not much of an update

Yesterday I was going to do the thursday thirteen thing and update, but blogger was acting up, and by the time it finally loaded I had 10 minutes before I had to leave for work. Anyway we are getting our first bedroom set today! I am so excited! We moved beds around lastnight we moved the twin bed that was in the 2nd bedroom to the back bedroom and then our bed to the 2nd bedroom. It actually turned out great in both rooms, I thought it would be way to crowded but it wasn't! We were up until 3 this morning doing that. Then we woke up about 9 and finished it. They are suppose to be here between 11:30 and 1:30 so we shall see. We told them before 3 since Shawn has to take a nap before he goes to work. School is going really fast, the next 3 weeks it is test after test pretty much. Oh I found a great find yesterday at a garage sale. There was an unopened queen comforter set and then the unopened sheet set, I could tell the brand was from walmart. The lady said she got it for her daughters room but her daughter hated it and she never went back to walmart. I got it for 25.00! Lastnight after I got off work Shawn met me at walmart because he needed a few things. So we went ahead a bought 2 new pillows and Shawn called me over to the other side of the bedding isle and that bedding was 54 (I think) for just the comforter set and then another 20 something for the sheets. I guess he really didn't believe me that I thought it was a great deal. At first I thought it was that he didn't like the bedding because it is a funky polkadoted pattern. But he said no he liked it, he thought I had just paid way to much for it at a garage sale. Anyway, we put that in on the bed in 2nd bedroom. I will post pictures as soon as our bedroom is put together and all of our clothes and stuff are out of the second bedroom. I should probably just take pictures of the whole house that way you can see the plate hanger in the kitchen and other stuff.
Minnie and Copper are doing great.

Well I have some homework that I was going to get to and then I remembered I hadn't updated this week.

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Thirteen Things about Copper | View | Add Favorite 1. We got Copper on Saturday, September 16, 2006. 2. He is a cross between an AKC chocolate lab and an AKC yellow lab. 3. He has green eyes like a chocolate lab but has yellow fur like his momma, with white around his paws and on his belly. 4. He does not like to cuddle, he isn't like Mickey was at all. 5. He did a nose dive off the porch yesterday trying to get a ball out of Minnies mouth. 6. He wines unless Minnie is laying down beside him. 7. He woke me up at 2:00 this morning whinning because he needed to go to the bathroom. 8. He is currently being crate trained. 9. He hates riding in the truck. 10. He whinned Monday most of the way to and from the vets office in Amarillo. Shawn and I turned up the radio to try to drown him out, but ended up making Minnie whine. Eventually they both went to sleep. 11. He thinks Shawn's shoes are his chew toys. 12. He hops around. 13. He doesn't let Minnie bully him around. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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Life just passing by....

