Photo challenge-- 21

 I'm so excited to have found this photo challenge via It's Official, this is my first photo challenge and I'm so pumped to share my own photo's as well as seeing everyone else's!

Here's how to play:

♥ Starting on March 1st take a photo each day with inspiration from the prompt. For example prompt 1 is 'up', so take a photo looking up. Or of the word 'up'. Or something that lifts your mood 'up'. It it totally up to you how you want to interpret it.

♥ Once you've taken your photo you can share it on Instagram, Facebook {on your own profile or business page}, Twitter, Flickr, your blog, Pinterest, Tumblr or even just keep them in a folder on your desktop. If you're sharing on Twitter or Instagram add the hashtag #Marchphotoaday so others can find your photos too.

Information for  Photo Challenge taken from  Fat Mum Slim

Keep a look our for some of my photo's on Twitter, #Marchphotoaday, and see all of them here!

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I also wanted to give a little shout-out to my wonderful, beautiful roommate Tori Jones! Being the lucky girl that she is, she also shares her birthday with Justin Bieber, who just so happens to be 18 and legal now! Watch out world... haha! Happy Birthday Tori!

Her sign, with 21 tasks to complete!

Our celebratory glass of wine!

The Grind

I can't BELIEVE it's already time to start classes again.  Since I officially only have one day left of break, I felt like it was very fitting to look back on the amazing winter break that I had.

First off, there was Christmas. Who doesn't love Christmas?! The one thing that I was very excited about was Alex's gift! People always say that it is better to give than to receive, and I could not agree more.  Alex has had less than perfect luck as far as cell phones go, so I was a bit skeptical at first.  However, he had been ranting and raving over the new iPhone, and he doesn't get excited about things like that typically, so... being the GREAT girlfriend that I am, I hooked him up. Granted, we had a $50 dollar limit, and although he will certainly tell you I cheated, I didn't! I only... tweaked it a bit.  He acted like he was mad, but let's be honest, who wouldn't want an iPhone?! Only problem I'm now having is how to keep him off of it. And since Alex is a little bit accident-prone (that might be an understatement) we also set him up with a trusty otterbox :)

How could you be mad
at this?

Another eventful thing, that I apologize for not posting about before, was my best-friend Samantha White's TWENTY FIRST BIRTHDAY! All of the birthday festivities took place in Columbia, SC.  We had dinner at Cantina's where I had the most scrumptious chicken taco, EVER. Not to mention, they were voted to have the best Margarita's, and I would have to say that I agree! We then went to a bar called Red hots... I think, where we spent the rest of the night getting free drinks while "some of us" (cough cough.. Sam and Laura) spent their evening pining over the cute bartender.  

Oh yeah, made that sign... HOLLA!

I then celebrated New Years Eve with Alex's roommate Caleb, and my soon-to-be roomie Bethany! We had a wonderful time learning spanish dances, and I must say i'm pretty good at the Salsa.  Moes also catered, so needless to say I ate entirely too much.  At midnight when the ball dropped we all exchanged kisses and drank our champagne, but Caleb's family did something a little different, we had 12 grapes in a little bag, and we had to eat each grape and wish for something to happen in the year 2012.  You wouldn't believe how hard it is to eat 12 grapes when you're already full... whew, it was tough.  But I made 12 wonderful wishes, that I would share with you... but, you know how that goes! If I tell they might not come true.

A great way to start the new year!

Needless to say, I look forward to the new year. I look forward to this semester and hopefully a 4.0 (that's the plan anyways).  I look forward to taking classes that I am actually interested in. I look forward to exploring myself, faith included.  I look forward to making new friends while keeping old ones.  I'm just excited and hopeful to take on 2012 and give it all i've got to enjoy it.  I hope you are as well. Happy new year!

Valerie-- 21

My-oh-my how time flies! Today is the day that my best friend turns 21, I just can't believe it! It's hard to imagine that around freshman year (of high-school) I found you, the sweetest, most caring girl i've ever met.  I remember making a change back then, I started surrounding myself with people who made me happy, I started spending a lot of my time with you. When we became friends I realized a change in myself, you made me want to be a better person, you made me want to be a better friend.  I look back at these years we've been friends and I can't help but smile at the goofy, crazy, random times i've experienced with you. Just a little reminder of what it's like in the life of "V and S": coldplay, john mayer, mutemath, dance competitions, Pawley's Island, sno-hut, CCTC, Eastside, student government, WHW, colorado, crooked creek, mario kart, random lyrical dances (courtesy of yours truly), gossipgirl. Theres never a dull moment when we're together. I look forward to our futures together and I find comfort in the fact that I know our friendship can withstand anything, even thousands of miles. I praise God for bringing us together and allowing our friendship to flourish into everything that it has. I love you Valerie Erwin, and I hope that your birthday is amazing (despite the fact that it's finals week). I cannot wait to celebrate with you when you come home, we can finally go out for girly cocktails!

No matter the distance, you'll always be my best friend.