im baaaaack

Yall. 

I am officially back in the blogging world. 

What a crazy few months. So sorry I have been out of touch! Life is so so so good. I finished my freshman year at Alabama on a weird note with the tornado hitting my city in such a tragic way. We didn't take exams and everyone just had to go home without saying goodbye.

Over the summer I was incredibly blessed to work with Callie Hanson at Church of the Highlands in the Creative Department. I had such a good time working in that line of work and getting to know Callie. 

Oh and no big deal but my brother Luke got MARRIED to the girl of his dreams, Ashley Carroll, well, now Ashley Dorr, at the beach on July 23rd. It was a beautiful wedding on the beach with all of our families and their closest friends. Welcome to the family Smashley!!!! So happy for you two!

The summer is over now and I am finally back in good 'ole Tuscaloosa. I can't even begin to tell you how good it feels to be back. The relief effort here over the summer is inspiring. It makes me so happy to see these signs on all the crumbled buildings saying, "Pardon Our Progress" or "Coming Back Soon." The overall mood of this town has completely turned around and is now so hopeful, and you can really feel it where ever you go. 

I am living in my sorority house this year with one of my best friends Meredith, and we are absolutely loving it! Over the summer I tried to combine the terms "sister" and "rooms" to combine our two relationships into one and came out with "shrooms," which, for all you private school kids out there, is a type of hard drug. SO. Needless to say we edited that a little bit and she is now my "shroomie." Yes, i know it is precious, and yes, you may use it if you would like.

SHROOMIEEES

 We got finally through a week of Rush workshop (Praise The Lord!) and then we miraculously got through a week of Rush. Bid Day was a hot sweaty mess BUT Alpha Gamma Delta now officially has 84 new pledges, who we love so much and brag about waaaaay too much. They are just so sweet. Seriously. If you met them you would fall head over heels in love with them. 

PLEDGE ALPHA GAM!

Now that all of the Rush craziness is over, all of us sorority girls are forced to realize that yes, we actually do come to college for school. And now we have to focus on class, which started last Wednesday. I have a new major, Event Planning, and I am loving all of my classes this semester. I have to go buy all my textbooks (Yes I still don't have them ... it's so hot outside that my brain is tricking me into thinking that it is still summer, NOT OKAY.) but I just wanted to give a little blog update, I will be so much about better about blogging this semester I promise!!!

Peace and Blessins'

Kittyyyyy :)

the day after easter blog

Mumsie loves her Easter decorations.

Juju my booboo

Missing Mary Margaret, as usual.

puppy love

Hello friends!

  I hope all of you had an incredible Easter hanging out with your family and eating lots and lots of good food. Easter at the Dorr household was great. Our family came into town on Saturday so we went to church at Highlands on Saturday night. WHAT a service. To say that PC  brought da fire would be an understatement. I wanted to blog about something today that I think everyone needs to hear. The sermon this weekend was all about the story of Lazarus. One of Jesus' friends, who DIED - but Jesus brought him back to life. PC kept relating the story of Lazarus back to us, and how no matter how far away from God you are or how "over" you think something is, its NOT OVER. I mean Lazarus was DEAD. No pulse, no breathing, nothing. Jesus brought him back to life. I would personally say that death is pretty much final. But not for our Lord Jesus. 

Nothing is final with Him.

