Happy "pizza" day otherwise known as Turkey day!!

heehee!!!

My family and I usually do pizza on thanksgiving, just because I don't like traditional thanksgiving food! haha! While this year, call us crazy, but with mom and dad in Missouri visiting my grandma and family out there, my siblings and I were going to have a sibling thanksgiving, but my sister and I were both exhausted (with everything going on with my new job, I just need a "me weekend!") and kevin was going to be invested in football all day, and besides I think we should be thankful every day, not just once a year, but anyway we decided to just do thanksgiving on our own, which was just fine with me. I start my new job next week and I am getting so nervous and excited, and I want to Christmas decorate tomorrow, but my house is a pigstye, so I've basically been cleaning all day!! haha, im such an exciting person!

the best part was sleeping in and letting my body wake me up, which is the BEST feeling in the world, I also went shopping yesterday to get food supplies for the long weekend. Sara and I hung out yesterday and did EP wednesday instead of Friday, and then around 2:00 in the morning I forgot that i needed lettuce and milk, so Sara and I went to Coborns across the road, good times with the bestie! Anyway, today has been awesome, very chill and laid back, although I've been cleaning like crazy and working out like crazy!!

but now the Christmas season has "officially" begun! WAHOO!!! I am going to start decorating, as soon as I am done cleaning!! EEEKKK!!!

so excited about everything coming up this December, are you ready?

Dec 1st (Christmas skating special) Love both skating and Christmas!!
Dec 4th start my new job!!! eekkk!!
Dec 7th Holidazzle parade with Sara
Dec 8th (hopefully do a Christmas thing at a church I checked out with some friends!)
Dec 13th Disney Christmas trip with my dad!!!
Dec 21st Sommers family white elephant
night before Christmas eve Light lookin/caroling with fam
Christmas Eve: ULTIMATE pig out day (dad is even going to Becker which is about 40 minutes one way to get me my favorite pizza!) YAH!!!
Christmas day: be lazy with the family and watched the Disney Parks Christmas special
Also find time to celebrate Christmas with Lisa
And watch all my favorite Christmas specials!! EEKKK!!!

I'm so excited, I LOVE this time of year! Its the most wonderful time of the year!!!! Happy Holiday season!!!!

what an awesome birthday weekend!

it continued this morning with getting a walk up call from my friend Brenda, for church! YAH! still getting used to going to church on Sunday morning.

church was great, Lynn (my mom's maid of honor and good friend) sang, which I LOVE when she does!

then after church Brenda, Lori, Darlene and I went to see a movie called Free Birds, it was such a cute cartoon about turkeys and thanksgiving! it ended quite funny, as the turkeys, indians, and pilgrims ate Chuck E Cheese pizza! sooooo funny! as that is what is on the menu for thanksgiving!

then i went home and watched some skating! YAH! and then i met up with Lisa to get some hot chocolate! its been such a fun weekend, and I am oh so blessed by my friends and family! its going to be a good 29th year on this planet!!!

My sister got a publishing contract!

YAH!!! Here are the details from her blog:

http://jackieleasommers.com/2013/11/22/i-got-a-book-deal/

and

http://jackieleasommers.com/truest/

I couldn't be more proud of my sister! this news is GYNORMOUS!! i so want to be here assistant!!! I can't wait to buy her books off the shelves!!! EEEPPPP!!! and check her out at the library!!!

Happy birthday to me!!!

I'm 29 now! YIKES STRIPES! that's old!!!

Today was so fun! I slept in, which i always enjoy! Then Jackie and I went to hang out with mom and dad; Kevin is in Arkansas for SCSU football game, which you would think would mean its so much quieter at our house, but nope! still wasn't able to get in a word edge wise, which i LOVE! Its so much fun hanging out with my family, love them so much! mom and dad got me a Mickey bag (that's blingy!) and a disney gift card! Disney here we come! Jackie got me a galaxy player, which means I can be online whenever! and dad's excited because we can be online at Disney and see disney wait times!! AWESOME!

we just hung out, since my sister just got a contract for her book (more on that later!) i hit her up for all the juicy details! I'm so excited and so proud! and we talked about my new job, i just feel so happy for us and happy that my mom doesn't have to stress about us so much i feel like i complain to her a lot! I love my momma!!!

after Jackie left, which stunk! dad and i went into Disney trip planning mode, which is always so much fun!!! Im so excited! so glad that i am still able to go on my trip, even with starting my new job!!! yeeeeepppp!!!

