This year, our church hired on a new music minister, John. We are so grateful for him and his wonderful family to be here and a part of our church. Anyway, so in the last few months, we've gotten to know them better and better because in June, they were FINALLY able to move into their house down here.
All of that brings me to say that we are spending the week at their house, mostly to take care of their dogs Radley and Annie, while they are out of town on vacation. While it's only 15ish minutes from our apartment, it feels almost like a getaway of sorts, just because it's a really nice house and it's in a super-quiet neighborhood. I actually managed to not step outside once today, though I did let the dogs in and out while trying to dodge the mosquitoes.
I continue to suck at blogging because I've been staying much busier than usual, yet I have nothing to write about. Boo.
This past week was fun. My church does an annual day-camp for kids ages 6-12 and we take them to places all around town. We took them to putt-putt golf, bowling, the swimming pool, a wildlife park the movies, a local boardwalk with rides and so forth as well as this place called Palm Beach. Palm Beach has sand and everything, but it has pool water instead of salt water.
I was able to invite my 4 year-old nephew, (Ethan) to the movies to see Toy Story 3, (yet again) and to Palm Beach. He loves the beach, but hates the idea of fish and other marine animals swimming in the water with him, so this is actually ideal. He LOVED it, and told me repeatedly how it was his favorite beach. Travis was the one who was able to bring him, and I'm glad that they got to have a little one-on-one time together, even if it was just the drive to and from. That's about an hour round-trip in the car. Ethan asked around lunch time to go home, because he was really tired, and oh, was he tired. His poor eyes could hardly stay open. He did make sure to tell me that he wanted to come back.
On Saturday, I got a call from Robert, (my nephew's dad & my sister's fiance) and he was letting me know that they were going to take Ethan to see Despicable Me and that we were welcome to come. He decided not to tell Ethan that we were coming, and he enjoyed the surprise. I didn't think it was going to work out though, because the theater was allegedly sold out of tickets. The theater that we went to is small and usually not too busy, so I was in disbelief. I decided to just buy tickets for another movie and then we would go see if there were any seats at Despicable Me, and sure enough...there were several. I figured if they didn't have the seats, it only cost a few dollars so we'd just pass the movie altogether, but it all worked out. The movie was really good. I feel like a kid lately because I keep watching these random kid movies. I've seen Toy Story 3 twice this month, Despicable Me on Saturday and today, I finally watched Up. Apparently I really like kid movies.
On Saturday after the movie, Travis and I ran by the grocery store to get ingredients for pizza. Sarah and Robert brought Ethan over and we had semi-homemade pizza and played Phase 10 while Ethan watched Toy Story 2. When it was over, he wanted to play Phase 10, too, so we just handed him a stack of the cards and let him make up his own game. I swear, I've never seen a kid love numbers like he does.
This past week has also been interesting because I have two friends that have had a baby in the last week (one today and one last Tuesday) and I have another friend, (mjokisch) who is having her daughter, Emma any day now...just so many new lives being brought into the world. It does give me a hint of baby fever, but I definitely know that we aren't in the right place for a baby right now, and I will just have to get past it, like I have before.
In other, much more boring news, my apartment is finally clean. It has taken me forever to find the time to get it done thoroughly, and I am so glad that I did. It feels so good to have it clean again, though I'm not there right now to enjoy it. I still like the idea of going home to a clean house!
Lastly, we're going to New Braunfels this weekend to go tubing on the Comal river. Holy heavenly goodness, it's going to be wonderful.This is by far my favorite thing to do in Texas. I have yet to find something that's quite so refreshing, relax and constant fun as sitting in an inner-tube floating down the river that's freezing cold while you're being warmed by the sun. Oh...it's so good. I cannot wait! Travis and I are going of course, and my best friend Kim and my brother Bryan are joining us as well. I still haven't developed last year's pictures, maybe this year I'll take the camera from this year AND last year to get those pictures. ;)
Goodnight. :D
Monday, July 19, 2010
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Whew.
Today is one of the first days in a while that I've found myself at home, sitting in front of the computer for more than 10 minutes.
I turned 25 in May, and that was just in time for the summer. You see, my church won't let you drive a van until you're 25, and in the summers, our youth department goes all sorts of places, thus needing vans and drivers. My brother-in-law, his girlfriend and my friend, Emilee are all interns this summer, so I've been volunteering my time to drive them from place to place and to be a 'youth sponsor' for things like camp.
