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Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Sprinkle Spangles
So once and a while when I am reminiscing about certain parts of my childhood I always remember this cereal that I used to LOVE. I remember it especially around Christmastime, because the first time I had ever eaten it I was on this retreat with some girls from my church and there was snow on the ground. Also because the cereal is in the shape of stars and they are covered in multi-colored sprinkles. Everytime I drive by a house with multi-colored Christmas lights on them it makes me think of that cereal, every single time. I started to talk to Chris last night about them and we decided to try to figure out what they were called; after searching the internet for a while and looking up some discontinued cereals (thank you wikipedia) we finally figured it out. They were called Sprinkle Spangles. I know it probably seems silly, but it is crazy how things like that can bring back memories. Check out this old commercial that we found: http://www.retrojunk.com/details_commercial/476/
Monday, December 24, 2007
Movies and Christmastime
Going to see a movie on Christmas Day always seems to be a popular thing to do. We had never done this before, but last night after we celebrated Christmas with Chris's family we decided to go. Spectrum always sends us free tickets in the mail, I love that, it's kind of one of their ways of showing their staff they appreciate them. It was so fun though, it was snowing and blowing so much, we pretty much had a blizzard!! The theatre is really close to our house which was nice, so we didn't have to drive too far. We decided to go and see "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street". It is based off of a musical, so of coure there was a lot of singing. Definately an interesting movie with a different story line...you will have to see it and judge for yourself. Here is the trailer:
Great movie or not, Johnny Depp does an amazing as always.
Great movie or not, Johnny Depp does an amazing as always.
This week has been a blur!
I hate that I look forward to Christmas year round, seriously, I love it. And then it comes sneaking up on you so fast and it's always over so quickly...I hate it!
Well I finally finished all the Christmas shopping this past week, whew. It was a crazy one. I spent a lot of my two days off shopping, doing hair, and cleaning to prepare for this weekend. Not getting much sleep and wrapping presents. Oh yeah and baking. I made these little carmel, chocolate and pecan covered fudge balls...
I always look forward to my weekends off but I was looking forward to this one especially. Saturday my parents came into town. We had lunch at our house and then walked around downtown. Chris's parents came into town for dinner and we ate out at Kobe. Chris's dad Bob loves that place. It's like a steak and seafood restaurant where they cook the food on a grill in front of you. We had a lot of fun hanging out. I miss them!!!
We did a little tour of the Amway Grand
Sunday morning we went to Mars and the message was awesome as always. Ed Dobson spoke, the guy amazes me. He has Lou Gehrig's disease and I swear you would never know it. After church we came straight back here and started to prepare our meal for our Christmas dinner with Chris's family. They came here this year since we have our new house, it was also our first time cooking for them. Some of the highlights from our evening for me was when Chris's dad opened his T-shirt up that we got him...it says "I'm BOB, Deal with it!" It's hilarious, I guess you would have to see it. Also when his mom opened up her little Lighthouses that I got her for her collection. I don't think she was expecting those. I love to surprise people. Well it will definately be another memorable Christmas. Here are some pictures opening presents and also of Chris and I in front of our first Christmas tree in our new house together.
Today is Christmas Eve. I have to work tonight from 3-11 pm and then we have to drive straight home. I am hoping and praying that I will somehow be able to get out of work early. Chris gets out at 8:30, I am hoping to get out soon after that way we will make it home before midnight. I do not want to be tired Christmas Day, I swear that always happens. It's so hard to go to sleep when you get home though because everyone wants to visit. I cannot wait to see everyone! Especially Jess and Trish and Sam, I haven't seen them in forever!! Anyways, I better get off to bed!!
I hope that everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year. I love you all!!!
Well I finally finished all the Christmas shopping this past week, whew. It was a crazy one. I spent a lot of my two days off shopping, doing hair, and cleaning to prepare for this weekend. Not getting much sleep and wrapping presents. Oh yeah and baking. I made these little carmel, chocolate and pecan covered fudge balls...
I always look forward to my weekends off but I was looking forward to this one especially. Saturday my parents came into town. We had lunch at our house and then walked around downtown. Chris's parents came into town for dinner and we ate out at Kobe. Chris's dad Bob loves that place. It's like a steak and seafood restaurant where they cook the food on a grill in front of you. We had a lot of fun hanging out. I miss them!!!
We did a little tour of the Amway Grand
Sunday morning we went to Mars and the message was awesome as always. Ed Dobson spoke, the guy amazes me. He has Lou Gehrig's disease and I swear you would never know it. After church we came straight back here and started to prepare our meal for our Christmas dinner with Chris's family. They came here this year since we have our new house, it was also our first time cooking for them. Some of the highlights from our evening for me was when Chris's dad opened his T-shirt up that we got him...it says "I'm BOB, Deal with it!" It's hilarious, I guess you would have to see it. Also when his mom opened up her little Lighthouses that I got her for her collection. I don't think she was expecting those. I love to surprise people. Well it will definately be another memorable Christmas. Here are some pictures opening presents and also of Chris and I in front of our first Christmas tree in our new house together.
Today is Christmas Eve. I have to work tonight from 3-11 pm and then we have to drive straight home. I am hoping and praying that I will somehow be able to get out of work early. Chris gets out at 8:30, I am hoping to get out soon after that way we will make it home before midnight. I do not want to be tired Christmas Day, I swear that always happens. It's so hard to go to sleep when you get home though because everyone wants to visit. I cannot wait to see everyone! Especially Jess and Trish and Sam, I haven't seen them in forever!! Anyways, I better get off to bed!!
I hope that everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year. I love you all!!!
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Playing in the snow.
Over the past couple years, I have pondered a question quite often, always during the wintertime.
Why in the world do little kids like to play outside in the snow? It is so cold!!! So miserably cold. How are they having a good time at all?
And then today it came to me.
It was like I completely forgot or something.
They are so busy playing and running around like little crazy people that they don't even notice how cold it is because they are all bundled up and sweating their bum off.
That is what happened to me today anyways. One minutes I was scraping the good 6 inches of snow off of our car wondering how in the world I was going to get it out of the driveway to make it to work and thinking oh my gosh my fingers are going to fall off because of frostbite!!!.........and then the next minute I was playing with Niles in the backyard and realized....I'm not going to lose my fingers afterall! My hands are warm and they feel fine. In fact I was quite toasty as soon I got into the house.
My bum is still a little frozen but all is well.
Why in the world do little kids like to play outside in the snow? It is so cold!!! So miserably cold. How are they having a good time at all?
And then today it came to me.
It was like I completely forgot or something.
They are so busy playing and running around like little crazy people that they don't even notice how cold it is because they are all bundled up and sweating their bum off.
That is what happened to me today anyways. One minutes I was scraping the good 6 inches of snow off of our car wondering how in the world I was going to get it out of the driveway to make it to work and thinking oh my gosh my fingers are going to fall off because of frostbite!!!.........and then the next minute I was playing with Niles in the backyard and realized....I'm not going to lose my fingers afterall! My hands are warm and they feel fine. In fact I was quite toasty as soon I got into the house.
My bum is still a little frozen but all is well.
Getting our groove on.
We really get into the "Christmas Spirit" around our house.
Thanks Joe and the Today Show.
Also, check this out...Santa knows if you are being naughty or nice!!
I thinks it is funny. But kinda weirds me out at the same time...haha.
Thanks Joe and the Today Show.
Also, check this out...Santa knows if you are being naughty or nice!!
I thinks it is funny. But kinda weirds me out at the same time...haha.
Oh Christmas Tree!
I've been doing it again. Saving up all kinds of stories and pictures and putting off posting because I know it will take a while. Well Christmas is almost here so I figured I had better hurry up and do it already!
The last couple weeks have been great. We love Christmas time, it is always so much fun, it just always comes and goes so fast!!
Our house looks so cute, I love it! After hours of work putting up the lights and figuring out the right cords to buy and having to get someone to drill a hole into our morter to hang the wreath, well it was all worth it. The roof ended up being a lot higher than I thought it was too. We are the only house on our street that put up Christmas lights. I wonder why? They all probably think we are crazy. Every night I come home from work and there is our house, shining bright, haha.
We finished putting up the lights the saturday morning after Thanksgiving. That was the day that I had planned for us to decorate. It was such a fun day! After finishing up outside we got ready, went to Home Depot to buy a tree stand (we had a gift card) and then went to Red Lobster for a quick bite to eat (we had a gift card). I ended up running into a bunch of people that I used to work with/be friends with so that was kinda cool. After that we went to Romence Gardens and bought our Christmas tree. Our friend Andrea works there and she was telling us about how to get a coupon out of the paper and that they were nice trees and reasonably priced. This probably sounds so cheesy but, we came home and drank some cocoa, in Chris's case, eggnog, and decorated the tree. It's so pretty!! Last year after Christmas was over we bought a lot of decorations on clearance, and also got a lot for Christmas that said like "First Christmas in our New Home" etc, so I was pretty excited to use them all this year and see how it would look. I had also bought a lot of decorations at Hobby Lobby when their stuff was 50% off and got some great deals. It was good fun. =)
I bought Niles some sweet reindeer antlers but he won't leave them on for two long...it's kinda funny watching him try to get these off, it's a miracle I got him to sit still for a minute to take this picture....
Since then we've been doing the usual...getting some Christmas shopping done, working...I was going to send out Christmas cards but I think that now it is too late. I wanted to sent out a picture of us and we just didn't get it taken in time. Next year we will for sure!!
Last weekend our friends Adam and Amanda came over to see the house since they hadn't yet. I had been planning for a couple weeks and Chris and I finally decided on what food we were going to cook. It was really fun, we made steaks, twice baked crab stuffed potatoes and green beans. I also made a salad that had feta cheese, apples, dried cranberries and pecans in it, those are so good. Dessert was the kicker. I had seen this awesome looking cake on Martha Stewart monthes ago and it just looked SO pretty I thought that I would try it. It was a crepe cake...it had like 26 layers, supposed to have 32 but it started getting so high I quit early... NEVER AGAIN!!!!!! I kid you not people, between friday night and saturday morning I literally spent like 7 hours of my life on this thing, and if you don't believe me, ask Chris. It was so ridiculous!!! It looked great when I was done, but seriously, never again.
The stupid part, was later on in the evening Chris and Adam had gone to rent a movie and when they got back for some reason my stomach was like what did you do to me?? and I got sick. I ended up in the bathroom the entire time, and I could hear them out in the living room laughing at the movie and raving about how great the cake was. I was so disappointed!!! I ended up being sick all night long and into sunday. So much for having a great three days off of work!! I spent all day sunday trying to rehydrate myself and just resting. If there are three things that I hate it's throwing up, bloody noses, and getting hit in the head. So ridiculous.
So anyways, only 9 more days until Christmas now. I cannot wait. I love being with all of our families. And I haven't seen my nephew Samuel since like September since they live in Ohio and before that since like March when he was born I think? I hate that they live so far away. It will be awesome watching him open presents this year. He is so cute!
