My Puppy

Ever since I was a little girl I have loved puppies! I got my first puppy when I was around 3, her name was Maxie she was a WalMart dog as we called her! We got her for free at walmart. haha! although she was a $400 dog she was one of the best dogs! She eventually grew to be too old and passes She was loving and attentive. She made us all feel safe! On to my second dog Rascal! Rascal was a terrier and we got him for free also because my mom was good friends with the breeder! Rascal was not as nice i was often scared to play with him because he didnt like little children much. Rascal later died when my teacher ran him over :(. My third dogs name was Dozer! Dozer was actually my brothers graduation present and he was a Boxer! I loved tat dog to pieces. He was soo playful and prtective and VERY good with kids you could jump on him and pull on him and he'd just lay there. Dozer passed away when I was sophomore in highschool from old age.
Now to get to the puppy dog I really want to talk about. MY dog Boomer! I got boomer when I was in 5th grade as a Valentines Day present! Boomer is a boston terrier, that we had got from a breeder.Boomer is black and white, with big ol' eyes. Ever since he was a puppy Boomer has been full of energy! All my friends would always be so impressed when they saw how high he could jump. Now that hes a little older he can't jump as high, but he still gets up there. Boston Terriers in general are very protective and terratorial dogs. They obey and protect their "masters" or family members. Boomer is not a dog you can just walk into our yard and try to pet, he will think you are coming to try and hurt one of us. You have to let him smell you and let him know your not going to hurt him by talking to him and then you are fine and he will be the sweetest pooch ever. Boomer loves his treats and he will do some tricks, he can sit, lay down, sit pretty (sitting on his butt with his paws in the air), he can dance in a circle, and give paw. Although Boomer is my dog he is very close to my dad. He sleeps at my dads feet and follows him around, when my dad goes on work trips Boomer will often get very depressed and not eat, or come out of the bedroom very often unless hes at the window looking out for my dad.
Boston terriers like boomer are very loving and fun dogs to have, while they may be small they are also very protective and will not let anything hurt you! I love my poochy to death; and i cant wait to go home and see him over break :)

Here Lately!

This semester went by sooo quickly up untill these last few weeks!! weehhh all the homework I've had and the stress of writing that final paper on top of all of it really had me going! I'm so glad that im done with it now though. Im really ready for christmas break! to go home spend it with my family and see all my old friends from highschool is what im looking foward to the most! I've done a little bit of christmas shopping but i still have a lot to go before christmas actually gets here. As i've told you in previous blog post i work at bath and body works! I dont get a lot of hours at all actually so im going o be quiting so i can come home for break. It's not worth staying and paying the almost $200 to stay in the dorms over break when ive only mad $99 in the past two months working there, dont get me wrong i love it, but i jsut dont work enough to stay there. Im also going to be attending the RAMS vs chiefs game on the 19th and im super exicted about that im from st. louis and thats a big rivarly game ive been looking foward to all year! then two days later on the 21st i will be having my double surgery on my and and ankle to get the tumor masses removed... nothing too serious its an outpatient surgery so i should be good! I just hate the thought of having stitches in my arm and foot ..eeek! but well see how it goes! Other then that I havnt been up to much more just doing homework going to school, and coming home to see my family! Now that i've let you in on what i've been doing lately...i hope you have a good day/night and a merry christmas and a happy new year!!!!!
<3 kelsey

Ho Ho Ho!

