yeah, yeah...as usual it has been a while.
I have been trying to enjoy my summer and get lots of projects done before my LAST year of school!
I have made a tshirt quilt for Josh:

I have caught up on all of my scrapbooking except for this summer (which is still in process). I have taken a few sets of pictures and have one more set on Sunday. We also have Ladies Day Saturday that we have been getting ready for. 

Yesterday was my birthday...I was a little bummed about crawling closer to 30...so I decided to do something different. I did 27 Random Acts of Kindness. Chaylie and I baked 2 batches of cookies on Monday night. Tuesday morning I made a batch of brownies and glazed one set of cookies. Then I jarred them up and tied tags on them. 

This is what the jars and tags looked like. 

Here is my list with a few notes:

1. Opened doors for people whenever possible

2. Returned stray grocery carts to proper places
3. Visited nursing home
4. Dropped off 2 goody jars to nurses
5. Dropped off goody jar to Chiropractor office
6. Dropped off goody jar to The Outdoorsman (we visit there so often)
7. Bought someones coffe in line behind us at Starbucks
8. Bought someones lunch behind us (we did this at Chick-fil-a)
9. I handed a lady an envelope with some ones in it at the Dollar General.
10. I taped a few dollars to a vending machine outside of Wal Mart.
11. Handed a lady a Wal Mart gas card before she began to pump gas.
12. Handed a young mom a Wal Mart gift card while she was in the check out line buying diapers.
13. Gave a jar of goodies to a homeless man
14. Wrote thanks you cards to 2 physicians
15. Made long overdue phone calls.
16. I helped out the softball team by standing in for them.
17. Passed out smiles everywhere I went.
18. Made all the college girls notebooks personalized for them for the semester.
19. Donated the rest of the baked goods.
20. Listened and gave advice when I really didn't have the time. :)
21. Gave a generous tip to our server at supper.
22. Filled up the water jugs for the church building. (actually doing that today)
23. Put in a lot of unnecessary/extra hours working on ladies day projects. (over the past week)
24. Took engagement pictures for free (this was actually done last week)
25. Was very VERY patient with CRAZY drivers. (that is a good deed, right?)
26. Helped out a man at the University Bookstore
27. Handed out 'treat bags' to a cute little brother and sister outside of Wal Mart.

Most of these acts were handed out and then I immediately walked away. I would have LOVED to see their reaction, but I didn't want their 'praise'. I almost scared one lady to death in the Dollar Tree oops. I don't want people to think I posted this blog for the attention. I wanted to give you ideas for those borthdays that may make you feel 'blue'. I had so much fun doing these things. I loved the reactions I received (the ones that I saw). I loved spending the day helping others.

Moving on...while we were at supper Josh handed me my birthday card. Inside was a small packet of folded papers. They were our reservation papers to...ready?....DISNEY WORLD!!!!! We are going the week after finals in December. Just after our 6th Anniversary! I am so excited. There were so many things we weren't able to do on our first trip there in 2009. So, we are already making reservations for certain things AND Josh made us reservations to eat with Cinderella in her castle AND go see Cirque de Soleil (front and center!).  I couldn't be more excited!!!!