Happy Birthday..

Today is Brandon's 19th Birthday.  We are celebrating this afternoon with the Hall's, Douglas's, and the other Rader's.

Happy Birthday Brandon!

Santa Clause is coming to town..

The other night, me and Courtney dressed up Rader in two of his Christmas outfits and took a ton of pictures. He was such a good sport throughout the whole thing. Here are just a few of the pictures!

Here is an outfit from Ebay that I got him. He is a little reindeer : )

John's mom got him a Santa's outfit and it is so cute!!!

PERFECTION

Here are just some more pictures of my pretty near to perfect nephew. Yes, I know I am biased but am completely in love with this little man!!

The other night, me and Courtney took Christmas pictures of Rader and dressed him up in a Santa and Reindeer outfit. Those pictures will come very soon!!! All I can say now is that I love life and am so blessed : )

Rader Jackson Brose

Not only did I find out that I passed my Praxis test today, but my nephew arrived.  There will be many more pictures to come but just wanted to go ahead and post one.  He is PERFECT!!! Mom and dad are both doing great.

"Rader" Jackson Brose

8 lbs 3 oz

20 inches long

Blessed

This weekend was went by so fast.  We had a game on Saturday against Southern Wesleyan (which we won) and Sunday was filled with lots of activities.  To begin the day, the basketball girls went and helped out with Creating Christmas Memories.  This is a thing that takes place every year in Cleveland at K-Mart.  Children are chosen from around the community to come to K-Mart and spend $100.00 on WHATEVER they want.  This year the basketball team volunteered to help out.  This is truly a humbling experience.  You are assigned a child and you walk with them around the store, helping them pick out things.  All of these children are those that are less fortunate and sometimes it is so sad to see where these kids come from! This year I had an adorable little girl who was in first grade.  She stole my heart and I enjoyed every minute of it.  

After we got done with this, I enjoyed the rest of my Sunday afternoon doing homework. Tonight was our Christmas Formal for Upsilon.  Upsilon is a guys fraternity at Lee where I have the honor of being a Little Sister for a wonderful group of men.  Here are some pictures from our formal which was held on campus and was lots of fun!!!!

All the Little Sisters in Upsilon

All the guys that I got in with last Spring (09)

All the girls and guys that are in Sigma.  Sigma is the girls sorority that I am in at Lee.

Here is my date and best friend on the left: Eric Thomas and another one of my good friends on the right.

3rd time is a charm

As a lot of you know, November 14 I took the Praxis Test for the THIRD time. For the Masters Program at Lee, you have to pass this test before you can do your "official" student teaching. This past time was the last opportunity that I had to pass the Praxis to be able to complete my student teaching in the Spring and graduate on time.

Here is what this day consisted up
-Drive to Kentucky Friday, November 13 and play a game that night
-Stay up studying late that night and wake up at the crack of dawn to drive to Kentucky State
-Get there and take the test for a whole 2 hours!!
-Grab a quick bite to eat and get back to Georgetown, KY within 30 minutes to make it to my game
-FINALLY, I made it back to Georgetown and played our game. We ended up losing in overtime which was a huge bummer!!!

Needless to say, I was stressed to the max but knew so many people were praying for me. So the good news is I was sitting at the hospital waiting for my sister to have the baby and had the courage to look and see if my scores were up. I PASSED!!!!!!!!!! Praise the Lord, he truly does answer prayers, and YES the third time is always a charm : )

This day can't get any better..I passed my test and Baby Rader should be here at any moment..