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Hello everyone,

I am sorry I have been slightly MIA as of late....Cupcake spilled water on my computer and I didn't get a new one for a couple of weeks. Luckily, I had it before the Thanksgiving weekend, so I worked feverishly while in Butternut and was able to catch up on all my school work. The farm was wonderful-it was great to have my dad there. I was able to bake a ridiculous amount of pies, we surprised my mom with a kitten, Abby came down with mono, my brothers and dad went deer hunting everyday, it snowed, and our neighbor's pygmy goat has baby 'kids.' Very eventful and nice to be away from San Diego....though it did make me miss Jay even more, as the last time I was there we had a terrific time together. But now I am back into my routine and have one more week of this quarter-then I start to prepare for Elly and Riccardo's visit and then Libby, Kris and Jamie (so excited!) I fly to Pittsburgh tomorrow for a cousin's wedding-never been and am looking forward to a hotel room all to myself!

Elly: very exciting about the Biola Art Abroad event--can't wait to hear more.
Libby: wow, bummer about the tree incident-no fun! Hope all is coming together. And I am calling you after my class today because I want to talk about things!
Jamie: how are you making it through your first semester? When are you done?
Lauren: Hi. What are you up to?

Miss you all, talk soon.

P.S. This is am image I created for an assignment to make a personal montage of five things that are "important to us." I think it is fun.