Super Long Time...and SO much has happened!!!

Well...where to start?...I have finished my student teaching placement...wow what an experience...I had a BLAST and am very blessed...I learned so much and had a GREAT class...not the end though I still plan to go back and see them...through attending a zoo field trip with them, their end of the year program, and for field day! I have finished everything school related and graduate on Tuesday. It is so hard for me to believe that four years ago I started college and now in less than 4 days I will be graduated! It seems like just yesterday I graduated high school and was just starting college. I will have a degree in Early Childhood Education and now it is facing the battle of finding a job teaching...with the job market we have today. Me and BJ are GREAT...we have been together for a year four months and eight days! Hard for me to believe but I wouldn't trade our relationship for the world...I LOVE him with all my heart and soul! He is honestly the BEST thing that has and could have ever happened to me!! He stays by my side through it all...he is always there for me no matter what!! I have lost 37 pounds on weight watchers and I feel GREAT...it is the best thing I have ever done!!! I went from a size 12 to a size 4...its amazing!! I am loving the way I feel...its fabulous!!!

So close to the END!!!!

Well......it went by soooo fast and I didn't think I would be saying this but college has went by extremely fast and I have only one semester left in which I will be sudent teaching!!!! I found out I will be at Oakland Elementary School next semester with a Kindergarten Class with Mrs. Showen for my student teaching!!! :-D We have a lot of upcoming meetings to meet with our teachers from our schools and lots of work before this semster is up!!! I graduate on May 5th 2009, which is extremely hard for me to believe...by this time next year I will hopefully have a job and be teaching :-D!!!! I am very excited about student teaching but at the same time a little nervous about it!!! More to come soon!!!

It has been a LONG time!!!

Well...it has been a very long time since I have been on here to update!!! Stayed busy with school and work a lot lately!!! Me and BJ have been dating for over 9 months now and he is sooo awesome!!! I love him with all my heart!!! I am sooo lucky to have him!!! I am about half through my first semester of my senior year and my last semester of college is approaching rapidly!!! It is sooo hard to believe I only have one semester left and that will be student teaching!!! Now don't get me wrong I am very excited but...it is sooooo hard to believe how fast it is approaching...I am a little nervous but I always am when faced with new challenges. Drew and Mikayla are growing sooo fast...I can't believe how fast they are growing!!! Work is still going well...I stil enjoy it a whole lot and love what I do!!! Well that's it for now may I will stay on top of updating a little better.

Back again...after a long time of not blogging!!! Its been busy!! Still working at Ron's waiting tables and at Sassy's Tan and Style!! Me and BJ just celebrated our five months of dating on Friday :-D!!! He is the GREATEST guy ever and he means the world to me!!! He has my heart!! I am the luckiest girl ever to have such a GREAT guy!!! Yea I know some of you are probably thinking wow how has he put up with her that long ;-) lol who knows but I sure am glad he has :-D!!! I start summer school a week from tomorrow on June 2nd and will be there from 9-3 45 mon-thurs taking Chemistry!!! What fun ha yea right!!! But its ok because I know some people i am taking that class with so it won't be so bad!!! Then in July I am taking Spanish 1 mon- thurs 11 15- 1 so that isn't quite as bad!!! Went swimming today with BJ, my sis, drew and mikayla...we had so much fun!!! Well swimming wore me out today so Im off to bed!!!

Everything has started back up!!! Another year ahead!!

Everything has started back up and it has been busy busy busy for me!!! School has started and is going well!! I am in my block education courses, and they are GREAT...I have five classes on monday I have 2 classes the 1st one goes from 8 30- 11 10 and the second goes from 11 20- 1 50, then on tuesdays and thursdays I have the same class from 11 45- 1, on wednesdays I have my Clinical one from 8 30- 12 10 and this where I will be traveling to my set school to observe and do some hand on things in the classroom before beginning to do student teacheing they want us to have some experience in the classroom! So far we have been at the Child Development Center at Upstate, and it has been a lot of fun, on fridays my class goes from 8 30- 11 10. I am really enjoying this semesters classes...they are all geared toward my major and they really teach us a lot about the things we truly need to focus on in becoming teachers!!! Work is still going well. Its been crazy lately Im either at school, work, with BJ, or at church!! Haven't been able to go to church as much as I would like to bc I am over the floor at Ron's on Sundays so I have to be there! SO some Sunday nights I am able to make it to church and some Wednesday nights!! We have started meeting at Ron's on Monday nights to have a Bible Study since we are closed on Mondays ad I really enjoy being a part of that!!! Well thats what's been going on in my life lately!!!