With all the stores playing Christmas music it’s safe to say that Christmas is coming up and around the corner, I want to talk about some of my favorite things about Christmas. Of course I love waking up on Christmas morning and opening up all my presents from my family, and watching my family open up all their presents from me.  It just feels really good to have everyone in my family there with me, although most of the time we will bicker with each other it is still a lot of fun.  Another thing that I like about Christmas is watching old Christmas movies that they play on television such as “A Christmas Story” those are movies I wouldn’t just pick up and watch and they are movies that I only watch about once a year.  Along with that I like to play in the snow with my nephews, then rush back inside when it’s so cold we can’t stand it outside anymore and drink hot chocolate with extra marshmallows, I prefer my hot chocolate with milk not water ;)!  I’m from a town near St. Louis and a popular thing to do around Christmas is go to a place called Santa’s Magical Kingdom! With all the stores playing Christmas music it’s safe to say that Christmas is coming up and around the corner, I want to talk about some of my favorite things about Christmas. Of course I love waking up on Christmas morning and opening up all my presents from my family, and watching my family open up all their presents from me. It just feels really good to have everyone in my family there with me, although most of the time we will bicker with each other it is still a lot of fun. Another thing that I like about Christmas is watching old Christmas movies that they play on television such as “A Christmas Story” those are movies I wouldn’t just pick up and watch and they are movies that I only watch about once a year. Along with that I like to play in the snow with my nephews, then rush back inside when it’s so cold we can’t stand it outside anymore and drink hot chocolate with extra marshmallows, I prefer my hot chocolate with milk not water ;)! I’m from a town near St. Louis and a popular thing to do around Christmas is go to a place called Santa’s Magical Kingdom! For those of you who do not know what Santa’s magical Kingdom is, it is a park called Jelly stone Park more like a resort because in the summer months people camp there in tents and cabin and in campers. Well around Christmas time they turn it into a major light show. There are lights everywhere, the trees are covered in Christmas lights and the cabins are smothered in them. They also have them hanging from the trees and light up reindeer that look like they are crossing the road, and lights that look like dolphins jumping out of the water and over the cars are you drive by. It is such a pretty sight to see. It is something fun my family likes to do usually every year or every other year. Another thing I like about Christmas is the meals! Being my first year away from college I’ve never really appreciated my mother’s cooking until now. I’m excited for the juicy ham, sweet potatoes covered in melted marshmallows, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, green beans, Watergate salad, and all the deserts! It taste so good and I’m defiantly looking forward to it this year! Lastly, I love going to my family’s houses such as my aunts and eating and watching all the little kids opening their presents from the adults, and going to my boyfriend’s grandpas and aunts is also a really good time for me. I enjoying being around people and celebrating the good times! I take full advantage of that because with the way the world is today you may never get to see all those people again. Now that I’ve shared what I enjoy and love about Christmas I hope that you all have a Happy Thanksgiving, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year! For those of you who do not know what Santa’s magical Kingdom is, it is a park called Jelly stone Park more like a resort because in the summer months people camp there in tents and cabin and in campers. Well around Christmas time they turn it into a major light show. There are lights everywhere, the trees are covered in Christmas lights and the cabins are smothered in them. They also have them hanging from the trees and light up reindeer that look like they are crossing the road, and lights that look like dolphins jumping out of the water and over the cars are you drive by. It is such a pretty sight to see.  It is something fun my family likes to do usually every year or every other year. Another thing I like about Christmas is the meals! Being my first year away from college I’ve never really appreciated my mother’s cooking until now. I’m excited for the juicy ham, sweet potatoes covered in melted marshmallows, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, green beans, Watergate salad, and all the deserts! It taste so good and I’m defiantly looking forward to it this year! Lastly, I love going to my family’s houses such as my aunts and eating and watching all the little kids opening their presents from the adults, and going to my boyfriend’s grandpas and aunts is also a really good time for me. I enjoying being around people and celebrating the good times! I take full advantage of that because with the way the world is today you may never get to see all those people again. Now that I’ve shared what I enjoy and love about Christmas I hope that you all have a Happy Thanksgiving, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