Over the weekend, my family was trying to decide what movie we wanted to watch on our Netflix-thingy. We were scrolling through them when I see a movie that I was OBSESSED with as a child,  "The Little Princess." My little sister Juju didn't even REMEMBER it, so I thought I would do it justice today and watch it before my night class. This movie is about this little girl who is sent to a boarding school while her dad goes to war. She has all the luxuries of life - clothes, food, an education, and friends. But then a message comes from overseas and she finds out that her dad had passed away in battle.  The woman in charge of the school (she is so mean - think like the gross head master woman in Matilda) tells her that since no one is paying for her tuition, she is going to make her a servant girl and is stripped of all of her possessions to pay for her tuition that her dad was never able to pay. She is devastated, and for a while, she gives up hope. While she is hard at work at the school, the movie kind of turns and there is this older man looking for his son who enlisted in the war and had gone missing. He gets called in to a hospital saying that they had found his son, but he had lost his memory from an explosion. The man goes to the hospital, but to his dismay, it is actually not his son.  He decides anyway to take this poor man into his home (which is right next door to the boarding school), and nurse him back to health himself. The man cannot remember anything- not who he is, or who his family is, or what he is doing on the earth. I don't want to give you all of the details of the movie, but the plot line keeps turning and at the end the little girl ends up at the older man's house and sees the soldier and recognizes him and helps him remember that he is actually her daddy. I cried for about 30 minutes. It is SUCH a good movie.  And now I am sitting in class and I was just so amazed by what the Lord did through this movie that I had to blog about it. This movie is just like the story of Lazarus! The characters in both stories thought that their beloved family member was dead - but at the end of the story - BOOOM! They are ALIVE!

Are you seeing any similarities here between The Little Princess, Lazarus, and the story of EASTER?! It's just crazy to me. Although I loved Pastor Chris' message, I had forgotten about it this morning. But of course Jesus shows up and knocks me off my feet. The message is so true. Sarah, the little princess in the story, had been through EVERYTHING and her life was the opposite of perfect. But her dad came back and took her exactly how she was. This is just like Jesus! No matter how badly you mess up, no matter how "finished" you think a situation is, Jesus has his ultimate plan for your life and He knows exactly what He wants to happen. He's got the whole world in His Hands! 

This has just been on my heart today, hope you were encouraged by it!

He is alive and SO real today!

-Kitty Kat Meow

april showerzzz

hello friends! it's a great day to be alive. 

Click this for some good music.

Now that i've gone to our spring formal, registered for my fall classes, and contacted some awesome people about working for them this summer, i am finally starting to realize that my freshman year of college is almost OVER. that is so weird to think about. sometimes i still feel like i just got my bid to agd yesterday. well maybe more like two weeks ago. but still. fastest year of my whole life.

Its offish.

And now I'm offish!

Pledge Retreat at the beach with 85 new best friends!

Big Sis Ceremony. Love me some Haley Wilson!

Penn State game with my next door neighbor Hilary :)

Ali came to visit me from Auburn!

We do love it very much.

Pomping for 42 hours during Homecoming Week, check.

Reuniting with my best friend since kindergarten :)

Touching Greg's offiical locker, one of the best days of my life.. obviously i mean look at my face

 

 

lots of bridal showers and such for my sweet seester

fall break in huntsville with the bestie :)

Feast of Roses initiation dinner with my supportive brothers!

Dressing up like the wizards we truly are for the midnight premiere of the seventh Harry Potter movie!

Mary Margaret's Bachelorette weekend!

Unfortunate Iron Bowl with the family!

Christmas Cocktail winter formal with my sisters!

Mary Margaret and Kenny's rehearsal dinner

And then she got married :)

Drinking sparkling grape juice on new years eve with the besties

Birthday dinner with (shocking) my awesome pledge sisters and best friends!

My very first swap! Sigma Nu rave with the bestiesss.

JH Staff Reunion with my best friendddd

Valentines Day date with Justin Bieber and my awesome friends!

Da fam over Spring Break

my awesome overboard spring formal date danny

DISCLAIMER:

this is going to be a somewhat cheesy and sentimental blog.

