Here are some pictures from the Hern's party, last night!! Loads of fun laughing and watching the wonderful fireworks display!
Chilling out until the fireworks start! Emily, Jessica, Sarah and I:
Taylor and Michael:
Alison and her lovely flag cake!
Allyson and Alison :)
Gosh! It's July 4th, already? Not too sure how I feel about this time-flying-by thing!
I hope you have a super-dee-dooper Independence Day and take a minute out of your festivities to remember totally awesome guys like :
Thomas Jefferson
Happy Birthday to the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave!
Now off to party at the Hern's!!
Yeah, I have a really awesome sister, who keeps me on my toes about my blogging and has been getting on me about my extreme lack of posting...
So Allyson, this first post of 2009 goes to you!
Where to start? What about the end of this past semester?
So finals week was tough, but totally worth it as I came out with A's in all my classes! Glory to God!
Next up was Christmas Break and my Government II winter-minimester!
It was so wonderful to see friends home from college. (I will elaborate more on this on another post). Christmas was pretty fun, lots of goodies and good people!
The Winter mini-mester was pretty tough!! I found out yesterday though, I got an A in the class! I was pretty excited to say the least. Even though everything came alright in the end, I think I can truly say I'll never do that again!
New Years was great fun as we spent the Eve with Copples and the Pauls. It wonderful to ring in the New Year with them! We also had a great "pre-New Years Eve" party with some dear friends from high school, more to come in later posts!
Mom had foot surgery on December 30th, everything went well. Though her foot is pretty bandaged up, she's been getting around pretty well on her crutches.
The break seemed so short! I'm currently getting ready for the Spring Semester in which I will be taking 16 Hours. It's going to keep me busy, but I'm looking forward to the challenge and new classes! I always get excited at the beginning of the semester(of course); there's something wonderful about a fresh, new semester. Oh, and guess what?! Allyson will be joining Chris and I at Cy-Fair this semester! I'm really excited for her! She'll be taking English 1301 and I'm pretty sure I can speak for her in saying that she's really excited!
This is my last "real" semester at Cy-Fair. If all goes as planned, I will have only 5 hours left until I get my Associates of Arts. I plan on getting those last few hours done in the first summer session. So I'm on track to be at UH next fall and hopefully living on campus!
So this has been a swift and sadly needed update of my blog. More post will most certainly be coming soon with pictures and the like!
Happy New Year!!!
Love, Adrienne Renea
among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.
-Ephesians 2:3-5
Hello, I'm check my e-mail on my Aunt's computer and I decided to make a real quick post and wish you a....
Ok, we're not gone yet. Actually we won't leave until early Tuesday morning, but I don't see myself having anymore time to blog before we leave.
I'm so happy that my Thanksgiving break is here! We will be leaving Tuesday to stay with my Mom's parents and while we are there we will being going back and forth to Memphis(just over the Mississippi River) to see my Dad's side of the family.
I haven't seen my grandparents in over a year, so it's going to be so great to spend time with them. I'm looking forward to cooking Thanksgiving dinner with my grandma and aunt. We will be there until Sunday. Alas, it's such a short time, but I know we're going to have a sweelll time!
I pray that everyone has a fabulous Thanksgiving!
What's Thanksgiving without Charlie Brown?
So we celebrated The 4th of July at the Hern's with a bunch of dear friends:
The Hern's know how to host a swell party!
Love,
Greg, Brenda, Adrienne, Allyson, Chris, Taylor and Michael
Melissa tagged me and I'm suppose to share 12 Christmas facts about me:
1. I don't have 12 Christmas facts :c)
2. My favorite Christmas movie of all time is White Christmas, then comes Charlie Brown Christmas
3. My favorite Christmas album is Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas
4. My favorite Christmas carols are Hark! The Herald Angels Sing and Oh Come All Ye Faithful; my favorite Christmas songs are
Last Christmas, (and coincidentally! ) This Christmas, and All I Want For Christmas
5.We always set up our Christmas tree on Thanksgiving or the day after.
6. I have never seen real snow, we had some light white stuff fall a few years ago around Christmas, but seriously...it was nothing!
7. Every year, we have sweet potato pies and coconut cake
8. This year I baked a cheesecake and German chocolate cake. My mom is baking the pies and coconut cake.
9. I have never seen A Christmas Story .
10. My favorite part of Christmas are the parties
11. I didn't help set up the Christmas tree this year.
12. One year, our outdoor Christmas lights stayed up 'til April :c)
So there are my 12 (erh..11?) Christmas facts. I'm tagging Anna,
Elizabeth and Jessica!
Lots of Chocolate and artistic creativity was revealed!
We sang Christmas carols, chatted over hot stew and ate lots of yummy goodies!
As you can see our care group is pretty small. Our small group has grown and then diminished at various times and seems to be ever changing! I really enjoy the families we get to relate to in our care group.
Friday:
We couldn't let the Christmas season get by without getting together! Though our history co-op no longer meets, we joined together for a reunion of sorts and had a Christmas party!
