Weekend

This weekend was great!!! I was able to go to my sisters Thursday-Monday and spend time with her my brother-in-law and best of all my niece. I post some pictures later. She really has developed a great personality; I can really see both Casey and Keith in her. She loves animals and reading books, I must have spent at least two hours each day just reading books to her. Some of them I read over and over and over.

I have a prayer request my Grandma is going to have open heat surgery to repair two of her valves in her heart. The reason that her valves are blocked is because about two years ago she had radiation for her breast cancer. It's funny how something that is done to help one thing can cause harm with another thing. I am not that nervous though because my grandma is not nervous at all she is so excited to have this surgery. She is happy because after she has healed completely from this surgery she should have a lot more energy. The surgery is Thursday morning at 5:00am. So for the next few days I will be helping my Aunt out at the Motel because my grandparents won’t be there. Wish me luck!!!

Gilmore Girls

I love Gilmore Girls, especially because I get to watch it every Tuesday night with my roommate and good friend Hillary. We are both so into the show that it is crazy, we have even both entered a contest to win a trip for two to the set. We promised that if either of us won we would take each other. So if you want you can pray that one of us wins!!! Just kidding but sending a little luck our way would be nice.

OK I have decided that I want to Marry a Luke as in Luke Gains from Gilmore what a perfect man. Affectionate, Funny and an outdoors man. Not to mention that he is Laid back, but at the same time he is set in his ways. He remembers the little things. A lot like my Dad.

More of New Orleans

Here Are some more pictures of New Orleans!!!! These pictures are from the swamp tour that we went on it was awesome!

Take my breath away

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I was raised to love sports, and for those of you that have had the pleasure of going to a MSU sporting event with me know that at time I can get a little involved in the games. I have been know to get loud (louder than I normally Am) , today was no exception, while watching the football game MSU v.s. Notre Dame is was all over the place. On the Picnic Tables, pacing in circles and in the last drive I was on the floor. In the end MSU came through with the win.

New Orleans

OK so for all of you that don't know I went to New Orleans earlier this summer. So I thought that I would post some pictures of the New Orleans that I will always remember. It was an awesome vacation, that I will never forget. So here they are!!!

Ok I think I have the pic thing figured out!!!!

More pics

She is thinking about eating the sand

Lyndsey loves water!!!!

Having her first ride on a motercyle!!

I told her to kiss the camara

She decided that the sand looked good enough to eat

OK I hope this works

Lyndsey found a catapiller she was in aww!!

Trying to get back

I am trying to get back into this whole blog thing. Even if no one reads it I just like being able to write things down for me. But for all of you that do read it, it's for you to. Now if I could just figure out how to get pics up that would be great.

I love my Niece Lyndsey!!! She makes me laugh! :)

Long Time

I have been gone from this for a long time. This summer has been so busy that I am surprised that I even survived. I really haven't seen anyone this summer but hopefully with school starting and my schedule getting less busy, I will be able to see people more.

Today will be busy though I have to help my Aunt with My cousins, they need to be taken and picked up from sports. Since my Grandma and Grandpa are down in Ohio today she need help. So I offered. I love my cousins so it really wont be bad at all. Well it is getting close to that time where the picking up and dropping off begins so I got to get going.

Summer

ok I have been gone from this for a long time. But I have been busy. I am so glad that summer is finally here. Even though it is 90 degrees in my duplex because of the lack of air conditioning. It is much better than it being cold. So many great things are coming up this month. From bachlorette parties to weddings to vacations. It is going to be a great month. OK this is all I have time for now.

Weddings

Well the Summer of Weddings is soon beginning. It is so exciting!!! I don’t think that I have even had this many weddings to go to in the time span of one year. All the mail that I have received at my new Duplex has either been for a bachelorette party, Bridal Shower, or a Wedding. My roommates have been laughing at me over all the weddings that I have this summer. It feels like every single weekend I either have a wedding to go to or a bridal shower or a bachelorette party. This leaves me with very busy weekends which can be a good or a bad thing. The best thing though, is that fact that the one week that I have a vacation planed there is no wedding stuff that I have to go to at all that week. It actually turned out really well. Also the fact that some of the weddings are for me and a guest and well since I am not dating anyone I have to try to find someone to bring. The last wedding I went to my cousin came with me as my guest. We did have a lot of fun together so it wasn’t too bad after all.

Busy

I have been busy!!!!!! And by busy I mean busy really busy. I feel like I have been running a million miles a minute. From working, to trying to get my duplex in order, it is starting to drive me crazy. I am so ready for a stress free week. I not sure why but the last couple of weeks have been extremely stressful. I have started my week off good though. Sunday I went to a Chris Tomlin, Casting Crowns and Steven Curtis Chapman concert with my two cousins and a friend. The Concert was great and really relaxing just what I needed. The Last night was 24 which is always a relaxing time. I was able just to sit down for a while and just relax. There was no one opening the front door every 5 minuets, no one yelling for the channel to be changed or for the volume to be turned up or down. It was just mellow which was exactly what I needed. I also got a really good night sleep and I am at the potters right now Mallory and Marah are eating breakfast and Macy and Meah are sleeping and last but not least Micah is at school. Then I work at the Twist tonight. I so glad that I have small group tonight I feel bad because I have missed like the past three weeks but I am going tonight hopefully before small group I can go for a walk with Bethany we are trying to start walking together hopefully at least four or five times a week. On a even happier not I only had to pay 8 dollars of my own money to fill up my gas tank because my cousin got me a $25 gas card for my birthday so a full tank of gas and I only personally paid $8 I think that is great. Ok well I have to get them started on school work.