This weekend my parents are coming into town to spend the day with us on Saturday and I know Chris's parents will come hang out as well. We might go to the Fredrick Meijer Gardens depending what is going on there. Sunday we will be having our family Christmas with Chris's side of the family at our house this year! And then Christmas Eve after I get out of work we will be driving straight to my familie's house. God has been so good to our families, we are so blessed!!
I love Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!
The last couple weeks have been great. We love Christmas time, it is always so much fun, it just always comes and goes so fast!!
Our house looks so cute, I love it! After hours of work putting up the lights and figuring out the right cords to buy and having to get someone to drill a hole into our morter to hang the wreath, well it was all worth it. The roof ended up being a lot higher than I thought it was too. We are the only house on our street that put up Christmas lights. I wonder why? They all probably think we are crazy. Every night I come home from work and there is our house, shining bright, haha.
We finished putting up the lights the saturday morning after Thanksgiving. That was the day that I had planned for us to decorate. It was such a fun day! After finishing up outside we got ready, went to Home Depot to buy a tree stand (we had a gift card) and then went to Red Lobster for a quick bite to eat (we had a gift card). I ended up running into a bunch of people that I used to work with/be friends with so that was kinda cool. After that we went to Romence Gardens and bought our Christmas tree. Our friend Andrea works there and she was telling us about how to get a coupon out of the paper and that they were nice trees and reasonably priced. This probably sounds so cheesy but, we came home and drank some cocoa, in Chris's case, eggnog, and decorated the tree. It's so pretty!! Last year after Christmas was over we bought a lot of decorations on clearance, and also got a lot for Christmas that said like "First Christmas in our New Home" etc, so I was pretty excited to use them all this year and see how it would look. I had also bought a lot of decorations at Hobby Lobby when their stuff was 50% off and got some great deals. It was good fun. =)
I bought Niles some sweet reindeer antlers but he won't leave them on for two long...it's kinda funny watching him try to get these off, it's a miracle I got him to sit still for a minute to take this picture....
Since then we've been doing the usual...getting some Christmas shopping done, working...I was going to send out Christmas cards but I think that now it is too late. I wanted to sent out a picture of us and we just didn't get it taken in time. Next year we will for sure!!
Last weekend our friends Adam and Amanda came over to see the house since they hadn't yet. I had been planning for a couple weeks and Chris and I finally decided on what food we were going to cook. It was really fun, we made steaks, twice baked crab stuffed potatoes and green beans. I also made a salad that had feta cheese, apples, dried cranberries and pecans in it, those are so good. Dessert was the kicker. I had seen this awesome looking cake on Martha Stewart monthes ago and it just looked SO pretty I thought that I would try it. It was a crepe cake...it had like 26 layers, supposed to have 32 but it started getting so high I quit early... NEVER AGAIN!!!!!! I kid you not people, between friday night and saturday morning I literally spent like 7 hours of my life on this thing, and if you don't believe me, ask Chris. It was so ridiculous!!! It looked great when I was done, but seriously, never again.
The stupid part, was later on in the evening Chris and Adam had gone to rent a movie and when they got back for some reason my stomach was like what did you do to me?? and I got sick. I ended up in the bathroom the entire time, and I could hear them out in the living room laughing at the movie and raving about how great the cake was. I was so disappointed!!! I ended up being sick all night long and into sunday. So much for having a great three days off of work!! I spent all day sunday trying to rehydrate myself and just resting. If there are three things that I hate it's throwing up, bloody noses, and getting hit in the head. So ridiculous.
So anyways, only 9 more days until Christmas now. I cannot wait. I love being with all of our families. And I haven't seen my nephew Samuel since like September since they live in Ohio and before that since like March when he was born I think? I hate that they live so far away. It will be awesome watching him open presents this year. He is so cute!
This weekend my parents are coming into town to spend the day with us on Saturday and I know Chris's parents will come hang out as well. We might go to the Fredrick Meijer Gardens depending what is going on there. Sunday we will be having our family Christmas with Chris's side of the family at our house this year! And then Christmas Eve after I get out of work we will be driving straight to my familie's house. God has been so good to our families, we are so blessed!!
I love Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Birthday wishes are in order.
It is my mother-in-law, Jeanne's Birthday today! And also my sister-in-law Trisha's as well!!!
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Happy Birthday you guys! You are both amazing people and I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!
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Friday, December 14, 2007
oh my
11 more days until Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cannot wait!!!
I seriously gotta finish shopping.
And I promise I will update soon!!!
I cannot wait!!!
I seriously gotta finish shopping.
And I promise I will update soon!!!
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
birthday wishes to my best friend
Today is my sister Megan's birthday.
I wish I could spend the day with her.
I miss that girl.
I wish I could spend the day with her.
I miss that girl.
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Thursday, November 29, 2007
On being a Christian.
When I say... "I am a Christian"
I'm not shouting "I'm clean livin'"
I'm whispering "I was lost, Now
I'm found and forgiven."
When I say... "I am a Christian"
I don't speak of this with pride.
I'm confessing that I stumble
and need Christ to be my guide.
When I say... "I am a Christian"
I'm not trying to be strong.
I'm professing that I'm weak and
need His strength to carry on.
When I say... "I am a Christian"
I'm not bragging of success.
I'm admitting I have failed and
need God to clean my mess.
When I say... "I am a Christian"
I'm not claiming to be perfect,
My flaws are far too visible
but, God believes I am worth it.
When I say... "I am a Christian"
I still feel the sting of pain..
I have my share of heartaches,
so I call upon His name.
When I say... "I am a Christian"
I'm not holier than thou,
I'm just a simple sinner Who
received God's good grace, somehow!
I'm not shouting "I'm clean livin'"
I'm whispering "I was lost, Now
I'm found and forgiven."
When I say... "I am a Christian"
I don't speak of this with pride.
I'm confessing that I stumble
and need Christ to be my guide.
When I say... "I am a Christian"
I'm not trying to be strong.
I'm professing that I'm weak and
need His strength to carry on.
When I say... "I am a Christian"
I'm not bragging of success.
I'm admitting I have failed and
need God to clean my mess.
When I say... "I am a Christian"
I'm not claiming to be perfect,
My flaws are far too visible
but, God believes I am worth it.
When I say... "I am a Christian"
I still feel the sting of pain..
I have my share of heartaches,
so I call upon His name.
When I say... "I am a Christian"
I'm not holier than thou,
I'm just a simple sinner Who
received God's good grace, somehow!
Monday, November 19, 2007
I know, I am slacking this month.
But, truth be told, I have had good reason. Last week consisted of getting things done around the house and a lot of cleaning.
Not to mention that I just worked the weekend from hell. Two 16 hour days, 7 am to 11pm, both days........it was awful. I couldn't wait to go to bed last night and sleep in this morning.
And going to work, always revolves around having to deal with drama. And lately the drama and stress is causing me to have anxiety, therefore I always feel like I have to vomit. Yeah, it's not fun.
Our laptop has also been on the blitz lately. Stupid computers, haha. Seriously though, next time, we should get a Mac. =)
Well I have today and tomorrow off so I'm pretty happy about that. Tonight Chris and I are driving home for the night to see my family. And then tomorrow hopefully we will be able to work on putting up the Christmas lights. Exciting!!! Saturday we are going to buy our Christmas tree and decorate. And friday morning we are actually goin go try and go shopping, wooo! I have never done that before. Shopping on Black Friday that is.
Oh yeah, I made my first pumpkin pie ever the other day and it turned out amazing!! Thank you Martha Stewart,haha!!!
Ok for real, I got tons of stuff I gotta do, hope everyone had a good weekend, I'm sure it was better than mine anyways. =)
Not to mention that I just worked the weekend from hell. Two 16 hour days, 7 am to 11pm, both days........it was awful. I couldn't wait to go to bed last night and sleep in this morning.
And going to work, always revolves around having to deal with drama. And lately the drama and stress is causing me to have anxiety, therefore I always feel like I have to vomit. Yeah, it's not fun.
Our laptop has also been on the blitz lately. Stupid computers, haha. Seriously though, next time, we should get a Mac. =)
Well I have today and tomorrow off so I'm pretty happy about that. Tonight Chris and I are driving home for the night to see my family. And then tomorrow hopefully we will be able to work on putting up the Christmas lights. Exciting!!! Saturday we are going to buy our Christmas tree and decorate. And friday morning we are actually goin go try and go shopping, wooo! I have never done that before. Shopping on Black Friday that is.
Oh yeah, I made my first pumpkin pie ever the other day and it turned out amazing!! Thank you Martha Stewart,haha!!!
Ok for real, I got tons of stuff I gotta do, hope everyone had a good weekend, I'm sure it was better than mine anyways. =)
Friday, November 9, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Assertiveness
If you know me well at all, you know that I hate confrontation. I will avoid it at all costs. And the second I am in a compromising position, where I am uncomfortable talking with someone, I cry at the drop of a hat. I hate that I am so sensitive sometimes and that I cannot stand up for myself more often. Well, you could say that I am working on that. Tonight at work, something happened with my second shift manager that pushed me over the edge. I was so angry, I knew that this would the night I would finally stand up and say something to her, not only for me, but for everyone else that works with me on my shift. I was so mad, my mind was just reeling with things that I wanted to say to her. My adrenaline was pumping so hard, I felt like I was going to have an anxiety attack, and I couldn't focus on what I was doing at all. I just kept praying to God that He would help me stay calm, and have the wisdom to say the right things. I finally got a chance to get her alone in our break room with me, and we ended up talking for over an hour and a half. I won't get into detail about the situation but hopefully a lot of good will end up coming out of it. I believe that when we both left the room, no animosity was between us, thankfully. It just really needed to be done. I was sick and tired of constantly hearing people complain about her and other situations, but no one was willing to do anything about it. No one wants to stir up the pot anymore than it already is, or get on her bad side, even though they all dislike her, it just doesn't make sense. But anyways, I guess the point is that I am proud of myself! And I feel so much better now, and everything is out in the open. If people would just go straight to other people and be open and honest with them, and handle the situation directly instead of gossiping, the world would be such a better place! If only that could be a reality.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Friday, November 2, 2007
So much is going on!!
Wow, I cannot believe that it is already November! I am so sad October is over, we love that month and definately did NOT get to enjoy it enough!!! But I am so excited for Christmas!!
I had the day off today. I got to sleep in a little bit, and Chris was home this morning too so that always makes me happy. I had a meeting at work around 2 and then after that I went shopping for a bit. I went to Target and walked around for a while. I found a bunch of stuff that I want for Christmas which is good because for a while there I couldn't think of anything, after that I went and looked at all of the Christmas stuff, I think I am just so excited to decorate this year because we are living in our first house now and everything. And...Chris has NEVER had a real Christmas tree! I cannot believe that! I told him this year we are definately having one, it will be his first real tree in our first house. I have even already planned the day that we are going to get the tree and decorate and everything, I can't wait!! But anyways, so today I found this really inexpensive cute mat for the floor for by the door, which we really needed badly anyways. Bad part is that we'll only be able to use it during Christmas because it has a snowman on it, haha. After that I went to Hobby Lobby, I love that store!! There is always so much fun stuff that I find there. And they always have aisles and aisles of things for the Holidays. Alot of their stuff was 1/2 half, probably because it is so early yet. I got two very nice wreathes, which I have been thinking about that for like a month now (pathetic I know, I am such a dork, but I just love Christmas so much!) and since they were half off I could not not buy them, it was such a good deal, especially for how nice they were. The plan was to put on and each side of the house. But today when I looked at the house there really isn't room on the one side, so I might end up taking one back, we will see I guess.