My Little People

Im going to talk about the most important little people in my life as of right now . My nieces and nephews are  very dear and close to me I love them with all my heart. Im going to talking about them and tell you a little bit about them, starting out with my oldest nephew, my oldest nephew is brothers child and his name is Kirk III. Kirk is nine years old and is named after my dad and my brother. He has medium brown hair and is very tall for his age he is already 4'9", Kirk is in third grade and is the jokster, everyone thinks he is just so funny. Kirk is also the most loveable child. He will do anything to make sure your not upset and he always tells you and shows you how much he loves you. My second nephew is also my brothers child and he is five years old, going to be six in january. Aiden looks just like my brother he is short and stocky has this bright blonde hair and blue eyes. Aiden is the tough boy and loves sports and playing outside. He can be the one who is in timeout the most for just doing what boys do. He is deifnatly my brothers payback child LOL. Now to move on to my sisters children. My third nephews name is James. He is my lil turd child! He is 2 years old and into everything. He has very blonde hair and blue eyes. James is learning everything and it's so cute to hear him try and say things such as my name is kelsey but he cant quiet get it yet so he calls me Elsey or Icy and his other aunt amanda he calls deeda and we dont know why. He also calls a vaccum cleaner a notnee, with NO clue why??!? lol but it is soo funny. He knows his ABC's and he sings songs. He is a very smart little boy. Now finally we get to my sisters youngest child the first little girl!!! I was very excited to find out i was getting a niece and that little girl is my world! she is so precious and I just love her to pieces. Her name is Madelyn and she is 6 months old. She dosent have a lot of hair but what I can see it looks to be a light brown color and she has these bright blue eyes. She is such a happy little baby and she is always smiling and it makes ou just want to love all over her! She rarely gets very upset but when she does boy does she have a set of lungs. I definatly think she is going to fit right in with the boys..These children mean everything to me seeing that I dont have my own kids I consider them to be mine :) as in I would do anything for them. I love them to death and im very hapy and proud to be their Auntie K!

Teenage Pregnancy

Today in the world it is not uncommon to see a young girl between ages thirteen to eighteen walking around pregnant, and most of the time it doesn’t even make people look twice anymore. America promotes teenage pregnancy in a way, one of my favorite shows on television happens to be 16 and Pregnant/ Teen Mom. The shows are about 16 year old girls having babies. Yes, it does show the struggles they go through but I also feel that it shows that it is acceptable and ok for young girls who are still babies themselves to have babies.

I feel that young girls are not educated enough on the severity of being a mom at such a young age. What they are doing to themselves, the father of the baby, their family, and that innocent baby who did nothing wrong. At such a young age a girl’s body is not ready or developed to birth a child and it can be very hard on your body. I think they sometimes feel that having a baby is going to be great once the baby gets here and it’s going to be like playing house. Becoming a parent means growing up weather you are 13,16 or 40, having a child forces you to think about someone as more important than yourself. You no longer have that awesome party life. It’s gone, gave that teenage life up when you had your baby. I hate seeing teenage mothers have their child and then dumb it off on their parents. It’s like their parents had another child because they raise him/her because their mother would rather be out doing teenage things. Also teenagers need money, and so do babies, A LOT of money. Babies are expensive, so therefore the teenage mother has even more responsibility then they thought. They have to attend school, be a mom, and have a job to support their child’s needs. That baby didn’t choose this life you chose it for them, and that little person depends on you for everything now. Babies also can change relationships. Having a child at such a young age creates double the stress on a relationship no matter how solid you think they are. The stress can cause fights and possibly the couple to split up. Whether you realize it or not that baby knows and senses what is going on. They know when mom and dad are not happy, and therefore you are putting stress on your baby. Babies need positive environments to grow up in, and you and a teenage mother need to be able to provide that for them. Like I said earlier this innocent child did not choose this you chose this for them and now you are responsible for everything.
             To sum this up, being a teenage mother is not easy; it’s not like playing house. That baby you brought into the world is a living breathing thing that needs a responsible grown up to raise them. They require attention and love and money 24-7, that means giving up for life for theirs, and a stress free environment. Their life now means more than yours. I feel Macy Bookout is great example or a good teenage mother. I have posted a  link about Maci and her son Bentley and how Maci’s life has changed since she’s had Bentley. ((Read up on them))

