A lot like Christmas

Hello!  Yes, it has been awhile since I wrote last, but I've been a little distracted with finals and the beginning of Christmas break.  The highlights of the last two weeks have been making sugar cookies with my wonderful roommates, an ornament gift exchange, seeing my family, a beautiful necklace from my grandparents (thank you!!), watching Mansfield Park (a wonderfully girly and romantic chick flick) with Caitlin, and squeezing in time with friends.  My family and I are leaving for Hawaii tomorrow, which I'm so excited for.  The only draw back is that I have so little time with all my great friends here at home.  Thankfully, I haven't had much to do this week besides see these friends, so all is well :)  

Pictures!

Here are some pictures of Thanksgiving.  Nothing like some quality dog time, beautiful leaves, and baking with my sister :)

School is starting to finally slow down, which is soooo nice.  I just turned in my final research paper this morning and I only have two finals next Thursday (which leaves me plenty of time to study, right??).  Hopefully this will help me get into the holiday spirit!

Thanksgiving

It was so nice to be home for Thanksgiving! I went from this....

to this....

I can always tell that school is getting stressful by the state of my desk.  As the first picture shows, it was definitely time for a break.  It was so nice to relax with family and friends for a few days and get my cold weather fix.  Tomorrow I will try and post some pictures I took of home, the leaves were so pretty!