Week 1:

This week was really productive and crafty start to the year :)


     After ringing in the new year at home with my family, we had a really nice dinner in our dining room with all the fancy china. It was pretty much like having a second Thanksgiving dinner and it was great!

     On the 2nd, I had some of my friends from TCU over to my house. There were five of us total and we had a good old fashioned sleep over. Some traveled over 2 hours just to get to my house! In this picture, Pamela Lauren and I discovered we all own the same Target pajamas. It was especially great to see Pamela as she has been studying in London for a semester now. We all stayed up late, watched movies, heated up the hot tub and ate lots of junk food.

     In the morning me and Lauren (after some crazy adventures in taking people home) met up and painted some pottery at Walls of Clay, a neat little shop in downtown McKinney where you can pick out a piece of pottery, glaze it, and then they fire it for you. We both chose martini glasses and had a similar color scheme. This is mine pre-firing, so the colors aren't as bright/shiny as they would be in the finished product.



     On Wednesday I did some work on a project for my mom's clinic. It's still a work in progress, but I plan on making another melted crayon piece for one of the Occupational Therapy rooms. OTs work on fine motor skill, which often include writing so we decided crayons would be appropriate decorations. Hopefully I will be able to finish it soon!



On Thursday I went into work to help my mom with a few projects. I redid some bulletin boards, made lots of copies and flashcards, and got to hang out with some patients that I used to work with at Our Children's House. This is the birthday board I helped put together. It has all the patients names on it, and a few pictures of them celebrating their birthdays at the clinic with us. The whole office has an Eric Carl theme and is really cute!

     On Friday I did something that hasn't happened in a while... I took the dog on a walk! She was so incredibly excited and is so well behaved when we take her out. The weather was great too. I love how happy Amber is all the time, she's so easy to please and so affectionate. Hopefully the walks won't end when I head back to TCU.

     Saturday I got the call saying our pottery was finished! I think it turned out really well, the photo doesn't really do it justice. 

And finally, today I finished my online defensive driving course. Six hours of instruction... ugh. I shouldn't be complaining though because it was online and actually kind of funny, and now my speeding ticket I got in December will be removed from my record. I'm just glad it's over with!