It was so nice just being by myself and walking around looking at everything, not having to be in a rush, it was just a very nice evening.
Ok, enough about Christmas!
This past weekend was awesome. Friday night Chris and I went to "Food, Wine, and All That Jazz" at the Museum downtown. He has been wanting to go to that for a couple years now. I was finally just old enough last year, but we went on our honeymoon so it got pushed back again to this year. His parents knew that we wanted to go, so they gave us the tickets as our anniversary present, they are amazing I swear. But it was so much fun, I could not believe all of the food...and wine....Chris more enjoyed the beverages. I haven't been able to get myself to drink lately, I just do not enjoy it as much, not that I have ever been a big drinker. But any more than a little sip of wine and I am gagging, it is weird. So I definately was enjoying the food. Here is a couple of great pictures from that night:
Saturday consisted of sleeping in, cleaning, and me going on a baking frenzy as I sometimes do. We were having a family get together for lunch the next day, and house church that evening so I needed to make something things...I ended up baking two pumpkin rolls (this is what everyone knows me for, I have been making these since 6th grade, crazy I know), some peanut butter cookies with M&Ms in them...Chris has been wanting me to make these for him for weeks now, I just finally got around to it; and also another pie. This one was an Apple-Raspberry Crumb Pie. I was a little skeptical because the peach pies didn't turn out too great and this recipe was from the same book but it ended up being amazing and everyone loved it. I was so proud I took a picture after it came out of the oven...(I swear I am not copying you Angela, I was totally going to put a picture on here of my pie, you just beat me to it, haha!!)
That evening we went to The Haunt. This year was our fourth year in a row going, and we were looking forward to it, especially Chris. It has sort of been a tradition for us, since Chris took me there on our first official date. We usually enjoy ourselves, besides that fact that you know you are going to freeze your butt off standing in line.
Well I dressed warm because by now I know better, and I hate being really really cold, not to mention that it was 40 degrees out that night. Well when we got there they were running things differently, which we did not know. And of course we were dumb for coming on a saturday night, also the last in October, so pretty much one of their busiest evenings. We waited in line for FOUR HOURS!!! We were so mad, they had this stupid VIP line going and people kept upgrading their tickets after seeing how long the line was...well the line is always that long, but usually people just wait, but no, not this year, and SO many people were upgrading that it took forever for them to finally keep letting our line in, it was ridiculous. We got there around 7:45 and didn't end up getting home until like 1:30 am. We were so angry, the Haunt totally stole our entire evening from us. Four hours of standing outside in line, barely moving...in 40 degree weather. I just kept thanking God that it was not raining! And also, it was horrible this year. We are not sure if we will go bad again next year, which is sort of sad. Oh well!
Sunday was an interesting day. My alarm clock decided to "Fall Back" an hour like it always does by itself and we ended up waking up an hour late. We didn't even know it until Chris looked at his phone...then went and checked the Tivo...he was late for church, I didn't end up going because there was no way I could get ready that fast. But I mean, COME ON! No one told my alarm clock that the government changed it to this weekend, not to mention that I had no idea...haha. I guess that is what I get for having a super intelligent alarm clock. =) After Chris came back and picked me up we went to his aunt and uncle's house for lunch where we all enjoyed his Uncle Ted's famous lasagna that he makes for us all sometimes. And then we came home and house church ended up being at our house which we did not expect until early that morning but it worked out well.
This week went by super fast again, like it has been lately. I had yesterday and today off so that was nice. Yesterday I went to Muskegon and did my new consultant training for Mary Kay. Then I hung out with our friends Adam and Amanda for a little while, and then went out to eat with my in laws and came home. We have to work this weekend, so not much of anything will be going on.
Tuesday I had my interview at Mars for the Kids Ministry. I will be volunteering in the Baby Bay helping with the two year olds with my friend Erica. I am excited, this sunday is my first, I am nervous but looking forward to it!
Our friend Joe (Erica's husband) also took some "family pictures" of us on friday afternoon. They turned out so amazing, I will be posting a couple soon!
I had the day off today. I got to sleep in a little bit, and Chris was home this morning too so that always makes me happy. I had a meeting at work around 2 and then after that I went shopping for a bit. I went to Target and walked around for a while. I found a bunch of stuff that I want for Christmas which is good because for a while there I couldn't think of anything, after that I went and looked at all of the Christmas stuff, I think I am just so excited to decorate this year because we are living in our first house now and everything. And...Chris has NEVER had a real Christmas tree! I cannot believe that! I told him this year we are definately having one, it will be his first real tree in our first house. I have even already planned the day that we are going to get the tree and decorate and everything, I can't wait!! But anyways, so today I found this really inexpensive cute mat for the floor for by the door, which we really needed badly anyways. Bad part is that we'll only be able to use it during Christmas because it has a snowman on it, haha. After that I went to Hobby Lobby, I love that store!! There is always so much fun stuff that I find there. And they always have aisles and aisles of things for the Holidays. Alot of their stuff was 1/2 half, probably because it is so early yet. I got two very nice wreathes, which I have been thinking about that for like a month now (pathetic I know, I am such a dork, but I just love Christmas so much!) and since they were half off I could not not buy them, it was such a good deal, especially for how nice they were. The plan was to put on and each side of the house. But today when I looked at the house there really isn't room on the one side, so I might end up taking one back, we will see I guess.
It was so nice just being by myself and walking around looking at everything, not having to be in a rush, it was just a very nice evening.
Ok, enough about Christmas!
This past weekend was awesome. Friday night Chris and I went to "Food, Wine, and All That Jazz" at the Museum downtown. He has been wanting to go to that for a couple years now. I was finally just old enough last year, but we went on our honeymoon so it got pushed back again to this year. His parents knew that we wanted to go, so they gave us the tickets as our anniversary present, they are amazing I swear. But it was so much fun, I could not believe all of the food...and wine....Chris more enjoyed the beverages. I haven't been able to get myself to drink lately, I just do not enjoy it as much, not that I have ever been a big drinker. But any more than a little sip of wine and I am gagging, it is weird. So I definately was enjoying the food. Here is a couple of great pictures from that night:
Saturday consisted of sleeping in, cleaning, and me going on a baking frenzy as I sometimes do. We were having a family get together for lunch the next day, and house church that evening so I needed to make something things...I ended up baking two pumpkin rolls (this is what everyone knows me for, I have been making these since 6th grade, crazy I know), some peanut butter cookies with M&Ms in them...Chris has been wanting me to make these for him for weeks now, I just finally got around to it; and also another pie. This one was an Apple-Raspberry Crumb Pie. I was a little skeptical because the peach pies didn't turn out too great and this recipe was from the same book but it ended up being amazing and everyone loved it. I was so proud I took a picture after it came out of the oven...(I swear I am not copying you Angela, I was totally going to put a picture on here of my pie, you just beat me to it, haha!!)
That evening we went to The Haunt. This year was our fourth year in a row going, and we were looking forward to it, especially Chris. It has sort of been a tradition for us, since Chris took me there on our first official date. We usually enjoy ourselves, besides that fact that you know you are going to freeze your butt off standing in line.
Well I dressed warm because by now I know better, and I hate being really really cold, not to mention that it was 40 degrees out that night. Well when we got there they were running things differently, which we did not know. And of course we were dumb for coming on a saturday night, also the last in October, so pretty much one of their busiest evenings. We waited in line for FOUR HOURS!!! We were so mad, they had this stupid VIP line going and people kept upgrading their tickets after seeing how long the line was...well the line is always that long, but usually people just wait, but no, not this year, and SO many people were upgrading that it took forever for them to finally keep letting our line in, it was ridiculous. We got there around 7:45 and didn't end up getting home until like 1:30 am. We were so angry, the Haunt totally stole our entire evening from us. Four hours of standing outside in line, barely moving...in 40 degree weather. I just kept thanking God that it was not raining! And also, it was horrible this year. We are not sure if we will go bad again next year, which is sort of sad. Oh well!
Sunday was an interesting day. My alarm clock decided to "Fall Back" an hour like it always does by itself and we ended up waking up an hour late. We didn't even know it until Chris looked at his phone...then went and checked the Tivo...he was late for church, I didn't end up going because there was no way I could get ready that fast. But I mean, COME ON! No one told my alarm clock that the government changed it to this weekend, not to mention that I had no idea...haha. I guess that is what I get for having a super intelligent alarm clock. =) After Chris came back and picked me up we went to his aunt and uncle's house for lunch where we all enjoyed his Uncle Ted's famous lasagna that he makes for us all sometimes. And then we came home and house church ended up being at our house which we did not expect until early that morning but it worked out well.
This week went by super fast again, like it has been lately. I had yesterday and today off so that was nice. Yesterday I went to Muskegon and did my new consultant training for Mary Kay. Then I hung out with our friends Adam and Amanda for a little while, and then went out to eat with my in laws and came home. We have to work this weekend, so not much of anything will be going on.
Tuesday I had my interview at Mars for the Kids Ministry. I will be volunteering in the Baby Bay helping with the two year olds with my friend Erica. I am excited, this sunday is my first, I am nervous but looking forward to it!
Our friend Joe (Erica's husband) also took some "family pictures" of us on friday afternoon. They turned out so amazing, I will be posting a couple soon!
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
bummed out.
I could totally be leaving on a plane for Florida tomorrow to hang out with two of my friends for a couple days! I am sad, I know it would have really been a lot of fun and probably one of the last trips I could go on with friends before we have kids. Chris of course is happy that I am not going because he was so jealous, haha. There was just no way I could get off of work on such short notice, I knew my boss would be sooo mad at me so I didn't even bother asking. Plus it probably wouldn't have been smart because I would need to spend a little bit of money here and there but come on! It was a round-trip ticket from Lansing to Florida for only $60!!!! And I have never flown before. I know I will regret not going, haha....
Oh well....
Oh well....
Sunday, October 21, 2007
mmm..pumpkin pie.
Chris brought home a pumpkin pie this week from Russ's. We've been eating it since like thursday or something. He kept telling me how good they are, well everyone who knows me well knows that I am like the "pumpkin queen". I've had my fair share of pumpkin pie so I was a little skeptical, it had a lot to live up to. But he was definately right, they are so good!