This has obviously cut my 'sitting around time' in half and I've hardly been home. We had Super Summer a few weeks ago, which is a week-long camp for students that are considered to be the leaders in their group, followed by a week off, but that included a trip to the beach and a few other outings that kept me busy. The next week I had responsibilities to be the 4th grade director of our Vacation Bible School, so I was busy with that, and then last week I was at our church's youth camp as an adult sponsor.
I have really enjoyed having reasons to be out of the house, but I also enjoy time to sit. On Monday I spent the afternoon at my friend's house watching movies and being lazy, yesterday I took my mom out looking for cars, because the one she had kicked the bucket, and we found one, but that took all day due to traffic, test drives, etc.
My mom isn't a person with a lot of money, and she had been driving my old car, which was a 1992 Buick LeSabre, but she was letting my brother drive it a lot, and he drives cars really hard, mostly because he's 19. My mom has been working the Census and has earned a great deal of money through that and with some other money she had saved up, she was able to buy a 2000 Infiniti I30. It's in excellent shape. It has a few scratches in the paint, but every feature still works really well and she said it drives well. She feels safe in it, and it's in her price range. She did the Carfax on it and found that it only had one owner, it had regular maintenance, and was traded in for a new Infiniti, so the previous owner was someone who is willing to spend money on a nice car and takes care of it. We're supposed to go get it today.
You would think that with how busy I've been that I'd have a lot more to say, but I really don't. I guess I've been talking a lot lately so I'm all talked out.
:)
I turned 25 in May, and that was just in time for the summer. You see, my church won't let you drive a van until you're 25, and in the summers, our youth department goes all sorts of places, thus needing vans and drivers. My brother-in-law, his girlfriend and my friend, Emilee are all interns this summer, so I've been volunteering my time to drive them from place to place and to be a 'youth sponsor' for things like camp.
This has obviously cut my 'sitting around time' in half and I've hardly been home. We had Super Summer a few weeks ago, which is a week-long camp for students that are considered to be the leaders in their group, followed by a week off, but that included a trip to the beach and a few other outings that kept me busy. The next week I had responsibilities to be the 4th grade director of our Vacation Bible School, so I was busy with that, and then last week I was at our church's youth camp as an adult sponsor.
I have really enjoyed having reasons to be out of the house, but I also enjoy time to sit. On Monday I spent the afternoon at my friend's house watching movies and being lazy, yesterday I took my mom out looking for cars, because the one she had kicked the bucket, and we found one, but that took all day due to traffic, test drives, etc.
My mom isn't a person with a lot of money, and she had been driving my old car, which was a 1992 Buick LeSabre, but she was letting my brother drive it a lot, and he drives cars really hard, mostly because he's 19. My mom has been working the Census and has earned a great deal of money through that and with some other money she had saved up, she was able to buy a 2000 Infiniti I30. It's in excellent shape. It has a few scratches in the paint, but every feature still works really well and she said it drives well. She feels safe in it, and it's in her price range. She did the Carfax on it and found that it only had one owner, it had regular maintenance, and was traded in for a new Infiniti, so the previous owner was someone who is willing to spend money on a nice car and takes care of it. We're supposed to go get it today.
You would think that with how busy I've been that I'd have a lot more to say, but I really don't. I guess I've been talking a lot lately so I'm all talked out.
:)
Friday, June 4, 2010
Happy Friday!
Well, I was a little bummed when I went to the gym the a couple of days ago and realized that our pool is a different length than I thought it was...I thought it was 50m long, but it's not, so when I say that I swam 800 meters, I was totally wrong, which was a major letdown. I was so proud of myself, but whatever. Our pool is actually 25 yards long, so I had swam 600 yards, which converts to 548.64 meters. Oh well.
So I went to the gym yesterday and I swam either 700 or 750 yards...I ended up losing count, but that's at least a whole football field further than what I swam before. I'm still proud of myself, since it's 2 more laps than what I swam the day before, and I'm still adjusting to when to breathe to pace myself and so forth. But it's something that I'm definitely enjoying and I'll miss getting to go while I'm gone this week. I've found myself looking forward to going every day. That's so unusual for me.
Yesterday, I was feeling a little domestic and decided to make Travis a batch of snickerdoodle cookies since I'm leaving him for a week. What's sad (for me) is that I don't really care for snickerdoodles, so I don't have a home-baked goodie to snack on. But it works out well for Travis since he gets them all.
