The end of summer :(

So my friends, I'm the worst blogger on earth :(

 I don't know if I feel like I don't have time to blog or if I don't want to?

I started out so well...idk what happened :/

So....this is my last week of summer :(

Next week is the beginning of school....boo

However, it is MY SENIOR YEAR!!!!!!!!!

I am extremely excited about that!!

My husband, the soccer star, has been kinda MIA lately for soccer two-a-days....I've been doing the whole "living on my own" thing for a couple weeks now, and I must admit, I'm glad that I never actually did it.  I mean, before Jimmy and I got married we had the apartment for 22 days which I "lived" in by myselft, but I spent most of my nights at Jimmy's parents house :)

I don't really have much to blog about because I feel like my life has been boring lately.....

I am going thrift shopping on Saturday, so I may blog about my finds :)

Until next time....I will be at work....bored out of my mind!!!!

Birthdays Continued...

Well the birthday festivities are over :(

Time to get back to the real world.

We had a cookout for my birthday on thursday evening, which was delicious food thanks to my husband, the chef :)

Friday, which was my actual birthday, I spent the day shopping with my bestie :)

But before I forget, look at my gift!!!!!! :)

Beautiful right?  They were delivered right to my house :) and the note said, "I love you baby!  See you in two days!" Ahh he's the best :)

My bestie, Amanda, and I went to Rick and Stacy Cessna's wedding that night.  Long drive but beautiful wedding :)

Beautiful bride :)

This is my best friend Amanda Patrick.  She is also like my twin :)

My horrible, painful sunburn from driving :(  yeah, and my arm wasn't even out the window!

Saturday, I spent the day with my in-law family :)

Sunday I worshipped and relaxed :)

I have not spent the night with Jimmy since thursday night because he has to stay with his teammates throughout soccer training.

Here goes another night of being a soccer widow :(

Birthdays :)

Aren't birthdays the best?

A WHOLE day just to celebrate the day that you were born :)

This week is filled with birthdays!  Jimmy's was yesterday, his brother's is today, and mine is on friday! :)

So....Yesterday was Jimmy's 21st birthday!!!

We had to work all day :/  However, around 12, I told him that I was gonna go outside and call the electric company.  But really I sprinted to the car and went to get some of his favorites for lunch :)

Pizza, peach rings, arnold palmer, and cinnamon rolls....a lunch made for a king! lol

Jimmy played soccer that night, and I stayed home and got all prettied up for our date :)

We went to Olive Garden...mmmmm!

We came home and he hung out with his guy friends, and now tonight....

is party night numero dos!!!!



20 Minutes to Blog

Since the husband and I do not have internet at home, it is very hard for me to blog all the time.  However, we are at work nearly everyday, so I should be better at it, but I'm not :/ 

Anyway, we close in like 20 minutes, so I'm gonna see what I can cover in that short amount of time.

This weekend was LOTS of fun!

After work on friday Jimmy and I seriously just laid around the house watching How I Met Your Mother and eating Chinese food. :)  I love relaxing days!!!!

Saturday was my friend Chelsie's wedding.  I loved her color scheme!  She had pink and white and grey going on.  Down the isles were little lantern things with this lace stuff with rose petals inside, it was beautiful even though my description makes it sound lame. lol

Here's the happy couple. :) ADORABALE!!!

Saturday night we had a sleepover at our friend's house, Liesi and Stuart, and our other friend Lacey was there too (minus her hubs Mike because he had best man duties to attend to). 

I don't know if I have laughed that much in a while.  It was so much fun to relax with other married people that just "get" us because they're just like us (as in young married couple).

That morning I had to be a church at 9 am and since they live in Canal Winchester, I had to wake up really early!!!

It felt a lot like a one night stand ;)

Jimmy and I slipped out before they were even awake.

We spent Sunday at Jimmy's parents house.  We had a delicious cookout and I ate the hottest Jalepeno I've ever had in my entire life! And I eat jalepenos like candy!  My mouth was on fire so I drank tons of milk.  I have never had to admit defeat like that before. EVER.

Today my sister and I went to see my Grandma Charlotte.  Her birthday was last week and we decided to head up today.  And she's making my sister a dress for vacation.  She also made us Chicken and noodles. (YUMMY!)

and now i'm at work, getting ready to close.

