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.

MSU

Last night was awesome!! I really love the girls in my small group (Renee, Kristen, Ashley, Devon, Lindsey, and Kali) to be honest I really don't know what I would do with out them. It is a great time just to come together and be open and honest with what God is teaching us and the struggles and trials we are going through. Not to mention the prayer that I know I am getting that is so unbelievably helpful.

Tonight should be really fun it is the last home game for the MSU Girls Basketball Team. Me Ashley, Kristen and Lindsey are all going, it was nice because we were all at small group last night so we all decided to go together. I usually games and Lindsey and Kristen went on Sunday and had a lot of fun so they wanted to go to the game today. Jeremy is going to go early and pick up tickets for us girls so that we don’t have to go super early to wait in line. I think that is so nice of him because whenever you have four girls all trying to get some place on time we are bound to be a little late. It's just the way things work. My dad will be sitting with us that should be pretty funny he won’t mind though he has no son’s except for two Son-in-laws and out of the seven of his Grandchildren none of them are boys so he is used to being around women. Mr. Mason might come to so then my dad won’t be all on his own. I really hope that we win tonight we should have no problem because we are playing Michigan and they should not be hard at all we already beat them once this year and that game was away so I am not to worried.

Fun and Crazy

Things are finally starting to come together at the Duplex. Pictures are hung, the railing is back up on the steps and the dishwasher is finally starting to actually clean dishes instead of making them even dirtier (ok well it is not totally fixed yet but it is a lot better). I still have to finish painting the basement and front door area so if anyone would like to help please let me know. I could really use the help it is too high up and I am tired of just two people painting. If there was like four or five of us we could have it done in no time at all. I am having people over this Saturday night after Church to play games and just hang out, and so people can see the place. So if you want to come over just give me a call or leave a post and I will give you the directions.

Today was pretty interesting, Meah took off her dipper and went to the bathroom in her crib, I went up there wondering why she was up, I assumed that Micah had gone in there (Which he likes to do) and woke her up. When I got up there her light was on (which means that Micah had been in there but ran out of there as he herd me coming up the stairs) and she told me "I peed" So I had to strip everything off her bed and put it in the washer then I had to re-make her bed put a new diaper on her and lay her back down. The Girls Mallory and Macy are Watching Napoleon Dynamite possibly one of the finniest movies ever made. Later today after I am done here I am going to run errands with Nicole. I have to get my brake light fixed on the Jeep before I go to Kalamazoo on Friday.

So I am thinking about getting a perm not are really tight curly perm but a loose curl perm, what do you think I need some thoughts, Me and Ashley think that it would be good idea because I can blow dry my hair straight or let it go curly. I am trying to grow my hair out for Nicole's wedding this summer, right now I am really fed up with my hair so I need something done to it to keep me from cutting it. Let me know what you think.

Tonight

I really wanted to be productive today, when I got home from work I wanted to go see Ashley at work and get pampered, well actually I needed to get my eyebrows waxed. Instead I fell asleep, not exactly what I wanted to have happen. Tonight I have small group which will be great I love getting together with the girls. I have to decided what I want to have for dinner before I leav. Even though we don’t meet until 8:00.

Dr. Phil is on right now and this lady on the show is a complete wack job. She is just going to ride her daughter into the dirt. Ok I need to concentrate on the show now.

Life

This is for you; well you know who you are. I know that I have been absent lately from my blog but life I must admit has been a little crazy. Between moving into my new place and getting everything settled and finished there and working I have been one busy person. Even though I have had a lot to do there are still things that I need to stop and take a break for.

1. Going to central, ok well I guess it was not that important for me to go there, but I did really want to go, even though a certain person came home that weekend instead of staying up there so that I could stay in her dorm room instead of staying with my cousin at his place, and get woken up by his one loud drunk roommate and three of his roomates friends. No Angela you decided to not be up there so you made me have to deal with that (thanks!!). It was not all that bad though his roomates and his friends did offer to cook me breakfast in the morning, because they felt bad that they had woken me up, I delcined though because in a apertment of two boys who knows how long food has been in the fridge, espically with one of them being my cuz. Also that bacon looked really gross.

2. 24 ok I know to some people this may sound crazy but we are addicted to 24. Nicole, Chaz, Noel, Grace, Kyle and Melissa,myself and this past week Paul joined us. So for the first time in a while I was not the "7th" wheel (only single person with three other couples.) watching 24, I think that we may have Paul hooked but it might take at least one more epsoide before he really gets sucked into it.

Ok well that is it for now, the Potter kids should start walking down those steps at any time to eat breakfast and start school.

It has been a very busy day. I have been at the Potters working which is normal but today was different Mike was sick he has a temp of around 102.0 so he was in bed all day sleeping which meant that I had to keep the kids quite which is not a easy task especially to keep Micah quite. So I sent Marah and Micah outside for a while. Then they came in and were playing cards and I made them promise me that they would pick them all up.

Well here is what Micah said after they were done playing with them.

"God can you please come down here and help me pick these up or I will spank you."

Now you see he was very upset because he had just about finished picking up all the cards when they fell out of his hands and back on to the floor. He really wanted God to come and help him so he had to act like a adult and put a consequence so it like a adult does when they ask a kids to do something.

