The Cherry House Girls

What in the World???

I am just sitting here reading a peer reviewed journal article that was published and is used in real life.  Trust me this is not for fun.  Anyways, I just got done reading this sentence 17 times because the only thing I seem to remember is "of" when I am through reading it.  Give it a try:

"The limitation of discussions of retention to long-term characteristics is necessary in large part by the scarcity of data on the course of retention over intervals of the order of magnitude of the time elapsing between successive repetitions of an acquisition study."

W.T.F???

Okay seriously, I feel like my eyes are crying blood.  Please help!

A Tribute to Our Very Own Jenna Hotz

Our beloved Jenna is graduating on Sunday!  While we're so happy for her, we're also saddened to lose her as an 'everyday' housemate. I say this because...

Jenna,

You're always going to be a Cherry House Girl, and even though you won't be sleeping here every single night, I look forward to the times when you will be here and we can have reunited kitchen dance parties, watch Precious, drink wine, and gossip.  You're the greatest friend, sister, roommate, kitchen dancer, & chicken spaghetti maker, (shall I continue?) in the whole wide world!  I hope you don't get a job and can just come and live with us forever.

Love always,
Elizabeth

 

Shermanites

So yesterday we were making our typical late night finals run to Whataburger at 12:30am and I was sitting in the back of the car and noticed something in the road.  I told Liz to slow down because of that something that was in our lane ahead.  She moved over to the next lane and slowed down, and when we got closer we realized it was an older woman who has no shoes on and is just wheeling her way around Grand Ave. going against the flow of traffic in an actual lane at 12:30 in the morning.

When we came back she was on our side this time, going with the flow of traffic.  I tried to get a picture to show you guys but we were so freaked out we just sped by.

I hope that poor woman didn't need help.  Honestly we're thinking she was cracked out on meth.  We are the meth capital of the US afterall.

Maybe she should have been using this...

Uh-Oh!

I just spent $18 at Whataburger.

xoxo-Jenna

Sweetest Tea of Them All

Our sweet tea recipe here at the Cherry House ...

Ingredients:

6 Peach Tea bags
2 Mint Tea bags
Mint Leaves
Oranges
Sugar
Water
Ice

Directions:

Put a small pot of water on the stove with 2 cups of sugar (I know it sounds like a lot, but just go with it).  Then let that come to a boil.  Turn your temp to low and add your tea bags (8).  Let that syrup steep for about 20 minutes.  While your tea syrup is steeping cut up an orange into slices and prick a few leaves off your mint leaf plant.  Remove tea bags, drain any excess into pot, discard tea bags.  Then take a gallon size pitcher and add ice.  Pour the tea syrup into the pitcher and then fill to the brim with fresh, filtered water (especially if you live in Sherman).  Toss in your orange slices and tea leaves.  Refrigerate until it becomes nice and cool.

Fill up your glass with some ice and enjoy!!!

Peace, Love, and Sweet Tea!

**Note: you can use any type of tea you'd like.  We usually just use whatever we have, but this is a nice refreshing combo for Summer!

Eleanor Elizabeth Barker

We are with heavy hearts to let you all know of the untimely passing of one of our dear professors' daughter.  While some of us never had the privilege of meeting this sweet baby girl, we're confident that she was a blessing to all those who knew her for her short time on this earth.  We know that she is in a better place now and Jesus is holding her in His arms.

Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these."

Rest in sweet peace, little one.

Finals and late nights....

Finals is the great student equalizer. None of us can escape the claws of all the drugery that comes with tests and papers and projects.

To combat this week, the Cherry House Girls will have their fill of starbucks

Oops...wrong picture. Here is a picture of one of us with our starbucks!

That, and Whataburger! Lord knows Starbucks and Whataburger is all we have to live for this week!

Cleansing of Our Sins

Jenna and I had another one of our brilliant ideas.  She ordered a dress for graduation and wanted to make sure 100% that it was going to fit and look wonderful so we decided to do The Master Cleanse (Lemonade Diet) where we only drink a special lemonade and don't eat any food for several days.

Our plan:

Start on Sunday
End on Thursday
(Lose 10lbs)

What actually happened:

Sunday: we started the cleanse.  Saw fast results!  Put too much cayenne pepper in our lemonade and couldn't drink it.  Chewed one piece of gum each.
Monday: cried.  cried.  headache.  hunger pains.  contemplated giving up at 3pm, but decided to stick it through.  Elizabeth texts Jenna at 7pm and says she is giving up and going to get Panera.  Jenna calls Elizabeth at 8pm and says she is on her way to Little Ceasars.  We meet up around 11pm for a Whataburger taquito date.  2am we feel fat and go to sleep, failures of The Master Cleanse.

Summary:

We lasted 48hrs.

Conclusion:

We don't do well on diets......................obviously.

The End!

Happy Birthdays!!!!!

A special Happy 21st Birthday to my beautiful little sister, Gabrielle!!!!