Also had fun yesterday with Sara to get my birthday weekend off to a great start! We went to EP (shocker!) and then hung out at my place. She got me pink mitten clippers, so i can keep track of my mittens, which I loved, AND a gift card to EP!!! WAHOO!!!! i am so blessed!

tomorrow after church I am hanging out with my Jesus girls, we are going to a movie and then I am getting hot chocolate with Lisa tomorrow night! so excited to hang out with all of my close friends and family! and its the first weekend I haven't worked, which is a bonus!!

Thanks for the birthday wishes!!!

I'm so blessed!

Today was FABULOUS! we celebrated Thanksgiving at work and then after work I went to Walgreens to bell ring for the salvation army with Judy and Sue from church, which was so much fun!!! I feel like I am getting to know so many great people from my church! YAH!

and my sister has AMAZING news, but i can't let the cat out of the bag yet, but it is BIG! so big and exciting!!!! can't wait to announce it, I'm such a proud deetie!!! :)

i have BIG jobs news! Im so excited!

I got a new job!! YAH! i turned in my two weeks notice and got a job at St. Cloud Medical Group. I will be a receptionist float at the two st. cloud clinics. eeekkk! I've always wanted to work there, so I am so excited for this opportunity!!!! Wow, its been a good week! Thank you God for such great news!!! Hallelujah!!

pre-birthday celebrations!!

i had so much fun last weekend celebrating my birthday a week early with my bestie Sara. It started off with meeting up at Extreme pita! Love that place, so yummy! and good for you too!! i also bought a pair of tennis shoes for Florida, which i will need to keep up with my dad! :)

after the shopping we went back to Sara's and we watched a Walk to Remember, which I just LOVE! so good! after that we were going to look at our old yearbooks, but I feel asleep! YES, me, the girl who never falls asleep early at a sleepover!!! I know, i was shocked too!

so i did get up early the next day and we had fun, we went back to Extreme Pita for lunch, I know we are CRAZY! but its just so good! and then we did some shopping.

then we went back to Sara's and hung out for a bit, it was so much fun! its always nice to hang out with your bestie and forget about your problems!!

the rest of the weekend was FABULOUS too! yesterday was pretty lazy, but still combined with working out so its not technically lazy, and I did go into work for about an hour!! and then i had a marathon facebook conversation with my good friends, so that was fun too! its just been a great weekend! can't wait to hang out with the family on saturday which is my actual birthday! i can't believe I am going to be 29, that is just CRAZY! :)

wow, its seriously been a month since i've updated you guys! I'm sowy. pweeee forgive meee!!!

Life has been CRAZY and I mean CRAZYYYYYY!!! but good! 2013 has been a really good year! I'm now down 68 pounds since joining weight watchers in January, YAH! but unfortunately last week I had my first gain, which stinks. I went 10 months without a gain, but I knew it would happen eventually, and now I am kicking it up a notch and working out more!!!

and guess what, the fun and AWESOMELY awesome holidays are coming up! and Dad and i are going to Disney in just under a month!! EEEKKK! I love DISNEY WORLD!! its the most magical place on earth!

and my birthday is coming up (EEEEKKK!) i'm going to be 29! WOWZA, feeling kinda old! and Christmas and New Years! YAH! and thanksgiving, but I don't like Thanksgiving food, so I've never considered that an awesome holiday, sorry pilgrim lovers!

things are getting better at work, with the transition and stuff; and I'm still trying to figure out where to go to church! I love Crossroads, but I overslept yesterday morning, not good! i don't know what to do. sigh.

I love my small group I'm in, its about the community small group we are transitioning into, so its good! Things are pretty good! I do hope to update you more in the future I've just been so busy! working and working out! CRAZINESS! wish me luck at weigh in this coming week!!