proceeds to say..." Kelly, are you kidding, they don't want her out driving to any class the only keys they wanted her to have was a keyboard." hahah... we also have my Aunt, also named Kelly, telling us about how Tripper, her son, was driving her car and hit a deer and it messed up her car and that was on a Saturday night. She takes it upon herself to go and tape the deer hair that was left on her car down so that it doesn't blow away between then and the next Monday morning so her insurance agent could actually see the deer hair and believe her that a deer was hit.

My family is great and these are the "normal" ones. We call our extended family the Clampets. The Clampets are planning a Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinner together in two weeks. My Aunt Kelly has decided this should be called "Thanksmas" and has a really hard time saying it because she is laughing so hard!!

I am thankful for my family!

kelly fights like a gator...

except when they lose!!! (thanks for the reminder pastor scott)

but i have come to the revelation that it's okay if they lose because then pastor scott is happy.

and i don't fight like a gator whenever i am getting my hair done... that blow dryer is really really hot.

random stuff this blog i know. but hey it's about all i have in me today... beside i am excited for the finale of Project Runway tonight.
and i want jerrel to win... only because my bff blayne is not there anymore. sad times. (i hope you have caught up on this show by now sarah)

after the show i should probably start to read for bible study... otherwise i may never get my 2 chapters finished by the 26th... yay for mexican food.

by the way... if for no other reason than to know you are making me extremely happy... please whenever you call somewhere and it is a business call .... please have a pen or pencil ready to write and don't say ...

" hold on i gotta get a pencil"

whenever you called me to ask for a phone number. ahhhhhh that felt good.
pray for me and my office job. :

randomosity. sorry. but i love you for reading!

send me here...

how about we all raise money to send me here...

i'll take lots of pictures and even bring you back presents!!!

pleaseeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Deck the Halls...

Yesterday Melody and I went shopping and we ended up in the Christmas section of Hobby Lobby...

It started off just browsing around looking and admiring of this year's Christmas decorations, which there are about 10 aisles. We were slowly letting the Christmas spirit rise up in us as we glided down the aisle completely adverting from what we went into the store to do. Finally, we ended up on the Christmas tree aisle. WOW... what a great place!!!! We were picking out which tree we wanted to put in "our" place. (which we don't have so we have decided to decorate Dustan's apartment with our Christmas selections) We were choosing our tree... a pre-lit tree that has pine cones on it and that it 9ft tall. It was perfect!!!!!!
Then we realized that yes Dustan does have a 9ft ceiling but that is only at it's highest peak. Shucks! So we decided on the exact replica of our beloved tree, just one of the 7.5ft height. Not quite as impressive but still had a lot of excitement.
From there Melody and I take it upon ourselves to decorate "our" tree in the middle of the store with the decorations that we liked to see how we thought it'd look... and trust me if we had a ladder that tree would have had a star on top!!!!!
With all the Christmas excitement we bought 3 ornaments each to prepare for this Holiday season and are prepared to do this often until we have enough to make our tree prefect!!!

Can we say jumping the gun on the holiday season?!?!? .... and I thought the family in Lincolnton who puts their full Christmas decorations up including tree, outside lights and everything and turns them on Halloween was getting an early start!

just say no to retail therapy

You know sometimes i have these great things on my mind...others there is absolutely nothing.
This is one of those times where there is nothing... i have such a somber state of mind right now.
Yesterday was a sad day. I was working as a teacher for the Branch Christian Academy this past year and yesterday was my last day. We had a teachers lunch yesterday and it was very hard for me to go. I knew in my mind that going there would lead to the question..." What are you doing this summer?" and you know what... as of right now i have absolutely no job. It just hit me the other day that i would no longer have any income. Now at one point in my life the thought of not having a job and staying home doing whatever i wanted to do was heavenly... but now i think it makes me mildly depressed. I have such a drive to get out and do something. I know that i have talents that can be used. I have so many things that i want to do but first i have to have money... so with all that said,
I HAVE APPLIED TO A MILLION JOBS
and i am quite frankly tired of attaching my resume to emails. so my request is... believe with me that the right job will come along and come soon and that i will soon be apart of the working Americans. I'll leave it at that!

and thank God with me that i have found Him to rely on and trust so i don't resort to retail therapy!