I am thankful for...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I'd like to list all of the people I am thankful for every day (in no particular order):

My family: all of them, my mom, dad, brother; my grandparents; my aunts and uncles and cousins across the country; my extended family who I don't see as often. They all have given me pieces of themselves to teach me lessons and make me who I am.

Look how short I am in this picture from my graduation dinner (May 07). Jack is about 2 inches taller now, btw.



My friends:

• New friends - friends from Curtis work, who I have bonded with over the past year and love so dearly! Memories from Chicago, cracky faculty workshop days and conferences, and happy hours will stand the test of time!

Dinner, and not a cheap dinner ;) on the first night of Everday Math conference, when the ex-waitresses in the group cringed as we handed our waitress 7 different cameras, Chicago August 08

• Summer family - My Tocalomans... my heart :) family in all senses of the word (except we are not related :). Each one of you gives something unique to the group, which makes for one special group indeed! My summers, and my life, would not be remotely the same without any one of you!
  

Director picture, the "silly" one, one of my favorite camp pictures of all my summers! And Erica and Stephen are dressed as each other, to clear up any confusion, lol. summer 07

• My high school aka "old" friends - Our cool weekends falling asleep in front of the TV on Friday nights or giggling at humphs... My best, no wait, THE best girlfriends!
  

From Laura's birthday, the smiliest picture ever! Cabo Cantina August 12, 2008

• My PHIS! - A A Alpha phi! 3 years of my favorite and most memorable times, including silly songs, long islands, a million costumes, and sisterhood. There is no one else I would have been able to live with in such close quarters during college, and I am thankful for all of the memories - and gigs of photos - that I will always have and cherish! Oh my love is alpha phi :)

LOVE this pic, and I'm not even in it! Flair day during rush school, coming into the house after singing songs in the street decked out in flair, me standing in front of the pillar and screaming at the top of my lungs "hey girls, look over here!" and everyone in the picture smiling for the camera, ah-mazing! Totally captures the fun. Rush school 06


My boyfriend: I won't go into details, but needless to say... I'm thankful for him.

Purple party to celebrate my favorite color and my 24th birthday, September 2008


My Angie: The cutest pup ever.


I am thankful for you! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!