Well, So much for enjoying my few days off and getting things put out for Christmas.

I have a COLD!

This is such my luck and so not fun! Early Sunday morning I wake up and my nose is slightly stuffy but I think no biggie it's early in the morning so I'll shake it off! WRONG! By Monday I was so sick I could hardly breath and "trying" to blow my nose every few minutes!

My throats sore and my nose is running ands LOTS of coughing and a fever = A Cold and one Not so happy Tierra!

This is the Week before December, the time when you get out all your Christmas stuff and Deck the halls, put Christmas lights outside and start your Christmas Shopping, wrapping, endless browsing through Wal-Mart and the Mall etc! WELL, not for me!!! I have so much to do, and my house is not so loverly or clean{with tissues used and strung all over in each room}. We at least manged to get the tree up before my untimely sickness and last night even though I'm pretty sure I had a fever, I couldn't stand not doing anything so I dragged out all our Christmas stuff but sadly today no energy to do anything except blow my nose!

So Sorry to anyone who might stop by house today for they will find a Tierra with her hair in a BIG messy bun on top her head! Glasses on, wearing a hollister T-shirt, shorts and my comfy pink robe looking like the living dead! Also my bottom lip is swollen! Why, I have no Clue! So it's a good thing Halloween is over because I good scare anyone right now!

My Wonderful Aunt Carolyn brought me some Broccoli and cheese soup {my fav} from Quiznos and I've just been laying around the house complaining that I'm dying and watching Gilmore Girls all day and then of course Oprah at 4! And now I've moved onto the computer!

So everyone this is my latest news, I have the sickness blues! I'm truly hoping to be recovered ASAP! I just can't believe that on my days off I have to spend them being sick! YUCK!

Let the Holiday Madness Begin!

Well, almost every year since I was eight, my mom and me would get up the day after Thanksgiving and go Early Bird shopping. Since my mom's passing the torch to be my new companion has been passed to my "poor" {only because she has to get up so early now} aunt Carolyn! So, we started yesterday and the dear had such the hard time keeping up w/ me! I really give her props for getting up at 5am and 62 yrs. old! What can I say, she LOVES me! And I adore her. It was sad without my mom and different but I made it the best I could!

Though our progress was not so good at the stores!

We really wanted this chair for my nephew to where he can sit playing his video games in his room and good old Wal-Mart had them on sale for $29.99! The game plan was grab one an go. The store opened up at 5 and we got there at 5:15am---only 15 minutes into the grand beginning and they were already sold out! I was so mAd, I went hunting all over that store for one and then all of a sudden I saw one! Right there left un attented in a cart and no one was around! So I ran and left Carolyn in the dust and just as I was getting ready to grab it and go, some old man popped up from behind a sales rack!

So after that, are shopping didn't really go as planned but we did have a nice time even though it was freezing and we were pooped! The main thing is how much I just love that woman! She puts up with so much from me and even gets out at 5 am just to help keep tradition alive after my mom.

It's Turkey Gobble Day!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Well, as you can all probably tell I have pictures up!

It's so nice to have a computer whiz in the family!

So when I saw that Chad was here, I made him sit down and figure how to get my net up ASAP!

Who needs the phone company's help anyway!

It took him like 3 minutes!

A new thing to be grateful for today!

Well, me and my Aunt Carolyn for the very first time got up at 4 am to do a turkey! Something my mom always did. And believe it or not it turned out pretty good!

Not bad for "First Timers"

And to beat it all it was 4 am in the morning!

I made sweet potato casserole and Broccoli casserole and "try ed" to keep everything organized.

The Family started pullin in about 12:30 and with that everything gets really hectic!

But, it was truly "loverly" to have them around.

My Cousin Alexa makes this Kentucky Derby pie and it's simply out of this world!

Its filled with lot's of Choc. Chips and Pecans served really hot with Vanilla ice-cream!

It made my day and my heart smile!

Tomorrow morning I will go on my first after Thanksgiving Christmas shopping without my mom. How I wish she could be here but I know she wil bel in spirit.

So now that means dear sweet Aunt Carolyn has to get up AGAIN at 4 am to go shopping with me!

I'm so excited! Even though I miss my mom, I'll be doing another thing that makes a girls heart smile...SHOPPING!

Wish me Luck and Happy Holidays Everyone!

November News

Wow! It's been awhile since i have posted anything and the reason being is....I have no Net at my house! It's driving me crazy! I keep calling the phone company in which we have our net through and they keep reassuring me that they see nothing wrong in my service from there computer and then i want to yell because HELLO from my stand point I see NOTHING! In which the reason for my call!


So, I guess I needed to vent that but Anyway...I can only update at my cousins house and through my busy schedules makes it difficult.

November has been a very busy month with big things and Lot's to do and will just seem to get busier since Thanksgiving is in like two days! I have pictures to put up but I promise i will try to have them up after Thanksgiving!

Life is a little stressful right now, With Thanksgiving here and cleaning to do and getting the house ready! I miss my mom and would love to just sit and talk with her.

I'm actually getting in the Christmas spirit and I can't wait to decorate.
On the weekend before Christmas, one of my dearest friends will be getting married and I have been asked to sing at her wedding reception PLUS that Sunday, I'll be doing a duet in church with my best friend Jenny! So it's going to be a very "singing" weekend!

I'm looking for a new job right now, Because the hospital seems to be really decreasing my hours hence very low paychecks = NOT GOOD!

