No More Classes.

 

Thursday was the last day of classes for this semester for both myself and my roommate. So naturally, we decided to celebrate Thursday night. Our order of events were…

1. Zoe’s for dinner

2. Blockbuster to rent movies

3. Publix to buy dessert

4. home to veg out and eat our dessert

After Zoë's we were certain that we wanted dessert but we couldn’t decide what it is we wanted…just wishing that we had a TGIFriday’s where we could get a brownie obsession. So we ultimately decided lets just go to publix and buy stuff to make brownies and ice cream. Once in publix we had an idea of brilliance and decided to buy brownies from the bakery…less work and probably more tasty.

As you you can tell this was our setup for the night.

We got a little giddy in the movie store…and well almost rented the entire store. We got “Going the distance” which was soooo cute. Then we came across the Mary-Kate and Ashley section and couldn’t resist the iconic “Switching Goals”. AND THEN…. I remembered that the rooms has not seen Dirty Dancing (which is a crime in itself) so of course I figured it was time for her to see greatness.

Thursday night we watched 2 movies and then saved 1 for Friday afternoon and truly that is about all of the worth we gave to Thursday/Friday. We were bums, loved it, and ate the picture below… YUMMMMMMMY.

(we heated the brownie up and the frosting on it melted to make a tasty fudgy sauce and of course topped with ice cream. delicious-ness)

Thankful Part 3

 

This week my thankful friend post is dedicated to Miss Lindsay Palmer!

Lindsay and I have been friends since approximately 6th grade – we met in middle school and we soon became very good friends because we realized that both of our parents worked at the high school. Lindsay’s dad (at the time) coached basketball and my dad also coached basketball and my mom was Lindsay’s dad’s boss.

We also thought we were cool because our names were so similar and we spent most of our childhood confusing people as we introduced ourselves.. “hi, I’m Lindsay…hi I’m Lynnlee” “wait what…?”

Lindsay’s dad became and assistant principle and that meant he worked very closely with my mom. So Linds and I always stuck together at all of the functions and events that required their attendance. Once we got into high school we stuck together as the rule followers – we knew that the day we tried to skip or break another rule would be the day we got caught – and goodness would they jump to put our wrong doing in the newspaper “Choctaw administrators daughters caught…”

So instead of blabbing on I will add my list of why I love Lindsay and our friendship

• she is quite funny
• she is always positive and even in the hard situations
• she made quite an impact on my relationship with Jesus
• she was such a heartthrob =)
• I’m certain she could have an hour long conversation with just about anyone
• We go to rivaling schools but we never bring that into our friendship
• her middle name is “Lee” which is part of my name?

The list could go on but all this to say I love my Linds and though we may joke with her a lot she is an integral part of the s7.

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Now in pulling all of these pictures together on my computer…I realized…Wow, I have more individual/not normal pictures of Linds on my computer than I do of anyone else, including myself. Since Lindsay makes claim that she is our go-to girl to pick on and well quite frankly…she will think twice now before stealing my camera to take glamorous photos of herself. (which means yes, I created album #2) check it out.

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I can hear it now… Youuuu guuuuuyyyysssss. Love you Linds!

Is it just me?

 

Holy goodness, today is the first day of the last month of the year 2010. Where has this year gone?

In this year I have gained

• a sister-in-law
• a nephew
• a cousin-in-law (if that is a phrase?)
• an Alabama National Championship..woot woot

I love that my entire family is growing constantly (as if it isn’t big and crazy enough already) but there are so many blessings and though it seems ridiculous how fast this year has gone by I am sure that 2011 will be filled with just as much.

Now that it is December it is officially the Christmas blogging season and I absolutely love everything about the Christmas season so get ready for the continuous posting about it. Have a wonderful start to December!!

What has this year brought you??

Stuffing, Cobbler,Cupcakes…oh my.

 

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While home Callie cooked dinner for me, corey, Erin, and dad. We had a very nice dinner with him, well my dad doesn’t like a ton of sweets but he LOVES cobbler. Any kind… serve it hot with some vanilla ice cream and he is a happy man. A while back I saw The Pioneer Woman had an “easy blackberry cobbler” recipe and I thought this would be a great time to test it out.

