Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving kept me super busy last week, leaving me without a chance to sit down and update. 

I had a great Thanksgiving lunch served by my beautiful sister and her boyfriend. Afterwards, my sisters, Tyler and I went to see a movie with mom. 

The weekend was spent moving lot of things to storage and getting Tyler's moms house back to looking like a house. 

Yesterday and Today has been spent cleaning, and applying for jobs.  The job situation is getting pretty desperate and discouraging. While still continuing to apply for jobs, I plan on starting a business on my own. I will most likely have a partner, and am very confident that I can provide for myself, just as well as a company would provide for me, or better.  I constantly lie awake at night because there are so many ideas running through my head, and I am anxious to put my ideas into action. I know that the products and services I want to provide can far exceed anything that anyone else is offering.

I have prayed so hard, and reminded myself that God has a plan for me. As discouraging as hearing someone tell me they offered the job to someone "with more experience" or someone "a little older" can be, I have to take it with a grain of salt and know that it was not meant to be. I am confident that my idea is what I am supposed to be doing. I should have my business plan completed by this month, and am excited to begin next year!

Friendsgiving

Today, we had Thanksgiving with our friends. (Friendsgiving). We spent all morning cooking. Tyler made a ton of Mashed Potatoes. I made a sweet potato casserole. Kennan made some really delicious stuffing. Anna made some green beans. 

The other boys...watched football.

Then we went over to Lindsey's. I am super jealous of how put together and perfect her house is. She was such a wonderful host. She made homemade pumpkin pie. It was soo good. 

I am so blessed to be surrounded by such wonderful people. I am so thankful for them and I am already looking forward to what Tyler decided to call "Friends-mas"

This week, I am hoping to spend some much needed time with my Family. :)

Paislee

Saturday, I got the chance to meet my new baby cousin, Paislee. She is precious and looks more like a baby doll than half the dolls I see on the shelves at Wal-Mart. 

She is so cute. I just want to hold her and never put her down. :)

Dear Harry, Please do not go.

Tyler, his Grammy, and I went to see Harry Potter. It got me thinking about the things I have gone through in my life, since I have been a fan.

I started reading Harry Potter in 8th grade (9 years ago!!). This is the year our house was flooded and we moved to Tomball.

I saw the first Harry Potter movie, with my new (and very best) friends from my new school. This year I was a freshman in high school. I was quiet and shy. I was on the drill team. I had no worries in the world.

The next year, The Chamber of Secrets came out. I saw this too, with my super cool friends. As a sophomore, I hated school. I quit drill team. I learned to play guitar.

Junior year, I had no Harry Potter movies, but I had the books! This year, I had my drivers license. I started working (numerous jobs). I thought I was in love. I made new friends. I liked school again.

Senior Year, the Prisoner of Azkaban came out. I was applying to colleges. I graduated. I got my heart broken. Again, I went with the same friends to see this movie.

Freshman year of college, The Goblet of Fire came out. Although everyone went their own separate ways, we were joined together, once again, to see this movie. This was one of the first dates that Tyler and I had (He thought I was a super nerd-I was convinced he would never speak to me again).

The summer between freshman and sophomore years, The Half Blood Prince came out. I was in Colorado with Tyler and his family...an hour from a Wal-Mart. I pouted long enough that we made a special trip just to get it. I got a lecture on how I should enjoy the time in Colorado without my nose in a book. I finished it the next day.

Tyler and I saw that movie when it came out (By this point, I had converted him to be a super fan like me).  10 days later, he lost his father. 

Almost a year ago, Tyler proposed.

Due to all my complaining about how much better the books are than the movies, Tyler has done the unthinkable and has been listening to the books. This is a big deal to me. I love that I can share my love for the books with him, and have him love them as much as I do.

Today, we saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 1. As I was waiting for the movie to begin, I realized how much I have grown up with these stories. As excited as I am to see part 2, I am not looking forward to the end of this chapter (which almost seems like a whole book!) of my life.

To everyone that has been in my life during these times, I love you so much. I would not change a thing!

Lazy

This weekend was so lazy. I loved it. 

My first week of substitute teaching was pretty tiring. I have definitely learned to appreciate peace and quiet. My first day was awesome. My teacher had 4 off periods...seriously. I was able to read my book (more on this in a bit), eat my lunch, get a bathroom break (lol) and pick up a job for Friday. Friday was ridiculous. My teacher had a lunch, and one conference period. 

Her. Classes. Were. Awful. 

I can't complain too much, because I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to earn a paycheck. I read a little more of my book The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. If anyone has read this, I would love to hear your thoughts about it. It is about a girl who can taste the emotions of people through the food they prepare. I thought it sounded strange, but Oprah said it was good, so I thought I would give it a try. I have nearly put it down and quit many times because the way it is written is horrible. The dialogue in the book is not clearly marked, making it hard to follow. For example, if the main character is talking, it looks like this:

Can I help? I asked, spreading out pencils and papers on the vinyl place mats.

