huh?

What the heck is this??

They stole our name and made it into something... indescribably odd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTCulYog5fw

Oh No, Oh My!

So guess what. Mr. Knightley has been sneezing like crazy lately! I think he might be sick :( So it reminded me of that time when we thought he was sick and saw that he might have "THE BLACK PLAGUE" (Dun Dun DUNNNNNNnnnnnn). Haha, well anyways so he has been sneezing. My mom told me that I should look up what he could have and this is what I found out. It could be one of three things. 1) a bad cold. 2) herpes...seriously??? 3) feline leukemia (NOOOOOOOO!!!!!). I'm soooo worried that its #3! I'm gonna bring him to a kitty appointment this week...I hope our little guy just likes to sneeze!

Anyways... Those of you who are joining fellow Duuuuuuuukes for Homecoming- I wish you tons of fun! I'll be taking pictures on Saturday and wishing I was there! :(

Also... a year ago last weekend was when Sarah, Hannah, and I were running a mad dash at 6am. Nope, not running a race...just racing to try to take some warm hot chocolate to some cold Marines. hahaha..we were indeed "Those girls" Oh well! It was fun though and the mental picture of Sarah with Hot Chocolate EVERYWHERE (hair, eyelash, jacket, hood, mittens, zipper, pants, cheek, and shoes) and yet she kept saying... " Girls...keep going, we gotta mission!" Oh wow, anyways I just remembered that and it cracks me up! I was thinking of going to Annapolis sometime soon! Any takers? :)

• Hannah I need to see your new appartment soon! Miss you ALL so much! So when is our next WHOLE reunion at Hannah's place???

• Catherine I hope you found a great costume for tonight...I'm praying for you, girl!

• Leah, how has it been with your parents? Fun? :) Did you ever hear back from that hospital in Richmond???

Sarah, it was great talking to you the other night... I hope you stick it to the man at work! And I loved...no, LOVED Catherine's post on your wall in response to ***** *****'s post! ;)

K, thats all for now! This girl is OUT!

Kate

Halloween.

Dear Dollhouse,
In honor of Halloween. These are just some of the reasons I miss you.
~S

Please Don't Kill me!

Ok ladies...October 31st is coming soon. Yes, Halloween. Do you remember what we were 2 years ago? Well as I was watching Regis and Kelly this morning I saw that they have a "Creative Costume Contest." ALL you have to do is submit a photo and if they like it they will air it on TV. I figured that ours had MAJOR potential soooooo *sigh* I submited our Mt. Rushmore photo! Ahhh...Sorry to those who may be embarrassed but I say, HEY this is our one opportunity to apprear on Regis and Kelly and now, if it does get aired, you can tell people durring that game - 2 truths and a lie- "Yea, I was on Regis and Kelly once!" So anyways, that is that! :) Love you and miss you all!

~Kate

P.S. maybe watch R&K next week to see if we are on! :)

New Homes, Blue Lights and Me Gusta Bailar.