Guess I can cover a lot of my life in about, 15 mins :)

Oh yeah, Jimmy's 21st bday is tomorrow!!!!!!!!

And my 20th is friday.  not as exciting as 21, but still my day of birth :)

I will have LOTS to talk about this week :)

And So My Life Begins...

Do you ever have that feeling that you never seem to get the reward at the end of your work?

Like school for example.  It feels like you spend so much time and SO MUCH money to get a degree to do what?  Work in your field?  When you don't have a specific major like teaching, or nursing, or those, "I want to be a (insert obvious profession here) when I grow up," it's hard to know what you are going to do with your life. 

Well my friends, I am proud to say, my life has begun!

I just got accepted for an internship with a company called Conflict Analysis and Intervention Group (CAAIG for short).

"Conflict Analysis and Intervention Group (CAAIG) is a U.S.-based Limited Liability Company with a Middle East North Africa (MENA) regional office in Beirut, Lebanon. Our mission is to transform conflict and manage emergencies through in-depth assessments and targetted interventions, curriculum design, capacity building, and cross-cultural engagement."

(This is taken directly from the website.)

I'm pretty excited about this internship because it directly deals with emergency management, which if you didn't know, is my major.  :)

If you want to check it out, here is the website.

http://www.caaig.org/

And this specifically is my biography.

http://www.caaig.org/interns/

I'm excited to see where God is leading me within this major :)

Short Little Vacations...

Wowsa!  I have not blogged in such a long time!  I have had a pretty spectacular weekend too :)

Thursday

My best friend from high school, Richelle, came to visit me :)

Richelle and I go way back....well, since junior year of high school.  We played basketball together and became really close on our senior trip to Spain.  Since then, she's been my bestie :)

Since there's about nothing to do in Circleville, we went to Grove City.

Yeah, we had Cane's, the best chicken fingers and dipping sauce on earth.

We went to this place called Put-N-Play and went to the batting cages.

Then it was Richelle's bright idea to watch a scary movie....bad idea!  See, I'm absolutely terrified of like, well, EVERYTHING!

I decided we should watch Jennifer's Body because it didn't look that scary....WRONG!  I'm pretty sure I watched the whole thing with a blanket over my face.  I only saw one scary part, and it haunted me the rest of the night!  Richelle was pretty brave about it, except for the fact that we were cuddled up with each other. haha

Friday

Friday night was my friend Stacy Moody's, almost Cessna, bachelorette party!

The games that we played that night we so funny!  Let's just say I won some Mardi Gras beads that evening ;)

After Stacy's bachelorette party, Jimmy and I drove to Columbus to stay the night with his family.

For some odd reason, his siblings and I have this game we play called Slaps.  Basically, you just slap everyone else as hard as you can.  You do get to wear a pillow over your belly though.  However, back slaps hurt the worst!



That's just a couple of the battle wounds.  We had to quit though because Jimmy's little brother started crying.  It was kinda my fault.  I was slapping him REALLY hard on the stomach, which wouldn't hurt at all because his pillow was there, however, he put his hands right in my line of fire.  His hand was blood red! We had to quit after that. :( 

Saturday

The reason Jimmy and I stayed the night was because we were all going to Kings Island on Saturday! :)

Breakfast :)

 Going into the park :)

(This is actually the second time though) 

Ready to swim :)

Just off the water ride :)

Right off the water ride as well :)

:D

     

Our cute little family :)

Sunday

Lazy day....I did absolutely nothing! :) Except church and cooking, but isn't that just perfect :)

I hope you all had a Spectacular weekend like I did :)

Slumber Party

Well everyone, I survived an open field!  Although I rolled my ankle in the first two minutes I was on the field (now I know why half the girls team was injured last year), I actually had a pretty good time.  I wasn't as horrible as I thought I would be for playing soccer for the first time.  I still don't know if I really want to play or not because I have made a LOT of commitments for this fall semester, but I am considering it.

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Last night, Jimmy and I had some friends over for a cookout/slumber party.  I miss those days when I was a little girl and I would have all my friends come over and we would do our hair, makeup, nails, and pretend we were too cool for baby dolls and barbies, but we would end up playing with them anyway. :)

While we didn't play with barbies or baby dolls (but Jimmy did play with little action figures), we did play on the Wii.  We played Wii Sports, Just Dance, Karaoke Revolution, and Mario.  We sang so loud though so we had to stop and dance instead. :)

This is the Becca that I introduced to you during the youth retreat :)  She's a doll! :)

Mags and Beth :)

This is Beth.  She's Jimmy's pastor's daughter.  She loved Jimmy's new cleats so much that she just had to wear them. :)

They so look like brother and sister! :)

Bowling!!!!!

