Black (Eye) Friday

Ok, so I didn't really get a black eye, but it would have been totally possible considering as man was killed at a Wal-Mart store early Friday morning!

I did do a ton of shopping, that started at 4:45 Friday morning. I got a camera at Wal-Mart. Then to Springfield and the mall. I got some clothes and a bunch of stuff at Bath & Body works, I heart that place! The best purchase of the day would be the Kathy Van Zeeland bag I got! It's green, it's shiny, it's fabulous! I will have to post a pic.

This is completely random, but while in Best Buy in Springfield I saw the band Hinder. No, I don't mean on an album cover, I mean the real deal, They played a show there Thanksgiving night and they were doing a meet and greet in Best Buy.

I guess I should backtrack, I kinda skipped Thanksgiving. This year I spent Thanksgiving in West Plains with my BFF and his family. Our fam doesn't really do much, so I decided while I had a little bit of time off work I would go there. I got some great birthday gifts while I was there, the best was this bible from Clay -

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/KJV-Ancient-Faith-Bible/Holman-Bible-Editorial-Staff/e/9781586404666/?itm=33

It is pretty much the coolest thing ever! The edge of the pages are bright gold and it's only about 5 or so inches tall, it will fit in my purse so great!

Birthday, BABY!

When your birthday is on a random Thursday not much excitement usually happens. My birthday is actually going to stretch until next week. Here is today's birthday recognition...

I got flowers at work from my family!

Here is my name on the bulletin board in the Youth room at church.

A close-up

20!!!

So this concludes the birthday countdown, I am now 21!!! The photo above is last year at the library, my mom brought me the cake and pizza. If you look closely you can see my name is spelled wrong on the cake..lol "Mellissa"

19, my last "teen" year...

This is on Thanksgiving after my 19th birthday, which is only about a week. Not much to say about it, there is a lot of green in the pic...

18, now I can vote!

This is yesterday's post, I'm a slacker! Again, not a party photo, I do remember my 18th birthday was on a Sunday and I had lunch with my grandparents (we had Chinese!) This is me the August after I turned 18, I decided to cut all my hair off.

Before...

After...

Buttons!

I just posted my first listing at my Etsy store!!!

Check it out!

www.TheAwkwardTurtle.etsy.com

Dancing Queen, only 17!

So once again I can't upload a photo, I think it might be my dial-up, grrr! I hate it! So I'm going to try and add photo tomorrow at work.

Today's post is me at 17, sitting in my car, which I can at this point drive, I finally got my licence when I was 17. That is definitely the most memorable thing that happened that year!

SWEET Sixteen!

Also not a party photo, you can't see me very well, but this is my first car that I got when I turned 16. It's a 1990 Cougar. It was a pretty good car, I drove it until March of last year. It pretty much completely died.

The above was the caption for my photo, but I've tried to upload it 3 times and the uploader thing won't work, so I'm going to add the photo later.

5 X 3 = 15

No party photo this time, actually there won't be many more party photos. This was taken not too long after I turned 15. This is about as long as my hair has ever been. I was in the process of growing my bangs out here, I hated them!

Fearless Fourteen

I'm a day behind, I will have to catch up later. This is yesterdays post. Apparently some one's flash on their camera wasn't working when they took these...

Once again another Pizza Hut party, this is the last one.

Every girl needs a huge smiley face pillow!