Moving on to something MUCH more exciting...I'm watching Saved By the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas. You should be really, really jealous, since this is the world's best TV movie! Well, Lifetime's Fifteen and Pregnant may have it beat, but whatever. ;)
I wonder how much they had to pay Elizabeth Berkley to break away from her life-changing adventure of filming Showgirls. I mean, look at the success and fame that movie got her---I can't believe she was willing to be in a SBTB movie.
Just kidding. Elizabeth Berkley is probably living under a bridge somewhere hooked on caffeine pills reliving the glory days.
My horrifying news of the day is that my mom called me today and told me that of ALL of the things to find in the trunk of her car, she found...a rat. She has no idea how it got in there or how long it's been in there, but it was definitely traumatizing.
I'm not sure that I'll be able to post anything next week, so I'll be back eventually to...bore you with my mundane details of life.
So I went to the gym yesterday and I swam either 700 or 750 yards...I ended up losing count, but that's at least a whole football field further than what I swam before. I'm still proud of myself, since it's 2 more laps than what I swam the day before, and I'm still adjusting to when to breathe to pace myself and so forth. But it's something that I'm definitely enjoying and I'll miss getting to go while I'm gone this week. I've found myself looking forward to going every day. That's so unusual for me.
Yesterday, I was feeling a little domestic and decided to make Travis a batch of snickerdoodle cookies since I'm leaving him for a week. What's sad (for me) is that I don't really care for snickerdoodles, so I don't have a home-baked goodie to snack on. But it works out well for Travis since he gets them all.
Moving on to something MUCH more exciting...I'm watching Saved By the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas. You should be really, really jealous, since this is the world's best TV movie! Well, Lifetime's Fifteen and Pregnant may have it beat, but whatever. ;)
I wonder how much they had to pay Elizabeth Berkley to break away from her life-changing adventure of filming Showgirls. I mean, look at the success and fame that movie got her---I can't believe she was willing to be in a SBTB movie.Just kidding. Elizabeth Berkley is probably living under a bridge somewhere hooked on caffeine pills reliving the glory days.
My horrifying news of the day is that my mom called me today and told me that of ALL of the things to find in the trunk of her car, she found...a rat. She has no idea how it got in there or how long it's been in there, but it was definitely traumatizing.
I'm not sure that I'll be able to post anything next week, so I'll be back eventually to...bore you with my mundane details of life.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Gather 'round, young grasshoppers.
It's been a long minute since the last time I made a post. I keep finding myself spending less and less time on the computer, but this could be because more friends are less busy since school has let out for the summer.
But don't be confused, my life hasn't jump-started into being really exciting. What did I do today? I tie-dyed 5 shirts for a camp that I'm going to next week with my church (as a leader.) It's called Super Summer and everyone has a color that they're in based on their age---except for the leaders of course...I've been assigned to Yellow, which is students that are going into the 11th grade. Everyone represents their group by wearing their color, and I just couldn't deal with wearing a plain yellow shirt, and I don't really have yellow in my wardrobe, so I bought white shirts and did some amateur tie-dying just to make it a little bit more exciting than plain yellow. To anyone scratching your head...if you knew the camp, you'd understand.
So I've been continuing in exercising, but I am still working on finding a workout that suits. I easily become bored with a warm-up on the bike, 30 minutes of weights and 30 minutes of cardio on the elliptical and treadmill. I've been taking advantage of the pool at the gym recently, and I have really enjoyed it. This is a new addition to my workout regimen, but yesterday I swam 800 meters doing all sorts of different strokes. It's amazing what I remember from swimming lessons when I was 5. We're going again to the gym in just a bit, and I'm really excited.
Today, I booked the hotel for our trip to New Braunfels this summer. I'm beyond ecstatic about the whole thing. It's one of my absolute favorite trips of the year, this only being my third time to go and ride the river. We went several times when I was a kid, but we never tubed down the Comal River. Travis's parents took us 2 years ago and I decided then it would have to become an annual trip. Last summer, Travis, my brother, my best friend and I all went and I'm pretty sure I've never laughed so hard in my life. I'm so excited. C'mon July 22!
That's all for now. Maybe I'll remember to post more later. :)
But don't be confused, my life hasn't jump-started into being really exciting. What did I do today? I tie-dyed 5 shirts for a camp that I'm going to next week with my church (as a leader.) It's called Super Summer and everyone has a color that they're in based on their age---except for the leaders of course...I've been assigned to Yellow, which is students that are going into the 11th grade. Everyone represents their group by wearing their color, and I just couldn't deal with wearing a plain yellow shirt, and I don't really have yellow in my wardrobe, so I bought white shirts and did some amateur tie-dying just to make it a little bit more exciting than plain yellow. To anyone scratching your head...if you knew the camp, you'd understand.
