Summer Time Loving

Hello blogging world!

  Long time no talk. Life has been crazy busy lately, and I am seriously loving every minute of it. I finished my sophomore year at Alabama in May, and now I am at home in Birmingham working full time nannying for the most precious nine year old named Isabella. Her favorite things in the world are Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Harry Potter, and One Direction.. so obviously we are kind of sort of totally and completely soul mates. This summer has been filled with lots of cooking, working out, reading, and hanging out with my family and Isabella. Right now our family is getting SO excited for our annual beach trip in just THREE DAYS. I have been so busy this summer that I have literally been to the pool once, (you can probably imagine my vampire/ghost white skin color now) so I cannot wait to have a week to lay out by the ocean and spend time with my family.

a little puppy lovin on mother's day with juju, chaco, and nelly

mumsie and pops at new york pizza for rusty's birthday

isabella with the poster that we made for the one direction concert!

Who's going to see JB with her three best friends in January? THIS GIRL.

oh just hanging out at the zoo with isabella

rusty and joanne went to the bahamas for a week and somehow forgot to put us in their suitcases...?

princess honey looking mighty beautiful

meeting iron man at the movie theater, no big deal

just a little excited about justin's new cd

 isabella with her very first JB cd :)

little juju and mumsie at julia's dance recital

july 4th with jakey poo

This past weekend I finally got to see my best friends (some for the first time since we left Tuscaloosa) when we met in Birmingham to celebrate our friend Alex's 20th birthday! We surprised her at the Cheesecake Factory for lunch and then went back to my house to open presents and eat cookie cake. Seeing everyone again made me realize just how much I missed them and how thankful I am that I have an amazing group of girls to go back to in the fall. Here are some pictures of our fabulous day!

oh em geeee surrrrpriiiiizeee

the beautiful birthday girl

so thankful for all of you

love this birthday gurlie

Even though this post is probably as long as waiting in line at the DMV on a bad day, I think I am pretty much caught up now! I hope everyone is enjoying their last few weeks of summer. I just realized today that I only have two weeks left here until I move all of my junk back to Tuscaloosa, and seven of those days I will be hopefully tanning on the beach with the fam. Anyways, thanks so much for reading, I hope everyone has an incredible week! God Bless and Roll Tide!

Day of LOVE

What a day already! The day of love. Honestly I usually discredit Valentine's Day as a holiday because I am not a big fan of personal displays of affection. But this morning I was making my coffee and getting ready for class when I read this -

"Time goes by way too fast. People will go in and out of your life. 

You must never miss the opportunity to tell them how much they mean to you."

What a great reminder! It doesn't matter if you are single, in a new or old relationship, married for twenty years, or divorced. For me, today is not about showing appreciation for your loved one. It is about showing appreciation to your loved ONES! You are probably thinking about people in your mind right now when I say loved ones - parents, siblings, relatives, children, friends, sorority sisters, team mates - but I challenge you today to love outside the box and show your love to those in your life who don't normally get appreciated. If today is the day of love, don't you think every single person in this country should feel loved? I most definitely do. I truly believe that if people went out of their way to show their love to everyone in their life, there would be less hurt, anger, depression, hatred, suicide, and ultimately less negativity in the world. All of that to say that I am feeling so incredibly blessed today. For all of you out there feeling lonely - please don't. There are people out there in the world that care so much about you and would do anything for you.

Take some time out of your day today to think about people. Every single person you encounter today - the girl walking to class, the guy sitting across from you in your cubicle at work, the lady working the register at the grocery store, or the guy running on a treadmill beside you at the gym - needs to be loved and the only way you can be loved is by SHOWING it! Get out there today and really love on people! Not only will it make their day so much better, but I know for a fact that it will make your day so much more fulfilling!

Have such a great day!

Kitty

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
1 Corinthians 13:13

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