HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!

so ive been wanting to do something special for ya, been spending a lot of nights working on this. i love you, happy 50th dad hope its a great one

Make an on-line slideshow at www.OneTrueMedia.com

So I have to admit..it has been since forever ago Ive had the patience to sit here and upload a bunch of pics. but alot has happened in the past few months and in the end of my first semster in college. for 1...i have discovered a new picture editing thing on facebookthat is amazing and allows me to edit photos like the one up there. ive traveled all around the state including jacksonville, oxford, boiling springs and boone. In jacksonville we go to visit Melissa aka Shakira..who has actually become one of my very good friends, she moved there to get an apartment with her marine husband. but more on that later...that picture up there was taken at one of the beaches we visited there..we went to about 3 or 4 of them. made some amazing memories, but recently lost my grandmother which has been pretty hard on me if u couldnt tell by my last entry. BUT... there is actually something new going on in my life now...

His name is George. and without getting into too much detail I'll just tell you we were in class together last semster. a class i often refered to as my "special ed" class because they treated us like we are retarded. anyways...for some reason this boy finds me attractive and doesnt care how immature i am. he listens to me when i talk and he cares about me so much and i do with him as well

We hang out every day...my friends love to pick on him, and i love bringing him around bc he fits in

lol..yea..

He is majoring in political science....and often blames that for the reason he doesnt smile in pictures..apparently "good politicians dont smile"...he is not an Obama fan.

just a night we went out for ice cream and were being stupid, i missed these girls while i was away

cant wait to bring this girl home with me

..yet again ill say he hates smiling in picture so laci was tryig to make him laugh. also..it looks like im taller than him but actually hes an inch taller than me

haha...

thats heather..she was in special ed with us as well and is one of George's good friends here at school

annnnnnnnd that's josh he was with us on halloween

firedrill...happened to have my camera

literally just puting this one in here bc he hates it so much lol

..could have been a good one if i wasnt being stupid.

Nugget and me..love that girl.

hight difference..
anyways its been going pretty good over here...he has been my boyfriend for offcially 2 weeks tomorrow but we both agree it feels like much longer. we write notes back and forth online every night and we are just doing really great really really great. i never thought i could find a guy in this world that is ok with my immaturity at times, goofy dancing, closeness with my friends, traveling so much and be so understanding about everything and everybody i ever talk to him about. i dont think i could ask for anyone better at this point..and i know people might be saying its too soon to be saying all this about him...i know its only been 2 weeks but ive actually been talking with him for much longer so dont think im some psyco girl who thinks she is in love after 2 weeks lol. thats not it at all...im just happy :) and i think its going to be a while before i let this boy go.

<3

but ok...enough with all the emotional stuff haha...more entries to come, hobbits coming up friday, valentines day is coming up, then im going home for my birthday and before we even know it the weekend after that starts spring break! im glad ive spent some time away from the house and charlotte, because now i am just so excited for when i get to go back and the longer im away the more i miss the kids and my parents.

love you guys!

HI KYLIE...i know you are one of the only ones who still checks this lol

i love you all and will talk to u soon

~The SamDawg~

Hold your head high heavy heart..

heart is crying,

my spirit is dying.

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when I was growing up, or just a little girl,

didnt realize when I was with you, I had the world.

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every soccer game, even the band.

every musical, my biggest fan.
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every hope, every dream,

no matter how stupid, you still believed.

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beanie babies, and trading baseball cards,

watching football to see who ran the longest yard.

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you gave me my Aunt Susan, and all those funny times,

you gave me Uncle Don, at ACDC comitting crimes.

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Aunt Janet, so much fun and I've missed her,

Uncle Eddie at easter under a house avioding the twister.

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but most important a man that spends his life working, with a down time of zero,

my father who does what he can, and has become my biggest hero.

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I know you are gone now, but still always here to me,

I will live the best I can, and always be smoke free.

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standing in the hospital, watching you die,

felt like I was stabbed in the heart over a trillion times.

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the thought of your passing, and knowing I'll never see you again,

makes me feel like I have lost a part of my heart that may never mend.

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but you are in heaven now, and I know this is true

so until my day comes, for the last time...I'll Be Seeing You.

G0d help my family get through this.

Caving, Road to Nowhere, APP and HALLOWEEN!!

So i will start by saying..its been about 3 or 4 weeks i think since ive updated. but damn i have been busy, as u can tell by the title of this one a lots been going on. a lot of fun really, and visiting. i got to see GG and Hobbit and Rachel last wekend and parttttyyyy. and u know i have plenty of videos to go around just gotta watch which ones i put up haha. there are a few refrences i think u need to be aware of while looking at this. the road to nowhere..ok its this huge tunnel connecting NC and tennesse...now its up in the middle of some mountain and has been closed down, simply because it was made on an indian barial ground..IM SERIOUS no urban legend there. or whatever thats what everyone says. anyways its pitch black and we like to go up there alot. as u will see. anyways lets get this started theres a lot to go through..

yea this was the first time we went to road to nowhere...with no flashlights...needless to say..we didnt actually make it through the tunnel due to pictures like this one

since we didnt actually go through the tunnel we stopped off on the side of the road on the way down to look at the view

cute one of the girls

yyeea...maria is the one on the left shes the best at taking these random pictures

an attempt to take a picture of all of us. asian hates this one bc she looks like ET. lol

another failed attempt, great one of little laci though

losers.

