More Birthday Fun

Yesterday afternoon, Lacy and I went and saw Bride Wars. It was a great movie! I definitely want to own it! I was all teary eyed at the end. Maybe it is because I was sitting next to my best friend watching a movie about two best friends. And then some of the last lines of the movie if not the last lines of the movie were,

“Sometimes in life there really are bonds formed that can never be broken. Sometimes you really can find that one person who will stand by you no matter what. Maybe you'll find it in a spouse and celebrate it with your dream wedding, but theres also the chance that the one person you can count on for a lifetime, the one person who knows you sometimes better than you know yourself is the same person who's been standing beside you all along.”

We walked out and both of us saying at the same time that is you! hahaha. I truly cannot remember a year or time in my life that Lacy was not a part of it. We really have been friends forever. I am so blessed to have her in my life!


After the movie we went to Logans and both ordered a bowl of their Loaded Bake Potato Soup and talked nonstop until it was time for me to leave and head for Canyon for class.

Class went okay last night. I was a helper last night! Hahaha!

The good news is that is 3 weeks less of Art I have!

Hope you all have a great day!

I passed!!!

oh what a weekend

What a weekend…

 

Friday evening around 5 I started freaking out about the test I had to take Saturday morning. After talking to a few people and realizing it is only a practice test it went away. It slowly found its way back when it was 12:57 AM and I was staring at the clock, somehow I managed to fall asleep.

 

Saturday morning… I arrive to take my test, get seated, listen to the rules, and begin my test. I get to question 6 where I notice a couple of answer choices marked out and I was trying to remember if I had done that because I had scanned the questions on the page before I started answering them. Then I turned the page and saw several questions answered so I put my pencil down and raise my hand. They leave to go get me another test booklet and bring me back 2002 and I was taking a test from 2003. Finally, they came back, but by that time my mind was such a mess that I became unsure of myself. I got to the math portion and finally thought okay I do know this stuff and the test went easier from there, but the beginning is still a blur. After my test I made the final decision that I was going to leave town for the night and who better to go with than my little sister.

 

See on the 45 minute drive to Canyon is when it started brewing, well we had actually planned to go like a week or two ago but things just didn’t work out. Anyway after my test I called Meghan and asked if she was up for it. I went to her house she packed some stuff and we headed towards Lubbock…nowhere fancy but it was 2 hours away that I could clear my head. We stopped in Plainview at the Wal-Mart to buy a few things like  a toothbrush and a few other necessities (I seriously was just  going with the clothes on my back). We made it to Lubbock got a hotel room and headed for the mall. We shopped for a few hours, went to dinner (yuck), and headed back to the hotel just to have girl time. We left about 11 this morning. It was short and sweet but just what I needed. I got home around 3:00. Shawn and I have been hanging out all evening. He was so sweet and made the best grilled cheeses and tomato soup for dinner!

 

So that sums up my weekend.

 

BTW I will find out my dreadful score tomorrow afternoon.

The picture...

Remember the great laugh I mentioned, well here is the picture. It isn't the greatest, but my mom pressed on the gas a little too soon, and then she wouldn't circle the parking lot. That just made me laugh harder.


The Hood was covered with flags and you see that weird looking thing on the left side just under the window, the driver side of the vehicle has tons of it up there. In the basket was a bike tube, a gas can, and some other thing. Anyway I just thought it was bazaar!

Randomness

1. My blog remains unfinished. (Maybe that will change over the next couple of days, for now ignore it :) )
2. I have been on a cleaning spree for most of the day.
3. Up next is my closet and dresser drawers. I have been avoiding that for way to long now.
4. I started reading The Power of a Praying Wife and I am also doing the study guide.
5. I am almost finished with laundry.
6. There is really nothing exciting going on in my life right now.
7. The weather has been beautiful out...but that is all about to change.
8. My art teacher is using helper chore charts and an attendance chart with stickers along with "snack time"... I feel like I am in a preschool classroom.
9. There is someone in my art class that I didn't care for in high school, but I was never hateful towards her, but that was years ago. I am trying to get her with kindness. It just so happens she sits under the clock in there so every once in a while we make eye contact where I smile and she rolls her eyes and gives me this dirty look. (I am not the only one that has noticed it) What is so weird about the whole thing, is she requested me on Facebook a couple of months ago and I accepted. We will see where this goes... (I am not asking to be friends...just to be civil or friendlier)
10. Shawn is in FTO (Field Training Officer) school all week and Saturday I take my Special Ed practice content test. February is the month I will take all of the "real" tests.

So that is all I can come up with now... if you have any ideas for topics to blog about feel free to comment!

BTW it still feels great being 25!

