Bittersweet

This day, marks a bittersweet moment for me in my journey working with Emotionally Impaired Students and staff at SE. I am very sad about leaving, but excited to see what the future holds..


Who wants to leave these awesome students and staff?? I know that I sad, but at the same time I am excited to see what lies ahead.. I will miss my cute kiddo's, but I know something great is going to come of the next school year!

The good, the bad, the ugly

Well, one more day and I will officially be on summer break! I am dying for summer to begin. This has been a long year and I am ready for a little time off.. I would say the past 4 weeks have been very stressful and I am ready for a break.


The good: I accepted a school social work job today! I am very excited and nervous to see what the future holds!! I finally have a big girl job! Wahoo!!'


Now the bad: Since we had to cancel our Disney trip, we also have to cancel our non-refundable plane tickets.. The kicker is that the travel insurance we purchased does not cover getting a new job... Why purchase trip insurance then??? I thought the insurance was good for any reason, but apparently it isn't.. I am in the process of contacting Disney Customer Service...


The Ugly: THe bug odemonitor has gone out.. Now, we don't know how many miles we are driving.. Hopefully, the gasoline gage doesn't go out or we are screwed... This is crazy and I am so sick of car problems.. Wish we could find an old lady car....


Again, another day of major mixed emotions and frustrations!

How is your week going???

I am blog posting from my ipod and it's so fun!!

My First Give-away! (Shreeks with excitment)

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Friendship is nothing that Fairytales and Storms can't Weather

Drew is my best friend in the whole wide world, yet he makes me the craziest at times.. I think that's how love is..
Our story starts us back in highschool, in 10th grade, over the book "The Great Gatsby."

Both Drew and I had been in Amy Vandebergs 4th hour English. Drew had to switch classes and was now in my class. 4th hour was the hated class, if memory serves me correctly... One morning early on in that semester, before school began, Drew was working on some last minute homework about "The Great Gatsby". That morning in the library, I was working on the same homework. I didnt understand the book and I thought it was stupid, but I needed to get it done. I reconized Drew from class, but we had never met, so I introduced myself. At that time, I had no idea what adventure I was to embark on.



I asked Drew for some help on a question and he often refers to this moment as " I was cheating off him"..whatever...



Little did the two of us know that morning was jsut the beginning of a close friendship, and later a serious relationship.

Life isn't a fairytale, but a day at the lake...

I love having mulitple parents in my life who love me unconditonally. One of these parents is my great friend Cricket. Cricket has been my prayer partner this past year and I have used all of her prayers greatly. Currently, she and her husband, Brad, are trying to sell their house in order for them to start building on their lake property.

We spent the day with Cricket, church family and her family at the Lake. It feels like heaven there.. No worries, no phones ringing, simple solitude in the middle of God's creation.

Wedding Bands

Drew and I are in the process of buying wedding bands.. They just look so stupid on my finger with my ring.. I hate all of them.. I have tried on so many plain or with diamonds and they all look dumb..
It is kinda frustrating.. Drew found his wedding band right away, but I am having no such luck!
Hopefully, I will find one soon!!

Tomorrow is the big move! We both are so excited for FREEDOM!!!
Will post pictures tomorrow!

Bridal Shower #1

This weekend, I had my first Bridal shower hosted by the grooms family. We had a blast and even played some awesome Disney Shower games. My soon to be sister-in-law organized two different disney games.

The first game was listening to some disney lyrics and trying to figure out what movie they from.

The second game was a fun game about which female character goes with a male disney character.

Example: Mickey ___________ (Minnie is the answer)

Belle: _____________________(Beast is the answer)

Of course, I got all of these questions right!! I won a prize.

My shower was a blast and I recieved a lot of neat gifts.

It was very fun to spend time with family and friends .. The party was great and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves..

Here are pictures.. .