New Year's Eve

This year's New Years plans were up in the air for a while! Originally I had planned to be a the annual Passion Conference in Atlanta, but plans changed, and thankfully I was able to sell my ticket to another student on ebay! Then, while saying some final goodbyes in Conway before coming home for Christmas break, my friend Lindsy invited me to her house up in Missouri for New Years Eve. I quickly accepted the invitation and looked forward to the trip!

On December 30th, I headed to Conway to meet up with amber to begin our road trip! Before leaving Conway, we had lunch and enjoyed visiting with Nicki and her husband Brandon at chick-fil-a. Then we made our way to Poplar Bluff, Missouri! Molly also met us at Lindsy's house. Once we arrived, Lindsy kept us entertained the entire trip! First, we made a trip to Walmart to buy food for the New Year's Eve celebration. Then we went to one of Lindsy's friends houses for a night of pool, skee-ball, and board games. Then next morning we headed into Cape Gerardiau, MO for Amber's hair appointment with Cody's sister and then of course some shopping! After the hair appointment we ate lunch at a cute downtown restaurant, Tractors. The best store we went in was called 'Trees n Trends' and we got lots of cute things for Lindsy's new house as well as some good Christmas bargains. Our shopping trip was ended early after this store due to a downpour!! It rained so hard on us most of the way back to Poplar Bluff. When we got back, it was time to start making the food and getting ready to bring in the new year!

This is a group pic of us, minus Laura Ward, Lindsy's brother, and her parents

This is part of the feast we whipped up!

Before and after bringing in the New Year, we enjoyed a very looooong game of phase 10! I started off in last place, but ended up winning! Well, we stopped after the 8th phase since we had been playing for nearly 3 hours!

Amber and I during the card game....we are silly!

And finally bringing in the new year!!! Happy 2011! It looks to be a good year: graduation, getting a job, and finding a place to live! Scary, but exciting! =)

We started off the new year VERY lazy! We spent the majority of the day watching the first season of "Friday Night Lights". We finally got ready in time to go by Lindsy and Cody's new house on the way to eat at 'Strawberry's'. Lindsy and Cody bought an older house with lots of land and have totally redone the inside of the house. It is SO gorgeous and I am very happy for them! It is truly the country dream home, with beautiful land and pond included! After eating dinner, we headed back in to Poplar Bluff to hang out at 'The Wine Rack' and then at 'Cosby's'. We had lots of fun playing darts, shuffleboard, and pool! After a late night, we got plenty of rest and then headed home after a delicious meal that Lindsy's sweet mom prepared. I had so much fun bringing in the New Year with these fabulous friends!

Once we got back into Conway, we met up with some PT girls at the new 3 Flamingo's Yogurt Company. Nicki, Jill, Erica, Amber, and I enjoyed some much needed girl talk for several hours before finally having to say goodbye. I'm really going to miss these girls over the next few months!! We've really gotten to be like family.