Well it is time to say good bye to living with my Aunt. I loved living with my Aunt and three Cousins, but it is time for me to move on. Now I will be living with two friends of mine Hillary and Angela. We are moving into my parent’s duplex. I will now be living on Ash Street in Mason. It will be so nice to have my own Bedroom and two have two full bathrooms. We are still getting the place "Living Ready." The people who rented it from my parents before were terrible tenants, the carpet is terrible and we can’t get it replaced till the beginning of summer which I guess is not to long. The water from cleaned the walls was dark brown due to the fact that they were smokers. So not only are the walls gross but, the carpet is really gross as well they had a Great Dane (but they told my parents they didn’t have and pets.) They had very nasty wall paper up in the kitchen which had to come down. There is also a border of wall paper in both bathrooms the still needs to come down. There was only one wall in the living room that had wallpaper and a wall downstairs that had wall paper. I am so sick up taking down wall paper.

All the walls need to be fixed buy taking out screws and nails (I have no idea why one place would need so many screws and nails in walls to hold up pictures) and then we need to spackle the holes up and spackle all the other random weird holes in all the walls. Then paint, the living room is two different colors of green. Each of us will be painting our bedrooms a different color. We need a fresh coat of white paint in the Kitchen and down stairs. The last thing to paint will be the bathrooms we haven’t decided what color to paint in there yet. So if anyone wants to help me paint. Or just clean the place or help me move let me know I could really use the help. I hopefully will have everything done and be able to move in the end of January beginning of February.

We are also on the hunt for a dryer someone already gave me a free washer so all we need is a dryer. We can do with out one for a while though we can hang stuff up to dry. We are also looking for a couch if you know anything let me know.

Well the madness has started, the break is over and work had begun and soon school will start too. I wish that I I had like three months off but I guess that is what the summer is for I feel like I need to sleep for like two weeks straight.

Ignite was awesome, I don't think that it could have been any better, God was really speaking right to my heart. I pretty sure that I am going to LT again this summer, I just need to pray about it for a while longer and hope that a few more things get worked out. Even though I am scared to death to go for a third time I really feel like it is what God wants me to do. Today is a busy day I am working, spending time with Ashley and then going to look at bridesmaid dresses with Nicole, Melissa and Devon,

I have a break..... well sort of

This week has been nice. Classes are done but work is not, so even though I have somewhat of a break I am not just sitting around doing nothing. This week is going to be busy. I have Christmas parties and Christmas shopping that I still need to finish. It seems like this week is going by so fast. Tomorrow after a full day of watching kids I am heading down to my sister Casey's house to spend sometime with her and my brother-in-law and my niece Lyndsey. This will be Lyndsey's first Christmas she turns 1 in February. Then on Thursday Casey, Keith and Lyndsey and I, will drive over to our other sisters house. Kim and her 6 kids and Casey, Keith, Lyndsey and my parents and I will have our Family Christmas.

Then back with Casey to her house Thursday night. I am leaving Casey's on Friday and going to Riverview for the Christmas Eve Service, not sure yet what service I am going to so if you know what service you will be at let me know!! I am hoping that this year my whole family will join me at Riverview so that I don’t have to head over to my family's Church when I am done at Riverview. My parents are have been thinking about switching Churches they are just not getting fed where they are at right now. Then I wake up Christmas morning open the presents from my parents and then it is over to my Grandmas house. The whole rest of the day will be spent with my cousin’s aunts and uncles we will have breakfast sing carols and read the Christmas story. Then we sleep a while make lunch. Eat and then it is off to our yearly custom of going to the movies on Christmas day. I know that might sound crazy but we have done it for years. On our way home from the movie we will stop somewhere and get something warn to drink then we will drive around for about two hours and look at Christmas lights. Then next week it is off to Ignite I am so excited that I am going!!!!!! Then after Ignite is over work and school start up again and the break is over. :(

Mall

I was at the mall today and I finally found something to wear for Kristen and Jeremy's wedding. It has taken me forever to wear something but it has been done, I actually think that I will be able to use that as my Christmas outfit too. Now I need to find jewelry for it but I think that Shelby and Kelsey are going to help me with that either tomorrow or Friday. I as getting so excited that Christmas is coming the Music always reminds me that Christmas is fast approaching. I still have so many people to buy gifts for. Ok time to help Blake with his homework and study for a test.

New Car

So my parents decided that it would be the best idea for me to buy my Dad'd jsep. I am so happy!!! Even though wrecking my car totally sucked I am glad that I am getting the jeep out of it. I guess good things do happen in all situations I just didn't think that I would see the good results out of this situation so fast. The only down side with the jeep is that it sucks up that gas, and with gas prices being as high as they have been that can get a little bit expensive. I also need to clean it. Since it was my dad's car it is inside is not clean at all, not to mention the outside which is cakes in mud. Thats what you get when you have a dad who loves to hunt and be outside.

It smells like Sugar Beets!!! I guess deer like to eat them so my dad had to buy some to place around his deer stands so now the jeep smells like beets. I hate beets especially the smell of them. I guess I cant complain though it could smell a lot worse. It could smell like dead deer since one was in the back about a week and a half ago. Luckily that smell didn't stay. So if anyone knows of a place that does a good job cleaning out the inside of cars let me know!!!!

Life

Today was a good day. I really enjoy spending time with a family. Growing up I was pretty much a only child even though I have two sisters they are 10 and 11 years older than me, so growing up it was mainly me and my parents. Now living with my aunt and Shelby, Kelsey and Blake. I feel more like a part of a family again. Just being able to have someone to do the dishes with is great. It is so nice me and Shelby pretty much spent the whole night together. We cleaned the kitchen, put up Christmas lights and just talked, and watched some t.v. I love it!!!!


Tomorrow morning she will some in and wake me up, she is my new alarm clock until I get mine back from the apt. Then in the afternoon I will pick her up from her hair appointment, and we will go shopping, we both need a black shirt for a picture for my Grandma and Grandpa. We are also picking up the platter that we made for them for Christmas. Ok well it is getting to close to my bedtime. I want to finish watching Armageddon.