Surprises!

Today has been an extremely exciting and tiring day for me. It started about seven this morning when I woke up and decided to make blueberry pancakes for my last breakfast in Mom's house before going back to lonely Athens! After Mom and I finished our delicious breakfast we got ready and loaded down our cars with stuff! Our family got some VERY exciting news yesterday! Lauren and Eddie found out their baby is a BOY and our family couldn't be more excited! Mom and I decided we just HAD to go see Lauren. We picked out some cute baby boy items that represented our favorite things and gave them to her today. Mom is always wearing a robe and slippers around our house and felt it would be fitting to give the baby something she loves to wear in a miniature size. Anyone who knows me knows that I absolutely love blankets. I have special blankets that I sleep with every night in my bed up in Athens and some for my bed at Mom's house. I found an extremely soft blue baby blanket and decided it would be the first of many I would give to the new baby!

After giving our fun presents to the baby we decided to go for lunch at Mellow Mushroom. Eddie met the three of us there and we had the most delicious pizza! Unfortunately, I had to be back up in Athens before five in order to extend my parking permit. I had no desire to be back up here so early, but you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes. Fortunately, one of my very good friends, Anna Chestnutwood, invited me over to her house to keep me company. Her roommate Lauren is hysterical and I always get a kick out of hanging out with the two of them! They always know how to cheer me up when I'm sad about leaving Lance and my family to come back to school! Lauren's boyfriend, Chance, works at Long Horn in Athens and he invited us to come down and keep him company tonight while he worked! Hanging out with old friends is always a hoot!

Wish me luck on my first day of classes tomorrow! My first one starts at 9:15 and the second one starts at 1. I'm so nervous about taking Spanish 4 but Lance was so wonderful and encouraging before I left. He always knows how to calm me down! The plan is for him to bring Finn up to Athens tomorrow so we can spend the weekend together up here, but his truck has been acting up! Hopefully they won't break down on the side of the road!