New blog name suggestions?

So as of tomorrow I will officially be an alumni of The University of Alabama. My blog name chronicles the life of a college student...that of which I will no longer be. In February Matthew and I will marry and our last name will be Stanford, I have been trying to think of maybe a cute or catchy way to tie that in or just find some inspiration for a new name?

I would love to hear some suggestions, comment or email me! Have a fabulous weekend

Top Books List

Let's start this off by saying that I LOVE reading a good book, there are few things more satisfying than flipping through (or swiping, thanks to the kindle software) the last page of a good story line. I just finished...

I finished the entire series yesterday and oh. my. word. They are absolutely fabulous! I cannot wait for the movie to come out and in fact I am sort of sad I am done with them because well, they were THAT good. If you have not read them, do not let the post apocalyptic storyline scare you (because it did me, at first) ...it is a MUST read.

After finishing this I was thinking about "what are my favorite books...." and to be honest I really cannot rank a first, second, or third because so many stories or fantastic for many different reasons so instead I will just list off a few of my favorites.

The Help - What an incredibly eye opening and insightful/humorous/heart wrenching story. I loved the book and thought that the movie was actually a pretty good depiction, but you can never out-do the book. The author also went to Alabama... Roll Tide =)

The Great Gatsby - This book to me is a classic, I think we had to read it in 10th grade and since then I have read it numerous times. I am stoked that they are making this into a movie with Leo Dicaprio --- it better be good. I just love love love the story.



Redeeming Love - This is hands down one of the best and most riveting books I have ever read, it is sort of lengthy but I could not stop turning the pages. It is deemed a Christian novel, it parallels the book of Hosea in the Bible. But you could read this and not know that and it is still an incredibly compelling and amazing love story. I have read it multiple times and it still astounds me.

Skinny Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes

Over the Thanksgiving break, I was really craving pumpkin + cheesecake. I LOVE cheesecake and I really like pumpkin and I decided to try out skinnytaste's mini pumpkin cheesecakes. I forgot to take pictures myself and so below is the picture from the website.

I had trouble actually swirling the mixture, but I will say they were pretty tasty but maybe not quite as "cheesecake-y" as I wanted. (probably due to the "skinny" recipe aspect) but do not fear... a family member decided to bring this for our actual thanksgiving meal...

That would be pumpkin cheesecake from the cheesecake factory - I do not even want to admit how many heavenly pieces I consumed....

I hope everyone had a splendid thanksgiving, and now it's Christmas time!

Epic Fail, but I am coming back.

So I know that in the last post I claimed with the new tablet and the blogger app I would be posting like crazy....well that is an epic fail.

The good news is, I have high hopes for the future...I have a 9 day break from school starting today and my consecutive days of teaching for my internship are over. The light at the end of the tunnel is shining bright.

This weekend begins the wedding shower season, I graduate soon, its Christmas time, and I get married in 79 days. Holy cow! I should have a lot toblog about :-)

Posting from the tablet

I have been horrible about updating my blog but I just got a new samsung galaxy tablet for the recent birthday celebration. It has a blogger app and so it is an expedited way of posting. Maybe....just maybe this will encourage me to post more. This is merely a text post from the tablet as I figure out how it all works.
Have a great weekend and Happy Friday!

Proud Aunt!

(Warner, just a couple weeks old, with the hiccups and Memaw) 

 (Bode beginning to walk!)

What can I say I am a proud aunt to two of the cutest little ones around! 

Teach, Eat, Sleep, Lather, Rinse and Repeat.....

(because it is funny....you know I would never say that, well maybe?)

First of all, way to go blogger with the new and updated interface. I am really liking it. Second of all, let me apologize...I know it does not take that much to actually produce a blog post. I mean it is about me and things I do...so how hard can it be? But apparently I cannot multi task in that way. I am a teacher intern this semester, meaning I am at the school day in and day out...teaching and doing everything that comes along with it. And well, lets be frank....It is exhausting.

I know, I know..."welcome to the real world and real work hours" but nonetheless it is still tiring. I will say that I think my body is adapting and getting used to the new schedule. I am at a local high teaching all grades psychology, AP Psychology, and 10th grade U.S. History. They keep me on my toes and by the end of the day I just want to lay on the couch and think of nothing (which is a lie, I am normally getting stuff ready for the next day or grading) Anywho...I will get back in the swing of things and I hope all of you have had a great start to the new school year and how about a big Roll Tide to football season being here. RTR