Whew, it's been a while

Summer.

Ok I know that I havn't blogged in a while but i'm going to start up again.

I did make it through my Junior year at Winthrop and I'm now about to tackle my Senior year. I have no idea where i'm going after I graduate. I'm doing my internship at Harvest Hope Food Bank in Columbia right now. I love my job and the many exciting things I have learned from it.

A lot has gone on the past few months with my nephew. Parker was born on Janurary 14th and has been wonderful. We found out a few weeks ago that he has HydroSeffalyes. Which is a condition where you have a build up of fluid within your skull and he had to have surgery two weeks ago.

There is so much to talk about over the past few months of what has gone on and that is why i've decided to start Blogging as much as I can about this summer. It has been a great first 6 weeks off from school and I can't wait to share my adventures with you!

Laney

Finals...and Flu/Cold Season

It never fails. Not once have I made it through a semester without getting sick. I don't know if its stress, or changing weather or what ever it may be. The one stressful thing about getting sick in the beginning of December is EXAMS. Yep i said it.

The "E" word is something not may students tend to want to think about. Everything you have worked for all semester long with the 20 or so students in your class...all comes down to one, just one final test. Talk about a little intimidating, i would say so.

Each day one by one classes are over and the people you meet have now become former class buddies because you will get a new set in less than a month, then the process of new professors, meeting new people and starting all over begins.

This semester has been one of my favorite. I've met some amazing people and gotten to know my professors more than I ever have over the past 3 years at Winthrop. Hope fully I can put on a good game face and tackle these exams, tissues, cough drops and all!

Laney

Chick-fil-A Santa Cow

Nothing reminds people of the Christmas holiday like good ole' fashion pictures with Santa. Well Chick-fil-A on Cherry Rd. took that idea and turned it into something that the whole family can enjoy.

On December 7th, Chick-fil-A opened up what they call their normal "Family Night". Every Monday evening from 7-8pm families can come and join Chick-fil-A for a night of fun for the kids and great food for the family.

Since its Christmas time, we brought in our very own Santa cow. The cow was avaliable to take pictures with any children that were interested and it was my job to take the pictures and send them out to their families. It was definatly a good night with pleanty of children that turned out for the event.

Chick-fil-A is a family oriented fast food resturnat chain, that continues to blow my mind on how much they care about families and everyone just having a good time.

Here are a few pictures!

Parker's Nursery is Getting worked on!!

Just wanted to post some pictures of what Parker's new room looks like!

Its getting cuter by the day and were so ready for Parker to get here! I hope that you like the pictures...this proud Aunt can't wait to hold the little sucker!

My Girls getting all dressed up.

Well its that time of year again..basketball...WHOOOOO HOOOOO!! I'm super pumped about this season. I love going to games and cheering on 4 of my best friends. These girls are super awesome, and I couldn't imagine my life at Winthrop without them!

Thursday evening the Athletic Department threw a speical dinner to honor the Men's and Women's basketball programs at Winthrop. I was asked to go by my Rock Hill mom Becky. Bekah, Heather, and I went and supported the girls. It was really exciting to see how much support they have outside of just the student body. I provided a picture of Me, Ashley, Sarah and Lacey.

Lacey got asked to say the prayer for dinner. She was quite nervous, but it was an awesome opportunity. Hope everyone is good, and i'll be back soon with some more updates!!

Go Eagles!

German carving a pumpkin

Growing up in South Carolina, carving pumpkins in October is like second nature. Until coming to college, I had never met anyone who had never carved a seasonal orange pumpkin.

As many of you know i'm really good friends with many of the girls on the Winthrop Women's Basketball team. Becuase of the team, i've met many people with different backgrounds and even nationalities.

Kathi is from Germany. She's a point guard or plays position (#1) I learned numbers the other day. She made the statement that we had never carved a pumpkin before...and needless to say we had to fix that.

This is Kathi. we had a really hard time finding a pumpkin in Rock Hill becuase it was the day before halloween. The only pumpkins that we could find was "pie pumpkins". I had no idea what the difference was, until we tried to carve them.

Apparently pie pumpkins are used just for baking pumpkin pie..which is one thing that I love. But the skin or outter part of the pumpkin is 100 times harder than a normal pumpkin. This is a picture of how hard Kathi tried to get into the pumpkin to begin with.

Once she finally got a hang of it, we finally found a normal type of pumpkin where she could carve like a typical person. We had a great time and definatly showed a German what real Halloween fun was all about!

later days,
laney

America's Funniest Home Videos

One thing that I could watch everday is America's Funniest home videos. I could literally watch it for hours and laugh and laugh and laugh. NOt only does it make me laugh, but it definatly makes me feel more normal about my everyday life.

Of course you see the occasional dad being hit in the crotch, or the grandma falling over. But the one thing that makes me laugh like no other is kids. Please watch this video and let me share with you a little bit of what i mean...




See what i mean? ITS NOT FUNNY!! I died laughing when I saw this and i just had to share it with everybody else!

Hope that you all got a great laugh out of this!

laney