Speaking of pies, I made my first one ever yesterday. It was "Peach Crumble". I wanted to take something to my Skin Care Class for MK, so I was going through this little recipe book I bought a couple monthes back. It had all of these great fall/Christmas goodies in it and I love to bake this time of year so I had to have it. It actually turned out pretty good, I was kinda proud of myself. I will be making another one very soon because I bought waaaay too many peaches so if anyone is interested....it goes really great with French Vanilla ice cream too.
So yeah, yesterday I got up and went to the store, did some laundry, baked a pie....and right as it was almost finished, and I had the last load of laundry in the dryer...oh yeah and I was just about to get in the shower...our power went out. So frustrating! So I packed everything up and went to Muskegon sooner than planned and just got ready there. Thankfully I have amazing in-laws who let us treat their home like our own. I packed up the laundry and finished drying it there too. There is nothing worse than wet laundry sitting in the washer or dryer. I did that on accident once. It didn't smell so great the next day, haha.
The drive to Muskegon was amazing as usual. I actually believe that it is more beautiful this year than it was last year, the trees are so gorgeous. If it hadn't been raining on and off it would have been the perfect drive. The weather was sort of nasty the past couple days.
I ended up going out to eat with Chris's parents before my MK party, we went to a little place called Hearthstone. They have some really good French Onion soup. The first question Chris asked me when I got home last night is if I got the FO soup, I was like Of course!!! And then he asked me if it was better than Panera's. I actually didn't think so. Surprisingly.
My Mary Kay class went really well. We had four women from Chris's family show up, they were a hoot and everyone did a lot of laughing and talking...it was fun. And I made some money, which is always great too, haha. It was just nice to talk and hang out and get paid, I know that once I get busy doing this that it is going to be such a fun job!! I know working with Mary Kay is going to end up being a huge blessing in my life, it already has been already! God is good!
Speaking of pies, I made my first one ever yesterday. It was "Peach Crumble". I wanted to take something to my Skin Care Class for MK, so I was going through this little recipe book I bought a couple monthes back. It had all of these great fall/Christmas goodies in it and I love to bake this time of year so I had to have it. It actually turned out pretty good, I was kinda proud of myself. I will be making another one very soon because I bought waaaay too many peaches so if anyone is interested....it goes really great with French Vanilla ice cream too.
So yeah, yesterday I got up and went to the store, did some laundry, baked a pie....and right as it was almost finished, and I had the last load of laundry in the dryer...oh yeah and I was just about to get in the shower...our power went out. So frustrating! So I packed everything up and went to Muskegon sooner than planned and just got ready there. Thankfully I have amazing in-laws who let us treat their home like our own. I packed up the laundry and finished drying it there too. There is nothing worse than wet laundry sitting in the washer or dryer. I did that on accident once. It didn't smell so great the next day, haha.
The drive to Muskegon was amazing as usual. I actually believe that it is more beautiful this year than it was last year, the trees are so gorgeous. If it hadn't been raining on and off it would have been the perfect drive. The weather was sort of nasty the past couple days.
I ended up going out to eat with Chris's parents before my MK party, we went to a little place called Hearthstone. They have some really good French Onion soup. The first question Chris asked me when I got home last night is if I got the FO soup, I was like Of course!!! And then he asked me if it was better than Panera's. I actually didn't think so. Surprisingly.
My Mary Kay class went really well. We had four women from Chris's family show up, they were a hoot and everyone did a lot of laughing and talking...it was fun. And I made some money, which is always great too, haha. It was just nice to talk and hang out and get paid, I know that once I get busy doing this that it is going to be such a fun job!! I know working with Mary Kay is going to end up being a huge blessing in my life, it already has been already! God is good!
Friday, October 19, 2007
Samuel Bryce
Sam is almost 8 monthes old now, he is getting so big!! I cannot believe how cute he is!
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Fall is here.
I love fall so much, but I feel like we haven't really been able to enjoy it much this year. Things have been busy, perhaps that is why. But the leaves are starting to look beautiful as always. I always love the ride from Gr to Muskegon this time of year because the trees line the highway.
We finally broke down and turned our heat on, it was freezing in our house. Not that I am complaining because I am lovin this jean and sweater weather, I just hate it when I feel like I am "freezing". Hopefully by next week our new heater will be getting put in.
This past weekend we stayed at Chris's parents house. Saturday morning I had a Mary Kay training class. I have officially started! I am so excited. It's kinda overwhelming, I am still figuring some things out but I am looking forward to all of this, and hopefully I will be successful. I really do love their products. Friday night I am having a class for some of the women in Chris's family. It should be fun.
Saturday afternoon we hung out, I did Chris's dads hair and we watched Evan Almighty, it was actually pretty funny.
Sunday church was great as usual. Afterwards we went to the mall to walk around. Chris and I have sort of started making it our little thing to go and eat lunch at Panera after church. It's fairly cheap, and they have some of the best soup..I LOVE their French Onion and Broccoli cheese.
This past week has gone by quick. Work has been fairly busy. I have tomorrow off so I will be going to Muskegon for the little Mary Kay party. I have so much laundry to do tomorrow, and I have to bake some cookies or something! I want to clean the whole house too. I keep putting it off cause I know it is going to take a while, I just don't want to spend my whole day off cleaning and doing laundry. One thing I know for sure is I am sleeping in tomorrow!
Last night we went to Lansing to hang out with my friend Kevin and his gf Lisa. He just finished at MSU's Law School and is awaiting his BAR results. Next week he has an interview in DC and is most likely moving there shortly after. So I thought we'd better go and hang out with them really quick before he has to leave. We went to the Claddagh, I miss that place. Well more like I miss the food, haha. I am disappointed though because they got rid of some of my favorite dishes and added some not so Irish ones, it doesn't make any sense. It's like they care more about changing things for money purposes than keeping it authentic. I hate it when people sell out!
This morning I had to get up around 7:30 which is pretty early for me. When you get out of work after 11, it's hard to go to sleep right away which usually results in me staying up til like 1ish which leads to not getting up until atleast after 9, but anyways the point is that a while back I made this appt. at 9 am to force myself to get up early. I was really hating myself for that when my alarm went off, haha! I ended up going back to sleep after I got home, it was kinda stupid, but I think in part it was because it was so dreary outside and everything just kinda felt blah. But then the sun came out and I took Niles for a walk and it got all nice. Today was a weird day with the weather and all. I am happy that all of the bad weather missed us. When I was listening to the news at work they said that like 4,000 people in GR didn't have power, and I was like oh no!!! Thank goodness we still had it when I got back home.
ANYWAYS so when I went back to the ENT doc. today we found out what is wrong with me. For as long as I can remember when I breathe in through my nose it just always feels plugged, it's hard to explain. They couldn't really figure out what was wrong with me besides the fact that I have a slighty deviated septum and my nose walls collapse a little when I breathe in, but surgery for that would potentially make it worse. So then I got a cat scan on my sinuses but they were all perfect. They were concerned because my symptoms were worse than what they were seeing. But the cat scan also showed all views of my nose and passage ways. It turns out the partition in the middle of my nose juts out to the left blocking air from getting in ( I could tell that it was worse on the left) and both turbinates on each side jut out so they want to do surgery, trim down both turbinates and also reconstruct the partition and make it straight, allowing more air flow through my nostrils. The question of the day is do I really want to have this surgery??? I don't need it. I could just deal with this for the rest of my life, but it is so annoying! I am not sure what to do. I would end up having to take a week off of work. It's an out-patient surgery so I would go in in the morning and be out by the afternoon. There is a chance of a blood clot which only happens a couple times a year he said. I want it done, but it also means more money to pay and losing money by not working. I am not sure what to do!!! I just want to be able to breathe out of my nose normally.
Well anyways, I think that is all for now! I am going to go enjoy being in the company of my husband since we don't get to see eachother that much lately. =)
We finally broke down and turned our heat on, it was freezing in our house. Not that I am complaining because I am lovin this jean and sweater weather, I just hate it when I feel like I am "freezing". Hopefully by next week our new heater will be getting put in.
This past weekend we stayed at Chris's parents house. Saturday morning I had a Mary Kay training class. I have officially started! I am so excited. It's kinda overwhelming, I am still figuring some things out but I am looking forward to all of this, and hopefully I will be successful. I really do love their products. Friday night I am having a class for some of the women in Chris's family. It should be fun.
Saturday afternoon we hung out, I did Chris's dads hair and we watched Evan Almighty, it was actually pretty funny.
Sunday church was great as usual. Afterwards we went to the mall to walk around. Chris and I have sort of started making it our little thing to go and eat lunch at Panera after church. It's fairly cheap, and they have some of the best soup..I LOVE their French Onion and Broccoli cheese.
This past week has gone by quick. Work has been fairly busy. I have tomorrow off so I will be going to Muskegon for the little Mary Kay party. I have so much laundry to do tomorrow, and I have to bake some cookies or something! I want to clean the whole house too. I keep putting it off cause I know it is going to take a while, I just don't want to spend my whole day off cleaning and doing laundry. One thing I know for sure is I am sleeping in tomorrow!
Last night we went to Lansing to hang out with my friend Kevin and his gf Lisa. He just finished at MSU's Law School and is awaiting his BAR results. Next week he has an interview in DC and is most likely moving there shortly after. So I thought we'd better go and hang out with them really quick before he has to leave. We went to the Claddagh, I miss that place. Well more like I miss the food, haha. I am disappointed though because they got rid of some of my favorite dishes and added some not so Irish ones, it doesn't make any sense. It's like they care more about changing things for money purposes than keeping it authentic. I hate it when people sell out!
This morning I had to get up around 7:30 which is pretty early for me. When you get out of work after 11, it's hard to go to sleep right away which usually results in me staying up til like 1ish which leads to not getting up until atleast after 9, but anyways the point is that a while back I made this appt. at 9 am to force myself to get up early. I was really hating myself for that when my alarm went off, haha! I ended up going back to sleep after I got home, it was kinda stupid, but I think in part it was because it was so dreary outside and everything just kinda felt blah. But then the sun came out and I took Niles for a walk and it got all nice. Today was a weird day with the weather and all. I am happy that all of the bad weather missed us. When I was listening to the news at work they said that like 4,000 people in GR didn't have power, and I was like oh no!!! Thank goodness we still had it when I got back home.
ANYWAYS so when I went back to the ENT doc. today we found out what is wrong with me. For as long as I can remember when I breathe in through my nose it just always feels plugged, it's hard to explain. They couldn't really figure out what was wrong with me besides the fact that I have a slighty deviated septum and my nose walls collapse a little when I breathe in, but surgery for that would potentially make it worse. So then I got a cat scan on my sinuses but they were all perfect. They were concerned because my symptoms were worse than what they were seeing. But the cat scan also showed all views of my nose and passage ways. It turns out the partition in the middle of my nose juts out to the left blocking air from getting in ( I could tell that it was worse on the left) and both turbinates on each side jut out so they want to do surgery, trim down both turbinates and also reconstruct the partition and make it straight, allowing more air flow through my nostrils. The question of the day is do I really want to have this surgery??? I don't need it. I could just deal with this for the rest of my life, but it is so annoying! I am not sure what to do. I would end up having to take a week off of work. It's an out-patient surgery so I would go in in the morning and be out by the afternoon. There is a chance of a blood clot which only happens a couple times a year he said. I want it done, but it also means more money to pay and losing money by not working. I am not sure what to do!!! I just want to be able to breathe out of my nose normally.