It has been a while and LOTS has happened!!!!

Passed this semester of classes.....and got into the teaching program and will be starting classes in the education department on Jan. 14th!!! I am excited!! I also have started dating a guy that I work with and he is a great guy!!! He is respectful, very sweet, and just the best!!! I turned another year old im now the big 21 and I have heard its all downhill from here...but I believe thats just some peoples state of mind!!! My Christmas and New Years was GREAT...busy but GREAT..spent time with those that I love the most and the ones that are the funnest to be with and thats what it is all about!!!! I also just got back from Gatlinburg with my church which was a lot of fun!!! We had some pretty interesting times their and we learned a lot!!! Saw lots of GREAT bands in concert like Toby Mac, Chris Tomlin, Skillet, and Sanctus Real!! So now its just home and work and getting ready for school to start back on the 14th!! Got to get some things ready before starting back on the 14th but for the most part I will be ready to go when it starts!!! I know how I get and with me starting something new I will be nervous at the beginning but it will all work out!!!

Hey Hey!!!

It has been forever since I have last posted!!! I took the praxis~ a test that I have to take to get into the professional education program at USC Upstate~ on October 25th and passed both the reading and the math!! I am still waiting to get my writing scores back from it!!! My grandmother went in the hospital yesterday because her heart rate was too high, the doctors did some test on her that they were suppose to get back to day, she seems to be holding up fine, and I ask that each of you will keep my family in your prayers!!! And tonight my mom decided she wanted something to do at night and she starts working at Ron's Hog Pen with me tonight...she was so excited!!!! I dropped my Chemistry class and lab that I had on Tuesdays and Thursdays because I felt like if I was to stay in there it would drop my gpa so I went ahead and got out. I will be taking this class and Spanish in summer school!!! So that I will still be able to graduate on time!!!

WOW...been a while since I have done a post just because!!!!

Lets just say in the least LOTS and lots of stuff has happened since I posted a new blog just because!!!! Well school has gotten very very hectic for one lots of homework, test, projects , Rons Hog Pen is going GREAT I love it...the atmosphere and everything is GREAT...I am such a people person so this is right up my alley!!!!.....Now for the more serious of it all...I have also let myself be consumed by many things that I should not have even worried about by knowing me I think I have to be in control...and its God's place not mine and I find this every single time...so now once again here to say im handing the reigns back over....this occurs very often I know!!!! And I have had a lot on my mind lately with guys/ relationships not knowing which way to go not knowing really what to do....and I have been holding off not going forward with what I really needed to do until 2night...and finally did what I felt compelled to do all day which was talk to one of my exes about some stuff that needed to be cleared up.......and wow I'm tellin you what s much as I had been praying about everything it was JUST what I needed to hear....gave me closure and let me know I could really move on and not feel bad which I have a real tendency to do!!!! I'm telling you this makes me smile :-D on the inside big time because I have needed this for so long !!!! I don't know what it is but I have a real heart for people and hate to feel like I am hurting someone's feelings which sometimes puts me at a disadvantage but its just part of who I am so I make do!!!! But 2night I'm tellin you God is really an on time God because I needed this and it was an answer to my prayers.......and I got exactly what I needed!!!!!! I don't think it could have came at a better time to be honest with you!!!!

I's been WAY too LONG!!!!!

