MY NEW CAR!!!

This is my new baby...i get her this thursday!

No longer a TEENager....'bout time!

Well my birthday wish came true.  Saturday was my 20th birthday and the first day that I went ALL DAY without my crutches!  Now I am completely off crutches!

Saturday chris drove me all the way up to Marion to see my friends from IWU and take me out to dinner at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants and to my favorite coffee shop, Paynes :)  My roommate, christina also drove from Munice to spend the evening with us.  It was a great day except for the morning, when I received disappointing news that the car I really wanted would not be mine :(  BUT, overall, a really great birthday!  I actually feel older, its great...20 really isn't all that special except you get to leave the "teen" off of your age when you say it...that is my favorite part!  So i really only feel older when i get to TELL people that I'm 20, but still...

Ummm I walked WITHOUT my crutches today :)

....nuff said

Post - Surgery #3

Well 11 hours ago I went into my 3rd surgery...woke up around 1:30...and left the hospital feeling great!  My mom and I went immediately to McDonald's where I got a double cheesburger, fries, and a choc. milkshake (and ate it in about 5 minutes!)  Then came home and had about a 3 hour nap!

I have been walking a bit with the crutches and my boot...the pain is very minimal and it is so much fun to "pretend" walk!  My goal is to be off the crutches by my birthday, March 28th.  I want to go out on a birthday date with chris with no crutches so I can actually hold his hand while we walk and people don't look at us like my big brother is taking his handicap sister out..haha

I'm looking forward to trying a little more everyday and uncovering my ankle tomorrow!

Thanks to everyone who has been praying for me the last few months!

This and That

I have discovered that I have a talent for knitting simple things.  Hats are my specialty and I have had so much fun thinking of new ways to make them...I have never used a pattern...I'm not very confident in my ability to follow one, so I just make them up in my head and see if they work.  Right now I'm trying to make fingerless gloves...saw them in a knitting booklet but the pattern they have is waaaaay to complicated even for my grandmother who has been knitting since she was in high school.  I'm about halfway done...we'll see how long it takes me to get the thumb hole correct!

I also might have a car by this time tomorrow!  I have been looking 

alot the past 2 weeks and my dad and I went to test drive a car awhile ago and it seemed very good.  Its a 1999 red Honda Civic EX coup....MANUAL, just like I wanted, and if I can talk the dealer down on the price, I'm going to get it!