I love you Bella!

xoxo,

Elizabeth (Bebe)

Kitten progress report!

The kittens are almost three weeks old! They all have their eyes open, and they are super cute!!!
If your wonder-filled-heart finds a place in it for these critters, let us know! All five are still in need of a home!

Urgent Cry for Help! FREE PUPPIES!

Our neighbors (whom we think are running a puppy-mill) just had a litter of puppies!  They have a ghetto cardboard sign posted on their fence that reads: "FREE PUPPIES" ...

If you (or anyone you know) are interested and can give these babies a good home, please let us know - comment below!  Lord only knows what they'll do to them if they aren't adopted out.

They're so-so-so-so-so cute (tiny fluff balls, some totally white and others are black/brown/white) and I will try to sneak a picture or two someday when our neighbors aren't home and they've been left outside.

COME GET YOUR PUPPY!!!!!!

Flea Market Happiness

Canton Flea Market

Need I say more?  

Four days each month this little east Texas town has more than 300,000 visitors swarm to find their goodies at First Monday Trade Days.

Can't wait.

Frappy Happy Hour

WoooHoooo!!!!  Starbucks is feeling awfully charitable lately!  First, they give us free coffee on Tax Day, and now we have a 'Frappuccino Happy Hour' where all fraps are $1/2 off.  What better way to spend every day of finals week other than at happy hour ... Starbucks Happy Hour ... hangover not included!

Good luck with finals everyone!!!

I have my priorities!

It's getting down to the wire!
No, I'm not talking about deadlines that have to do with school. Although, I guess I should think about that sometime...
I'm talking about the fact that it is two weeks until my graduation and I still. don't. have. a. dress.

I looked all over Mod Cloth and tons of vintage-resale sites. They all had super cute things, but none had "the dress."

That was until I stumbled across Heartbreaker Fashion and found it!

Isn't it perfect??? 
The sad thing is, I have two problems:
1) I ordered a size (possibly) smaller than I am. So when the package comes, I might need to haul it to the nearest spanx-selling store.
2) Now I don't have a good justification as to why I'm not studying.

xoxo-Jenna

Engagement Picture Ideas

So we're throwing around some ideas for engagement pictures.  We really are trying to incorporate props and settings that are important to us not only as individuals but as a couple.  These are just some ideas we've been throwing around...

Golf Course Pictures
We both really enjoy golfing, he more than I, but we thought it would be cute to get a few shots on the golf course all dressed up!  In particular, we were thinking one cute shot would be him standing behind me trying to show me how to swing properly.  Cheesy?  Great!

Piano Pictures
We both really enjoy playing the piano, again he more than I, and that was one of the ways we really bonded when we first met.  The first night he came over to my house to meet my family we just played the piano together and sang for hours.  It is still one of our favorite pastimes.

Wine and Cigars Pictures
During the Summer we love to get our favorite bottle of wine, Cain Cuvee, and share a cigar with our feet dipped in the pool while watching the sun set over the golf course.  It is just such a great way for us to come together and talk about our days and it is our favorite way of spending quality time together.

Washing Dogs Pictures
We are dog lovers, and thought it'd be so cheesy cute to get all dressed up, Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie family picture style, and get some shots while washing the dogs in the backyard.  We may get some cute pictures out of that and thought it'd just be fun to get our dog-children in on the fun!  They're so photogenic anyways.


So those are a few of our ideas.  Let us know what you think!  I do know one thing is for sure, I really want to wear this dress for one of the aforementioned photoshoots:

Can't ever go wrong with a little Kate Spade in your wardrobe 

Nothin' but your Hoodie on

I'd like to say that I am a fan of all things American Apparel.  But their hoodies, well, they're especially amazing.

Get yours here

You can also find some similar hoodies at Target for half the price.

Get yours here

They the perfect piece to throw on and run around crazy in!  We love them here at the Cherry House.

No Facebook, No Fun

So we decided to log onto each others Facebook accounts and change the passwords in order to make it through the rest of the semester.  Social networking is the highlight of our days, and we are conditioned to log onto Facebook immediately upon getting on the computer.  Why is it so addicting????  Why do we love to read all about other peoples' problems via their status' and stalk their pictures???  Why are we creeps??????

Anyway, we have been so bored without our own Facebook and have been secretly sneaking onto our Cherry House Girls Facebook Account

Lame!

Thinking about summer

School's not out, but I'm definitely thinking of where I'll be spending my time. The following are links to places that will be on my "bucket list" for the summer (which is pretty dumb, because technically with me graduating, I shouldn't have the same mindset about summers. Summer now means finding a job instead of shopping.....)

Super cute fabric store to make super cute dresses!

Perfect little coffee shops.

Richardson Public Library (a favorite)

Just to scope out some housewares...

So I can be on my way to being featured in Better Homes and Gardens.


Really, there are just too many places I want to go. I'll probably end up going to just one or two as I spend most of my time tanning by the pool...

xoxo - Jenna