Wow...its been quite some time!!!!......I have started school for the fall semester..which is going pretty well a little hectic right now though!!!! We have a ton of freshman and new transfers..which means the campus is growing BUT the parking is absolutely NUTS I thought is was bad my past 2 years but um WOW no nothing even compared to this year doesn't even hold a candle to it!!!! They have made some additional parking but geez that doesn't help much bc its full 2..I really don't know what they are going to end up doing but they are going to have to do something!!! Got my last of my basic education classes this semester its going to be NO piece of cake but it is going to be FUN!!! And well while im at it, I start a new job on Monday which I am pretty excited about...back to waiting tables I go at Ron's Hog Pen...and believe it or not I have missed it.......I love meeting new people and its just a way to have fun while you work and the way I see it if I am going to work I might as well have fun while I am at it...don't get me wrong there are bad days but ya know they are worth it......not that I think that at the time everything is going on...you know just things that can go wrong on a typical bad day...but like I said its worth it!!!!.....I go for orientation 2morrow at 2:00...I ask for ya'lls prayers because I got to ask about Wednesday Nights off so I can still continue helping with my churches Youth Group with the Word of Life Ministry we do on Wednesday Nights.....so I am just hoping they will be able to do that for me!!! So if ya don't mind say a prayer for me!!! Well its off to hit the books to do some homework, it doesn't just do itself I have figured out lol so someone has to do it lol so I better get to it!!!!

Been a WHILE

It has been quite a while since I have just done a regular post on here....been pretty busy!!!! Everything has been going pretty good though!!! Had a pool party Friday night for the youth before the lock in at the church and WOW it was so fun but I am one of the most GRACEFUL people ever ha....feel onceat the pool and once playing hid and go seek!!! Lets see......def broke the bottoms of my swim suit LOL which was quite hilarious I must say!!!!....Gah and I am sooo sore from running around and just being goofy but thats how we are!!!! Then once everyone left here we all headed back to the church to play hide and seek in the dark which yea is pretty much GREAT even at the age of 20....we played with glow sticks around our necks only that we kept takin off and hiding when we were in our hiding spots so we wouldn't b spotted!!! Then me and Trish stayed in our hiding spot for 45 minutes because they couldn't find us...as she fell asleep and started snoring lol but we had a BLAST!!!!! Went and got stuff ready for school to start BLAH.....which it starts in a little over a week!! I really have to work my butt off this year to make the grades I need!!! I really am going to have to make some adjustments in how I study and to really buckling down this year!! I know I can do it...its just setting my mind to doing that and going after it!!! I have gotten a good bit off track from God and I really need to reset that as well!!! I plan to start working on that and gettin back to where I need to be with that!!!!

SUMMER!!!!!!

WOO HOOO!!! Well todays weather may not have been like summer.....but I am out for the summer...my last exam was today and I am THROUGH with school for the YEAR woo hoo!!!!! Time to open the pool...hit the beach and go to the lake!!! Got to love it!!!! So SO SO glad that I am through with school and am out for the summer!!!!

Spring Break

Oh YEA!!!!!!.......My Spring BREAK is here and I am LOVING it!!! Slept late today...only wish it was pretty enough and warm enough outside to lay out and work on the tan a little but its suppose to be tues wed and thursday so I will lay out then!!!! Its great to not have to get up early and I can just chill until 2:00 when I have to go to work but they will be having there Spring Break in a couple of weeks so that will be GREAT also I will go to school and be done that entire week by 12 and then lay out then 2 oh YEA!!!! and Lake time is getting ready tio start up..........can't wait for that tubing and going for boat rides some awesome stuff!!!!!!

Tomorrow is Friday YAH!!! This week has been pretty good overall...been staying pretty busy!! I joined the Y on Monday of this week and have been working out!! I am sooo excited!!! My spring break is this coming week......I am so ready for it!! I hope it is soooo pretty outside so that I can lay out and get some sun before work!!! Get off at 4 tomorrow and my weekend starts and no school for a week......I will be LOVING that!!!

Update on Look up and How things are going

Well...the test and things I was stressing about so badly that contributed to some of my hard times this past couple of weeks....2 of my test have been postponed so praise the lord for that so now I have one test tuesday one on wednesday one on thursday and one on friday and the other was postponed until after spring break so that evens everthing out a little more instead 3 in one day!!! I received an email from look up lodge today and they said they had received my final financial support letter and that they were making final decisions and I should know within the week so thats nerve racking and exciting at the same time!!! However it turns out got to know God has a plan and either way I will praise Him he knows what is best and will give me nothing less!!! Please continuing praying about Look Up Lodge!!! And thank you for all your prayers lately it is greatly appreciated!!! Have a GREAT day and thank you for all you do!!!!