 

mmkay now that i've warned you, i can continue with my ranting. i could say a lot to several different people, but i'll keep it short cause i know you just wasted two minutes of your life looking at all of those pictures. when it comes down to it, having friends you can count on at the end of the day is really all that matters. most people want good grades, or to be really involved on campus, or be the star of their intramural sports team, but all i really wanted out of my freshman year was a group of people that i could call my best friends and be comfortable enough to show them the real me. well needless to say i have definitely found them and i have never been so happy. so to try to wrap this thing up i would just like to say thank you. im not going to say any names because you know who you are if you are reading this. to the girl who watched a movie and ate junk food with me when my boyfriend broke up with me, to the girl who stays up until 4 AM with me at your apartment slithering on the ground acting like snakes, to the girl who will sit in the car with me and talk about useless hash tags on twitter that are not funny to anyone but us, to the girls who helped me win my first photography contest, to the girls who went to the movies with me and my cardboard justin bieber when we didn't have dates on valentines day, to the girls who go with me to go get ice cream twenty miles out of tuscaloosa just because its the best, and to the girls who are constantly checking in on me and seeing how i am doing here: all i can say is thank you. there are no words to describe how blessed i feel to have you all in my life. i love you all very much. I can't believe i just said you all. my pledge sister from kentucky is really rubbing off on me.

told you this would be heart felt. but i did give you a disclaimer.  

that's all.  

Kitty

Spring Break 2011!

Juju and Jake getting on our first plane!

hellooooo blogging friends! Long time no blogging. i hope everyone had a fantastic spring break, i know i needed a little vacation from tuscaloosa. my break consisted of my whole family getting on a really small airplane (look at the picture on the left) and flying out to DC to visit my really awesome sister mary margaret and her hubs kenny! little sidenote: the plane really was that small, when i stood up in the aisle my head hit the top of the plane. when we walked into the plane, my brother jake in the red shirt screamed, "What is this? A center for ants?!" zoolander reference.   hopefully you got it. one of my favorite parts of the whole trip was being surprised by mary margaret, kenny, and nelly at the airport. we thought we would have to take the metro to our hotel but they came and got us. nelly is their puppy by the way if you didnt know already, and i consider her one of my best friends. below is a video of how excited she was to see the family at the airport :)

needless to say, we were all very happy to see each other. our trip wasn't your usual college student spring break trip, but boy did we have fun! DC is an awesome place to visit. there is always something to do, which is just about the exact opposite of tuscaloosa, where there is never anything legal to do on a weekend. sad, but true. so of course the dorr family took DC by storm and hit up just about every single thing you can do in DC - we visited the washington monument, went to a saint patricks day parade, visited the smithsonian museum, went to the WW2 memorial, the vietnam memorial, the lincoln memorial, the national archives, the national gallery of art, the capital, the white house, the library of congress, an NBA game, georgetown cupcakes, the national holocaust museum, national museum of crime and punishment, (we love criminal minds, don't judge) we ate at a ton of delicious restaurants, and of course hit up starbucks a few times. that might seem like a ton, well it was. but you have to understand that my parents are nerds, they love to learn new stuff. joanne calls herself a "life long learner" and so we literally did anything and everything in sight. the lord blessed me with smart parents, i just can't help it. 

proof of my nerdiness over spring break:

The flags surrounding the washington monument, so pretty

this is my really cute little sister, but she is totally taken boys by a really cute ginger. be jealousss

The whole family in front of the good ole abe lincoln

this is the ever so popular newlywed couple i took pictures of the whole time we were there

my seesters in front of a coral reef in the smithsonian museum made entirely out of yarn. CRAZY.

oh just the hope diamond, no big deal.

my peeps in china town

 

washington monument, its really tall

There are several more pictures on my facebook if you want to see them. several meaning hundreds. like 500 to be exact. ANYWAYS. it was a great trip and it was so good to see the rest of my family that live so far away. we got back on friday and that just happened to be the first day of a harry potter four day marathon on tv, so i ended my spring break with several hours of my favorite boy in the world, ron weasley. 

