A Snowy Birthday

I'm excited!  I just turned 17 on January 19, 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!  We're celebrating my birthday tomorrow because the week was simply too busy.  My Aunt Shelly and Uncle Andrew always send me cards with the same phrase "We're happy you were born!"  I do believe that Aunt Shelly is my favorite Aunt.  She lives in Chicago, Illinois, yet her fashion sense concerning her niece in Maryland is astonishingly accurate.  All the clothes she sends me fit perfectly and bring out the color of my eyes.  The last one she shipped to me was a Christmas present.  It was a quarter-length sleeved sweater with purple, gray, and white stripes.  It fit beautifully and I wore it to career day.  That was the day I volunteered, ok shyly volunteered, to be in a mock interview.  Gotta be ready when I go interviewing for jobs in the spring.  The thought of sitting in a chair and talking to a future employer for 5 minutes (which is the time span you have to impress them) is so close its almost intimidating.  Anyway, the point is that I <3 you Aunt Shelly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last Wednesday, my mom took me to get my hair cut at Great Clips as a birthday present.  For the stuff I wanted done, it was going to cost a lot.  However, God in his perfect timing sent a very helpful coupon the day before that cut down the cost significantly.  Thank you Lord for providing!!!  Yesterday, I went to ACTS rehearsal and got comments from nearly everybody on how amazing my hair looked.  I literally had NO IDEA.  I was just so sick of long, straight hair that I just told her short and layered with bangs, and told her to do everything else she suggested.  I guess "everything else" turned out pretty good!  Pictures hopefully coming soon!

NEWS BROADCAST: It snowed today for the first time.  Thank you Maryland, but you're a month late, lolz.  Even though I'm not a big fan of snow, I hope it sticks.  If it doesn't, we will have gone a whole year without any official snow.  Still...that's not so bad either.  No cold feet, no bad sledding experiences, no snowballs in your face.  Now, if you know me, then you know that I over-think absolutely EVERYTHING, just like I'm doing right now.  Please pray that I will leave these situations in God's hands and trust that He will work everything out for good :)

However, if we DO end up getting 3 feet of snow, there's a certain snow-castle that I was thinking about building in the front yard.  Hopefully, it won't impede the mailman...