I hope that everyone who reads this has a stress free week as well.

Spring Break

Well according to the computer it is 70 degrees outside. Which is a good and a bad thing. It is great because I love the worm weather but it is a bad thing because Mason has a half day of school today and there are only two of u s working tonight at the Twist which means that we will be really busy and I wont get out of there till late tonight. My aunt and cousins and grandparents are leaving on Thursday fro Florida which means I will be holding the fort down at the twist most likely I will be there from open till close most of the next week. It stinks because I will b e working all day long on my birthday. Not the best way to spend a birthday but I guess it will have to do. I have to look on the bright side and realize that I will have tons of great dessert fro my birthday!!! Not that I can’t have it everyday that I work. I can't really take advantage of it because I have too many wedding that I am going to this summer and one wedding that I am in. So as much as I would love to eat it everyday I can’t. So if you get bored at all this week you know where to find me and hopefully it will be nice and worn out the rest of the week. If it snows again I think that I am going to have to move to Hawaii. Which by the way my sister and brother-in-law are going on Vacation for 10 days. I was supposed to be going with them but that didn’t work out. Instead I get to help my parents watch my niece Lyndsey.

Well the sun is out and the birds are singing. It finally feels like we may have a chance for some warm weather. I realized yesterday as I was sitting on my front porch with Hillary how much I enjoy the Sun. I don’t think that I would be happy living somewhere where the sun didn't shine that much. We were sitting outside out front door just laying there enjoying the sun shining on our faces. It felt so good; we started talking about all our great plans for our house this summer. And all the stuff that we need to get done before the summer really starts.

1. Re paint the front door

2. Re seed the front lawn (the people who lived there before us had two great Danes and well needless to say the dog kind of wrecked havoc on the front lawn.)

3. Get a new mail box; I think that the mail man would appreciate one that was not old and rusty.

4. Get new address numbers for the outside of the house so that you can actually see our address from street.

5. Plant a flower garden. Right now the one that is there has some flowers starting to poke through the ground but it also has a lot of weeds.

6. Re-stain the back porch.

7. Clean up the underneath of the porch. (The last people to live there left a lot of crap)

8. Get a picnic table

9. Buy a grill

We plan on having a lot of barbeques this summer, so we need a grill to cook with and something to sit on.



OK and that is just the outside of the house there is another huge list for the inside but only one thing at a time. At least that is what I keep telling myself.

If anyone knows anyone who is selling a washer and/or a dryer please let me know.

Happy Easter

Today instead of going to Church at Riverview I went to the Church that I grew up in with my family. Today my cousin Blake was baptized. I was really proud of him because he was so nervous. It made me remember when I got baptized like Blake I was baptized on Easter Sunday, my and my other Cousin Rick were baptized on the same day. We wanted to get baptized at the early service so that there would not be as many people in church. Looking back on that now I find it really funny. I was so happy for Blake because the whole family was there. All his Aunts and Uncles and cousins from our side of the family were there, I think that is the first time in like 10 years since we have all been there at one time. That in itself in a answer to pray.

Ok so today both guys and girls MSU Basketball play so lets cheer on our teams today!!!
GO GREEN!!!!! GO WHITE!!!!!

oh and really good news me and Shelby might be able to be camp counselors together this summer how exciting!!!

I need to sleep

SLEEP I NEED SLEEP!!! I have been so busy lately that I have forgotten to sleep, well not really forgotten to sleep but just not really had the time. All I really want to do is to catch up on sleep and hang out with people that I have not seen in a while. I have been really busy with the Super Twist. So if anyone wants to visit just drop on by I am sure that I will be there. My phone has not been working, I will go from 1 message to like over 20 messages and some of them are from the week before. I really need to get it fixed because it is driving me crazy. And has caused some problems. So if you call me and leave a message and I don’t call you back it is because I never got the message because my phone is stupid.

I would really appreciate it if everyone could please pray for my friend Liz and her husband Justin, Justin is in Iraq right now I am not to sure where he is stationed but I do know that last week a man in his unit was killed by a sniper. He has a wife and two kids, this is the first funeral for the family. This will be the first funeral that his wife has ever been to, she has never had anyone close to her die. Please pray for their whole family during this hard time. Also please pray for my friend Liz that she can keep up that the hope that Justin will come home, pray for his safe return.

I guess it just brings my right back to how fast we can leave this world, So since I don’t say it enough. I want to tell all my Friends and Family that I LOVE YOU!!!!!

Birthdays

So Tomorrow is my Mom's birthday, I think that my sister is coming into town with my Niece Lyndsey so that we can take her out to dinner. Birthdays have really got me thinking on how fast time really goes by, most of my friends are either engaged or married, I am nowhere near getting married and surprisingly I am fine with that, I am glad where God has me, I have the liberty to go anywhere and not have anyone back home who is holding me down, not that all of my friends are being help down by their significant others, but I just have more freedom to pick up and go and I love that. Well I have to get to work have a great day everyone!!

Gone

I know I know it has been a long time. Lets be honest though life has been really busy the Super Twist is no open!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not sure yet if it is a good thing or a bad thing. I love wroking there, I love the people I work with and the money is good. But now I am really busy, run run run that is all I do. From one job to the next. This week is not as bed because it is spring break so I don't have one of my jobs, but that means that I am working 40 hrs at the Twist. The worst part is smelling like Ice Cream. I know that might sound crazy but I do I come home smelling and feeling Ice Cream. So if you are board at all this week come and see me in Mason by McDonald's at the Super Twist.