just another walmart run.

im not a big fan of the scary mask

these are funny though lol

laci as mccain

The SamDawg as...OBAMA!!

and Maria as...something scary.

its like i tell everyone...im 4% black.

and now we are onto caving, other than the tight spaces..this was one of the coolest experiences of my life

puttin on the caving clothes

k so i was so excited thinking we were gonna get to put on these mining helmets with the flashlights..turns out we had to ducktape them on ourselves. withthat helmet and her laughing like that asian looks like shes got some problems

lookin good ladies.

long ride to be hangin out with these people

eating lunch in tennesse..its freakin cold there didnt have me in the best of moods!

didnt have the best effect on the asian either.

straight pimpin

entrance to the cave

oh you know i didnt actually do that one...i watched the bookbags for this one...

yea it didnt happen lol

now for some pics inside the cave...

apparently this is water?

the coolest part of the cave to me was the random puddles of water that were completely still, no ripples nothing just still water, looked like a big piece of glass or something.

me asian and jew

me, asian, jew and josh he is the RA on the 3th floor. we were the only ones who ended up going caving, no one else who signed up came.

but man did they miss out

i think this was the wall we ahad to rope up? im not sure.

asians...

u know your jealous...

coming from china

road to nowhere...take 2

this is rebecca she came with us, pretty cool chick

little laci in the tunnel she looks so tiny!

rebecca annnd introducing...Shakira.

um..gross picture of me but a funny one of everyone else so i kept it

but as i was saying this is Shakira..shes hilarious. and u know if im saying that its gotta be true cuz sometimes it hard for me to find someone to lasugh at harder than i do myself. i only call her Shakira though bc she is hispanic and has made it a point to tell me not to call her latina or mix up her nationality. sooo u know me, i do it to just to get on her nerves, and i fail miserably cause it doesnt seem to bug her. oh well. i like the name..."SHAKIRA SHAKIRA" *insert latin dance*
her real iname is melissa though, just so i actually include what other people call her though the nickname is starting to stick.

then we went to Dilsboro..tiny little town near here with all these craft shops. mom i tried to steal this sign for you...i failed. as usal. and got rust all over my hands while in the process.

eating at some random BBQ place

fudge factory...south beach keeps me from going there ever again...

APP!! HOBBIT..GG!! RACHEL!! AH best weekend ever..besides a few minor uh..car break ins..

yep..everythigns back where it left off with hobbs..

finally got to meet her friend devonte who is pretty awesome

oh stews..i missed you so. this is michelle stewart shes one of my best friends from high school, we did theater together all the time and never refer to each other by our first names. maan i missed this girl.

and i cant evn begin to talk about how much i missed this one..i love that all my best friends ive kept in touch with and have known them for atleast like 6 years now. i missed her so much i was begining to go crazy without my hobbit!

and then the big party. yes i have millions of pictures of me and gg as well but i put them near the end. this is my favorite picture from the whole weekend though, i love these girls to death and i cant stress how important it is to me to keep in touch, nothing has changed with my relationship between any of them. i wish i had gotten to see lindsay though :-(

and like i said..nothing has changed with this one especially. still messin with me as always

still bad ass.

k so when people hold up that sign u get a free hit..so hobbit is doing it in alot of pictures cause she knows i will look back at them

thank you hobbit for smudging up all my windows.

elmo gloves.

lookin good rach lol

gross picture of us

car dancing and being dumb...the usual

oh hobbit..lol

she scrunched my hair for me...well made me do it.

now for the multiple pictures of me and gg and random videos.

BEST FRIEEEND!!

me rachel, hobbit, andddd vonte

the girls

hmmm...yeea.

best picture from the whole trip, i would say

lookin good there..

damn it!

STEEEEWWSSS

hobbit and i

one for the road

...biiitttccchhhh
MEANWHILE...BACK IN THE WHEE...

well not really meanwhile...i finally got to catch up with this kid, Ben. freaking stubborn and wouldnt let me get a picture of his face

well atleast not one of him smiling.

jerk lol

and now finally for some halloween stuff, asians pumpkin was badass

yea

annnd our little secret road trip to charlotte, the girls got to meet my parents. it was so much fun

they got to meet rachel too

haha yea, front door of my house

on the way back to western about an hour later

ASIAN

hahaha ok... u need to see the video for this one

halloween night

nugget fixin part 1's hair for her

annnd part 2 helping asian become the scary grudge

as you can see..it worked.

and i went as.. SUPERSTAR!!...snl refrence for those of u who dont know

um...fuckin creepy asian.. i know i know....i make u proud mom and dad.

laci did her hair all cute for fun

haha yeea...shes gotta be freaky in like every picture. idk why

well ok except this one

but not this one!! see shes creepy again!!

Road to Nowhere..again.

ugh.

the stars were out really pretty this night, we pulled over on the side of the road on the way down from the tunnel. just took a million pics

nice.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....sorry...that was the scariest look i got all halloween.

ANYWAYS..so that took a billion years to finish this blog. literally.

but now i have a lot of pictures to update from my visit home this past weekend and videos, also this weekend im going to jacksonville...nc..not florida dont get excited....with someo f the girls. annnd u know i love my road trips so the pictures and videos from that will be interesting as well. anyways, update again VERY soon...so it wont take so long to load like this one did..

love you all,

~The SamDawg Stedem~