Just Dance was the hit of the night.  Becca and Beth were pretty into this game.  I have to admit though, we had a great workout that night. :)

We finished out the night watching movies.  Just like the good ol' days :) 

I definitely felt like a little girl again :)

Soccer

As most of you should know, my husband is OBSESSED with soccer!  I'm pretty sure that he was born with this gene because his dad is just like this, and so was his grandpa. (If they weren't playing it, then they were obsessed with watching it.)  It's definitely some kind of Hispanic thing.

So that brings us to today.....

I am playing soccer tonight.

Jimmy's coach has this great idea that it would be so wonderful if I played soccer because we would make amazing memories that we can one day share with our kids.  While I do agree with this, there is one problem-----I've never played soccer before!

Last night I bought a pair of shin guards, and Jimmy's coach has found a pair of cleats that i can borrow for tonight (I have to decide if I like it or not before I actually invest in it).

I'm really nervous for tonight.  Not only just because I don't think I will be very good, but also because it is extremely hot out and I don't do well with heat.  I'm gonna try to keep a positive attitude the best I can, so I will be be saying prayers all night :)

So, look out Wambach, there's a new star in town!

Haha Just Kidding! :)

Weekends :)

I love weekends, they're just so relaxing.  Especially since I have a job that is closed on the weekends. (Thank you Jesus!)  I haven't been to Gallipolis (my hometown) since the fourth of July, so I was excited to go see my family! 

Friday

I had to work from 1-5:30 on Friday, but after that, we went to the outlet malls. :)  Because I'm a poor married college student, I didn't have much money to spend, but i LOVE shopping :)

I was on a mission to find some baby clothes for my cousin's (Karly) babyshower the next day.  I love that girl to death!  We've been so close our whole lives.  And when we come back together after not seeing each other for a long time, we pick right back up where we left off :)

I bought tons of clothes for Baby Marly (that's what she's naming her).  However, I didn't spend too much money at all!  I bought two sleepers, and adorable little romper type outfit, and a polo with a jean skirt.  She's gonna be the cutest dressed baby ever! :)

I also bought some stuff and Bath and Body Works because they were having such great deals!  I bought two wallflower (a smell good thingy) refills, two bottles of handsoap, a great smelling lip gloss, a bottle of body wash, AND a makeup bag (since I lost mine) ALL for $18!!!!

Then we went to Adidas...I love this store.  They have great athletic clothes for such good prices!  Everything in the store was buy one get one half off, so i got workout pants and a pair of running shorts for $15 (which is a GREAT deal for athletic clothes)!

Then we headed to Gallipolis :)

Saturday

Saturday flew by!  Probably because I slept in, because I was up so late reading New Moon :)

I went to Karly's baby shower :)

Isn't she soo cute? :) And she's due next month! (CRAZY!!)

She got tons of cute stuff!  Marly is going to be one spoiled baby :)

Saturday evening, my mom made homemade green beans that she picked out of the garden that morning (YUMMY!).  Then Jimmy and I had to drive back home :(

Sunday

After church on Sunday, Jimmy and I went to his soccer game.  He didn't win, but he did score a goal :)

THEN, we went to his parents house and ate some tacos :) (the joys of marrying into a Hispanic family!)

For some reason, I ALWAYS fall asleep at his parents house.  Guess I'm just really comfortable :) BUT, I woke up to the most amazing smell ever!  ARROZ CON LECHE! (Rice with milk) :D  This is my absolute favorite, and mi madre knows that :)  I love her :)

So.......today, it's back to the grind....work.  I did have a great lunch at Panera Bread with my best friend Sarah though :) I love lunch dates :)

Healthy Lifestyle...

WOW, it is soooo hard to live a healthy lifestyle!  I feel like I am doing really well one day, then the next I can't seem to want to be healthy.  My favorite food is french fries, so this makes it extremely difficult in the first place! 

However, I downloaded an ab toning yoga app on my phone, and it was pretty intense.  I got Jimmy to do it with me, and he was even breaking a sweat. 