This last week has gone by soooo fast! I can't believe it is already the weekend again.
Shawn and I finally celebrated our anniversary. He got us a suite at the Ambassador, it was Awesome!! They served us breakfast in bed, aww it was so wonderful! We stayed there Tuesday night, then on Wednesday I went and got my eyes checked and I now have classes to wear in class and if I think I need them to drive. She said I barely need them, but she thinks this will alleviate the headaches I get while taking notes off the boards and over heads in class. Thursday I just had a test in my class, so I didn't get to see if it worked or not, I guess we will see on Tuesday. Shawn switches to nights on Wednesday. Next week will be very interesting for him. Because he has to work all night Thursday gets off at 6 am Friday, but has to be at a class for work at 8am and go until 5 and then he is scheduled to work the football game Friday night at 7:30, and then today he got subpoenaed (sp?) to go to court on Thursday during the day after working all night on Wednesday. Surely that won't take all day. But I guess that means lots of over time. The following week he has another class for work that works the same way. Also in October or November he will be going to a week long class in Austin.
Oh yea, last Saturday Ashley Furniture was having this garage sale type thing. So Shawn and I went and met my mom and Meghan up there. That place was packed, but anyway, I found this black plate hanger thingy, well the other plate hangers were only marked down to like 15.99/19.99 and some other prices well the one I found didn't have any kind of sticker on it, so they told us to go stand in line. I love my husband, he stood in line for like an hour for me. Then after I looked around with Meghan and Mom, I went and joined him where we finally made it to the front and the lady didn't know what to charge and her boss really didn't know so he just looked at us and Shawn jokingly said how about 5.00's and the manager said okay. Anyway as soon as I get my chef plates on it I will take a picture. So here is the reason the line took forever...they had to enter everyone's information in the computer like they would for a big furniture sale so Shawn and I had to sign like 2 different form things and then they have to print off the copies all just for a plate hanger.
We have a new neighbor and she has a 4 month old part yellow lab mix female. Well yesterday she got in our yard and Minnie was just begging to go out and play, but the lady also has a male dog and right now we have to keep Minnie away from all males, so we went and checked and her male dog was still in the house so we let Minnie out and she was running around the yard with the puppy, then she was at the backdoor like she wanted in, so I let her in. She went and got her dog bone and wanted back outside. So we let her out, she took her bone over to the puppy and the puppy picked up and started running with it and Minnie would chase her. Then she would drop it and Minnie would pick it up and the puppy would chase her. It was really cute!! We misplaced the digital camera and by the time we found it they were done playing.

Well I need to go get ready for work!

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Thirteen things that I have learned or watched happen since we have moved...

1. Sleep is precious.
2. It was a bigger adjustment than I thought it would be
3. It is one long drive from there to school
4. It has caused Shawn and I's marriage to grow.
5. Weight gain.
6. People will always talk even if they don't know you.
7. It is hard adjusting schedules to see everyone, but at the same time it is a two way thing...
8. I have become a stronger and more independent
9. I have learned once again what true friends are all about..
10. I am procrastinator at unpacking.We. we still have boxes to unpack....
11. I have learned more about needing, wanting, what's important, and what's not important
12. Living in a small town saves money on gas.
13. Change is not an easy thing, but I would exchange these changes for anything, because I know that God has us where he wants to be and I really don't see us living anywhere else for a while, unless God decides to change plans for us.




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13 things I like about me.....

1. I nice person.

2. I care about others along with myself.

3. When it comes to school, I try to always do my best.

4. I am patient.

5. I am not a center of attention kind of person, those people tend to get on my nerves very quickly.

6. That I am a quiet person, most people always say I am so soft spoken, but I think it is better than being a loud mouth.

7. I can't stand to see a friend having a bad day and that I try to cheer them up.

8. I support and love my husband.

9. I love myself, even though sometimes the mirror/scale try to tell me different...

10. I want to be a future stay at home mommie

11. I am always there for anyone in need.

12. I turn my problems over to God..

13. And finally I am just me, nothing more, and nothing less, I am simply me, a person that God created and God doesn't make something he doesn't want, and I know he loves me, and so I love me too.

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Wow 2 years!!!

I can't believe that on Monday, Shawn and I celebrated our 2nd anniversary! I was just thinking about where we were and how soo much has changed since then. I would have never thought a year ago that we would be living here. A year ago we had no idea what God had in store for us. I don't think it was even a definate at this time last year that Shawn was going to go to the academy. I remember trying with all my heart to trust God and whatever happened with Shawn going to the academy that everything would be alright, and you know what? It did, even though Shawn and I hardly saw each other we made it through that and I don't think we could have done that with out God's help! Here is a slide show that I made like a month ago. It has been on my myspace, but some of you have not seen it....