Hey all! Sarah here writing here after officilly moving into my new Harrisonburg house... the Funkhouse. I thought I had prepped myself for like there without the Dollhouse... but the first night there showed me I wasn't quite as prepared as I had thought. The new girls I live with are great, in fact, the best I would want to live with if I can't be with the 5. I drove to the Burg and went straight to my new job training and couldn't wait to get home afterwards, so I proceeded to drive to the Dollhouse and realized, oops. Wrong house. So I drove to the new house and started getting used to this new life!
Rocket (aka Sara Blankenship) got to train me for my job since I'm taking hers and it is the ideal job for a college student. Check it: 10 hours a week, $10 an hour, 3-5 five days a week of the easiest job known to man (running paperwork to the courthouse, which means driving), the company footing the bill for gas and I get to tell people I work in an attorney's office. Sweet. So after two days of job training, I started my first day on my own on Friday. A little nervous. A little anxious. It's one of those things that is so easy, it could potentially make you look like a huge idiot if you mess up. Plus most of the work is handling larer ammounts of money than I will be making at this job all semester, so it could be disasterous should something bad happen. Anyway, first day was going well, I was driving to the courthouse when the skies opened u and it rained like it was the end of the world. Awesome. So I had to get to the courthouse by 4 when it closed, and I was doing well on time since it was 3:40. Suddenly, the dreaded blue lights came on behind me. "But I'm not speeding!" I thought. I pulled over, praying the police would go around me and just be on their way. But no. He pulled up behind me, got out (in the rain!) and asked me for my liscence and registration. Nooooooo! I was pretty frantic at this point, the time being 3:45 and I'm thinking, "why on my first day?!?!." I asked him with rising panic how long he thought it would take, and then started explaining that it was my first day and the courthouse was closing soon, very soon. I'm not sure I actually explained myself very coherently, but I think my voice was getting higher and higher and he noticed I was on the verge of tears and he got that look on his face that men do when a woman is about to start crying: the one where their eyebrows go up and they back up a step and there eyes get big and they start putting their hands up in a "stop" position. Panic. So he explained that my inspection date had expired but he would just give me a warning if I promised to get it checked. Whew. Crisis averted. I even managed to make him laugh, though not intentionally, when I in my panic handed him my USAA info instead of my car registration, to which he replied "uuuuh, close enough." Thanks po-po! Needless to say I didn't tell my new bosses about the incident.
In other news, Thursday night was salsa night at the rtful Dodger. Words cannot capture the sketchy and odd things that go down thursday nights at the Dodger, but let me say that these nights are simultaneously shocking, hilarious and very fun. At one point one of the Latino men cornered me and felt it was his job to teach me Spanish. I learned to say "I like to dance" and thought that would be enough to satisfy him, but he thought we should probably, you know, exchange numbers so we could... um, continue my education in Spanish. I managed to convince him that in our American culture that the woman calls the man, which baffled him and he kept saying "oh, no in mine, not like this." I insisted that yes, he should give me his number instead of me giving him mine, and in the end he acquiesced. Victory. Me gusta bailar!
Dollhouse, I miss you terribly.

It's a Boy!!!!

He has finally arrived! A little bit later than Courtney had hoped, of course, but I'm pretty sure that was all forgotten once she got to see this precious boy! My mom talked to Courtney on the phone this morning, and said Courtney was telling her she was laughing as she pushed him out!! She was just so relieved to have that moment there, but the doctor was a little shocked. 

Anyways...his name is Sawyer Patrick Cassada. He was born at 9:54 am, weighed 8 lbs 1.5 ounces, 20.5 inches long, and is as calm as can be (for now). The whole time we were in the room with him he was awake but so quiet.  He is precious. 

When Pat came out once he was delivered, as he always does, to announce if it's a boy or a girl, the weight and all that, he always has a little trick but in the exciting moment I guess we always forget. As soon as he walked out (which we had been watching the door for SO long it seemed) Joshua ran up to him so Pat picked him up and we were all gathered around him, and he says, "Well Joshua...it's just you and me.....looong pause............................and your brother!" All our minds were like, "aw, it's a girl, ok..." and trying to process that..STILL exciting, but THEN we all just burst into whatever, realizing it was a boy. Haha, it was great. Especially the grandma's reactions. AND the kids. They are all so cute about it. Bailey just keeps saying, "the baby is out!" Rebekah is always writing his name out, asking how to spell it, and this morning she said, "I was thinking about baby Sawyer last night." It's precious. Hearing Joshua and Bailey try to say his name is pretty cute too. And oh yes, in case you haven't gathered, the kids are staying at our house for a couple of days. Which is such fun but the energy level around here is pretty intense! Haha, it's just a constant party...you know how those grandparents just love to spoil the grandkids. It's fun to spend so much time with them. 

Courtney looked amazing when we saw her right after, I mean...she did not look like she had just given birth. She looked as beautiful as any other day. She's definitely feeling a little worse today (the epidural has of course worn off) but is loving having some relaxing time with her new son.

