Me weekend :)

Friday night I went out to eat with the girs. I sadly didn't get any pictures. After going from resturaunt to resturaunt with each one having long waits due to the Mardi Gras events going on this weekend, we ended up eating at Mellow Mushroom. It was pretty good but definately fattening. Especially when I had just broken my plateau that morning.

Saturday I woke up to a test from my sister. And Guess what?????

I'm going to be an aunt again. My sister is finally having a baby after trying for over a year and a half. I am soo happy for her! I know she has a ten year old and a 12 year old, but they were basically raised by my mom and she turned her life around and now is remarried and although her husband also has a little girl, they wanted a baby together and she wanted a chance to have a baby and raise it right. She went to the doctor and they ran tests and she is definately pregnant. They believe she is five weeks, but she is already gaining more weight than she should so they are going to examine and do an ultrasound and stuff next week. Right now we are just praying for a healthy baby and for her to have a healthy pregnancy.

Saturday afternoon I went shopping with my bff and then met up with my other bestie and headed to the Mardi Gras festival. It was fun considering the fact that I got mooned by some guys riding down the road when we were on the way back to the car..yuck!






Sunday morning I went to church. I didn't think my Mom was planning on going because it's an hour away and our church is down a dirt road and it had been storming and our preacher was also sick with pneumonia so we knew there would be a guest preacher. Anyways, from the time we walked in and the music started the church was filled with the Holy Spirit. It was amazing. I could not be still for the life of me. The preacher came to preach on another topic, but due to a woman or a few women in our church committing aldultery (which our preacher has preached about before) he knew that he was there to speak on a different matter. He acted out the stories he was telling us and really got all into it. Then he went on to discuss being saved and how he had a 72 year old man give a testimony about how when he was a young man his girlfriend had asked him to go to church and he went but for the wrong reasons. He went to sit and hold her hand and be able to have a few extra hours with her. He said throughout that church service that the Holy Spirit had spoke to him and when the preacher called everybody who had been spoke to and wanted to be saved to come to the front that he did not move. He said that today wasnt the day. He said that as he bowed his head and closed his eyes while everybody prayed he all of a sudden felt a hand on his back and the preacher had come down to him and said that the he wanted to help him get saved. The man said that he said no and made a dash for the door. He said that from that day forward he had spent his whole life trying to be a man of God but that he was empty because that day that he walked out of those church doors and turned his back on God. The Holy Spirit had been speaking to me (among others) the whole church service and when we all had our heads bowed, he asked those of us who wanted to be saved to just lift a hand for God to see and I did. Then he asked all of us to repeat a prayer after him, he asked the whole congregation to also repeat this prayer, because he knew that it would be easier for the ones wanting to be saved to say it along with everybody else. I repeated after him. After saying the prayer, he asked for everybody to stand and immediately after asked all of those who had asked to be saved to come stand on the stage and be acknoledged. This was the hardest thing for me. But I knew I had to do it. My whole body was trembling all over and I knew I couldnt just stand in the pews. I made my way to the front along with everybody else and the look out into the audience and both my mother and my grandparents realized what I had done was amazing. They were filled with tears. My legs trembled and my hands trembled and the preacher knew it as he shook my hand and the hands of each one of the people that had asked to be saved. I wasn't sure I could make it back to my seat. I was shaking from head to toe, not from nervousness or being cold, but from being filled with the Holy Spirit. As I stood next to my Mom as the church service ended, I felt a sense of Happiness and Joy and Holeness that I had never felt before. As soon as the service ended up my mom took me in her arms and hugged me with tears all down her face and my Grandma was beating it past the people to get to me to hug me with tears streaming down her face. Sunday, March 6 is a day that I will never forget.

The rest of the day I spent time with the Grandparents and my Mom and we went and visited my aunt who has been sick. She is supposed to be going to Emory to see another doctor because the doctors here have never seen anything like her case. Please keep her in your prayers! They are still leaning torwards a form of Leukemia :(



I hope all of you had a wonderful weekend :)

I got Saved today :)

I got Saved today. There is no feeling like the feeling I have had today.

