2015 In Review

Hello All,

Happy 2016! Where did the time go? How is already 2016? This past year as been awesome, stressful, happy, great, exhausting and fast. I can't believe how fast it went. It feels like just last yesterday I was writing 2014 In Review and now its time to say good-bye to 2015. So, let's take a look back at this year.

So, without further I ado I want to share what I've done. This year I...

-Start my Junior Year: Spring Semester

-Had a Semester where we went six Mondays without having classes

-Went to Disney over Spring Break

-I Turned 21 in Disney

-Saw Cinderella (movie review here)

-My friend Tori came to visit me at school

LtoR: Me and Tori

-Celebrate 2 Years of Blogging

-Saw The Longest Ride (Movie Review Here)

-I did a Walk for Organ Donation

The Team

-Went Hiking with my Roommate, Megan

-Made a a Confession about Blogging

-Saw Pitch Perfect 2 (Movie Review Here)

-Saw Train Wreck (Movie Review Here)

-Went to a Red Sox Game with Mama J and two of my cousins

LtoR: Mama J and I

-Explored Harvard

-Celebrated Amelia's 21st Birthday

-Moved back to school

-I Fell in Puppy Love

-Start my senior year

First day of class selfie

-Got my first Macbook and of course decorated with a Bulldog sticker

-I fell and sprained my ankle

I also rocked a really weird tan line this year

-I went Pumpkin Picking

-Went to Homecoming

-Saw Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 (Movie Review Here)

And that is everything that I've did in 2015. I can't wait to see what 2016 has in store.

What I'm Thankful For 2015 {Thanksgiving Post}

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year. I love all the food and the Macy's Parade and the family and the fact that Christmas pretty much starts the next day. Thanksgiving just makes me so happy. Every year (2013 & 2014) I like to share all the things I am grateful for, like...

...Mama Judy

...my family in general

...my friends

Mandi & I

Tori & I

Sonja, Megan & I

Amelia & I

...the ability to go to school...even when it stresses me out

A snap from my least favorite class in Spring '15 semester

...the ability to eat 3 meals a day

...the fact that I can write this blog

...the ability to travel

From my March 2015 trip

...the amazing men and women who risk their lives everyday for our freedom.

...people who donate their organs so that people like my cousin can continue to enjoy their lives.

And those are all the things I'm grateful this year and everyday. What are you grateful for? Let me know in the comments below. 

Disney at Christmas 2014: Candlelight Processional

Hello all,

Happy Tuesday! It is the first Tuesday of the semester and let me tell you my Tuesdays are CRAZY. But that's okay because for the next few weeks we are going to be talking about DISNEY!

Today I'm going to finish up the EPCOT part of this series and we're going to talk about the Candlelight Processional. 

The Candlelight Processional is Mama J's favorite part about Disney at Christmas and she was so excited to see it again! She really enjoy it this time.

On selected nights Disney brings in special celebrity guest narrators to come to EPCOT and read the story of Jesus. Along with the guest narrators they also invited high school choruses to come and sing famous Christmas carols along with Disney's very own Voices of Liberty. The combinations of those words always come out beautifully!

On the night that we went to see the Candlelight Processional our guest narrator was Ana Gasteyer, most recently none for her role on Subagatory. She also did stints on Saturday Night Live and was Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway! 

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 She did a fantastic job as the narrator and looked like she was really having fun. During the songs you could tell that she really wanted sing and dance along with the music. 

Mama J and I did the dinner package so our dinner at Teppan Edo as well as our tickets were combined for one price. It was nice to have dinner and then go see the show! 

Here are the very few pictures that I have from the show!

I really enjoyed the candlelight processional and would definitely want to see again at some point. I really hope that one day when I do get to see it again I would love to Neil Patrick Harris or Marley Martin who have both done it multiple times in the past. And I definitely recommend that anyone who is in Disney at Christmas time go see it!

I hope all of you have a great Tuesday!

2014 In Review

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!

