30 Day Photo Challenge - Day 14

Day 14 - A picture of someone you could never imagine your life without.

I could make this post about a lot of people, and almost all of them are family, but I'm choosing to make it about my Aunt Renee and my cousin, Annah. 

Annah and I absolutely HATED each other about 95% of the time growing up. She hated me because I had my mom for a mother - or as she said, HER Aunt Kay - and I resented her for having MY Aunt Renee as a mom. During the 5% of the time when we weren't having screaming matches with each other or trying to manipulate our moms into saying which one of us they loved the most, we were really close. In fact, one of my fondest memories of my childhood is having a slumber party at her old house and watching the Sailor Moon movie all night long.

My Aunt Renee has always been my hero; I can't describe why, but suffice it to say that she's always just been one of my favorite people for no one reason that I can pinpoint. The only thing I can remotely say that comes close enough to what I feel for her is that I love her.

On April 20th of last year, I came very close to losing both of them in a horrible car crash. They were hit by a semi while they were trying to turn left and they both almost died. Annah fractured her pelvis in multiple places, broke almost every bone in one of her feet, had bleeds on her brain and liver...the list goes on, as she took the brunt of the impact. She's perfectly fine now, amazingly. Renee had trouble with her heart after the crash but is now doing fine as well. 


There were so many "coincidences" that were involved in their crash that it's hard to believe. (Ie: one of the police officers said that one of the wheels on the SUV shouldn't have still been attached to the car and that it was a miracle it still was because if it had separated from the car, the car would have sank lower to the ground and the semi would pretty much have drove over them.) I thank God every day for keeping them safe.


It just hit me that day how much I would miss them if, God forbid, something ever did happen to them. I absolutely cannot imagine my life without either of them and I'm actually tearing up just thinking about it to write this.


If you guys read this, I love you both. <3

30 Day Photo Challenge - Day 13

Day 13 - A picture of your favorite band or artist.

Love me some Goo Goo Dolls.

The Cab can always turn my frown upside down.

And I will forever love B. Spears.

And that folks, is just the tip of the ice burg. I love music and it was hard to just pick three artists/bands to showcase.

30 Day Photo Challenge - Day 12

Day 12 - A picture of something you love.

Of COURSE this post has to be about penguins. I freaking LOVE penguins. Absolutely, positively, really, really, realllllllly, l-o-v-e LOVE them. 

You can not be anything but happy around a penguin, seriously. Try it sometime.

30 Day Photo Challenge - Day 11

Day 11 - A picture of something you hate.

(Google image.)

I realllllly, really, REALLY, hate tornadoes. I think I was scarred for life when my parents took me to see Twister when it came out (I was like 6 or 7) and it was storming so bad that the power went off in the theater a couple times - so scary! But it got worse: we barely made it home, we were in my great-grandpa's old SUV and I remember my mom had to keep wiping the inside of the windshield so my dad could see. The rain was so heavy that when we finally got home, the moment we stepped out of the car we were drenched. Yup, I think that traumatic little event is what struck the fear of tornadoes in me. Ha.

30 Day Photo Challenge - Day 10

Day 10 - A picture of the person you do the most messed up things with.

My friend Khrista, hands down. 95% of the "messed" (the original word used for this day is a *bit* less appropriate) up things I've done have been with her. She's been my partner in crime since we met in 7th grade.

30 Day Photo Challenge - Day 9

Day 09 - A picture of the person who has gotten you through the most.

My mommy, of course! I love her, plain and simple.

30 Day Photo Challenge - Day 8

Day 08 - A picture that makes you laugh.

This photo was taken of our dog, Lexi, for my mom's art project - she's working towards her Master's degree. Every time I see it, and I see it a lot because it's the background image of my nook, it makes me chuckle. She just sat there like a champ while we took picture after picture after picture. I love her.