Okay, I know my blog updates are becoming rather seldom lately...but at least I am still taking pictures every day. I'm going to again split this mass of pictures up into two updates. Be prepared for spring pictures galore. (Finally!)

(Also, it should be noted that I started updating this days ago but it was taking too long so I never finished. Maybe this is a sign that it would just be easier to update every few days...hrmm...)

3/24/11

Happy Birthday to Zack! :) We celebrated his 19th at his Mom's house with some family...including cousin Alanna, pictured above. She's the one we babysat over winter break.  She's at the stage where she's learning rapidly and being very vocal about it - when I came over that day, she started yelling my name! (When over winter break, we couldn't even get her to say it once) She obviously remembered my name, just hadn't wanted to say it until then. She's so cute. I caught her in mid-talking or -eating here!



Singing happy birthday. :) He looks so happy and cute!

3/25/11

I stayed at my Dad's this night and our local fresh grocery store opened for the spring the day before, so of course we had to stop in! It's one of my favorite places - great produce and bulk candy, small little place, fair prices, and lots of food and coffee samples whenever we go.  It's called Shaffer's Market (obviously) and it's only a few minutes away from my Dad. Love it!

3/26/11

Ha ha, I love this picture of Stanley. So silly. He sticks his tongue out when he is happy. :)

3/27/11

Back in Cbus - so long, spring break. I made my spring quarter schedule into a little notecard so I knew where to go the next day for classes.

3/28/11

Back to the grind! I love sunrises. I took this at 7:30 am the first day of classes Monday morning (ugh). I honestly haven't gotten up that early on a consistent basis since high school - fall and winter quarters my classes were either 9:30 or 10:30 am to start with. This quarter, Emily and I decided to take Stats at 8:30. Yuck. They say you shouldn't take classes that early in college and I know why now. It's impossible to ever get to bed at a decent hour anymore (it's college!) so we're perpetually tired. Oh well, we tried it - never again now that we know.

3/29/11

It's amazing how spring-like Columbus was (and still is) compared to Akron. Things started taking off here right when spring quarter started. Daffodils are all over campus. Good thing, too, since they are my favorite flowers. :)

3/30/11

Haaaaappy biiiiiirthday tooo meee! :) Zack and my Dad came down to visit the whole day and it made me soooo happy. It really meant a lot. And they both brought me my favorite things - flowers! Zack's are on the left. They were GORGEOUS. And they lasted forever - I just threw them out a couple of days ago, so it's been a good three weeks. My dad brought daffodils, also gorgeous! Sadly did not last as long, though. I'm such a girl for loving flowers!

Also, my dad made me a ton of red velvet cupcakes (the 2 red containers) AND a cake for my birthday. Mmmm.

Ian sent me Insomnia Cookies that evening as a present as well. Check the website - they deliver hot, fresh cookies to your door! What could be better?! We love them down here. Anyway, I was just getting my horrible cold (that lasted almost two weeks!!) on my birthday and Ian felt bad that I was sick so he sent these to make me feel better. This is the message he attached! :)

3/31/11

This is an area that I walk through every day and I was amazed to already see the trees budding green at the end of March.  They were one of the first to start down here and I've watched them progress as the weeks have gone on.

I should know what these are called but I can't remember (hyacinths?). :( They are everywhere, in all different colors, along with the daffodils. So pretty!

4/1/11

There's a huuuge patch of daffodils on one side of the oval near the Faculty Club. A good two to three times the size of what this picture shows!

So pretty. I love my birth flower.

4/2/11

I ended up calling off work this morning because my cold/sinus infection/whatever it was (never found out) was pretty bad. In order to have my absence be excused, I had to walk 20 minutes (on a cold day when I was sick - what sense does that make??) to the MinuteClinic in the local CVS and get a doctor's note. Ugh. On the way back, though, I took this picture looking south down High Street toward downtown. I thought it was cool. Campus is on the right and you can see the tall buildings waaaay far back in the picture.

Rainbow! See the left and right sides? I got the perfect view from my window after it poured rain after I returned from the clinic. So pretty!

4/3/11

Our new pretty door decorations for spring!

A close up of the pretty pink carnations in Zack's bouquet. They smelled so good!

4/4/11

This day looked ominous from the start. I took this before my second class.

...The result of the above picture, taken (luckily) from my window. Heavy April showers!

4/5/11

The clouds this day were gorgeous and looked so cool reflected on some of the buildings on campus.

Love this pic! This is the Architecture building.

4/6/11

The sky was so pretty this evening. Again, reflected in some of the buildings.

Ignore the decapitated resin bear (I dropped and broke a little bear made of resin my dad gave me - his head popped off).  I just liked the worm. Emily always called me Chlo-worm. :)

4/7/11

Happy Spring! It was gorgeous this day. I love these little blue flowers (they are all over our backyard at home) and the cute little ladybug in the middle.

Beautiful tree blooming in the oval - it smelled like spring!

4/8/11

I planted a couple sunflower seeds in a small pot to grow in our room to add a little life (aside from Ocean the fish, who is still alive and kickin', if you're wondering!).  They sprouted so quickly in this jar my mom gave me! (It's a 20+ year old peanut butter jar! How funny.)  They are even bigger now - I had to transplant them.

More in the next post!