So I've been continuing in exercising, but I am still working on finding a workout that suits. I easily become bored with a warm-up on the bike, 30 minutes of weights and 30 minutes of cardio on the elliptical and treadmill. I've been taking advantage of the pool at the gym recently, and I have really enjoyed it. This is a new addition to my workout regimen, but yesterday I swam 800 meters doing all sorts of different strokes. It's amazing what I remember from swimming lessons when I was 5. We're going again to the gym in just a bit, and I'm really excited.
Today, I booked the hotel for our trip to New Braunfels this summer. I'm beyond ecstatic about the whole thing. It's one of my absolute favorite trips of the year, this only being my third time to go and ride the river. We went several times when I was a kid, but we never tubed down the Comal River. Travis's parents took us 2 years ago and I decided then it would have to become an annual trip. Last summer, Travis, my brother, my best friend and I all went and I'm pretty sure I've never laughed so hard in my life. I'm so excited. C'mon July 22!
That's all for now. Maybe I'll remember to post more later. :)
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Hello, again!
A friend of mine told me recently that it was time to update my blog, so here I am.
I've been busy the last couple of weeks and have hardly been on the computer.
While Sarah and Robert have been taking some time finishing schoolwork for their last classes, I kept Ethan. My mom usually keeps him, but right now she's working for the Census, so she's been busy with that. There was one day that we went to Bahama Bucks for sno-cones, and I was able to take a couple of pictures:
The next day Sarah brought him here and we decided to go down to the pool and go swimming. He had never done it in a big pool before and he's a very cautious child, but he did an excellent job. Of course he was timid about it, but I was able to coax him to let me carry him all over the swimming pool and he loved it. That night I went to Wal-Mart and got some pool toys for him which he ended up really liking. He over for the next few days and he's trusting me more and more to do things.
Here he is at our pool's tanning deck, where the water is only 6 inches:
The second one was a different day before we got in the pool, but it was cute anyway. :)
This past weekend was pretty busy. We went to the graduations for Bryan and Alissa on Saturday, (Bryan is Travis' brother, and Alissa is Bryan's girlfriend) and it was a long day. Their university had two ceremonies for the graduates, and of course they weren't in the same ceremony, so we sat through both. On Sunday I went to my sister's graduation which wasn't near as bad, except it was REALLY hot. Though it made for very busy weekend full of time on the road, I'm proud of them all. :)
What else is going on? Oh, right. My birthday is tomorrow and you are allowed to send lots of money and gifts my way. Don't forget, mkay?
I've been busy the last couple of weeks and have hardly been on the computer.
While Sarah and Robert have been taking some time finishing schoolwork for their last classes, I kept Ethan. My mom usually keeps him, but right now she's working for the Census, so she's been busy with that. There was one day that we went to Bahama Bucks for sno-cones, and I was able to take a couple of pictures:
The next day Sarah brought him here and we decided to go down to the pool and go swimming. He had never done it in a big pool before and he's a very cautious child, but he did an excellent job. Of course he was timid about it, but I was able to coax him to let me carry him all over the swimming pool and he loved it. That night I went to Wal-Mart and got some pool toys for him which he ended up really liking. He over for the next few days and he's trusting me more and more to do things.
Here he is at our pool's tanning deck, where the water is only 6 inches:
The second one was a different day before we got in the pool, but it was cute anyway. :)
This past weekend was pretty busy. We went to the graduations for Bryan and Alissa on Saturday, (Bryan is Travis' brother, and Alissa is Bryan's girlfriend) and it was a long day. Their university had two ceremonies for the graduates, and of course they weren't in the same ceremony, so we sat through both. On Sunday I went to my sister's graduation which wasn't near as bad, except it was REALLY hot. Though it made for very busy weekend full of time on the road, I'm proud of them all. :)
What else is going on? Oh, right. My birthday is tomorrow and you are allowed to send lots of money and gifts my way. Don't forget, mkay?
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
New stuff! :D
Yesterday my mom and I went to TJ Maxx, and I saw these really great lamps that I wanted for our bedroom, but since Travis wasn't there, I wasn't just going to fork over $60 for lamps that he possibly doesn't like, you know?
