Fall Truly Is Here!!

I really enjoy the fall season, in fact, I'd have to say that it's my favorite season! Maybe it's because I love art and colors and all beautiful things that is visible to the eye. Whatever the reason, it's a beautiful season. Hehe, great rhyme, hmm? :P
Yesterday I was sitting outside waiting for Ben and Anthony to come over (mom and dad had gone to their bible studies and Ben had decided that we would have a movie night over at my house for youth group. We watched Sleepy Hollow, btw) I was sitting on the ramp that dad made for my mom a little while back, listening to Apocalyptica and reading Edgar Allan Poe and I started thinking about all the things fall made me think of that made it such a happy time for me. Here are some of the things I came up with:

1. My warm (pink, lavender, periwinkle and white) crocheted blanket made specially for me by my wonderful Grandma Murphy.
2. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" (kinda cliche, but I like it for more reasons besides the fact that it's a cool poem)
3. Tweed pencil skirts and button-down blouses
4. Cool breezes and leaves rolling across empty roads
5. Vanilla chai tea with added spices and pumpkin spice lattes (which are very good when you're about to fall asleep in church because of a particular sleepover the day before)
6. Halloween parties, costumes and pumpkin carving
7. Great friends to hang out with and watch movies such as Sleepy Hollow and the like
8. The excitement of being able to go to Blue Ridge and see all the fall colors with your bestest friend in the whole wide world (and then probably going to Pizza Hut afterwards on the way home and getting those yummy little pizza rolls that are all for you except for the ends which don't have pepperoni in them, just cheese, so you give it to Ben because that's the only way you can share them with him)
9. Reading outside right before sunset in jeans, a hoodie and no shoes.
10. Being able to look at any part of the outdoors and thanking God for being the marvelous artist that He is.

Those are just some of the things that I can think of off the top of my head that make fall such a fantastic season. I hope all you guys who are reading this are able to get outside and thank our Creator for the opportunity to pay attention to and enjoy the beauty of Fall.
God bless!
~Kailee~

Great Friends and Good Memories

Kate and Sam spent the night last night! We're sitting around the table talking about whether or not unlimited texting is a better way to go or not. Of course, this is coming from the texting queens, lol. Last night was hilarious, we had so much fun! We stayed up until like, 6:00 am talking and laughing and for some reason, saying Kate's boyfriend's name (Bobby...or as we call him "Blobby") over and over again for what seemed like an hour straight! And somehow, in a way that only girls at a sleepover with too much starbucks coffee in their systems can do, we changed the conversation from Blobby to corn chips. Insanity, I say. Complete insanity it was.

Kate, Sam and I were best friends for a really long time, but when we got older and more busy with working, boyfriends, karate and the other million things we get caught up with, we kinda grew apart and didn't see each other much. I'm always really glad for times like this when things are just like old times, remembering birthday parties, laughing fits that lasted for 30 minutes at a time and hundreds of thousands of inside jokes.
Some of the favorite inside jokes that we have consist of: Ithle-dudelykins (pronounced Ith-al dood-leekins) and the twilight zone theme song, Thrimp Thalad and the nummies, random things about Kate's accident-proneness, P.I.P. G.I.P. L.I.P. and W.I.P. and of course all the songs that we made up together.

I really miss having those great times together all the time, but it's really great to at least have this kind of treat every now and then. I love my girlfriends!!! ::happies::

Insane Wednesdays...

...is a very true statement today.

So far, I have re-stringed Courtney (my beautiful acoustic guitar), gone to the chiropracter with my family, gone to the commissary, gone to starbucks (yum) come home and put a ton of food away. I still have to go to the bank, go to party city to pick up decorations for Dad's retirement ceremony, then I have to go to the church to babysit like, 5 kids, restring Anthony's guitar (he really needs it) and then go home and have a history lesson! *gasps for air* Oh Lord, save me today! :)

I'm very excited about Daddy's retirement ceremony, though. I'm so proud of him. I'm honestly going to miss the excitement of seeing his ship pull in after a deployment. Of course, i don't really miss the deployments themselves, even though it was always cool to hear about the adventures Dad got to experience, but I think I will miss Navy life. Either way, God has something else planned for us and there are still plenty more adventures we have yet to experience, and I'm so ready for them. :D
So yeah, books. I love my books. I want to build up my own personal library in my room. So far so good! Ben and I just started Wuthering Heights a couple days ago. I'm really not sure what to expect of this story, to be honest. The back of the book reads "Wuthering Heights-Emily Bronte's only novel-remains one of literature's most disturbing explorations into the dark side of romantic passion." I have this odd feeling that Emily Bronte was not a very happy lady.:-\
Anyway, I'm still enjoying it (I really can't speak for Ben) even though we're only at chapter three. It seems to be a very curious book. :P I'm also reading a book that Ben lent to me called "Keeping a Princess Heart." No worries, he had to get a boy book and a girl book (ya know, so he can relate to both) and this was the girl book he chose. I'm really getting a lot out of it. In a nutshell, it's encouraging us females not to lose our hopes and dreams in the cruel world of reality. But not holding onto an illusion either. Instead holding onto God and trusting that we will live happily ever after with Him. I'm really loving this stuff. :D

Mmkay, I think I should get ready to go to Party City with Dad when he and Mom come home. So I guess I'll cut this short. Thanks for reading, I hope my rambling wasn't a complete waste of time, haha!
~Kailee Ann~