Fun AZ Weekend!!!

This weekend i had the great opportunity to fly home to Arizona for my nephew Taylors 6th birthday. What a fun weekend. First, we had Taylor's party. David and Jen had set up the entire backyard as a water park for him. Waterslides, slip n slides, little pools, water guns and water balloons. We had a really good time. The next day we went to a hotel and stayed there for the night because that is what Taylor wanted to do as a present. This hotel is cool. It had huge pools, waterslides and a lazy river. We spent two days hangin by the pool and of course eating food. We relaxed and just enjoyed the sunny days.













I am so glad that I was given the opportunity to go back home and visit some of my favorite people in the world. By the way, in case you didn't notice one of those favorite people is Batman. Trevor got this mask and didn't take it off all weekend long. Way too cute. I sure do love those kiddos. Can't wait to go back again.

Such a Jerk!!!

I am such a jerk! Tonight I helped out at VBS. Needless to say I went home tired and a little bit annoyed. James had gone home early in order to get some homework done. When I arrived home he was sitting on the couch. Of course I jumped all over the fact that he hadn't done his homework yet. I was wondering what the heck he had done with his time. He was not thrilled with me and my attitude. DUH!! Anyway, he is sitting on the couch reading e-mails and I started putting away laundry. While I was putting it away I noticed a bag. Yep! You guessed it. It was a present from James. He had gotten me, and for no reason I might add, a new and fabulous bag, a very cool patch to put on that bag and a new Disney movie for my collection. Yep! Exactly right. I SUCK!!!!!

My New Ring!!!!!!!!

Ok so today James and I went to Jared's to look around. We both agreed that we would NOT buy anything. The diamond from my engagement ring is well over 100 years old and has had some damage from being that old. We had decided to remove the diamond from the ring and place it in a necklace to protect it from further damage. When we got to the jeweler we were very disappointed. They told us that the diamond had received far too much damage to even be removed. They feared that removing the diamond would cause it to completely fall apart. We would have to sign a waiver releasing them from any responsibility for damage to the diamond. The lady told us that the ring was totally worthless. My first reaction was YOU B*%#H. I was ticked. The ring is worth a lot to me. It came from James' side of the family and was passed down. I LOVE IT! I was really upset. Anyway, I was totally unwilling to sign that release form so James came up with a new idea. Just get a new ring and leave the original one alone to preserve it. We started looking around and found a ring that looked EXACTLY like this one. The only problem was that the price was a little high. No thank you. Well the lady pulled out this ring to see if it was a little smaller and cheaper. Well when she looked at them together we quickly realized that it was not smaller but exactly the same. Much to our surprise the price was more than half the price of the other one. HECK YEAH!!! We checked out the rings and decided that there was no difference between the two. She came to the conclusion that the cheaper ring had been mis-priced. She said there was no way it was that cheap. We said - Tough crap for you guys. We'll take it! So I got a new ring and can feel better about keeping the original one safe.YIPPEE!!! I love it. What do you think about it???

My Family!!

Right now I am sitting on the couch with my husband next to me and my girls at my feet. James picked a movie and put it on. As most of you know that means that he is now asleep. The dogs are asleep too. This is usually what happens on a normal week night at our house. James and the girls fall asleep and I stay up. You might think that this sounds boring, but as I sit here I can't help but think about how blessed I am. I have a wonderful husband that loves me and there is no doubt about it. He is home with me every night and takes great care of me. I have a great home, great friends , great family and of course adorable dogs. The amount of blessings that I have is INSANE!!! Stop and count yours. I bet there are way more than you ever thought!

Back to the gym!!!

So! I have got this plan to go to the gym three times a week. Now that I no longer have school i no longer have an excuse not to go. The plan is to go to the gym three times a week and play volleyball once a week and play softball once a week. That's five days of something active. So far so good. I will definitely be able to go three times this week. The question is will I be able to do it next week. I tend to get lazy! Wish me luck.

Graduation!!

I have graduated!!! I'm sorry - I don't think you heard me. I said - I HAVE GRADUATED!!!!! Now - I assume you are smiling and jumping with excitement which is the response I expect from you all. I could not be more excited to be graduated. I was a little nervous about my grades this past semester, but as usual I was just being crazy. I ended the semester with 4 A's and 2 B's. Much better than expected. YIPPEE!!!

I would like to take this moment to thank everyone for coming to my party and celebrating with me. I am especially thankful for my wonderful family that flew all the way from Arizona to spend this time with me. Last but certainly not least I thank my fabulous husband James. James supported me for the past 3 and a half years while I attended school. He put up with my craziness and stress and stayed home with me all of those nights so I could do homework. Boring I'm sure, but he still did it. To top it off he threw me a super fun party complete with some good food, some great family and friends and best of all some fun karaoke. I still can't believe we got our friends to participate in that one. I had a blast! It makes me want to go get my Masters or even my PhD so I can have another party. --- Probably not!

My First Blog!!

Hello World!! I am here!! I now have a blog. I have given into peer pressure and here it is. Now that I am done with school I should have tons of time to share my thoughts and ideas with all of you. I know that you just can't wait to read what I have to say.