So today I take him by there, and he liked them and agreed that they would be a good addition to our bedroom. Maybe the need to show them off to people that come over will inspire me to get our bedroom in order.
Now presenting, my new lamp(s)! There are two, but I only took one picture, duh.
Also, pardon the other lamp in the background. I've yet to find a new home for it.
The shade is white, though I could definitely handle getting a colored shade later on. They had 3 of these lamps, 1 of which had a grey shade in the same style, which I really would have preferred, but since they only had one like that, I just got the white ones.
Anyway, yay new lamps! :)
So today I take him by there, and he liked them and agreed that they would be a good addition to our bedroom. Maybe the need to show them off to people that come over will inspire me to get our bedroom in order.
Now presenting, my new lamp(s)! There are two, but I only took one picture, duh.
Also, pardon the other lamp in the background. I've yet to find a new home for it.
The shade is white, though I could definitely handle getting a colored shade later on. They had 3 of these lamps, 1 of which had a grey shade in the same style, which I really would have preferred, but since they only had one like that, I just got the white ones.
Anyway, yay new lamps! :)
I'm a neglecter.
So I have been terrible and neglected my blog for a while. But I've been kind of busy, I guess.
Last week, Travis and I went with his brother (Bryan) and Bryan's girlfriend Alissa to a Chick-Fil-A opening about an hour from here in hopes of being in the first 100 and getting free Chick-Fil-A for a year.
We were not in the first 100, but were there in time to qualify for the raffle...which we didn't win, but whatever. We had a good time and lots of laughs. It may have been a day wasted, but it's not like I missed work for it or anything. It was something to do.
Over the weekend, I went to the beach and it was so pleasant. I really enjoy a sunny day just laying in the sun with a friend, watching the water.
I also watched this movie with some friends this weekend called Arlington Road. It was a fairly low-budget movie made in 1999 with Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins. It ultimately was a fictional story about terrorism in America by Americans, and it was actually really good. It was filmed in surrounding areas to where I live, and the homes that they used for the neighborhood was filmed literally around the corner from my friend's house, though she didn't live there at the time. It was strange because we walked by the houses and then watched the movie, so it was like, "Hey! I was just there!"
I watched Precious today. I don't know what I was expecting, but I don't think it's what I was expecting, though I have to give credit to the acting in the movie. I do think I liked it, though it was a little rough to watch.
I guess that today is a movie theme, because I am going to have to spend some time soon watching American Beauty. I was thinking about that movie yesterday and realized I haven't watched it in a while. It's one of my very favorites, and I've probably seen it a gazillion times.
I often wonder if anyone else is like me and can watch movies over and over like I can. But if it's a movie I really like, I enjoy the story. It's like reading an old book over and over. It's just something that you do.
Anyway, I'm boring and that's all I have for now.
Last week, Travis and I went with his brother (Bryan) and Bryan's girlfriend Alissa to a Chick-Fil-A opening about an hour from here in hopes of being in the first 100 and getting free Chick-Fil-A for a year.
We were not in the first 100, but were there in time to qualify for the raffle...which we didn't win, but whatever. We had a good time and lots of laughs. It may have been a day wasted, but it's not like I missed work for it or anything. It was something to do.
Over the weekend, I went to the beach and it was so pleasant. I really enjoy a sunny day just laying in the sun with a friend, watching the water.
I also watched this movie with some friends this weekend called Arlington Road. It was a fairly low-budget movie made in 1999 with Jeff Bridges and Tim Robbins. It ultimately was a fictional story about terrorism in America by Americans, and it was actually really good. It was filmed in surrounding areas to where I live, and the homes that they used for the neighborhood was filmed literally around the corner from my friend's house, though she didn't live there at the time. It was strange because we walked by the houses and then watched the movie, so it was like, "Hey! I was just there!"
I watched Precious today. I don't know what I was expecting, but I don't think it's what I was expecting, though I have to give credit to the acting in the movie. I do think I liked it, though it was a little rough to watch.
I guess that today is a movie theme, because I am going to have to spend some time soon watching American Beauty. I was thinking about that movie yesterday and realized I haven't watched it in a while. It's one of my very favorites, and I've probably seen it a gazillion times.
I often wonder if anyone else is like me and can watch movies over and over like I can. But if it's a movie I really like, I enjoy the story. It's like reading an old book over and over. It's just something that you do.
Anyway, I'm boring and that's all I have for now.
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