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Last night was really fun!

I had worship practice (which I LOVE to sing, so that was fun), then my brother (Lonnie Dale) came over to stay the night.  We went to Burger King (unhealthy, I know) and then took him to this awesome place where you can see the stars really bright!

You see, my brother is a skateboarder.  He's pretty awesome if I do say so myself.  He wanted to skate, so we brought him to our school (Ohio Christian University).  He was amazed at all the smooth blacktop.

We played sand volleyball, watched Lonnie Dale skate, broke some rules (yeah, we're cool), and had a BLAST!!!! 

I've been pretty stressed lately, so it was good to just get away and have some fun :)

They were either dark or blurry, but you get the picture :)

Not As Planned

Yesterday was extremely rough for me.  I got off work at 4:30, then as soon as I got home, my sister (Cyndi) asked me to go to Chillicothe with her and my brother (Lonnie Dale) and my nephew (Conner).  I wanted to come home and take a nap, but I love spending time with my family, so I decided to go with them. 

He gets cuter every day! :)

My brother just got a haircut.  This is a HUGE change.  I couldn't stop staring at him.  His hair is normally longer than mine, and really curly!

This was the part of the night when he was happy. 

We decided to go to Pet Land so that Conner could see the puppies.  We weren't gonna buy one because they are EXTREMELY expensive at pet stores, and not worth that amount of money.  I think I enjoyed the fish more than anything.  I love how colorful fish are!

This Sting Ray was $500!  Cannot believe that!  But it was cool looking.

He acted excited that the puppies were behind glass, because he is usually terrified of my parents Dog, Fritz. 

This bulldog was so cute! :) He was quite calm and not ferocious looking either.

We went to Big Lots to get Conner some Crocs, because they're so cheap ($15).  Then we got hungry and went to Steak-N-Shake.  Yeah, I did not eat healthy, but my food was delicious. :)

My seester! (Cyndi)

This was the part of the night when he was NOT happy.

Definitely his nap time!

On the way home, Conner was screaming, so I decided to read.  I've been reading Twilight.  This is my first time reading this series, and I'm very interested in it.  I have seen all the movies because my sister and my aunt (Jennie) are OBSESSED!  But I decided it was time to read them so that I can get the full effect.  If you love them too, I love to talk about them now. (hint hint) ;)

When I got home, I was exhausted!  I went to bed at 9 and slep until almost 11.  I woke up, but there was no working out going on that night. haha I was way too tired to run.  Jimmy and I played some Def Jam Rap Stars (a sweet game with mics that you get to rap) with our friends, then we sat on our porch (with the Tiki torches lit) and played cards.

Maggie and I were feeling guilty for not working out, so we did ab workouts in the living room. :)

While my workout didn't go as planned, I'm trying to be motivated and do it every night.  Even if it's just a little something, I'm proud. :)

Snooze

I AM EXHAUSTED!!! 

Last night was the first night of our workout.  While I did not eat breakfast, I had a healthy lunch.

We had to work from 4-close at the library, so I didn't eat anything during that time, so I was starving!  We went to Circleville High School to work out, and I honestly did WAY better than I thought I would.  I could run around the track without getting tired at least. haha  Last night we started with legs, abs, and running. 

When we went home, the guys (Jimmy and Eman) cooked spaghetti (bring on them carbs!) and Maggie and I moved the couch around in the livingroom. 

The spaghetti was delicious.

Now today, however, it has been quite the challenge waking up.  I continued pressing snooze on my alarm from 8 until I finally rolled out of bed at 9:15.  This is gonna be a rough day.

We'll see how this workout goes tonight....

It's Been a While....

Since I do not have internet connection at my house, I decided to just take the weekend off from blogging.  As promised, I have pictures to post from Friday night!

FRIDAY



Friday evening, we drove up to Jimmy's church, in Dublin.  On the way there though, we stopped at Jimmy's parents house.  His baby sister (America) just got glasses, and though she doesn't feel comfortable wearing them, she's cute in them. :)

We made our way on up to Dublin to find out, that they weren't doing much.  They had their youth group, like they normally do.  It was once again, ALL in Spanish, so I didn't understand much.