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I'm not a 100% sure why but 2014 really was one of my best years of my life. I found a major that I really like. I have made new friends and gotten closer with some old friends. I went on some super cool adventures. And overall I was happy more then I was sad. I was relaxed more then I was stressed. And I felt positive more then I felt negative. Now I want to take a look back on some of the cool things I did in 2014.

-In January I went to see Saving Mr. Banks (Review Here)

- Started and completed Spring Semester 2014

-At the end of January my family experienced a miracle

-In February I played in the snow with my friends.

LtoR: Mandi and me

-I also saw the movie That Awkward Moment (movie review here)

-I had my first article published, which crossed something off my bucket list!

- One of my best friends, Tori, came to visit at me at college!

LtoR; Tori and Me

-I went to my cousin's wedding

LtoR: me and Mama J

-I turned 20 years old! (birthday post here)

-Enjoyed my sophomore year spring break

-I went and saw Wicked

-I step down from being the Future Teacher's Club secretary

-Went to the annual Future Teacher's club Apple Banquet

With the Spring Semester Officers (LtoR: Me, Lauren, Deanna, Heather and Cyndi)

-Particpate in my school's Relay for Life

The Theme was Super Heroes and my team made capes.

-My blog turned 1 Year Old

-Changed my major

- Saw Hunter Hayes, Dan+Shay and Danielle Bradbury

-Went on a Disney Cruise

-Went to the beach with Tori

-Went and saw 22 Jump Street (movie review here)

-Went and saw The Fault in our Stars (movie review here)

-Went to a Red Sox Game

-And spent the night in Boston

-Spent a day in Mystic, CT and went to Mystic Pizza

-Spent a day in Newport, RI

-I visited family in New Hampshire

-Dyed my hair for the first time

-Moved back to school for Junior year

-I went to the Maze Runner (movie review here)

-I went to see Maze Runner (movie review here)

-Homecoming 2014 with the lack of pictures

-I went to see Big Hero 6 (Movie Review Here)

-I went to see Wicked with my cousin

plus did my first fashion post

-Went to Disney with Mama J

And that was my year in review. Until I did this post I didn't realize just how busy my year has been! It was fun and crazy and I loved every minute of it. I can't wait to see what happens in 2015!

I hope everyone had a great New Year however you celebrate! 

P.S. As many of you know I'm a huge Gilmore Girls fan. I just want to send my condolences out to the family and friends of Edward Hermann after his death yesterday. Richard Gilmore has always been one of my favorite TV characters and it breaks my heart to know that he has passed away. 

Disney at Christmas 2014: The Christmas Decorations

Hello All,

Let's talk Christmas Decorations!

On of the main reasons that Mama J wanted to go down to Disney at Christmas time was because she wanted to see the Christmas decorations. The decorations were beautiful this year and I took a good amount of pictures of them. Unfortunately we never got to see the one at Magic Kingdom because I was sick.

The first set that we saw were the ones in EPCOT.

French Pavilion

French Pavilion

French Pavilion

French Pavilion, I thought this looked so simply pretty!

American Pavilion Christmas Tree

American Pavilion

A gingerbread capitol building

A gingerbread capitol building

The ingridents for the gingerbread building

I can't remember which Pavilion this was in

Santa Stitch

Epcot looked beautiful all decked out, although we noticed a strange lack of music playing in the pavilion. I missed the music, it took away from the magical Disney feel that I'm used to.

I went to Hollywood Studios the next day, their primary use of Christmas decoration are the Osbore lights, since I didn't stay there until night time I didn't see the lights. There was a tree, it actually was my favorite tree that I saw on Disney property.

The Muppets got in on the Christmas spirit by putting up their own red tree

We also went to two different resorts and saw their decorations as well. The Grand Floridian had a large Gingerbread house, which fun fact they sell treats out of, that's how big it is! They also had a beautiful, large tree!

Alice in Wonderland inspired window

Mickey and friends inspired window

The Contemporary Resort had a Gingerbread display based on the Disney hit Frozen.

And those are all the Christmas decorations that we saw while we were down there, well at least all the ones that I took pictures of.