Highlights from my party.

The Tables.


The Centerpieces.

Kirsten, Racheal, and I.


My Dress.

All the stuff I got for the Cherokee Children's Home.
Plus A little Over $200 in cash and checks.

Then... the best part.. MY TRUCK!!

I have to make weekly payments.. buuut im still glad that i got a truck. it amazing i love it. i love the looks i get from people when im driving it. :)

thats all i have for now. ill put some more up when i get the pictures that everybody took. :)

Random Thoughts at 2 am..

So as I'm sitting here waiting for my DVD to finish I was thinking. Bradleys phone broke friday and he hasn't gotten it fixed yet which means we haven't talked since friday. :(. I got on myspace today and saw where he had gotten on Myspace he didn't say anything to me. I start to let that get me upset and frustrated. And then after my two very best friends went to bed I started thinking about it. I'm sitting here getting mad at him because he didn't say anything to me today when he got on myspace when knowing him he just got on long enough to get on check everything and get off because his parents and sisters went to go see him. Well that made me start thinking about how we often take things for granted. I'm being selfish and getting mad at my boyfriend because he didn't simply say one word to me today when he got on myspace when there are army wives and girlfriends that may not have talked to there husbands or boyfriends in weeks. This small thing made me stop and think about how I often take things for granted. I'm always complaining or down about something in my life when I really should be looking at the things I DO have not the things I DON'T have. I don't realize how many things I take for granted till I take a step back and look. In some ways we take God's love for granted. We do things that we know we shouldn't do because we know that our God is a forgiving God and will forgive us. I can't even begin to list the things and people in my life that I take for granted. This is something that I'm going to try and work on. Not taking things for granted wheater it be money, love, friendship, God, anything. I am going to start working on this.

What are somethings that you see that you take for granted?


- Raven.

:)

So last night was so amazing in so many different ways. Bradley and I have gotten back together. He's moved to a bigger and better school for football, football practice is starting up again so he hasn't really had enough time to talk to me like i think he should. and me being me i blow him not talking to me out of context and make it in to something that it isn't. well last night Bradley and I had a REAL heart to heart convo. we started talking at 10pm and didn't get off the phone till 4am. We talked about thing we had never talked about before. We talked about our feelings for each other. Things in the past. It was sooo amazing. I KNOW now that he loves me. After the things he said last night and everything I KNOW that with out a doubt he loves me. He poured his heart out to me told me things that I prolly didn't want to know and somethings that he should have told me a long time ago.. but the same goes for me. I'm sure i told him somethings about my past that he didn't want to hear but i also told him somethings that i should have just told him from the get go. Last night was amazing. i don't know any other way of explaining it. :)

buuuut that's all for tonight I'm so tired i can hardly stay awake.

23 days till my sweet sixteen.
11 days till we go to the BEACH! yay!

I made this video for my daddy to be played at my birthday party this weekend. Without my daddy I wouldn't be who I am. He has been my strength when I was weak, he has ALWAYS been there for me. No matter how bad I had messed up. He always supports me in what I do. I can talk to him about anything and everything. Even though he messed up early in life and hasn't always been with me he is still a big part of my life. I love him so much. I don't know what I would do without him.

ps andrea if you see this please dont say anything to mammonk/pappaw or jmaw/jeanne before this weekend. :) thanks.

And the countdown has started. :)

25 days till my sweet sixteen.

and I can't wait. this year for my birthday I wanted to do something different. so i requested in my birthday invitations that instead of getting gifts for me make either a money donation or some items that we listed to be given to the Cherokee Childrens Home. my church supports them, we called them and asked them what they need and they said that they had 14 teenage girls around my age and they went though hair stuff, tampons, pads, etc. and they could really use these things. so thats what i asked everybody for for my birthday.

thinking about it just makes me smile. i mean i don't by any means need any things. i have been very blessed and by no means am i in any need of anything. sometimes you dont think about how blessed you really are untill you start thinking about the people that arent and dont have the things they need. i really hope that i can get these things for these girls.

when i told my mom she didnt understand why i would want to do something like that.. and she doesn't think that people will actually bring stuff for it. i hope that i can prove her wrong and show her that people will do stuff. i love the feeling you get when you know that you are helping somebody that is in need.

it makes my heart happy. yeah that sounds kinda corney and stupid but i dont know any other way to explain it.

i just got back from Arkansas yesterday. it was okay. not my favorite state but it was okay. ill put a few pictures up tomorrow hopefully. :)

i cant wait to go to the beach.. and to turn 16.

- Raven :)

Pappaw. :)

This my Great-Grandpa. I call him Pappaw. :)
These were a few pictures we took on the way to church sunday. He cracks me up. I am so glad that he has had such a impact on my life. If it wasn't for him and Mammonk(my Great-Grandma) I know with out a doubt I wouldn't be mee. :)

He's so goofy. :)

Franklin the Turtle. :)

Today as I was driving down Parkerville I almost ran over a turtle. I had to turn around and get out of the middle of the street, well instead of taking it too the side of the road and leaving it I had to take it somewhere safe. So I put in my moms car, first of all bad idea considering I knew mom wouldn't let me keep it.. but I thought it was worth a try anyway. Lol. So going on about what i was doing with this turtle in the floor board it decided that my moms car was its bathroom.. YUCKKK! it peed in her car.. She wasn't too happy about that one. Well when i got back to the shop annnd told my mom that i had saved a turtle she was like and what do you think you are goinng to do with this. I tried talking her into lettting me keep it. didn't work. so then i came up with this wonderful idea that i would take it to my best friends house, put it in a box with a note that said SAVEEEE ME and leave it on her door step for her to find when she came home from school... my mom didn't think it was such a wonderful idea sooo i had to let him go in the huge pond behind kirstens house.. :)

i feel good that i saved a turtle. :)
i would have soooo put that turtle on her door step if it wouldn't have been for my mom.



Byeee byeee Franklin. :)