I'M A BLUE

As some of you know from reading any of my previous blog post. That I am from a town near St. Louis Missouri. Therefore I have been born and raised to love the St. Louis Cardinals, Rams, and Blues.  I dot care if they are getting killed and are the worst team on earth I will still root for them and defend them against people bad talking my teams. (Sort of like the Cardinals this year, and how they had a downhill year; I’m sorry it’s not easy winning 10 championship rings cut them some slack) The Rams are doing much better this year than the previous years before and I am very proud of them. The Rams are 4 and 4 this year which is much better than last season considering that the Rams only won 1 game all year. I think their record last year was around 1-16 or 1-15 something like that.
                What I really want to talk about is the St. Louis Blues! IM A BLUE! And YOU’RE A BLUE TOO! I love the blues! I really enjoy going to the games. The Blues home record last season was 18-18-5, which isn’t really a spectacular home record but I consider myself sort of a lucky charm because I attended about 8 home games last season and they won ALL 8 of the games that I attended! (Knock on wood for this season) Of course as a female fan my favorite player is TJ Oshie! TJ Oshie is a young center on the blues team who I feel is a great asset to the team, and will continue to get even better with time. Another one of my favorite players was Chris Mason. He was the goalie for last season. Sadly the Blues let him go and he is now a part of the Atlanta thrashers organization. I liked Chris Mason because he helped the blues win several victories in face offs and they are also VERY exciting to watch! Our new starting goalie has proven to be just as good if not better for the team though. Our new goalie is Jaroslav Halak who came from Montreal. Of course the MOST exciting part of Hockey is always the fighting, because it is the only sport (other than MMA, and Boxing) that I can think of that allows fighting. Our key fighters last season are/was DJ King who actually broke is hand last season in a fight, were traded DJ this season for Vladimir Sobotka. Another really good fighter is St. Louis’ own Cam Jannsen. Cam is a really good fighter and he must enjoy it because he does it a lot. Cam is actually currently out this season with a concussion.  While speaking of fighters if any of you know anything about hockey we also had the legendary fighter Tony Twist. Tony was famous for fighting in hockey, and winning, guys would always try to fight him wanting to the guy who actually beat Tony Twist, but it always ended badly for them, as Tony would whip up on them.

I love the Blues and I love to watch hockey. Going to a game and watching it live is the best experience in the world! The blues are a great organization who gives a lot back to the community when they can. The blues are considered one of the best teams to never win a stanely cup, but have been the runners up several times! That’s all Folks! LETS GO BLUESSSSSS!

Here Lately

This past 2 weeks have been a very hectic week for me, to start it out I got a job at Bath and Body Works in the North Park Mall, which I’m thankful for but my orientation made me about want to shoot myself it was a four hour long orientation and 3 hours of it was watching this long boring mono-tone video, Yes talk about a snooze!  I really think I’m going to like it there though, I mean what girl wouldn’t? I’m not actually going to be put on the schedule for another two weeks which gives me some time to do the things I want to do before I start working again.

Then I got another job at Toys “R” Us on Rangeline and my orientation was actually tonight, I was only tree and a half hours long but still kind of a long three and a half hours if I do say so myself. My next shift there is Tuesday so I get to make ma a little Christmas money that is if my car payment doesn’t swallow up my whole pay check: (

This week hasn’t been all good luck for me though. I went to Kansas City last weekend and I came home Sunday night, well my boyfriend and his mother went to the Japanese Hibachi Grill on Rangline and on the way home after dinner I felt really sick to my stomach and as soon as we got back to the dorms I threw up everywhere outside in the grass. I then continued to be sick about every thirty minutes to an hour that whole night and into the next day. On Monday my body was so tired and weak I didn’t want to move and I tried to eat some chicken noodle soup, but I couldn’t hold it down for more than two minutes. I don’t know whether it was the flu or if I had gotten a case of food poisoning from the restaurant. All I know is that I felt horrible. I felt a little better Tuesday but I still took the day off to relax and make sure I was 100%.
                I went back to classes on Wednesday and got caught up on my classes and work that I was behind on, but on Wednesday night I started to lose my voice and get a slight cough. I woke up his morning (Thursday) to find out I pretty much lost my voice and when I even tried to talk I sounded like a rough squeak toy! LOL It’s only a slight cold but it’s still funny to watch my friend’s faces when I try and talk to them. :P
                On a happy note since all of my previous conversation sounded like bad news, My boyfriend Alec, our good friend Jamie, our other friend Shane and myself are trying to move off campus and live in an apartment together. I’m scared but really excited hoping we get a nice apartment that we all really like J I hope everyone has a safe and happy Halloween!! GO LIONS!