 

It may take some time to get used to being a family of 6 now!!  When we were in her labor room afterwards she said, "Yea, we got a picture of all 5 of us already.......I mean 6!" She has done a few posts on her blog cause Pat brought his laptop to the hospital, so if you want to read more about it all AND see more precious pictures, just click here for her blog. Ok, love you all and will talk to you soon! 

P.S. Yesterday was a big day for babies. Phill and Christy had their ultrasound yesterday to find out if they are having a boy or girl, and....they're having a boy too! They are ecstatic. Phill is thrilled to get to have a son, and Christy was literally screaming! She's excited to get to have a boy, too:) His name will be Ayden Phillip. Cuuuuute:) 

 

This Road...

 It's been awhile!! Quite awhile. and I thought it was about time to fill my favorite people in on what's going on in my life:) Well, to be quite honest it's been kind of hard recently. I feel ridiculous saying that, because nothing is WRONG...nothing horrible is happening, I'm completely healthy, I'm just at a really hard place right now. I feel totally lost and am so clueless about where God is leading me and what I am supposed to do with my life. (kind of a big thing to wonder about, huh?) I feel like we've wondered that our whole lives, but then once we graduated college we were going to know and everything was just going to start happening. Hmm, guess not. 

 Anyways, just practically talking about jobs, plans, and all that...I've been saying for awhile that I just need to pass my test (did that), then I just needed to take this psycho Advanced Cardiac Life Support class that some units ask for which I thought there was no way I was going to pass (but thanks to another couple weeks of more studying and being put in a great group, I got through it)- which actually got me thinking a little bit about possibly applying to some ER jobs (who knew?). So, those things are done...now it's just back to focusing on trying to get a job. And trying to really figure out where God wants me- as far as I know we're talking about San Diego or Virginia/D.C. here. I was thinking yesterday...all I want to know is 1. Where I CAN be (who is going to give me a job and where I'm going to find an optimal living situation), 2. Where I really WANT to be (what job I am actually going to end up enjoying and where I am going to enjoy living), and 3. Where SHOULD I be?! (where does God want me to be- where I will be able to serve Him best as well as where I will be able to grow and learn more about Him personally). That's ALL I want to know- haha...just a small thing. But, that's why the title of this entry is what it is, Ginny Owens' song, "This Road" definitely hits home for me right now. One day I will look back and see "why this road," but it seems impossible and silly right now! Like I said, I feel crazy complaining about stuff when there is really nothing WRONG- sure there have been some major disappointments so far- it just doesn't seem like there has been anything positive going on. and that's just frustrating. I'm now stuck at home, left simply to focus on trying to get a job now (no other little tasks to complete first), and I love my mom...but let's be honest- it's not helping the frustration. I'm not someone who enjoys sitting around over-analyzing every little part of every little thing (at least not talking about it out loud with someone). Unless it's you guys of course;) And she's not getting that. 

 Of course, if God just smacked me upside the head and told me what I should do, I would have no problem doing that...but I am definitely having a hard time patiently seeking Him and trying to decipher what He wants for me. And bottom line, I just can't live here for much longer. I at least need an end in sight to know I for sure have a plan of where I am going and when. But for that to happen I need a job. And that doesn't seem so simple. Anyways, I think I'm going in circles now. So I'll bring this to an end. 

 I have a list of potential jobs to apply to, and I just applied to my top choices and am going to see what I hear back from them. I'm pretty pessimistic. At least about San Diego jobs. But we'll see. I'm clueless, but I'm trying to be trusting. God is good, and He loves me, and He knows what's best for me. I love you all. and I'm praying for you all. and I miss you all. Seriously, I miss you all!!!! So much. We're going to need to talk some more about this coordinated trip to Norfolk soon! K, adios.

-Hannah

p.s. My sister is due THIS week with her baby! Seriously, any minute now she will be having this precious baby! She definitely cannot wait (she's pretty miserable) and we can hardly stand it either! I'll send out a note to let y'all know when she has it and whether it is a boy or a girl!!