My Birthday was nice. I won't say the best but it went well and i received lots of nice gifts! But, my favorites have to be my new pea coat from the New York & Company plus my Guess purse "my baby" and matching wallet! Lot's of books, it seems everyone knows me well that i LOVE to read and then plenty of gift cards! We had a massive double Decker birthday cookie cake with of course a Tiara crown on it! My decoration colors were pink and brown and all my friends kept smacking me on the butt to make 22 slaps for my birthday! When it was time to blow out the candles i actually forgot to make a wish! I was so busy trying to blow them all out at once and keep my hair from going up in flames it just slipped me mind!
Well, I'll end for now. There's lots more news but I'll post it when i put my pictures up! Happy Reading!

Halloween and Fall Decorations

Fall and Halloween decorations are so fun! This is my favorite time of the year!

These are the decorations I put up in my house!

It's very important to me to make my home have a wonderful spirit inside. For who ever comes in will know that this house is home.

Because Home, is Where your Story begins.

Halloween musts:

1. Pumpkins Everywhere

2. Candy Corn

3. Hocus Pocus

4. It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

5. Ghost Stories on TV

6. Apple Cider

7. Hay Rides

8. Dress up

9. Fix up Treat Bags

10. Chili

Halloween

I just love that it's FALL! Everything is So Beautiful here in Tennessee and all leaves and tree's are just breathtaking! Halloween is just around the corner and I'm so excited for my favorite holiday! This year I'm going to my churches Chili cook off and I'm going to be a LadyBug! Your never to old to dress up for Halloween! My nephew Angelus is going to be a pirate and he loves to dress up in some of his costume and he goes around the house saying "ARRRG"! He's so cute!
Time has REALLY flown by and right after Halloween will be my 22nd birthday on the 5th of November! I Can't believe I'll be 22! I'm so ready and I've planned a party with friends and family and one BIG double Decker cookie cake!
It's going to be really hard without my mom this year but I'll move through this with courage and love from everyone and I know my mom will be close by. It's helps that this beautiful season is here and I've completely decorated my house and spent 80% of paychecks this month, buying more decor! Here's some pretty pictures of Decorations in my house!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

An Introduction to Me

Hello Everyone! I made this blog for just update purposes for family and friends who I'm not able to chat with on a day to day bases. First a little info on me. My name is Tierra and I've always loved my name. It's just not a typical name you hear alot, so I've always cherished it. I'm 21 yrs. old and will soon be 22 on November the 5th! I'm absolutely thrilled to be turning 22. I have huge plans for that Birthday and can't wait for the event! I live in a small city on the borders of Tennessee and Virgina called Bristol. I live on the TN side, born and raised and very proud to be a Tennessee girlie! A few of the things I adore is first, my little buddy, my nephew Angelus. I know weird name but he is the most absolute handsome little man you've ever seen! No Lie! I simply heart him to death! He'll be turning 5 on September 3rd and he such the stud.

My family is important beyond words and I'm happy to have a small part in it. Big families with of a few weird aunts here and there just makes the saying "never a dull moment" reality. I have Lot's of cousins, So I've never known what it's like to be lonely. My Aunt Carolyn is my rock and my Mama number 2. She's always taught me to look for all the "good things" in life.

I'm sure everyone probably knows by now but I lost my mother in May of this year. Something that was extremely unexpected and always a deep part of me in which is too much to bear. But, I've learned something over the last few months is that, Life moves on even when your not looking. When Angelus started Pre-K this year I realized how wonderful Time moves along with just the simply magic of every day to day things. I miss her more then sometimes my mind can understand and my heart always brakes when I'm alone. But, I move along in this life living normally as I can. Keeping my mama in my self at all times knowing that if I need her, She will always come. For I was her little girl an meant more to her then life.

As for some other things of me, I love to be girlie girl. I'm spoiled beyond measure but I know the meaning of hard work for the almighty dollar. Purses, Shoes, Make-Up, Clothes, Perfume always puts me in a good mood. When I was little my grandmother used to call me prissy-tale and boy did she mean it! Going to the movies is probably one of my MOST favorite things to do. But, I warn you, if it doesn't have a love interest in it, Heaven help you, I won't go! Final! Action plus romance or chic flicks makes me giddy! My passion is learning and studying anything from the 18th & 19th turn of the century period. I'm your whole Jane Austen kinda gal and love learning about Great Britain History, Royalty, and Aristocracy! I'll drop whatever I'm doing to watch it, read it, buy it, and anything of it! I have a great passion for reading and I love to collect quotes for my quote book.

I'm a decorating, Organizing, Cleaning fanatic but I do know how to make mess! When my house is clean, I go alittle OCD about it but when it starts to do go down hill I just let it and pay for Later. I'm always late by at least 8 minutes and I loose my glasses and keys all the time.

I have some of the best girlfriends a lady good ask for and were absolutely Boy crazy. Oh do we Heart Boys!

I work here in Bristol at the local Hospital and love talking with people. Smiling and asking them how there day is, Is very important to me. What can I say, I'm a talker. Music simply let's me survive each day and is a must in car, shower, kitchen, elevators, and in any where else. I love getting to know people and asking question so look out, I'm nosy! As for the final comes my faith and Church. I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and who I am is a reflection of my religion. I have a very strong testimony of the gospel and knowledge of my standards. It's who I am, Who I will marry, and How I plan to raise my family some day. It's of all the good things in life and a faith what is to come. The Lord has given me so many blessings that I'm always mindful and Thankful. One of my favorite hymns is "Come Thou Font" and theres a line that goes, "Come Thou Font of Every Blessing, Tune Thy Heart to Sing Thy Grace." And with said that, This is me.