the seventh.

I went to leave for school today... and my car wont start. I'm sooo annoyed. Daddy's getting me a new battery today and Robyn's going to take me to school. I can FINALLY drive and my car broke down. uggghhh. Its disappointing, but oh well.

Thats pretty much thats going on.. :)


Have a great day,
. katie :]

the sixth.

Sooo.. I had a wonderful birthday :) Mom and Grandma and I went to dinner last night.. and had alot of fun. I just love my family :) and I love my birthday presents!

from sissy.. a much needed bedspread.

from mom & dad. LOVE it!! :)

from grandma.

i love everyyyything! and i'm so thankful :)

I LOVE BIRTHDAYS!!

loooove,

nineteen year old katie :)

the fifth.

The pageant went great! Our escort didn't show up, and one of the judges (my grandma, ugh) forgot about it and came late... But all that drama aside, things went well. I was so glad to be done with it! I'd consider doing it again next year, if I find someone to help since Allison doesn't want to do it again. I think we pulled it off well.. which gives me some insight on how I'll plan other major events in my life... cough. wedding. cough.

I know, I'm so desperate to get married. I need to stop. I'm obsessed. But for someone who loves weddings so much and who talks about how "my wedding..." is going to be, I would really be more content if just the two of us went away and got married somewhere far, far away. And all that planning didn't have to happen.. But I'm pretty sure our families wont have that :) Look at me!! I'm talking about my wedding and getting married again! ugh.

Soooo.. Michael Phelps is on the VMAs. I should probably go ASAP :)

love x3
k t .




P.S. MY BIRTHDAY IS TOMORROWWWW!!!!! :) :) :) :)

the fourth.

The pageant is today!
Enough said. So I just woke up about an hour or two ago.. and it's already been stressful. I left everything I'm wearing for the pageant (including my makeup and shoes and bra) in a bag in Ward's truck. So the poor kid is bringing them down to me. I love him. seriously, I do.

Speaking of how much I love him.... he gave me my birthday present last night! A promise ring <3


Too much to do to write more.love love love* katie

the third.

So, I don't really have much time to write today. I've had class x2 so far, and now I'm waiting for Allison to pick me up to go run a few errands and go straight to the fire house to get ready for rehearsal. Ahhh. My brain is spinning. I just hope we can run things okay.. Its kind of crazy because neither of us have actually run things before.. so this should be interesting. We both said that we aren't agreeing to head the pageant next year until we see how this one comes alone. To see if we can pull it off, actually ;) Hopefully if we DO do it next year.. we'll learn from our mistakes (mainly putting things off until the last week) and have much more experience. This is good for me though.. someday I'll be running a wedding ;) and thats pretty stressful I hear!

Today has been a good day.. I had a good lunch with Robyn and Lea Anna :)

Okay, I have to go finish getting ready now.. and wrack my brain for ideas of anything we've left undone. Cross your fingers for me!!!
... Katie

the second.

There really isn't much to update about today.. besides the fact that my birthday is in five days!! :) I wasn't that excited until I found out that Ward went shopping for me last night... and he's being pretty sneaky about it! He wont answer any questions because he says I'm trying to get stuff out of him.. when really I'm not. And he kept saying "don't know" when I said "is it a good present?" because he said he's not telling me whether its presentS or just present. he's never this weird about birthday stuff! So maybe it's something exciting :)

I guess it would help if I stopped driving myself crazy about it wondering.. :) but my birthday is Monday and he'll be going back to school then.. so I'm trying to figure out when I even get this oh-so-wonderful present :) Geez I'm like a little kid! But I can't help it :)

It looks like the hurricane is heading toward the Carolinas. And I'm thinking that we'll be getting alottttt of wind and rain from it, or thats what Daddy said anyway. I hope Ward can get over the bay bridge on Friday :( The weather heading towards us is crazy.. and its sad to think that this isn't even a fraction of what Louisiana and Florida are getting. I need to remember to pray for them.. it has to be so hard. I know if I lived there I'd be moving though!

Allison and I are running the Miss Parksley Pageant this year. We've actually done well if I do say so myself. Its stressful.. especially since both of us are procrastinators and put everything off until the last minute. We still need to find one more judge, buy the judges presents, and pick up the chesepeake bay bracelets that we had engraved for the winners. I just typed up the programs and we'll need to bring them to a friend of ours who is printint them up for us. Ahhh! I'm going crazy as we speak.. typing these things up and thinking about it makes it so much more stressful :( The other things aren't so bad.. but finding the judges is eating away at me. I'm not sure who to call.. let alone the fact that they'll actually agree to it at this late notice. But oh well. Keep your fingers crossed.

Have a blessed week.. :) & don't forget to wish me happy birthday!
k a t i e <3

the first.

Well I decided to start a blog.. lets see if I can actually keep it up :) Ward and I just got back yesterday from our visit with Sissy. We left Friday afternoon-ish around three and got there around eight. Sissy had dinner all ready for us and we ate and then went to get ice cream. Billy wasn't able to be there until Sunday so poor Ward didn't really have a guy around until then lol On Saturday we did what Sissy and I do best.. SHOP! And afterwards we went to the LU football game. Normally when we visit we leave after church & lunch on Sunday but since Ward and I both had off for labor day we got to stay an extra night :) So we went to see a movie later on Sunday and then Billy got there. I don't think Ward was so excited to see another guy in his entire life! :) We went to dinner on Sunday night and then it was off to bed so Ward and I could get an early start Monday morning.. which didn't really happen considering we left at almost eleven :) We always enjoy the ride to and from Lynchburg more than anything because its a time for just the two of us to be together and talk and goof off :) I had alot of fun.. and even though I'm sure I drove him crazy... and even though I had to go to the bathroom every half hour... he loved every minute of it :)

we're silly :)

Yesterday was labor day, and for some reason we had off school again today.. which is fiiiine with me ;) I'm enjoying my day off but I don't mind school too much. I plan to apply to the nursing program in May, so until then I only have a few classes to take because I already took most of the prerequisite stuff before I even decided to do nursing.. so I'm trying to take it slow and spread my classes out so I don't have to take a semester off. I'm taking Nutrition & Diet Therapy and Principles of Psychology. I'm thankful that both of my classes are interesting.. Its much easier to learn when I'm in a class about things that I LIKE learning about :)

My birthday is in SIX days!!! And for my birthday Sissy got me a new bedspread (which was muccchhhh needed) and I've already put it on my bed! It's so cute it makes me want to clean my room really well and make it as cute as the bedspread ;)

I'm pretty sure this is all I have to say.. I hope to update tomorrow. For anyone reading this.. have a wonderful week! God bless :)
- Katie