Saturday Smile

It seems each night of the week I have to run somewhere and then work on homework into the wee hours of the night and then wake up early the next day and do it all over again. I know, "welcome to the real world" blah blah. Yes, I know. But those days where you can sleep in a little longer, don't have to wake up to an alarm, and have nothing on a to-do list definately do not come around often if even at all. Today was one of those days for me. I woke up and sat on the couch and drank coffee with my parents and talked. I feel like i never even get to just talk to them during the week of crazy running from place to place. Mom, April, Bryce and I went "Yard-saling" today and had a picnic at the park so Bryce could play. When they showed up at the house April really looked like she brought two and not just one. She is showing so much with her belly now! I just saw her the other night and you couldn't really tell she was pregnant but today we all got so excited! "It was happened over night!" she said! we got really excited about her pudge! It's so cute! April is due in April on her birthday! How fun is that! All is well with her and baby! Tonight I had a girls night and watched a movie and ate entirely too many rice crispy treats with Boober. It was so nice to relax all day long! I', really looking forward to my FAVORITE day of they week, Sunday! I get to teach my 6th grade girls and my piano student! Me and John are grilling out tomorrow and having a "date" night! We are really looking forward to that! Updated actual pictures to come soon!

Petals From Heaven

Mom and I met with the flower lady, Vickie yesterday after church. After a few wrong turns and joyful bickering , we finally made it to her home. She is such a sweet lady, we immediately loved her. We met for about 3 hours about all the details. For the first time, I got a bit overwhelmed and everything started lokoing the same. Once we sat down and Vickie calmed us a bit mom and I got really excited about how everything is going to look on mine and John's special day. After making many desicions and several headaches later, I went back to the church to teach my first piano lesson. It went so well! My student is great and she learns very fast! That's always a plus! I had a pretty tough Music history test today. It was our first one for this class and well. . . i felt like it was a midterm. It was crazy long and very detailed. Which was fine, becaus eI knew all the answers, it just took forever. But I'm not complaining because now I'm relaxing in a silent computer lab with the buzz of flurecent lights and clicking mice and I have nothing to do until 10:00! Tonight I get to entertain myself and write a paper on Buddha for my world religions class. Interesting, yet annoying. Boober puts it like this: "In the light of eternity, it doesn't really matter." If I look at this brief time that I have left in school compared to the rest of my life here then it's just a glimpse and that makes me relieved! This picture is again not something you will be seeing at my wedding, it's just something I found online.

Wedding Wedding Wedding

Mom and I met with the photographer today about our pictures. We are very excited with our desicion! We meet with the flower lady tomorrow right after church at her house. I'm super excited about that! I don't really have a good idea of what I want with my flowers, but I guess I'll find out tomorrow! This stage of planning is fun because you have to reserve places and people this far ahead before someone else does. Photographers book up fast! I was surprised we got the one we did! No worries, I hate this cake, but I thought the "M" was festive and apporpriate for this blog. I can't wait to marry my best friend. I'm not caught up in the planning and details as much as I am caught up in the fact that I get to spend the rest of my LIFE with the man that I couldn't imagine my life without. It's an exciting thing and I can't wait!

The Junior Year Slump

This is my hardest semester so far. To be honest, it has been stressful and quite discouraging. I went through what felt like a little bit lower then a "slump" like you get your sophomore year of college. This was deeper then a slump it was like a skimming the bottom and not being able to get up for air type of junior year slump. This was a new thing and I wasn't enjoying this feeling towards school at all.

God is so good that He has a way to give you this great amount of peace. Just when you think you can't take it anymore He lifts you up. I feel so much better about school now. With Boobers great idea of scheduling out time to do what homework every hour of the afternoon, I feel far more productive. School definately has not ogtten easier since I've been out of my skimming the bottom slump, but I've stopped worrying because I have great faith in God that He will carry me through this semester with great victory!

Here is a random picture from Centri-Kid this summer in MO. It was "Celebrating Being God's Princess'" day ( i just kinda made up my own stuff for this day)and well. . . I always went all out for the No Boys Allowed track time! The paint is from OMC earlier that day where my Alternators won the "Golden Coop" I might add!

Fun in the Sun for Free

After class on Wednesday me and Holly left for the deep south Florida sun! We were on our way to an all expence paid trip for four glorious nights in Panama City Beach. The trip was long, and once I started driving the second half at night, it began to get even longer. We got stuck in rush hour traffic and pouring sheets of rain. At 11:00 that night we arrived safely to our hotel and finally got settled in. We got some energy once we got to our room but it wasn't too long until we settled in for some sleep. We woke up bright and early Thursday and hit the beach. Florida is my FAVORITE in the fall because it's a bunch of retired people, the water is SO clear and clean and it's very peaaceful and quiet. That night, we realized we didn't like it AS much because everything closes at 10:00! Karaoke was that night at our hotel and we thought we would mix up the Patsy Cline and Jonny Cash and add in a little Dixie Chicks "Earl Had to Die" in there on them. They seemed to like it, especially the "acting out" of the song as well! It was quite the performance! With our belly's full from Escargot, Tropical drinks, King crab legs, and Chocolate cake. . . ALL for free, we headed to bed with much energy and excitement for the next new day! Friday was a little overcast, but night for a good tan! We rode the waves all afternoon until the rain stoped us for about an hour which left us time to work out and eat lunch and warm up in the steam room. For the rest of the afternoon we laid on our sun deck and fell asleep for a much needed nap. That night for dinner I had popcorn shrimp and a salad. I didn't go all out like the night before!

Saturday, our last full day of fun was spent laying out on the beach and riding jet skiis for an hour and a half. . . did i mention. . . all for free?! We got out as early as we could and stayed as late as we could! We left for dinner and enjoyed a nice 10 oz. file minon (i could NOT pass up the steak!) and a baked potato! Afterward Holly and I headed to some souvenier shops and bought us some sunglasses, sweatshirts, and sweatpants all on sale! We were pretty cold with our crazy sun burns that we got that day so sweats sounded very nice! And plus we just had to have "going home" outfits! We got home a little later than planned but we made alright time last night. It was a great trip for us two to get closer and to relax before finishing up the second half of our semester!

Here Again

It has been a while! And I figured since I made a few changed to the look of this blog I wouldn't get away with not posting! Holly, Sam, John, and I went camping last weekend. While there we had the best idea ever to rent an extrememly nice boat and a tube. This was my first experience with tubing and it was lots of fun! The boat was ours for 6 whole hours. We felt like rich celebrities!

I started school with 18 hours and it's definately one busy schedule.

I start teaching 6th grade girls Sunday school this week and I can't wait. I fixed up our room for them today. It's definately more bright and cheery now!