They were supposed to be eating pizza and watching a movie, but we just ate pizza and played games. :)

Yami, Jimmy's sister, was feeling very homesick, so we took her home with us.  I remember those days of being homesick.  Now I get homesick to be with Jimmy.  It's weird how your definition of "home" changes throughout your life. 

Neither of them wanted to have their picture taken, but I was unrelenting :)

So Friday ending at our house as a little sleepover....

SATURDAY

Saturday, was quite a different story.  First of all, I felt sick the ENTIRE day!  Jimmy was supposed to have a soccer game at 1 pm.  So he told me he had to be there at noon.  Well I guess the team that they were supposed to play were told that the game did not start until 3.  The referees threatened to cancel Jimmy's game and make them play next Saturday, but we had already driven there, so they should go ahead and play.  There was another game scheduled for three, but they just canceled that one until next Saturday.

It was extremely hot out and we had to be there from 12-5.  Ugh :(

So I went and bought an umbrella.  I don't really like the sun.  I hate getting burnt.  But guess what, I still got burnt!  30 Spf and an umbrella cannot keep the sun from my pale skin.  It's like a magnetic attraction between the two. 

Although Jimmy's team didn't win, they played with heart.  You could see all over Jimmy's face how bad he wanted it.  At least his team won their game on Sunday :)

Saturday evening we grilled out.  We had steak and chicken kababs with fresh lemonade. (Yummy!)  We had some friends over, some almost Newlywed friends. :)

SUNDAY

Sundays are always a day of relaxation in my opinion.  After church, we went to El Palomar with some Newlywed friends, two couples to be exact. :)  Then I took a LONNNNGGGG nap! :)

Jimmy went on a drive that night and ate fast food under the stars.  I love the weekends :)



More to Come:  I'm a trying to start being healthier and working out.  Tonight my workout begins.  I will keep you updated on how that goes.  One of my friends, Lacey, has asked me and another friend, Liesi, to run a 5k with her.  While this will NOT be easy for me, I am DETERMINED! :)

Sunset Over the Campfire...

Last night was the first night of the Youth retreat for Jimmy's home church.  Jimmy's little sister (Yami) is now part of the youth group, but she had no idea that we were speaking. (Surprise!) 


First of all, on the way to the campsite, or Bekah's home, the sunset was AMAZING!!!!  I love being able to look at the sun and seing how AMAZING our God is!   It was like the sunset filled the entire sky with reds, yellows, purples, and oranges.  Ahh, it was GORGEOUS!!!!

I took all the good pictures of the sunset on Jimmy's phone (which are the first two)  because he was using mine for GPS, but this is towards the end of it (the last not so good one).

We ate sunflower seeds on the way there :) (Yummy!) This is my skill of cracking the shell and eating the seed.  I haven't been able to do this for very long. haha

When we arrived at the campsite (or Bekah's house) it was time to begin.  Jimmy and I sang the Revelation Song, and Bekah sang a song in Spanish, that I didn't know but it was beautiful! 

Bekah gave her testimony, in Spanish (she's awesome!).  Although I didn't understand all of it, I did understand that it was something about playing the piano, and she said she only played classical music.  And I also understood that she said she's was scared a lot. But that's about it :)

Jimmy gave his testimony, in Spanish as well (he's pretty awesome too ;) ).  He was supposed to talk about dreams, but I don't know if he did or not because I couldn't understand him!  I didn understand that he read about putting on the Armor of God (well maybe).

I was supposed to talk about waiting for the right person.  And I had to have a translator.  Wow, was this hard!  I NEVER get nervous to speak or sing in front of people, but I was so nervous for some reason!  Well Pastora (the Pastor's wife) began translating for me.  This made me even more nervous for some reason so I begged Jimmy to do it for me.  It was quite funny when he had to talk about my previous relationships with guys, but he was very mature about it. :) Ahhh, I love him! :)

After the worship and testimonies, we just hung out with all the kids.  Most of them speak English, so it wasn't as bad as you would think.  And my little sister (in-law), Yami, is always looking out for me :)

I love campfires!

My camera (which is my phone) wasn't doing too well adjusting to the darkness.

I love this picture because it makes me laugh.  This is my little sister :) This picture doesn't do her justice becaus she's beautiful :)

I'm so glad that I waited for the right man and that God brought us together. 

We made a pretty good team that night :) 

(Oh yeah, and we're going back to help out tonight, so hopefully, I'll have some more to post!)