Day 349

This house is in the neighborhood next to mine! It is in the newspaper almost every year and brings lots of people! Most nights there is even a cop directing traffic!!! A fun tradition that has been going on for 17 years!!

Day 348

Mickey's Sorcerer's Hat at Hollywood Studios

Day 347

Disney's Osbourne Lights at Hollywood Studios
Jennah took me, Shoshanah and Lydia for Christmas!

Day 346

Showing off a new coat and boots!!

Day 345

Christmas Morning!!!

Day 344

Poor Chips..."All I want to do is be with everyone else!!"

Day 343

Decorating Christmas Cookies!!

Day 342

Lunar Eclipse
We all got up (some of us stayed up) at 3:00 in the morning to see the eclipse!! The first eclipse on the winter solstice since the 1600's!! Momma and I commented on how it's really only during an eclipse that the moon looks like a 3D object, it just looks like a marble in the sky. Beautiful!

Day 341

Puppy kisses from Chips!! He is now about 9 months old, and not so small!!! But he still loves giving kisses :)

Day 340

Day 339

After 2 and a half years of college, I finally made it onto the wall of high school senior pictures in our kitchen! The same day my two younger siblings got put on the wall (they graduate in May). Better late than never, I suppose.

Day 338

Day 337

Fog! 0.0 Mile visibility!

Day 336

O Christmas Tree...

Day 335

Sunny spot in the window for Boo Radley

Day 334

Freeze warnings the past week in Winter Park, Florida! It got down to 25 one night!!

Day 333

Could be the cover of Real Simple don't ya think??

Day 332

"O come O come Immanuel!"
My earliest memories of Christmas mornings were not of gifts or stockings, but running down the stairs to see if Baby Jesus was born yet. My mom would wait until Christmas morning to put the wooden baby in this nativity, and when I was little and didn't the know the days of the month, this was how I knew it was Christmas morning! It was so exciting...and still is!

Day 331

Busy baking cookies!

Day 330

Home.
Home for Christmas!
I love our gingerbread house, it is simple, clean, beautiful. I don't need lights on every surface of the outside of the house. I don't need to pretend it snows and have icicles. I don't need inflatable Santas, or lit-up moveable reindeer. I just love color! And I love our simple Christmas house. It will always hold a special place in my heart. Always.

Day 329

Silly silly silly :)

Day 328

Love all these kids!

Day 327

ICICLES!!! In Jacksonville!!! Every morning for the past few days has been below freezing!!!

Day 326

On a cold walk by the river, a good study break to relax and get some fresh air!

Day 325

Peppermint Bark Cheesecake! Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Knight for the end of the year gift!

Day 324

Wishing you a very merry Christmas from Apt. 333!!!!

Day 323

Finals Frenzy!
Our Health and Wellness event this semester was a big hit!! Lisa and I are at the table for our free raffle give away!

Day 322

Gingerbread house contest for the Honors Christmas Party
Jennah and I made the "JU River House" :) including the St. John's River in the back made out of blue M&M's!
Notice to the left: that's the Lincoln Memorial!!!! And the reflecting pond in front! So creative!

Day 321

Andre, my new friend at YReads!

Day 320

Amanda, a JU student, and some kids from YReads!

Day 319

The whole family at church!!
Josiah, Poppa, Jessica, Abbie, Shoshanah, Jameson, Tara, Momma, Elias, Lydia, and Abraham

Day 318

Making s'mores with the family!

Day 317

Measuring up to Dwight Howard at the Magic Game!
Magic beat the Cavaliers 111-100 :)

Day 316

Me and Momma at Thanksgiving dinner :)

Day 315

Give thanks with a grateful heart, give thanks to the Holy One
Give thanks because He's given Jesus Christ, His son!
Now let the weak say I am strong,
Let the poor say I am rich,
Because of what the Lord has done for us!
Give thanks!

Day 314

Fall Colors on the way home for Thanksgiving!!
Jennah took the pictures on our fun ride home to Orlando!

Day 313

Sunset on my way home from tutoring, so beautiful!

Day 312

Visiting Winter Wonderland in St. Augustine!

Day 311

My hole in one (I got 2 in 18 holes!)
Miniature Golf in St. Augustine with Jennah and her parents...free tickets!

Day 310

~the four dancers lisa, jennah, grace, and leah, after their fall dance concert~
my three roommates are the three on the right :)

Day 309

"Reflection"

I know I never really write on here, I just post pictures, but today my infectious diseases lab was cancelled...wanna know why? My professor (who is also a veterinarian) had to go save a dolphin's life! Yep, that's right. She is like Wonder Woman, or maybe a modern day St. Francis. Your choice. Either way, I think that's a pretty cool excuse for canceling lab, and I mean, how often can you say "Oh yea, well my professor had to go save a dolphin...so no class" :) Not too often!

In other news, I am slowly coming to the realization that I have almost completed Project 365! I do realize that I still have over 50 days left, but seriously, that's not that many! What will I do with myself--and for that matter, what will I do with this blog?? I may have to actually start blogging on it! :)

Day 308

Me and my four "princesses" from YReads at Parkwood Heights Elementary :)

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Day 306

Laundry Day!

Day 305

Health and Wellness Event
Sunday Sundaes!
We had a hit and served over 50 people icecream Sundaes! With all sorts of fun toppings, everything you could think of, we had :)

Day 304

Roomies!
Sunset by the river

Day 303

Leland concentrating very hard on his drawing for me :)
Got to love his little tongue sticking out!

Day 302

Today as a nation we remember and thank veterans
Today I remember and thank my Gramps Beates for his service in the Navy.

:: James K. Beates, Cdr, USN (1951-1974, service in Korea, Viet Nam, South China Sea, Arab-Israeli Six Day War, and so much more. Commanding Officer of USS Cayuga County [LST-529, 1958-59], USS Passumpsic [AO-107, 1964] and USS Moale [DD-693, 1969-71] ::

Thank you to all who willingly serve and protect our country. I know I could never do what you all do...thank you.
I think everyday should be Veterans Day for Americans!