Happy Birthday To Me!

Yep there is actually something besides the inauguration going on today (not that it is not important).  Today I am 25 and it feels great!!! Oh how I love birthdays! I wish I could say I am doing something exciting tonight for it, but I don’t consider a 4 hour Art class exciting. However, I did celebrate with my parents on Saturday. I got a jewelry box from them. I absolutely love it!! They took me to Napolis for dinner. It was yummy! Afterwards we stopped by my brother’s new house and then went back to my parents house for a couple hours of Singstar on the ps2. Two weeks until I start student teaching. I hope by Friday I will have my teacher information.  Last night Shawn and I went to dinner at Applebee’s since we both have class tonight. Then we went and played Apples to Apples with Cynthia (Ryan’s girlfriend) and her friend. It was tons of fun so much I was thinking it was like 11 and it was 2 minutes after 1! Lucky for me the kids I am watching today didn’t come until about 9:30. I took my camera with me on Saturday but the only picture I got had nothing to do with my birthday…just a great laugh for my mom and I. I will post it later and if you live in the area I am sure you can guess which family it belongs to! Hope you all have a fantastic day! Eat something yummy or do something fun tonight and think of me…that way one of us is enjoying our evening!

Friday Fill-ins

I haven’t done one of these in a few months…

1. Enough with the drama.

2. Not enough time causes me to be conflicted.

3. I've been craving ice cream.

4. Shawn makes me laugh.

5. I wish I could go to Nygard Cay in the Bahamas next week.

6. The future has been on my mind lately.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to surprising my sister with a visit, tomorrow my plans include working the concession stand at the WT basketball game and Sunday, I want to go to Church and clean out my dresser drawers!

Go here to participate or read more of this week’s Friday Fill-ins.

You know the drill...

Once again I am changing things, but I don't have the time to sit down and do it all at once...so don't pay attention to the mix matching or weird things happening!

Hopefully I can finish tonight or tomorrow!

Hope your week is getting off to a great start!

Exciting News...

This news may not be exciting news to you, but it is for me! I got my placement for student teaching and both are resource. Also my elementary school placement is not the same one from last semester. (Cheers!)

This week hasn’t been the most exciting week ever, but it has been somewhat productive. We got the back bedroom aka laundry room cleaned out. My house is clean and laundry for the most part is done. I have been researching all kinds of stuff that will help us be successful with our resolution for the year. Yes I said us and our! The other night I couldn’t sleep and I watched the clock roll on to 3 AM. Shawn had a super busy night and made it home in time to grab a sandwich and walk right back out the door. (I hate those nights!) Anyway, I had so many thoughts and things I wanted to mention to him and I was afraid I would forget so I wrote him this super long letter. At the end I wrote a proposal sounding thing and taped it to the laundry room door. He woke me up with a yes. I know it may sound silly…but to me it is silly, cute, meaningful, and besides it made my heart smile!

I just do better when I have an outline or a plan and that is what I am working on. Shawn is also in on this…. I can’t just make a plan that will just work for me and not for him.

I have also talked to a couple of friends that are also going to help me stay on track with the different areas of my goal. By doing that, it helped me reexamine things and see where certain things started to go wrong, my weaknesses, and the areas I have always remained strong in.

That pretty much sums up the latest happenings!

A New Year

Wow, it is just the beginning of 2009, but I know there is so much to come this year! I am not sure I have ever been this excited to begin a new year knowing so many things are going to happen. This is such a big year for us. I am not one usually for a New Year’s resolution, but this year I have on that covers all areas of my life. You might laugh when you read it, but that is totally okay. It does sound a little cliché, but know there is several meanings behind it. So are you ready for it???

It is to get HEALTHIER in every way possible… financially, physically, mentally, ect.. Oh and my tiny one is to be a better blogger. I am going to try and post 2-3 times a week! Maybe in the future I will blog about everything behind my resolution…but right now I don’t feel like sharing. Hmmm maybe you can help me out by leaving a suggestion in the comments! :)

The last few months have reminded me of when Shawn was going through the academy. It was a hard time, but I was constantly reminding myself that it would fly by and it did. There are big changes and unknowns ahead for us…but I know it is ultimately all in HIS hands.

The other day I was on the phone with Courtney and we were discussing how our calendars were already filling up with events. Somewhere in that I said that I wanted the next few months to fly by, but then I took it back…because I want to enjoy it… I want to remember it as something else other than a super stressful time. Sure Shawn and I have memories of that time..but it seemed like we were constantly looking ahead instead of enjoying the day(s). I know that it will fly by…but I don’t wish for it to fly by anymore… I hope that makes some kind of sense!

Here is to all that is to come in 2009!