I'm going to leave this post at that, as a way to mark the day and also because words cannot describe how I feel and how that service went this morning.

What's been going on in my life?

I know I have definately been missing for quite a while on here. I've been so busy and think I finally may be catching up. Here is whats been going on in my life:

~I took my nursing admit test Friday..praying I get accepted this time.

~I've been majorly busy with classes.

~I've been working out and dieting/ changing my lifestyle. I've only lost 8 lbs but thats atleast some. I seem to be stuck at a plateau for like the 3rd week in a row now though :( Not sure what to do to get off of it.

~I was planning on starting to train for a 5k today but it keeps raining off and on so my friend and me are going to have to wait.

~I've spent lots of time with all of my nieces and nephews these past couple of months. There hasn't been a dull weekend yet.

~On a sadder note, my aunt fell over the baby gate in her house and busted her mouth and passed out for a little bit. The next few days her mouth wouldnt stop bleeding and she started getting pin size bruises everywhere and then got huge purple bruises everywhere, even in places she didnt fall. It seems everywhere she touched was creating a huge bruise. She went to the dr and they found out her platelet levels were 900 when they should have been 150000. She was near death. They put her in the hospital immediately and took bone marrow, etc. to test. They then gave her 4 bags of plasma. Her levels are now at 172000 and they are done giving her plasma. Today is the first day since they have stopped and they are having to watch her to see if her levels stay up or if they drop again. They are still waiting on tests to come back and the doctors are afraid that she has leakemia. Please keep her in your prayers!

~I've been busy making Spring Break plans to go to Panama City with the girls.

~I have been pretty stress free thanks to removing one of the girls that caused the most stress and drama in my life from my friends circle.


~My brother gave me cobra rims for my stang. I'm so happy. They look so nice and make it look even more like a race car.

~I went to my colleges version of American Idol Friday night. It was amazing and my friend got the 2nd place position while two students that my mom knows well from working there got the 1st and 3rd places.

~I am also getting ready for our Dinner Theatre that is in 3 weeks. I wont get to dress up like I'm in the 50s like the last time it was held and my nephew was born and I couldnt go, but there is another fun theme this time. We are participating in a murder mystery theme. The theater is putting on a play and at the end everybody has to figure out who is the murderer. It seems pretty fun to me. Plus we get to dress up and have a 5star yummy meal and its free for students and 40 dollars for everybody else. Sounds good to me!

Alright, well thats my life as of recently. How have you all been?

WILW!!!

It's time for another edition of



~I'm loving that although my mom had to go through a painful surgery for skin cancer monday in which they went in on her forhead and scraped to her skull in order to get it all only to find that it had spread and they had to go in and scrape more and get the roots, but the good thing is they got it all. She has been in a lot of pain and could use prayers, but she is glad to be cancer free!!

~I'm loving that I have lost 7 lbs since I started this weight loss back the second week of January. This makes me extremely happy!!!

~I'm loving these yummy bars right here:

and guess what, they are just for us women :) That's always a good thing :P

~And guess what, i'm actually loving green tea!!! Yup add a little splenda to it and it is quite yummy!!!

What are you loving this week?

The post where Carie goes all boob crazy!!

I don't know if I've ever told you all about my insecurities about my boobs, but here goes nothing.

I started my period at a very younng age. I was only in fourth grade. By the time I started middle school I learned that Ihad crazy bad periods and the doctor found out that I had endometreosis. In order to make my periods fall on weekends so that I could go to school and also to try to keep the pain down some the doctor put me on birth control. I was so young and already having to learn about birth conrol. Throughout middle school and highschool I was on birth control, had a laproscopic surgery to scrape my ovaries and remove scar tissue from endometreosis along with a cyst, and then even was put on Lupron shots (which apparently shut down my ovaries to make it seem like I was going through menopause..crazy). However none of this is supposed to affect the chances of me ever having children and the doctor said he believes that when I get married that I will have no problem getting pregnant. However, all of this took havick on my poor dear boobs. I always knew that I had two different sized boobs and had heard it was normal. I told my mom and family members and was highly worried about it. They said they didn't think I had anything to worry about because most women have two different sized breasts. What nobody noticed, was how different my two different sized breasts are. I thought I was normal as well until one day I went to a different OBGYN and the lady informed me that it was not normal and embarrassed me really bad talking about the different sizes. She embarrassed me so much that I am scared to even wear a bathing suit and I even catch myself checking how they look in the mirror in certain shirts to make sure you can't tell. I however knew that I couln't afford a boob job to fix this, however this morning while watching the Hoda and Kathy Lee show the plastic surgeon said that if a woman did not devolope right throughout puberty and had a noticeable change in breast size then insurance should cover it to get fixxed.

