we've had ourselves a merry little christmas.

the past two days have been wonderful.

my family went to the christmas eve service at church last night. i was so happy we were able to go; i haven't been to my home church in quite a while. i've always like the service at our church on christmas eve. it's always a nice service that never fails to remind me why christmas is so important. the pastors read the christmas story, we sang a few christmas songs, and we listened to soem great special music.

after the service we headed to my grandparent's house. not only were we celebrating christmas eve, but we were also celebrating my grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary. what a milestone!

The 3 K Girls and our cousins S and T

miss priss showing off the great cross necklace all 3 of us got from S and T's family

and then of course it was christmas day.......

i'm lucky that when i come home i live in a house full of teenagers and people that like to sleep, so i didn't have to wake up until almost 10:00 this morning!

miss priss opening "santa" gifts

stretch opening "santa" gifts

and me opening my "santa" gifts

the 3 k girls couldn't have asked for a better christmas.

we got everything we could have ever wanted and more!

Merry Christmas from the 3 K Girls!

home for the holidays!

...well at least for a little while.

although i've really enjoyed the winter wonderland, it almost messed up my holiday with the folks! i left school for the semester and headed to the beach for a couple of days. i was lucky enough to be able to go to the christmas luncheon the law office from the summer was having. we had lunch at travinia...it was great! i was so excited to see all of the ladies from the office, it was nice to be able to discuss being behind on our christmas shopping and reflecting on how quickly 2009 has passed. i was also able to work at medieval times on saturday night.

the winter storm left the roads at home slick, so my dad didn't want me driving home until it was safe.

the thought of me being alone the week of christmas really upset king of the road. he even offered to go out of his way to take me home [so sweet!] as he was headed to maryland. luckily the roads cleared up enough and i was able to head home on sunday morning.

this is what i came home to:

home.

my sister, stretch.

my sister, miss priss.

as you can see, we had quite a bit of snow! i can't ever remember having this much...and amazingly enough a lot of it is still here. sadly, billy bob the snowman is melting :-(

i guess stretch and miss priss will have to pray for more snow to recreate him.

king of the road has been in maryland for the past few days, and i'm so excited because he's coming to my hometown on saturday night!!! we both have to work at medieval times on sunday, but we're planning on coming back and watching stretch play basketball. it should be a very exciting week next week!

also, my family has an eventful few days coming up!

• tomorrow my mom and i are headed to independence, va to have our hair done. my hair has been past my shoulders for a few months now and that's definitely a record for me. i'm thinking i'll have at least a couple inches taken off tomorrow....but we shall see!!
• christmas eve we are going to a short church service and having supper and exchanging gifts with my mom's side of the family
• christmas day we'll be busy opening presents from one another and then i'm sure mom will make us take the christmas tree down :-(
• the day after christmas we're heading to charlotte for carolina's bowl game. my dad does business with a company that has a box suite in bank of america stadium and the company's representative was kind enough to give us tickets for the second year in a row!

on top of it all, my sister's have basketball and volleyball practice pretty much every day. i've been able to take them to their practices, but it's been tough! i have no idea how my parents do it! their practice times are always changing and i can't seem to keep the schedules straight.

i'm starting to think that spring semester needs to hurry up and get here so i can have a break!

just couldn't wait.

ever since i made the last blog post i've really been talking it up. i kept telling people about my big plans. well needless to say i just couldn't wait to blog again!

so...i thought i would start introducing the whole world to important people in my life.that's me and the boy. as much as i hate to admit it, we have a great "this is how we met" story. over the summer i lived and worked at the beach. (lucky, i know!) in the mornings i would work at a law office and in the evenings i worked at medieval times.

[sidenote: yes i was in the full costume. no i don't have a picture, but it looked some thing like this]

he also worked at medieval times too (in full costume as well), and he better be thankful i really liked him. i never thought i could take a boy in tights and a tunic seriously. he took me night cat fishing on our first date. for those of you that know me, that is so not my thing, but i was trying to be a good sport so i went along with it. to this day i have a scar on my right ankle from a nasty bug bite from our fishing adventure.

today i was talking to him about starting the blog and he seemed pretty excited about it. i told him i needed to come up with a special name for him and here's what we got: king of the road mainly because of the amount that he has to drive to come see me since we currently live 3.5 hours apart.

he has no idea how much i appreciate all of his driving!

a little less than the best.

isn't it funny how you start something and have all these great ambitions and then it never seems to work out like you'd planned?

....well that's how this whole blogging thing has been for me!

i started out thinking this would be a great way to keep up with my family members that aren't on Fbook, but if they depended solely on this blog for updates about my life, they'd think i have fallen off the face of the earth.

my apologies.

once chirstmas break begins, i'm going to really get in to the swing of this!!