1) yes this way my twitter picture for months and 2) dont judge me i have a lot of free time on my hands.

now i am back in tuscaloosa and going to classes (gross) and i am so pale that i look like a vampire. i am trying to stay out of the direct sunlight so that my skin won't sparkle. twilight reference. hopefully you understood it. all of my friends went to the beach and look very ethnic and i am super duper jealous. BUT i am looking forward to school ending now. we have two more weeks of march, the month of april, and then a few days in may and i am DONE with freshman year! hallelujah and praise da lawd almighty! words cannot describe how ready i am to move out of my frighteningly small dorm room and back home for the summer.

i haven't even noted the incredible weather we are experiencing in my city. it is exactly 70 degrees, sunny, and PERFECT. incredible weather for an incredible time in my life. i can't believe this season of my life is about to be over!! the year was great but i am ready to move forward and take advantage of the precious time jesus has given me here in tuscaloosa. take the time to remember today that we are all here for a reason. tell someone them you love them today. it will make their day, maybe even their week. oh and go sit outside too. it will make you happy. 

thats all ive got folks! have an incredible monday!

Kitty

The 14th of February

Happy Valentines Day Everyone! I hope everyone is having an awesome day.  It's 70 degrees and sunny today in Tuscaloosa, a perfect day to walk around the quad if you've got some free time! Thank you Jesus for the sunshine!


This weekend I went to Purcell Farms in Sylacauga for the JH Staff Reunion. It was so great to see all of my friends that I got so close to over the summer. It really is amazing how deep friendships can go when they are centered around Jesus. I hadn't seen some of these people in eight months, and they came just  as naturally as the friendships that I have here in Tuscaloosa. 

My better half, Ali Stefanek

The Housekeeping Crew that I love SO much!

After an incredible weekend, I've been doing a lot of thinking about how different my life is today than it was this time last year. Last year, I was still living at home, I had maybe five friends that I could always rely on (Take into account that I counted my dog as one of those five), unfortunately I had not pledged AGD yet (MiZ), I was involved in a couple of unhealthy relationships, and I just remember always wanting to move forward and get to the next step in life. Nowadays, I'm a college student and I am living on my own, I finally found something that I am passionate about and now have an idea of what I actually want to do with my life, and I am surrounded by people who love me and care for me deeply. Words cannot describe how much happier I am. I am perfectly content in my skin, which I have never been able to say before. Ask anyone who knew me last year, all I cared about was how my hair looked, if my outfit for school the next day was perfect, and if I had any facebook notifications. Talk about POINTLESS!!!! It started changing when I went to the Ranch this summer. I know I always talk about JH, but once you go you'll see, you never stop talking about it... so deal with it. Being a camper was great, but once I was on staff my world got rocked! I was immediately put on the housekeeping staff when I got to the ranch and I was the opposite of excited. Housekeeping was like a bottom-of-the-totem-pole-scrub-toilets-every-day-no-matter-what kind of job. After being taught how to scrub a boy toilet correctly by Mrs. Grace Dean and how to remove the mildew and fungus out of a shower, I was completely humbled and broken. Long story short, for some strange reason I thought that I was the shiz-nit, and I was the exact opposite. You know the song "He's Got The Whole World In His Hands"? It is so true and I finally believe it! I always thought that I needed to control SOME of the stuff in my life but Jesus says he wants it ALL. Once you give it over to Him, your life will never be the same. 


Basically what I am trying to say in this blog post is that Jesus is faithful. I know that sometimes we don't think He's up there listening, but he IS! He LOVES YOU SO MUCH. People always care about what we look like on the outside when we want to impress someone. But when Jesus looks down, he doesn't see that new CoverGirl mascara or that big red truck with the big black tires, he sees your heart. So my question to you today is, do you think Jesus is proud of what he sees when he looks at you?I don't know about you, but I want Jesus to look over the clouds and pull over Joseph and Abraham to his throne, point down at me, and say, "LOOK! That's my daughter! Look how well she is doing!" Obviously we are nowhere near perfect and we never will be, but all He asks is that we give it all over to Him and try our very best!


I know today is the day of love and picnics and roses and candy and hearts but the love of Jesus is so much sweeter. He will NEVER stop loving us, and even better, you can NEVER do ANYTHING to make him love you less. 


Don't think you have a Valentine today? You do. You have one everyday, and His name is Emmanuel.