Exchanging Gifts:
Ornament Exchange:
Oh wow, it was fun. The guys seemed to end up with more feminine gifts: Daniel got a shoe, Logan a "Red Hat Society" snowman, and Michael a hulaing santa( or was it a snowman?) Needless to say, there was a lot of exchanging going on! The girls always exchange presents and I got a lot of nifty gifts and a extraordinary amount of chocolate.
I love people! Christmas make it a lot easier to gather with people I haven't seen in awhile!
I hope you've got all your shopping done and don't have to venture out in the Christmas Eve rush. Tomorrow morning we start baking all our Christmas desserts!
Much Love and Merry Christmas,
Adrienne Renea
It's been awhile:
1. Finals have come and gone! English was easy and no studying was necessary. Spanish involved a lot of studying and I'm sure I didn't study enough! The exams themselves were not that hard. In the end, I have an A in English and a B in Spanish. I'm hoping to get the Spanish grade up to an A next semester!
2. We're registered for spring '08 classes...yes, you heard correctly, "we"! Chris will be joining me at Cy-Fair in the spring to take English 1301! He's registered and eager to work! I will be taking Honors English 1302 and Beginning Spanish II. I'm really looking forward to the Honors English class. The instructor is really nice and it looks to be a interesting class! The way my class schedule is structure, I'll be going from school,and straight to work. Tuesday and Thursday will be busy days!
3. Christmas is here!
Our Christmas Tree:
The Nativity
Allyson and I attended a Christmas Party last Wednesday:
Alison and Allyson:
I so enjoy relating to many of my friends who I haven't seen much of since school started. We've got a couple of more parties coming up, so look forward to more pictures!
I always use the holiday break as an excuse to catch up on movies I haven't had time to see at the theater and on DVD. Last Saturday I went to see August Rush with Sarah and Mrs. Myers. It was a really good. Music lovers would appreciate it, especially. I'm looking forward to seeing National Treasure: Book of Secrets and The Great Debaters. Movies are always a great time to eat an extraordinary amount of candy :c)
I'm really excited about seeing the
Fraziers this Sunday! It will be so wonderful to see how big the boys have grown and hear more about living in India.
I hope everyone is enjoying all the excitements of Christmas!
Love much,
Adrienne Renea
How well do you know Charlie Brown?
A Charlie Brown Christmas Quiz
Want to know more about one of the most popular Christmas movies ever?
How A Charlie Brown Christmas Came to Pass: The unlikely beginnings of a holiday classic
Christmas time is here;
we'll be drawing near;
oh that we
could always see
such spirit through the year
I'm excited about Christmas! Can you tell?
Love, Adrienne Renea
"Light's Please"
Luke 2:8-14
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore afraid.
And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and Saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.(from http://oldghostshome.com/holiday.html)
This is one of the things that we must only dream about here in South Texas.
I always watch this movie at Thanksgiving, it's a great way to kick off the Christmas cheer!
The Christmas tree has been put in place, but not decorated.
I actually skipped the annual early-morning Black Friday shopping. Allyson and Mom got up early and visited a few stores. I had a wonderful time sleeping in! Later I went out with Taylor, Allyson and Mom to visit a few other stores. I didn't buy anything on sale, but I had a eggnog latte @ Starbucks! YUM!
Our dryer is broken so we finished up our trip with a stop at Conn's to buy a new dryer.
It's cold! But that doesn't automatically mean I bundle up! I like to enjoy the cold, so though I keep warm, I don't wear heavy, wintry clothes.
Have a wonderful rest of the week!
Love, Adrienne Renea
'Tis almost Thanksgiving!
I really like the term "Thanksgiving" vs. "Turkey Day". "Thanksgiving" make you focus on God and his blessings:
"Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever."
-Psalm 107:1
Today is my first day of Thanksgiving break! Last night I went over to Sarah's house and this morning we went shopping in
Rice Village. We went with a plan to start some Christmas shopping, but ...weelll...no, wait...Sarah did get a few gifts, YaY Sarah! We found some really good deals! Oh, well...we had a great time navigating the streets. I'm now home and mom's baking some sweet potato pies.
We are having Thanksgiving dinner with the Yohe's and I'm going to bake a German Chocolate cake! I love all the food of thanksgiving! We always start eating pies the day before Thanksgiving, so we are currently indulging in mom's pies.
Then there's Friday..."Black Friday"
We usually strike out early in Friday morning and get a few deals. Kohl's and Target have some interesting sales.
What are your Thanksgiving plans? Are you going shopping in Friday?
Have a wonderfully blessed Thanksgiving!!!
Love, Adrienne Renea
Wow! It's another year(and fireworks are going crazy!).
I thank the Lord for all the amazing things He's allowed me to do and learn in 2006. I'd like to thank my family('specially my Mom, she's amazing and I want to be just like her when I grow up!) for being awesome and putting up with me! Also to my absolutely wonderful friends for not only loving me, but also for their accountability and encouragement. You guys rock!
I hope everyone has a great 2007!
Love, Adrienne
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