Well anyways, I think that is all for now! I am going to go enjoy being in the company of my husband since we don't get to see eachother that much lately. =)
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
One of My Favorite Verses
---Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.---
Philippians 4:6-7 (New Living Translation)
And also one of the first verses I ever memorized when I first became a Christian.
=)
Philippians 4:6-7 (New Living Translation)
And also one of the first verses I ever memorized when I first became a Christian.
=)
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Pushing Daisies
Ok, so yesterday I was sitting around with Chris and he was looking at someones blog online and they wrote a little post about this show. We were thinking Hmm....can this new show really be this great? We watched the preveiw which totally captivated our attention, and I immediately was thinking oh my gosh I hope we can watch this online since we missed it last week!!
But oh my goodness, it is seriously soo great! Everyone needs to check it out!
I believe that this will probably be my new favorite show! Also, you CAN watch it online, just go to abc.com! I know you all will love it! =)
But oh my goodness, it is seriously soo great! Everyone needs to check it out!
I believe that this will probably be my new favorite show! Also, you CAN watch it online, just go to abc.com! I know you all will love it! =)
Saturday, October 6, 2007
3 Wonderful Years
Today Chris and I have been together for three years. I cannot believe it, my longest relationship ever. And it's only going to get longer in years!
Tomorrow it will be one year since our "2nd wedding". I cannot believe it, I feel like we were just on our honeymoon.
I would LOVE to go back to Boston and New York, we had soo much fun.
These past couple years have been such a whirlwind of events that they have just gone by so fast. Everyone keeps saying that the older you get the faster the years go by.
I am afraid to blink anymore!!
=)
I love you Christopher Robert!
My little BoBo...haha. ;)
He will KILL me for writing that, hahaha... *mwah!
Tomorrow it will be one year since our "2nd wedding". I cannot believe it, I feel like we were just on our honeymoon.
I would LOVE to go back to Boston and New York, we had soo much fun.
These past couple years have been such a whirlwind of events that they have just gone by so fast. Everyone keeps saying that the older you get the faster the years go by.
I am afraid to blink anymore!!
=)
I love you Christopher Robert!
My little BoBo...haha. ;)
He will KILL me for writing that, hahaha... *mwah!
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Ok, here goes....the start of my "List About Me"
1. My maiden name is LaFave
2. My birthday is Feb. 5th
3. I was born in Bad Axe, Michigan
4. I have two younger brothers Joe and Charlie who are really related to me.
5. I have an older brother Jesse, older sister Megan, and brother Nate the same age as me who are like my "adopted siblings". They kinda adopted me into their family. =)
6. I have moved 11 times. I hate moving.
7. I went to three different high schools.
8. I went to the Douglas J Aveda Institute in East Lansing and have my cosmetology license.
9. I love doing hair! I just hate working in a salon.
10. I am going to start selling Mary Kay.
11. I want to start having kids, stay home, and start my business doing hair and skin care.
12. I think that once our kids are all in school it would be awesome to be a labor and delivery nurse.
13. The reason I don't pursue this is because I hate going to school.
14. I think that I would be more willing to go to school if I didn't work full time.
15. My husbands name is Chris.
16. He is awesome and a great husband.
17. Oh, and I love him.
18. We have been married for over a year and a half.
19. We had TWO weddings! How sweet is that!
20. Our second wedding anniversary is coming up Oct. 7th. That will be on year for that one, haha.
21. We have a dog, Niles, and he is just over 4 monthes old.
22. My favorite shows right now are Days of Our Lives, The Bachelor, The Biggest Loser, Kitchen Nightmares, and the Office.
23. I also love Friends and Frasier.
24. I love to bake.
25. And I think I'm kinda good at it.
26. I LOVE candles!
27. I love anything pumpkin.
28. I have a small obsession with the Eiffel Tower.
29. I hope to one day travel to Paris.
30. I love it when fall starts to come around and the leaves start changing.
31. I love jeans, sweater and hoodie weather.
32. Christmas is the BEST!
33. I love buying presents and wrapping them and giving them to people.
34. I am SO excited to buy a real tree this year, and decorate it, and put it in our huge big beautiful window in the dining room!
35. I am worried that Niles will probably eat the lights and knock it over, haha...
36. I hate lysol. Chris always sprays it and somehow it gets in my mouth.
37. I had a kidney stone a couple years ago. It was pretty painful.
38. I didn't get wisdom teeth and the dentist said I never will. Yay!
39. I have some of the most amazing friends.
40. I used to be a cheerleader.
41. I really miss it sometimes! Especially going to the games.
42. I actually don't mind doing laundry.
43. I hate doing dishes. Thank goodness a dishwasher came with our house.
44. I don't get enough excercise.
45. I wish I was more motivated sometimes.
46. I administer medicine to residents at my job.
47. I think I am really good at what I do.
48. I really like to scrapbook, I just wish it wasn't soooo expensive sometimes.
49. I wish I liked to run.
50. I hate running.
51. I recently found out that I love to do puzzles!
Ok that is all for now, I'll do more later. =)
2. My birthday is Feb. 5th
3. I was born in Bad Axe, Michigan
4. I have two younger brothers Joe and Charlie who are really related to me.
5. I have an older brother Jesse, older sister Megan, and brother Nate the same age as me who are like my "adopted siblings". They kinda adopted me into their family. =)
6. I have moved 11 times. I hate moving.
7. I went to three different high schools.
8. I went to the Douglas J Aveda Institute in East Lansing and have my cosmetology license.
9. I love doing hair! I just hate working in a salon.
10. I am going to start selling Mary Kay.
11. I want to start having kids, stay home, and start my business doing hair and skin care.
12. I think that once our kids are all in school it would be awesome to be a labor and delivery nurse.
13. The reason I don't pursue this is because I hate going to school.
14. I think that I would be more willing to go to school if I didn't work full time.
15. My husbands name is Chris.
16. He is awesome and a great husband.
17. Oh, and I love him.
18. We have been married for over a year and a half.
19. We had TWO weddings! How sweet is that!
20. Our second wedding anniversary is coming up Oct. 7th. That will be on year for that one, haha.
21. We have a dog, Niles, and he is just over 4 monthes old.
22. My favorite shows right now are Days of Our Lives, The Bachelor, The Biggest Loser, Kitchen Nightmares, and the Office.
23. I also love Friends and Frasier.
24. I love to bake.
25. And I think I'm kinda good at it.
26. I LOVE candles!
27. I love anything pumpkin.
28. I have a small obsession with the Eiffel Tower.
29. I hope to one day travel to Paris.
30. I love it when fall starts to come around and the leaves start changing.
31. I love jeans, sweater and hoodie weather.
32. Christmas is the BEST!
33. I love buying presents and wrapping them and giving them to people.
34. I am SO excited to buy a real tree this year, and decorate it, and put it in our huge big beautiful window in the dining room!
35. I am worried that Niles will probably eat the lights and knock it over, haha...
36. I hate lysol. Chris always sprays it and somehow it gets in my mouth.
37. I had a kidney stone a couple years ago. It was pretty painful.
38. I didn't get wisdom teeth and the dentist said I never will. Yay!
39. I have some of the most amazing friends.
40. I used to be a cheerleader.
41. I really miss it sometimes! Especially going to the games.
42. I actually don't mind doing laundry.
43. I hate doing dishes. Thank goodness a dishwasher came with our house.
44. I don't get enough excercise.
45. I wish I was more motivated sometimes.
46. I administer medicine to residents at my job.
47. I think I am really good at what I do.
48. I really like to scrapbook, I just wish it wasn't soooo expensive sometimes.
49. I wish I liked to run.
50. I hate running.
51. I recently found out that I love to do puzzles!
Ok that is all for now, I'll do more later. =)
Update.
I really need to blog more often, because the more I put it off, the more there is to write about, and then I put it off even longer because I know that it will take me a while to write.
Things around here have been really great lately. I am happy, or I am trying to be, but I will get to why I am not exactly in a little bit.
This weekend was awesome. Saturday morning we got up and went to do the Aids Walk downtown. We noticed that other people had their dogs so Chris went back and got Niles, he was so good throughout the whole walk, and it was 3 miles, I was almost surprised he made it the whole way without plopping down. The weather was great and everyone seemed to be in a great mood, it made me feel good that we were doing it for a good cause. Everyone who walked also entered a raffle and at the end they drew my ticket and I won a gift basket with some hair products and a free shampoo/cut/and style from a little salon downtown, how ironic huh. We were hoping for the Grand Prize of a free nights stay at the Amway Grand. We want to do that so bad but for some reason just can't bring ourselves to waste the money on it. Eventually we will I guess. Pic from before the Aids Walk:
After that we came back home, made some lunch and just hung around and relaxed. I finally got to bust open my puzzle, which hasn't been going too well so far. We got the border together and a couple other pieces here and there....1000 pieces is just so much harder than the 500 piece puzzles! Plus I have been so busy, I am having a hard time just sitting down to work on a puzzle when there is like a billion other things going around in my head that I need to be doing.
I even got to take like an hour and half nap that afternoon. After that we finally got around and got ready, then went to Macy's to spend the giftcard that I found. I bought a shirt, and two sweaters, all on sale of course, and also a Mac Eyeshadow. Chris bought an outfit, that he looks really cute in by the way. We ate at Panera (they have some awesome French Onion soup, if you haven't had it, I definately recommend trying it sometime.) And then got some Spiced Chai at Beaners, it was fun just spending the whole day and night together, we had such a good time.
Sunday morning we went to church, went grocery shopping and then came home and got some stuff done. His parents went to Ohio this weekend and on the way back home they stopped by and we went out to eat at Kobe. Sushi!! That is all I'm saying. =) Anyways, they went to Ohio because they rescued a little Brussels Griffon dog named Faith (they are gonna rename her Bindi), she is really a cute little thing!
After a late lunch we went to our friend's Joe and Erica's house for House Churh. It was so good, it totally made me realize something about myself. When I find myself getting really mad or frustrated at someone, or a situation, it's because they aren't doing what I want, or things aren't going how I want them to. And the whole time I am thinking about it in my head and getting myself all riled up, it's so ridiculous! I am really trying to work on that. I am also trying to work on the things I say to other people, and what is coming out of my mouth constantly. Sometimes I really have a hard time keeping it shut when I know that I should more often, and I hate that.
After we came home I made 7 dozen cookies! I have been wanting to make them for a couple days now, and finally I just couldn't take it anymore. It only took me two hours. I LOVE my kitchen aid mixer, my nice cookie sheets I got from Bed, Bath and Beyond with a giftcard from our wedding most likely, and our new stove we bought when we moved into our house. All I gotta say is they were like the best cookies I have ever made!
