9/11 Dedication

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Have You Forgotten?
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Moping Monday...

Today is a SAD day for me!

This past Thursday night my best friend and I had our last dinner together for now. Today she leaves for South Africa. We wont see each other until either I come home from college or she comes to visit me. We are what you call True Friends.

Sydney and I are the truest of friends and here are some pictures to go with just a few of the memories we have made :)

I know its alot of pictures, however this is just a few of the amazing memories that I have made with her!! I love you Sydney Caitlan Edmundson!!

Sentimental Sunday...

Two weeks from now, I should be completely checked in and moved in at college. The preface to my college career. I have so many things to look forward to, and while I sit here and type, a notecard on my mom's bulletin board, comes in focus. It is a Bible verse, her favorite.

I may just copy this and post it on my desk at school.

I too, have my plans for the future and hope that God sees fit to help me along with these goals.

I am looking at college as a brand new beginning, a fresh start, one to build not only my future, but maybe even the basis for my life to build from.

I am already part of a pilot project with a "success coach" and the university's President. I am part of a leadership initiative that will take me through all 4 years. And I plan to go through sorority recruitment and hopefully be matched and pledge my top choice. (shhh...that sorority is a secret).

However, I entitled today's post as Sentimental Sunday.

I look back on my mom and me living with my nana and papa from birth

till my mom remarried when I was 12.

I love my Uncle Jack for being a second dad to me (mine was absent) even when he had his own little girl.

I think back to all the fun times and trips that my family (nana, papa, mom and me) took together.

I look back on playing ball and the year that my mom and papa coached me.

I look back on my years as a member of the National League of Junior Cotillions, and my years as an assistant with them as well.

I look back to years of dance, dance company, chorus, Evening of Entertainment, and just performing.

I look back on my mom and dad's wedding, and my dad adopting me.

I look back on all the great trips to the beach and being lucky enough to have a place at the beach.

I look back on high school, my teachers, homecomings, New York, chorus shows, prom and graduation.

There are so many things I could list here.

However, with all of these memories in my heart, it is now time to look to the future.