I think I may have had too many blackberries (I had no idea how expensive they are, so I used them all) but it was still quite scrumptious. It didn’t quite look as pretty as The Pioneer Woman but it still tasted delicious. Check out the album for before and after pictures.

 

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This stuffing is by no means a work of art or talent, in fact it is incredibly easy but I thought it was delicious. My preference with stuffing is the simpler and the more traditional the better… this is the basic Pepperidge farm stuffing mix recipe. It includes the stuffing mix, melted butter, chicken broth, onions,celery, and cranberries. (I threw in the cranberries last minute because well…why not?)

I really enjoyed this recipe and will more than likely continue to use in for future holidays.

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Now onto my favorite part… the cupcakes! Again channeling my inner pioneer woman… I found this recipe on the tasty kitchen website and thought that there was no better time than thanksgiving to make them. I found another recipe on the same website for a cinnamon cream cheese frosting…yummy is an understatement of that. I could have eaten the frosting on anything. The cupcakes turned out great, baking cinnamon apples was a lot easier than I thought and overall I thought they were very tasty.

They could almost be a breakfast dessert…they may have been even more delicious slightly warmed and served a la mode? who knows…try it out!

Thanksgiving at home

 

The weekend before last I stated that I had gone home to have a quick thanksgiving with my family. I, of course, had plenty of pictures from the festivities. (I left my camera at home though and just got it back this weekend..so here we go)

These pictures are what I arrived home to…can’t you tell how excited they were to see me..they are also great guard dogs?

As you could imagine I spent the entire weekend playing with this handsome fella…

Oh and there is my Rose…

this would be Bode bean and Rose, my two favorite things about being home.

What is your favorite things about being home?

Thankful Part 2

 

I have been a little absent from the blogosphere this weekend as I ventured home for an early thanksgiving with my family. I have tons of fun pictures to post from this weekend filled with my nephew and cooking mostly, but I left my camera at home so I will probably not have those to post until this weekend.

Last week I published a post titled Thankful and spoke about  my best friends from home…there are 7 of us and I also highlighted my friendship with Landy, so today  is part 2 of these posts and will be highlighting the lovely Chelsea Baker!

Chelsea Baker…well there are so many reasons why I love her and truly this will be a long, long list.

• she is a ginger
• pop culture guru
• we can talk for hours about music, movies, award shows, fashion – she knows everything
• addicted to diet coke and peanut butter
• we are both obsessed with Once and Glee
• open minded
• respectful
• hilarious/sarcastic
• she does awesome hairstyling
• did I mention she was a ginger?

 

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Now chels, I am the one that looks horrid in most of these…sorry for being such a bad picture companion!

 

Toodles,

Lynnlee

Why Not Me?

 

Last night at The Well we were blessed to have  great speaker. Our college pastor Chris Brooks had previously told us about his friend who as a young boy was diagnosed with Lupus…fought the battle and was really doing great things with his life and his relationship with Jesus. But just this semester he found out the lupus had returned (which is rare) and just last week before he came to speak to us he finished his last portion of chemo for this round of treatment.

Having known a little background to this story…it just seemed that something was different last night at the well but something I couldn’t quite put my finger on. We sang some really powerful songs and all of which said phrases about God being our healer, our savior, there and present always, He is constantly here with us. When he got up to speak it was really great…he talked about facing God when something happens that you weren't prepared for or tragedy. To sum it up…he said “why not me?”, saying that everyone asks “how could this happen to you?” or “why you” and he basically said “why NOT me?”. Christ suffered for us and there are numerous stories of “biblical heroes” we might call them and he talked about how they suffered but how they were dependent on their God and they would not abandon him just as He would not abandon them. I really really recommend following the link  below and listening to the podcast. It’s about 30 minutes ish so if you have any down time really just give it a try. It is a message worth hearing for all.

Check out the Podcast here!

I apologize for the slightly corny pictures but it was the best version with lyrics.

 

 

I hope that everyone has a marvelous day, leave me your comments and let me know what you think or if you listened to the podcast! Also, don’t forget to follow me to keep up with all of the posts!!