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Anyway, lately I have been wondering if my sleep thing is God's way of getting me to talk to him more or something.... I kind of think the sleep thing is worsing. Lastnight, I felt bad because I had to pull over half way home so Shawn could take over driving. It really scared me. When we got home I went to bed, but 2 hrs later when Shawn and Minnie came to bed, I woke up and I was wide awake. I just don't understand it. My body is hurting and aching from being so tired and I just keep finding myself breaking down over the smallest things. Like yesterday, I hadn't seen my mom in like 2 weeks and I was just crabby to everyone including Shawn and I hate that because that is not who I am. So anyway, lastnight I just found myself once again crying and praying for sleep and just answers. Its not that I haven't prayed lately because I do, and this may sound crazy to some, but before I use to write/talk to God about my life and what is/was going on at the time and I don't think I have done that in the last month. So lastnight I pulled out my book of letters to God and I just wrote until 4:00 this morning. After I was done, I went and crawled into bed, and fast asleep I went, and I slept peacefully for 6 hrs, with out waking up every 2 to 3 hrs. Tomorrow I am making an appt with the doctor. It just scares me because I am not a pill taker and I am so afraid that he will put me on sleeping pills and the thought of me being on them makes me think that I am some what of a failure. I know you guys are probably tired of me talking about my sleeping problem but lately it just seems to be becoming a bigger and bigger problem in my life.

On to other news, I am already really busy with school. I guess I expected it to be like most semesters to where the first couple of weeks are kind of slow, nope, it is the 2nd week and I already have so much stuff due by Tuesday. One of the big things is that I have to type up this interview. We got a paper full of questions our future employers will be asking us and we have to answer them and it goes into our file and when we go to do our student teaching the principals/teachers of the schools we go to will be reading them. It looks like, if all goes to plan, I will be starting my methods in the fall and student teaching next spring so I will be graduating in may of 08, which is better than may of 2010. Not that I was expecting it to take me till 10 but sometimes it just felt like it. I could start my methods next semster but I would rather just finish up on the rest of my degree plan and just focus my time on methods and getting ready to take the tests for certification, because I am going to try and study so I can also get certified to teach technology classes and hopefully get both tests out of the way.

Shawn switches back to nights on the 20th and then he will go to days sometime in January. He is working the football game on Friday night for over time, which he is pretty excited about. Anyway, I have some reading for school I need to get done.

YUCK

When we got back from canyon this afternoon around 3:00 we discovered that our air conditioner is broken! So it is really really hot in this house. Which really sucks when you have a hard time sleeping anyways. I came home from working at pakasak and went to bed and I actually fell asleep before 1 and here it is after 3 and I am not wide awake, but I am awake enough that I can't go back to sleep. I tried reading for the last 3o minutes, but it is just soo hot! Hopefully the airconditioning people will be here in the morning! So far the first week of school has been great besides being tired. This morning or yesterday morning Shawn went with me and while I was in class, he was reading and doing some of his school work. It was nice to spend most of the day with him. I felt bad because I kind of dosed off and on the drive back today. But lastnight I didn't fall asleep until after 1 even though Shawn and I were in bed by 10:30. It was like I couldn't shut my mind off. Random stuff would just start popping up. I thought being in school would help, but I think it is just making me more and more tired even though I am loving my classes. I have even stopped watching tv in the bedroom because I have had a few friends tell me that is like a big no no or something and thats why I can't sleep. So I don't know? I don't think I have ever been this tired in my life.
Every summer I would go to church camp for a week. Pretty much the whole week except for probably one night we would stay up and it was pranks and raiding all night long back and forth and then we were up at 7 for morning devotion and breakfast. I could do that no problem. When my mom came and picked us up at the end of the week we would go home and crash the rest of the night in to Saturday afternoon. I feel like I have had a week like that over and over, with out the fun. Now, I just want someone to come and pick me up and take me home so I can sleep and sleep and sleep. I feel like I am going crazy or something, you would think me crying over not being able to sleep would help put myself to sleep but it doesn't help it just makes me even more tired. Anyway, I am going to go start reading chapter one for my EDSP class. I might as well do something productive.

Toodles~

Happy Friday

btw, it is time for all of my blogging people to update. It gets kind of boring reading the same thing over and over again.