baby, it’s VERY cold outside.

OKLAHOMA SNOW BLIZZARD ‘09.

What an amazing Christmas.

Home, sweet home.

It’s a Wonderful Life.

festival of lights.

My best friends and I went to the annual Festival of lights in Chickasha, it is our tradition.

The whole gang.

I am so thankful for my amazing friends!

and this is what i live for.

Classics with my best friends in the world.

i will be missing these over the month.

1. Cooking parties with my two best friends here: Maddy and Erin.

2. The endless amounts of tea we all drink and Erin’s amazing tea collection.

3. These beautiful girls who make my life here so amazing.

(Back: Erin, Maddy, Zoe. Middle: Me. Front: Erica and Emily.)

Maddy, Erin and I pulled an all-nighter last night because we won’t see each other for a month.

We watched Christmas movies all night long; I can’t tell you how much I love those girls!

no one does christmas like new york city.

Last night my friend Courtney and I went to Alice’s and went ice skating in Central Park.

It was a great night full of adventures! Including getting lost in Central Park in the dark on the way to the rink… And showing up to the rink not knowing it was what I like to call “Jew Night” or Hanukkah night, every skater came complete with a yamaka and Jew tunes blasting.  It was great!

midnight breakfast.

A Sarah Lawrence tradition during conference week. Midnight Breakfast.

Here is a video of the shinanigans going on in Bates during Midnight Breakfast.

Gotta love the Sarah Lawrence community.. The only time we all come together is for free food or alcohol.

the truth in that.

I am thankful.

I am thankful for the amazing girls in my small group, they are such a rock for me to lean on in this broken, detached environment that is the social life at Sarah Lawrence. I am thankful for even a small group of Christians here even if we don’t always see eye to eye. I prayed all summer for them to be here with me.

Something Zoe said in small group on Friday while we were praying for our last weeks here and the holidays really struck me. “God I pray that we pay attention to the important things in life over the holidays and not just waste our time on Facebook.”

I recently deactivated my Facebook to make time for my end of semester papers and massive amounts of work. But I am just realizing that this is not the time I need my Facebook gone, it is when I am home. I don’t need to constantly be on Facebook while I should be spending every moment with the people I love and rarely get to see.

I am so thankful for my amazing friends/sisters in Norman and I cannot wait to see them and to be refilled with joy and to be reminded what true community is.

I am so thankful for my family. Every spare minute I have should be spent with them… And not on Facebook. Facebook is a place to keep in contact with those people that you wish you were with. If I am with them why should I be on Facebook?

I cannot wait to come home for Christmas. It has been like a dream to be in the city for Christmas time but where I truly want to be is home.

5 DAYS. I’ll be home for Christmas.

some polaroids from our christmasy day.

SOHO.

Love Anthropologie.

Rockefeller Tree!

christmas time in the city.

You can tell it is Christmas in New York City. You cant walk anywhere without being bumped or shoved into someone. But the Holiday spirit is thick in the air. And I love it.

On Saturday Maddy, Erin and I had a great Christmas outing into Manhattan.

We crammed into a three person seat on the train because we are cozy like that.

From left to right: Maddy, me, Erin, and Zoe

We pretty much went all over the city Christmas shopping and enjoying all the decorations and the feel of the city at Christmas time.

Erin decided to sing with some people serenading everyone in the Union Square Christmas Market.

The market was PAKCED!

We met up with our friend Erica and decided to go to the Brooklyn Bridge for our first time!

Maddy, Erin, and I on the bridge.

After we went to eat we tried to go ice skating at Bryant Park but it was way too packed so we decided we should just go after Christmas break.

Us in front of the GIANT tree at the skating rink in Bryant Park.

It was such a great day full of Christmas fun! I love New York!

Less than a week until I come home!

last rendez vous.

Last night Katie and I met in the city for our last Manhattan rendez vous, she is moving back home during Christmas.

There was a cool light show on the Grand Central ceiling! Enjoy intelligent commentary by Katie and I…

And we went and saw the tree at Rockafellar Center!

Tha famous Saks 5th Ave snow flakes.

We got so in the Christmas spirit watching the skaters, Christmas shopping, and going to eat!

I will miss you Katie!!