I have no clue whether I should go through with it or look into it..what do you think?

The news today:

I know, I know I have been so MIA!!!

In the past few weeks I haven't had much going on to blog about and I'm sure all of you don't want to hear about my lifeless days with books, studying, eating healthy, working out, no man in my life lifestyle..

Anyways, I have had a bit of drama in my life. So for you people who love hearing about the drama in the life of Carie, here you go, however I promise this whole post is not about that or I hope not.lol

Recently I have had so much friend drama. One is jealous of the other. One doesn't want to hang out if the other one is hanging out. One doesn't care what she says as long as it makes her look good and makes everybody else look bad. Ugh it is getting completely rediculous. One thinks she has to have a man. One won't leave a bad man though she knows he is the wrong man. And me, well I feel like I need to become closer to God, focus more on my school work, and maybe then a guy will fall in place.

Anyways, how do you feel about these things? One night we went out and my friends decided they wanted to see a rated r movie. Well we had my friends two year old little boy with us and I tried to convince everybody not to go, but his mom took him on in like it was nothing. I was so embarrassed. I mean come on now, it was "No Strings Attached" and everyone was talking about us and staring!
Then, Friday night we went out to eat and this same friend ordered a Virgin Strawberry Daiquiri. However, nobody in the resturaunt knew that, so when it arrived the little boy wanted the cherry and the whipped cream off the top and she let him stand up and just lick all of it off the tall drinking glass..Everyone yet again was staring at us talking because they thought it was an alcoholic drink, then she thought it would be funny to provoke them and put two straws in thedrink and take a sip and then hand it to him to take a sip. I turned soo red along with my other friend who was sharing the OMG look with me an trying to hide under the table.
Am I wrong? I know it's none of my business, but I'm the one getting embarrassed in the process!!

Moving on, Today my Mom had surgery to have cancer from her forehead removed. She had a mild version and they had to go in three times to get all of the roots and scraped all the way to the skull every time. She has to leave it open with a bandage over it overnight and then has to go back tomorrow for stitches.She is very sore and weak, but the shaking she was experiencig earlier has subsided. I'm just gad that they got it all because the cancer had spread so muchfrom December when they found it until today when they did the surgery.

On a happier note, I'm excited for Valentines even though I don't have a Valentine because the girls and me will be dining in, swapping presents, watching movies, and playing games. We are having a full course meal (made by the bestie) with yummy desserts (made by me)!! I will be making a white choc. raspberry cheesecake, choc. chip cheesecake, heart shaped brownies, and white choc. covered strawberries. I'm so excited. I also will be picking up some cute things to "Make" their gifts and hope they will like them as much as I like the pic. in my head of them :)

Oh and by the way, my team lost!!! Just thought I would fill y'all in on who I was going for. It however was a good game althought the half time show sucked even though I am a usual fan of the black eyed peas and although Christina messed up the National Anthem I do feel sorry for her because I would have been so nervous too.

Oh and about Mr. Right who is not so much Mr. Right. That same Mr. Right that I've been talking about for the past 3/4ths of a year, well yeah..he's dating a hooters girl and basically I have no chance..So I'm going to let him have that and one day I WILL find my Mr. Right!!!

Well that's pretty much the news in my life!!! How have you all been?

A pile of pics, but you still should look :)

We finally got our pics back from our photo shoot and here you go.