1st Day

School today went GREAT......one of my classes I had a little surprise in and those of you who know me know exactly what i am talking about no need to say nemore about that..needless to say that will be fun!! But classes I had today I think will be good!! Work today was a different story a lot of confusion going on but it will work itself out!! More coming to morrow on my MWF classes!!

School Starts back 2morrow!!!

Mom colored my hair today so I will be ready to go back to school!! We did it back pretty close to my natural color I LIKE it so much!! I have been wanting it done for a while but couldn't decide!! Tomorrow it is back to the grindstone....lol!! School starts back!! I am kind of ready but for the most part i am NOT lol imagine that!! This is my second semester since I changed my major over to Early Childhood Education from Nursing!! I really like the education program and would like to teach 2nd or 3rd grade!!! This semester I am taking Math 232...Concepts of Elementary Math, Math 233.....Geometry Measurements, Human Development of the Lifelong Learner, Art History, Health and Wellness!!! As far as I know from what I hear I have good teachers and this is going to be a good semester!! I am ready for my Human Development class its about how babies develop and how their personalities develop and I am very interested in stuff like this.....I am also pretty excited about my Health class because that kind of stuff interest me to!! Well thats all for now...look for a post 2morrow about how the first day back went lol!!

College Life :-D

Hey Guys!!! College is still fun but my classes are still kicking my butt!!! I am pretty sure I am dropping anatomy but I have to have it so I am thinkin bout retaking it in the spring! Which I register for spring classes Friday!! Wow this 1st semester has really flown by its hard to believe that I have almost beein in college for a whole semester already!!!!! Now I only have 3 more semesters until I apply to get into the Mary Black School of Nursing at USCUpstate!! Then I will have 4 more semesters once I get in!!! Its so different knowing that you are planning for your lifes career by attending classes!! Because in high school it was just like okay I go to these same classes everyday and just BS my way through this and I will be ok!!! Yea well its def. not like that in college!! Def. eye opener you know you have to have your mind set once you choose what you are going for so you will want to pass your classes b/c no one else cares whether you pass them or not its all up to you!

Hey Guys!!! College is still fun but my classes are still kicking my butt!!! I am pretty sure I am dropping anatomy but I have to have it so I am thinkin bout retaking it in the spring! Which I register for spring classes Friday!! Wow this 1st semester has really flown by its hard to believe that I have almost beein in college for a whole semester already!!!!! Now I only have 3 more semesters until I apply to get into the Mary Black School of Nursing at USCUpstate!! Then I will have 4 more semesters once I get in!!! Its so different knowing that you are planning for your lifes career by attending classes!! Because in high school it was just like okay I go to these same classes everyday and just BS my way through this and I will be ok!!! Yea well its def. not like that in college!! Def. eye opener you know you have to have your mind set once you choose what you are going for so you will want to pass your classes b/c no one else cares whether you pass them or not its all up to you!

College

Hey! Everything is going pretty good! Had another anatomy test yesterday and it didn't go so well! But it was better than the last one! I just got to keep studyin and pushin forward! I don't know what i am goin to do if I don't do good on the next one! I have to have this class so there's no point in dropping it! I want to be a NURSE so bad this is my passion but anatomy is SOOOO hard! Well anywayz! Everything else seems to be going pretty good! College is a real eye opener its fun but if you aren't use to studyin its a real smack in the Face!!!!!

Anantomy

Oh wow! I am so overwhelmed and beginning to become a little stressed! I have a anatomy test tomorrow that I have been studying for for quite a good while today and it doesn't seem to be sinking in at all! Its beginning to stress me out a little! I will get through it though! Boy is this class goin to change my study habits! From now on I am going to sit down everyday after anatomy class and go over that classes notes and let it sink in because cramming just isn't going to work for this class! I haven't ever really been much of a studier before but boy thats about to change!