Our little Niles lost his first baby tooth yesterday. He is getting so big! I was wondering why he has kinda been trying to chew on things more lately. I was walking into the living room and stepped on it and it kinda crunched and I was like what in the world, so I bent down and picked it up and sure enough...a little tiny tooth. I was like, oh my gosh!!! Today when he was chewing on his rawhide there was a little blood on it, it was kinda gross, but I guess if he is teething it doesn't surprise me. I feel bad for him because he has a cold right now and has been sick for like 10 days. I know how he feels, haha. But yeah he is all snotty and keeps coughing, it's gross for sure. He's on medication but doesn't seem to be getting all that much better. I hope he gets better soon because it's hard to play with him and stuff, you just kinda want to stay away because he is always sniffing you so he rubs his nose on ya...yeah it's gross. But he is seriously getting so big, I am sure that he weighs 30 lbs. now and I swear he is still getting cuter.
I also got my hair done this week. I was so sick of it being long, I needed a change. And I was ready to go back to brunette again. It's crazy how you can go from this:
To this in only a few short hours:
This week is going by fast already. I am looking forward to friday so I can have a day off, but I know already that it will be filled with things for me to be busy all day with. Right now we are supposed to be going to Muskegon, Chris actually has the day off too, which I am really excited about because that doesn't happen too often, but I may be going home to see my sister and spend some time with her. 
Which comes down to why I have been sad for the past two days. I got a call from my mom yesterday, she was so upset.....when my sister had gone for her ultrasound, they couldn't find either twins heartbeats. It is so upsetting....you just, don't even know what to say or do. Or how to feel. It's just a sickening feeling. All I could think was...no...no...this cannot be happening. And...if I feel this way, how does Megan feel? I know that they are devastated. This was such a miracle, this cannot be happening. I pushed it from my mind the rest of the day because I had to go to work and I knew if I kept thinking about it it would just upset me more. When I came home last night and told Chris I started crying a little. I could not help it, I just know she is grieving and there is nothing I can do and it makes me so sad. Today I got to talk to her finally for a little while, she seems to be doing a little bit better than yesterday. I just wanted to hug her and tell her that it will be Ok, but how do you tell someone that? This is such a huge loss to them. I guess I still have hope that she will go back and they will hear the heartbeats again. And I just thank God, because atleast now she knows that she can get pregnant. Please just pray for my sister, pray that God gives her peace and understanding throughout this whole situation. Her and Pat are such an amazing couple and would be such awesome parents, they totally deserve to be blessed with children. Please just pray for them.
Which comes down to why I have been sad for the past two days. I got a call from my mom yesterday, she was so upset.....when my sister had gone for her ultrasound, they couldn't find either twins heartbeats. It is so upsetting....you just, don't even know what to say or do. Or how to feel. It's just a sickening feeling. All I could think was...no...no...this cannot be happening. And...if I feel this way, how does Megan feel? I know that they are devastated. This was such a miracle, this cannot be happening. I pushed it from my mind the rest of the day because I had to go to work and I knew if I kept thinking about it it would just upset me more. When I came home last night and told Chris I started crying a little. I could not help it, I just know she is grieving and there is nothing I can do and it makes me so sad. Today I got to talk to her finally for a little while, she seems to be doing a little bit better than yesterday. I just wanted to hug her and tell her that it will be Ok, but how do you tell someone that? This is such a huge loss to them. I guess I still have hope that she will go back and they will hear the heartbeats again. And I just thank God, because atleast now she knows that she can get pregnant. Please just pray for my sister, pray that God gives her peace and understanding throughout this whole situation. Her and Pat are such an amazing couple and would be such awesome parents, they totally deserve to be blessed with children. Please just pray for them.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Where did the last couple days go?
The weeks are flying by I swear! I can't believe it is almost October! One of mine and Chris's favorite monthes. So yeah, it makes me happy. Christmas is almost here, right around the corner. Good stuff.
Yesterday I had the day off. I had to go to meeting at work at 10 am. Nothing annoys me more that being forced to drive all the way over there on my day off, I guess it's different if I go on my own terms, which I actually do quite frequently, to visit residents, bring Niles along to see them (they love that!) or see my coworkers, whatever. But anyways, we have these mandatory meetings, but atleast we get paid for them. It's always the same old crap we are talking about though, I with they became more useful. We were informed that if people keep abusing their 15 min. breaks that we get paid for that they are going to get taken away. It's same couple of people that keep doing it, and they are ruining it for everyone else. I don't even get to take my 15 min. breaks, most of the time I am too busy. Plus I don't smoke, so people don't expect me to push it, which personally isn't fair. But I don't complain. If we have a good night and everything goes smoothly, most of the time I get everything done somewhat early, which means we hang out in the living room and work on the infamous puzzles. So yeah, I don't complain. But these meetings are still an annoying hindrance on my day off.
After that my friend Stephanie came over and did my hair, I love it!!! I always feel bad asking her to do it, because, to be completely honest, I'm somewhat of a brat about it. I just know exactly how I want it colored, and cut, and sometimes it is hard to express that to someone else, that is why a lot of times I end up coloring it myself. Especially when the whole time I know exactly what she is doing. I know I just need to have more trust in her, especially since she always does an amazing job. I will post some pictures soon. Chris is so happy, he loves it when my hair is brown, and he keeps telling me how much he loves it. =)
Steph brought her little puppy Pudge over. He is a little cutie, he is half maltese/ half shitzu, black and white, and only weighs 6 lbs. We thought him and Niles could have a litte puppy playdate. But nope, Pudge was SO afraid of him, I was kinda surprised!!! I mean, I know he is hyper and all, but Pudge wouldn't even let him sniff him, I felt so bad because she was here for like almost 6 hours and pretty much the whole time I had to keep Niles in his crate. Anyways, we didn't finish my hair until like almost 6 pm. I had such a huge mess to clean up, we seriously cut off like 7 inches of my hair probably? It was getting so long and blah, I need a change! After that I did some grocery shopping, it's amazing how much stuff I bought and spent and I still feel like we don't have any real food, I hate that.
I went to Erica's last night and hung out with her and our friend Andrea (these girls are in my house church), it was so fun!! I miss having close girlfriends that I can talk to about anything. I love hanging out with you Erica and I'm so happy I met you guys! We told some funny stories about talking and walking in your sleep, and also discussed some funny things that have happened with elderly people at our jobs (she used to work in a nursing home too). Good stuff. Anyways, I promise to be posting my list soon of and huge number of random facts about me. I could work on it right now, but, it's already have noon. And I need to get ready and I want to bake some cookies! Not to mention that I need to eat some food. Watch for my list, coming soon!
I can't wait for tomorrow. Chris and I are doing the Aids Walk downtown, and then going shopping at Macy's. When we were in Chicago we were walking to the Navy Pier. I was looking around at the ground, probably thinking about how much litter was everywhere and how people need to recycle more, and low and behold, there was this macys card on the ground, with a receipt in it that told the remaining balance. My Dad was like, you know you have to try to return it to who it belongs to, I was like yeah I know!! So when we got home I called customer service, and they said that there was no way to track who it belonged to unless you had the orginal receipt of who purchased it and it had a credit card number on it, so they told me that I got to keep it!!! There was $222.00 on it!!!!!!! I feel so lucky. I was like, Thank you God! This is such a blessing! I mean, why me?? Why did I find the giftcard? There we so many people walking around, anyone could have saw it, but I did?! So yeah, tomorrow me and Chris are going to go shopping. It is going to be our little date day, I am excited to spend some time together!
Yesterday I had the day off. I had to go to meeting at work at 10 am. Nothing annoys me more that being forced to drive all the way over there on my day off, I guess it's different if I go on my own terms, which I actually do quite frequently, to visit residents, bring Niles along to see them (they love that!) or see my coworkers, whatever. But anyways, we have these mandatory meetings, but atleast we get paid for them. It's always the same old crap we are talking about though, I with they became more useful. We were informed that if people keep abusing their 15 min. breaks that we get paid for that they are going to get taken away. It's same couple of people that keep doing it, and they are ruining it for everyone else. I don't even get to take my 15 min. breaks, most of the time I am too busy. Plus I don't smoke, so people don't expect me to push it, which personally isn't fair. But I don't complain. If we have a good night and everything goes smoothly, most of the time I get everything done somewhat early, which means we hang out in the living room and work on the infamous puzzles. So yeah, I don't complain. But these meetings are still an annoying hindrance on my day off.
After that my friend Stephanie came over and did my hair, I love it!!! I always feel bad asking her to do it, because, to be completely honest, I'm somewhat of a brat about it. I just know exactly how I want it colored, and cut, and sometimes it is hard to express that to someone else, that is why a lot of times I end up coloring it myself. Especially when the whole time I know exactly what she is doing. I know I just need to have more trust in her, especially since she always does an amazing job. I will post some pictures soon. Chris is so happy, he loves it when my hair is brown, and he keeps telling me how much he loves it. =)
Steph brought her little puppy Pudge over. He is a little cutie, he is half maltese/ half shitzu, black and white, and only weighs 6 lbs. We thought him and Niles could have a litte puppy playdate. But nope, Pudge was SO afraid of him, I was kinda surprised!!! I mean, I know he is hyper and all, but Pudge wouldn't even let him sniff him, I felt so bad because she was here for like almost 6 hours and pretty much the whole time I had to keep Niles in his crate. Anyways, we didn't finish my hair until like almost 6 pm. I had such a huge mess to clean up, we seriously cut off like 7 inches of my hair probably? It was getting so long and blah, I need a change! After that I did some grocery shopping, it's amazing how much stuff I bought and spent and I still feel like we don't have any real food, I hate that.
I went to Erica's last night and hung out with her and our friend Andrea (these girls are in my house church), it was so fun!! I miss having close girlfriends that I can talk to about anything. I love hanging out with you Erica and I'm so happy I met you guys! We told some funny stories about talking and walking in your sleep, and also discussed some funny things that have happened with elderly people at our jobs (she used to work in a nursing home too). Good stuff. Anyways, I promise to be posting my list soon of and huge number of random facts about me. I could work on it right now, but, it's already have noon. And I need to get ready and I want to bake some cookies! Not to mention that I need to eat some food. Watch for my list, coming soon!
I can't wait for tomorrow. Chris and I are doing the Aids Walk downtown, and then going shopping at Macy's. When we were in Chicago we were walking to the Navy Pier. I was looking around at the ground, probably thinking about how much litter was everywhere and how people need to recycle more, and low and behold, there was this macys card on the ground, with a receipt in it that told the remaining balance. My Dad was like, you know you have to try to return it to who it belongs to, I was like yeah I know!! So when we got home I called customer service, and they said that there was no way to track who it belonged to unless you had the orginal receipt of who purchased it and it had a credit card number on it, so they told me that I got to keep it!!! There was $222.00 on it!!!!!!! I feel so lucky. I was like, Thank you God! This is such a blessing! I mean, why me?? Why did I find the giftcard? There we so many people walking around, anyone could have saw it, but I did?! So yeah, tomorrow me and Chris are going to go shopping. It is going to be our little date day, I am excited to spend some time together!