Nah, said Mom, whisking the flour and baking soda together. 

It drives me freakin insane. But I want to know what happens, so I overlook the punctuation mistakes.

Today, I watched the Texans lose by a freak accident. That was kind of a let down.

Today actually felt like Fall. Since I just got a new jacket, I am loving it. I have so many countdowns of exciting things that will be happening.

5 days until Harry Potter comes out.

6 days until I get to meet my new baby cousin.

10 days until Thanksgiving.

40 days until Christmas.

48 days until I am on a plane to Colorado.

Now that I am super excited...I am going to go finish my lemon cake book and call it a night!

Jobs

I hate job searching more than anything else. Sometimes, it seems to be such a waste of time. Today, however, I was offered a job with a temp agency that I think I am going to pursue.  I have decided to do the alternative teachers certification program and I think that temp jobs are a way to earn a paycheck without the commitment. I am actually looking forward to working full time again.

Last night, we brought home a new to us, 2006 Ford Explorer. She is beautiful. Tyler wants to name her "Babe" (the big blue ox).  I'm still not sure though.

Any Suggestions?

LunchKits

I woke up super early, and thought I would go back to sleep before work this morning. It doesn't seem like that is going to happen, so I decided I should update.

Call me weird, but the smallest things can make my heart melt. 

Like when I kick Rizzo and Molly off of the bed, and then look down and see them both trying to lay on their dog bed that is barely big enough for one of them.

Or when I go to put on a shoe, only to find a dog toy hidden in there.

Or when I get a text message in the middle of the day from one of my sisters, just because.

Weeellll, today is Tyler's first day of substitute teaching. Last night, there was a small dilemma of how he will be able to eat lunch. This was followed by a midnight trip to WalMart in search of a lunch kit. I guess I had never really given much thought to the product. It is obvious that WalMart does not carry a line of cool, masculine lunch kits. Standing in the middle of the aisle, I look over to Tyler and he just looked so helpless. I thought he was about to cry when he finally chose the red lunch-kit. I thought it was pretty nifty, because it has a tupperware container with it. I just started smiling because I thought it was so cute. Then he said, "I used to make fun of kids that carried lunch-kits." (btw...I carried a lunch-kit :(   haha)

For me, that was also a heart melting moment for some reason. I wish I could explain the look in his eyes. It made me want to become the Queen of Lunch-kits, so I could totally revamp the view on them and make it cool for anyone to carry a purple bag with way too many zippers around a high school.

I hope those kids aren't giving him too bad of a time today. It has to be weird going back to high school again. But in the mean time, any suggestions on a cool way to keep your lunch cool until you can eat it??

Wednesdays

My Wednesdays are all usually the same. Wake up,  go to work, leave work, come home, feed the cows!!

Everyone makes fun of me because the cows are my friends. There are a lot of furry friends around here to take care of.

This is Oreo.

This is the newly renamed Pepper.

This is what I call "baby cow". Ryan and Tyler have their own name for him. 

This is Pinky.

This is Faith.

These are Ryan and Jessica's dogs. We call them "Hee Hees" because they are as big as horses. haha.

This is Ryan and Jessica's rabbit.

This is Molly sleeping. And, yes, she is wearing a diaper. lol.

Rizzo likes to spend her time sleeping. Rizzo has a million toys that we call her "babies". As you can see, she takes really good care of them. I guess it was nap time for her baby.

While Molly looks outside.

Yesterday, for lunch, Tyler and I had chinese food. It was so good, we went back for dinner. I think my fortune thought that was pretty dumb, because you can see my fortune below. 

"The greatest danger could be your stupidity."

How Rude!! 

My Life Would Suck Without You.

I have the best life in the world :)


I faithfully posted to my LiveJournal in High School, and get a few laughs when I go back and look at the things that seemed so important in my life back then. I am extremely blessed to have so many wonderful people in my life, and would absolutely not be the person that I am today if it were not for them. I figured a few rounds of introductions should be in order:


I guess first, and foremost, should be my parents. lol

I love my parents more than anything in the whole world. 

I have 2 beautiful sisters. 

Holly is on the left. I hear all the time that we might as well have been twins. (Also, her necklace is the cutest thing ever because Heidi and I bought it for her birthday). Heidi is on the right and she can cheer me up on any day! :)

Tyler is my fiance, but more importantly, my best friend. How can you not be when you spend basically every waking moment together? I could fill an entire blog on how much I love this boy. I can not wait to marry him and live happily ever after.

I could not ask for a better family to marry into. That cute boy on the left is Tyler, his brother, Ryan, and his mom and dad.

Ryan has an amazing wife, Jessica, and we spend a lot of time with them, which is super fun :)

I wanted there to be enough room to add all my friends too, but I am afraid my blog might get kicked off for being too big or something :) lol