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
I promise I am going to start doing this more often.
Well hello everyone. I am finally almost better!! I am still coughing a little, it's finally starting to all break up. I am been so sore, but it is starting to get better. I have a lot to update about. But I was just feeling so lazy for so long. I got so much done today though! All of the laundry, some calls I needed to make....sometimes you just need to get all your ducks in a row to get un-stressed. I just got so behind with everything when I was sick, but I feel so much more energized now.
Work is going pretty well. I really enjoy the people that I work with, and the residents are so cute and funny sometimes. Old people can be pretty hilarious, and it's awesome when you create a bond with someone like that, and they depend on you. As much as I like working there, I have been really just not content lately.
I keep praying that God will help me be content in every area of my life. I am so thankful just to even have a job, and a steady income, it just isn't what I want to do for the rest of my life. But it is so easy to be jealous of what others have etc. I think I have finally come to a point where I am content. We are so blessed to have our house, our family, our friends. I am constantly reminding myself this. We are so blessed!
Me and Chris have been working on our relationship lately, and trying different things so that we can become more engaged with eachother. It's so easy just to become comfortable with doing your own thing. Sometimes we just have to force ourselves to be together and talk and do different things to keep things exciting. I think we have been doing a pretty good job the past couple days and things are going really well. He even bought me flowers and a card, they are so pretty. And the card is pretty cute, he always finds the funniest cards. There is a little dog on the front and it says: "You make my tail wag so much....." And on the inside it says: "my butt hurts..." haha! So cute.
Ok, so yeah...my sister is DEFINATELY pregnant with twins!!!!!!! AHH! This is so exciting. I am so happy for them, it's so amazing and such a miracle. A huge blessing from God. Anything you wanna call it, it's amazing! I wish they lived closer, I feel like I am missing out on everything and I hate that. I have only seen my little nephew a couple times since he was born in March and he is already getting so big!! Please just pray for my sister that everything continues to go well and she has a healthy pregnancy. I totally think she is having girls, or atleast one girl. That would be sweet if she had one girl and one boy. But definately atleast one girl, I just have a feeling about it. I had a feeling with Sam and I was right about that one!
So I have also discovered lately that I really enjoy doing puzzles. The residents at work are always doing them and they always want us to help them, I love doing it! There was this really cool one on a table in the living room there. It was this cute little fall scene with pumpkins and scarecrows, and well, it was kinda hard so the residents weren't really working on it. And since I love fall and all, I kept working on it during my breaks and when we weren't busy and then I ended up finishing the other night. I know, I am a nerd, but I was excited to finish it, I felt a sort of sense of accomplishment, haha. But it's somewhat relaxing, and so Chris came to the dollar store with me yesterday and I bought two new puzzles. I took one to work to work on it there with people and then one for at home. I guess I find it somewhat relaxing.
I just took a little break for a sec to make some lunch because I need to go to work soon. I have been craving chicken lately but I can never make it as good as Chris can so he just told me his little secret, but anyways, my point is that Chris always tells me how good our microwave makes baked potatoes so I got the idea to make one with my chicken breast. One of the awesome perks that came with our house is this cool Stainless Steel Accuwave Whirlpool Microwave that the sellers left in the kitchen. It is attached to the cupboards above the stove, so I am assuming that it would have probably been a pain to take it off, but still, it is so nice, I can't believe they left it behind. But yeah, so you put a potato in, push the baked potato button, it "senses" how long to cook it for, and voila! Amazing perfect baked potato! Same thing for popcorn. It's so cool, I love it!
Work is going pretty well. I really enjoy the people that I work with, and the residents are so cute and funny sometimes. Old people can be pretty hilarious, and it's awesome when you create a bond with someone like that, and they depend on you. As much as I like working there, I have been really just not content lately.
I keep praying that God will help me be content in every area of my life. I am so thankful just to even have a job, and a steady income, it just isn't what I want to do for the rest of my life. But it is so easy to be jealous of what others have etc. I think I have finally come to a point where I am content. We are so blessed to have our house, our family, our friends. I am constantly reminding myself this. We are so blessed!
Me and Chris have been working on our relationship lately, and trying different things so that we can become more engaged with eachother. It's so easy just to become comfortable with doing your own thing. Sometimes we just have to force ourselves to be together and talk and do different things to keep things exciting. I think we have been doing a pretty good job the past couple days and things are going really well. He even bought me flowers and a card, they are so pretty. And the card is pretty cute, he always finds the funniest cards. There is a little dog on the front and it says: "You make my tail wag so much....." And on the inside it says: "my butt hurts..." haha! So cute.
Ok, so yeah...my sister is DEFINATELY pregnant with twins!!!!!!! AHH! This is so exciting. I am so happy for them, it's so amazing and such a miracle. A huge blessing from God. Anything you wanna call it, it's amazing! I wish they lived closer, I feel like I am missing out on everything and I hate that. I have only seen my little nephew a couple times since he was born in March and he is already getting so big!! Please just pray for my sister that everything continues to go well and she has a healthy pregnancy. I totally think she is having girls, or atleast one girl. That would be sweet if she had one girl and one boy. But definately atleast one girl, I just have a feeling about it. I had a feeling with Sam and I was right about that one!
So I have also discovered lately that I really enjoy doing puzzles. The residents at work are always doing them and they always want us to help them, I love doing it! There was this really cool one on a table in the living room there. It was this cute little fall scene with pumpkins and scarecrows, and well, it was kinda hard so the residents weren't really working on it. And since I love fall and all, I kept working on it during my breaks and when we weren't busy and then I ended up finishing the other night. I know, I am a nerd, but I was excited to finish it, I felt a sort of sense of accomplishment, haha. But it's somewhat relaxing, and so Chris came to the dollar store with me yesterday and I bought two new puzzles. I took one to work to work on it there with people and then one for at home. I guess I find it somewhat relaxing.
I just took a little break for a sec to make some lunch because I need to go to work soon. I have been craving chicken lately but I can never make it as good as Chris can so he just told me his little secret, but anyways, my point is that Chris always tells me how good our microwave makes baked potatoes so I got the idea to make one with my chicken breast. One of the awesome perks that came with our house is this cool Stainless Steel Accuwave Whirlpool Microwave that the sellers left in the kitchen. It is attached to the cupboards above the stove, so I am assuming that it would have probably been a pain to take it off, but still, it is so nice, I can't believe they left it behind. But yeah, so you put a potato in, push the baked potato button, it "senses" how long to cook it for, and voila! Amazing perfect baked potato! Same thing for popcorn. It's so cool, I love it!
Friday, September 14, 2007
goodness gracious
I promise I will update very soon. Please forgive me as I have been sick for over a month now, with which this cold came along with this wonderful cough that I have had for over two weeks and cannot seem to kick. I have not had a good nights sleep since Chicago. That was 12 days ago. I will never again take that for advantage. A good nights sleep that is. I have literally tried everything and nothing is working. If I am not better by next week I have to go and see a pulmonologist. I seriously hope this does not become necessary. I'm on a steroid right now for my lungs and still have four more days to go. Please pray for me!!!
On a much different and very jealous note.......
I feel like everyone around me is getting pregnant. Three people in the past week. I cannot help but to feel a longing for this time in my life, I get so excited!!! I want to get in on all this! I know that now is probably not the right time. I suppose whatever God has planned for us will happen. I am just so impatient and excited for the future!!!!
Despite my jealousy, I am sooo very happy and excited for you all. I love you!!! And you are all in my thoughts and prayers.
Yay for babies!! =)
On a much different and very jealous note.......
I feel like everyone around me is getting pregnant. Three people in the past week. I cannot help but to feel a longing for this time in my life, I get so excited!!! I want to get in on all this! I know that now is probably not the right time. I suppose whatever God has planned for us will happen. I am just so impatient and excited for the future!!!!
Despite my jealousy, I am sooo very happy and excited for you all. I love you!!! And you are all in my thoughts and prayers.
Yay for babies!! =)
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Chris's Birthday and an update
So yeah, today was Chris's birthday and he turned 27....crazy! I have known him since he was 23, I met him right before his 24th birthday, It's weird because at the time I was only 19, and he seemed so much older than me, and now I am almost 23!!! It's insane! He was actually at my house in Lansing hanging out so I was with him on that 24th birthday...we had gone to Warp Tour at the Silverdome the day before, and we got home late that night...then midnight came and it was his birthday, but then he had to go back to Muskegon obviously. It is just cool thinking back on it.
I had the day off today which happened to work out well, and Chris had to work this morning. His parents and his Aunt Barb, who's birthday was also on tuesday, came to town tonight and we went out to eat at Louis Benton Steakhouse downtown. We have always talked about going there but there are so many places to go in GR that we just finally got the chance. It was pretty good, my salad and steak were amazing! I feel bad though because our night went so fast...it was like Chris didn't even get a chance to enjoy himself. He finally got a carrying case for the laptop, and also Frasier, Season 9 which he has been wanting for forever! I bought the cutest card in the shape of a boxer for him. I was so creative, hahaha.....I dipped Niles little paw in some mud and stamped it on the inside of the card and wrote "Happy Birthday Daddy! I love you!! Niles" It was so freakin cute.....I guess you'd have to see it. I thought it was a good idea anyways... =)
Things have been a lot better at work lately, a lot calmer too. The resident that I wrote about previously, the one who upset me so badly...well he is gone for good. A lot of crazy things happened last week...he just went off the deep end. I knew he had his bad days here and there but a day turned into four and before we knew it he became unmanagable. He was refusing to eat (for days on end) and eventually was freaking out so bad that he was threatening to hurt himself, which then turned into threatening the staff, so yep, he is gone. Which is OK by me anyways. We could not help him in the ways he needed. He needs psychiatric help, and we are not trained to provide that. It is still beyond me how they could have ever possibly thought that it would be in his best interest to let him live there when there was no way we could have given him the mental and emotional stability that he needs. Well enough about that.....
I went to Target today. I am totally hating their photo department right now. I spent a good half hour editing and cropping prints and then walked around the store for another 45 mintues while I was waiting for them to print. When I finally went to pick them up they told me that the printer had broke down and wouldn't be fixed for who knows how long. I couldn't wait any longer b/c I had to come home and get ready. I waited almost 3 hours, called there, and the repair guy still hadn't even called to come to fix it. So Chris's aunt didn't get half of her bday present, I was so mad! In a hurry I drove to the Meijer in Grandville to quick print off the two picks that I needed just for her, and their machine was broke too, and the print them off normally I would have to wait another hour, well I didn't have time so yeah that didn't work either and I made a trip for nothing. But anyways, when Target gets their crap together we are gonna have some sweet pics from the wedding. I should have had some put up way before now but I guess I was just procrastinating digging through them all, choosing the ones that I wanted and editing them all, it's such a pain!!
We are going to Chicago over Labor Day weekend with Chris's parents and my parents. We are getting on the train here in GR and taking it over there, I am so excited!! I didn't think that we were going to go there this year...we didn't go last year b\c we went on our honeymoon....for those of you who don't know Chicago is like "our litle place that we like to go." Chris loves it there, and he took me there for the first time ever once we started dating, that was also where he first told me that he loved me. =) We went there again for our one year anniversary, so we haven't been there since Oct. of 2005. Then he also surprised me last week and was like, Hey I think we should go again for our anniversay, which is in October so we would be going twice within 6 weeks!! We found a really cheap hotel downtown and one of his coworkers told him how you can drive down to Michigan City, IN and take the train there to Chi-town and it's only $12 round trip! So cheap! So yeah, we booked the hotel but we are deciding if we are going to keep it or cancel. Since we are going there over Labor Day...I kinda want to do something different. We have always wanted to stay at the Amway Grand downtown, and if we booked it now...you can get a room for $150 which isn't much more than what we were paying for our room in Chicago....we will see I guess!
Christmas is going to be here before we know it!!! I can't wait!
For all you who don't know....I LOVE Christmas!
I am totally that person who has their radio station on Star 105.7 24/7 during the Holidays. I know like every word to every Christmas song. People begin to hate me...haha!
I can't wait to put our tree up in one of our big windows, it's going to look amazing! I keep thinking about it already, pathetic huh? I wonder how Niles will do...he will probably knock it over and break everything, I would be so mad......haha. Anyways! Enough about Christmas, summer isn't even over yet! =P
p.s. I am lovin me some Mary Kay right now!!!!
Well I guess that is about all for now. I will post some new pics soon.
I had the day off today which happened to work out well, and Chris had to work this morning. His parents and his Aunt Barb, who's birthday was also on tuesday, came to town tonight and we went out to eat at Louis Benton Steakhouse downtown. We have always talked about going there but there are so many places to go in GR that we just finally got the chance. It was pretty good, my salad and steak were amazing! I feel bad though because our night went so fast...it was like Chris didn't even get a chance to enjoy himself. He finally got a carrying case for the laptop, and also Frasier, Season 9 which he has been wanting for forever! I bought the cutest card in the shape of a boxer for him. I was so creative, hahaha.....I dipped Niles little paw in some mud and stamped it on the inside of the card and wrote "Happy Birthday Daddy! I love you!! Niles" It was so freakin cute.....I guess you'd have to see it. I thought it was a good idea anyways... =)
Things have been a lot better at work lately, a lot calmer too. The resident that I wrote about previously, the one who upset me so badly...well he is gone for good. A lot of crazy things happened last week...he just went off the deep end. I knew he had his bad days here and there but a day turned into four and before we knew it he became unmanagable. He was refusing to eat (for days on end) and eventually was freaking out so bad that he was threatening to hurt himself, which then turned into threatening the staff, so yep, he is gone. Which is OK by me anyways. We could not help him in the ways he needed. He needs psychiatric help, and we are not trained to provide that. It is still beyond me how they could have ever possibly thought that it would be in his best interest to let him live there when there was no way we could have given him the mental and emotional stability that he needs. Well enough about that.....
I went to Target today. I am totally hating their photo department right now. I spent a good half hour editing and cropping prints and then walked around the store for another 45 mintues while I was waiting for them to print. When I finally went to pick them up they told me that the printer had broke down and wouldn't be fixed for who knows how long. I couldn't wait any longer b/c I had to come home and get ready. I waited almost 3 hours, called there, and the repair guy still hadn't even called to come to fix it. So Chris's aunt didn't get half of her bday present, I was so mad! In a hurry I drove to the Meijer in Grandville to quick print off the two picks that I needed just for her, and their machine was broke too, and the print them off normally I would have to wait another hour, well I didn't have time so yeah that didn't work either and I made a trip for nothing. But anyways, when Target gets their crap together we are gonna have some sweet pics from the wedding. I should have had some put up way before now but I guess I was just procrastinating digging through them all, choosing the ones that I wanted and editing them all, it's such a pain!!
We are going to Chicago over Labor Day weekend with Chris's parents and my parents. We are getting on the train here in GR and taking it over there, I am so excited!! I didn't think that we were going to go there this year...we didn't go last year b\c we went on our honeymoon....for those of you who don't know Chicago is like "our litle place that we like to go." Chris loves it there, and he took me there for the first time ever once we started dating, that was also where he first told me that he loved me. =) We went there again for our one year anniversary, so we haven't been there since Oct. of 2005. Then he also surprised me last week and was like, Hey I think we should go again for our anniversay, which is in October so we would be going twice within 6 weeks!! We found a really cheap hotel downtown and one of his coworkers told him how you can drive down to Michigan City, IN and take the train there to Chi-town and it's only $12 round trip! So cheap! So yeah, we booked the hotel but we are deciding if we are going to keep it or cancel. Since we are going there over Labor Day...I kinda want to do something different. We have always wanted to stay at the Amway Grand downtown, and if we booked it now...you can get a room for $150 which isn't much more than what we were paying for our room in Chicago....we will see I guess!
Christmas is going to be here before we know it!!! I can't wait!
For all you who don't know....I LOVE Christmas!
I am totally that person who has their radio station on Star 105.7 24/7 during the Holidays. I know like every word to every Christmas song. People begin to hate me...haha!
I can't wait to put our tree up in one of our big windows, it's going to look amazing! I keep thinking about it already, pathetic huh? I wonder how Niles will do...he will probably knock it over and break everything, I would be so mad......haha. Anyways! Enough about Christmas, summer isn't even over yet! =P
p.s. I am lovin me some Mary Kay right now!!!!
Well I guess that is about all for now. I will post some new pics soon.
Happy Birthday Chris
I love you so much, and you are an amazing husband.
I am blessed and lucky to be your wife.
Thank you for loving me.
I am blessed and lucky to be your wife.
Thank you for loving me.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Kisses in the Car.
My name is Niles. I am 9 weeks old now and I am getting so big.
I have learned how to sit, shake, and I'm working on laying down and still potty-training.
I am a very mischievous trouble maker.
But I am so dang cute, my Mom and Dad can't help but love me.
Hee hee... =P
Thursday, August 2, 2007
work
I love my thursdays lately. Mostly because it is almost always my day off lately. Today I am meeting up with my friend and we are going to do eachothers hair. I'm excited because I have been doing it myself lately and haven't had a haircut since February. I think I deserve it! My boss keeps scheduling me like 6 days in a row and by the last night I am usually so stressed out I want to quit. Things have been so hard there lately, we have so many residents to take care of now and not enough people, almost every day is a struggle. We have this one resident, he is so young, only 38. I feel so bad for him, he has lived in homes his whole life. He is extremely paranoid and very OCD. He doesn't understand that there is only 3 of us and 19 other people to take care of. When we have to go into his room, which is several times throughout the evening, he is so OCD that it takes a looong time to help him with his care. If we don't get to his room right way, which happens sometimes because we are taking care of another person, he gets so angry at us and throws accusations like we are putting him on the back-burner, he knows we are always talking about him, we don't want him there, we don't care about him, we never pay any attention to him because we are always with everyone else etc. Last night he made me so upset I started to cry. He had no idea what was going on, no comprehension of what else we do there. I tried to get to his room as fast as I could, as my other two girls I was working with were helping another lady in the bathroom (some people are so big, or can't move well, that it takes two people to transfer them from their wheelchair, to a commode, or their bed, chair et.). On my way to his room, one of our new resident's daughters stopped me and was asking me tons of questions, I had to give her her breathing treatment and when I got into her room the machine was apart and I had to figure out how to put it back together.....it was just one thing after another.
In my job almost everything is an emergency to people. They want things done right away and they want it done right, especially the residents family, otherwise they feel that their loved ones are being neglected etc.
You never know when something will come up spur of the moment...she ran into me at a bad time, but you cannot tell them to hang on or that you'll be right back...so by the time I finished up with her and got to our other resident he was just so angry with me. I definately took the mean things he was saying to me personal at first, even though I know that he doesn't understand. He has mental and psychological problems, and I just wish I could get into his head and understand him more. Thank God for people like my wonderful loving husband who care enough about people to become a Social worker, or Mental Health doctor or Nurse, or psych doctor.
Sometimes we just need a break, a rest. Mentally, emotionally, physically. Work will wear you down, and it's so hard to love what you do sometimes when you don't get that rest. You just begin to hate it. I cannot imagine being someone with a disorder like that, never getting any rest at all because it is constantly in your mind, it's who you are, your state of being. He says he hates himself, he hates his life. His mood is a constant rollercoaster, up and down.
I do my best by showing him I love him for who he is everyday by trying to be as patient as possible, and take the best care of him as I possibly can. My question to myself lately is how can I show him that God loves him? Just the way he is?
In my job almost everything is an emergency to people. They want things done right away and they want it done right, especially the residents family, otherwise they feel that their loved ones are being neglected etc.
You never know when something will come up spur of the moment...she ran into me at a bad time, but you cannot tell them to hang on or that you'll be right back...so by the time I finished up with her and got to our other resident he was just so angry with me. I definately took the mean things he was saying to me personal at first, even though I know that he doesn't understand. He has mental and psychological problems, and I just wish I could get into his head and understand him more. Thank God for people like my wonderful loving husband who care enough about people to become a Social worker, or Mental Health doctor or Nurse, or psych doctor.
Sometimes we just need a break, a rest. Mentally, emotionally, physically. Work will wear you down, and it's so hard to love what you do sometimes when you don't get that rest. You just begin to hate it. I cannot imagine being someone with a disorder like that, never getting any rest at all because it is constantly in your mind, it's who you are, your state of being. He says he hates himself, he hates his life. His mood is a constant rollercoaster, up and down.
I do my best by showing him I love him for who he is everyday by trying to be as patient as possible, and take the best care of him as I possibly can. My question to myself lately is how can I show him that God loves him? Just the way he is?
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
I'm tired.
I don't even really have anything to write. It was a long day, and I'm tired. I got up early to do Chris's cousin Erica's hair. Then I spent the rest of the morning and afternoon trying to keep the dog occupied and out of trouble. And then I had to go to work and it was a crazy night. I love my job, but sometimes I hate it too, one of the reasons I like it though is because the nights always go by so fast. I guess I am somewhat bored there and I just would like to have a job that I am incredibly passionate about and I guess I'm so frustrated because I feel like that is never going to happen. Finally I am home and trying to unwind...my back has been killing me the last couple of days, and I know it is probably from having to lift people all night at work.
Wow this is totally sounds like a rant, haha.
Oh well, I'm peacin out.......
I have the new HARRY POTTER book!!! And I seriously need to read it asap....Since sunday night I've only had time to read 20 pages, come on now, let's get serious.......
goodnight.
Wow this is totally sounds like a rant, haha.
Oh well, I'm peacin out.......
I have the new HARRY POTTER book!!! And I seriously need to read it asap....Since sunday night I've only had time to read 20 pages, come on now, let's get serious.......
goodnight.
Monday, July 23, 2007
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