Four Years

On Thursday Jon and I celebrated four years of marriage.  That night I thought that we might not get to have dinner together because I had class.  It seems as if every year on our anniversery something gets in our way of having a night together.   Most years it has been Jon's job usally training of some sort or another.  How ever it was me this year I had class.  I thought that we would not get to spent time together again.  However when I got home Jon had cooked dinner and had orange roses on the table.  It was so nice  I love that he thinks of the little thing.  It does not seem like we have been married for four years but we have and I can't wait to see what the years to come have instore for us.

The start and end of the first Term

So In the TEAM program the courses are only 6 weeks in the summer and 8 weeks in the school year. So now I have completed my first two classes.  WOW that was a fast two weeks.  I am happy to say I have a 3.0.  Not really what I was hoping for but all I can say is Phonics with DR. Sparks is not easy.  I can say that I am one of the lucky ones that passed.  I have had a week off from school but not work so now I think that I am ready to get back to class.  It was a fun six weeks and I learned a lot.  There are things that I am sad about during this six weeks I have had to make choices to do school work over family things like going out to dinner, seeing Brian and Lilah as much as I want and going to my moms house for expo.  I think this is only the second expo I have missed in my life.  It is only one year is all I keep telling myself.  It will all be worth it in the end when I am doing what I really love to do working with Elementary school kids.  Also during this time I found out where I am going to be student teaching.  I will be in a 1st grade class at River view East Academy.  I am so looking forward to this next year. I will try and keep you all up to date what is going on with schooling.

An Up and Down Roller Coaster

So after we got back from Disney world My life went on a bit of an up and down Roller coaster.  But for this story I have to back up just a bit.  In October I found an education program at Mount St. Joseph.  This program is a one year program at the end I will have me my teaching certificate for Ohio and I will have a masters in education.  I will also be able to get my certificate for Kentucky.  This was very exciting to me I would be able to reach me goal in just one year.  In February I completed the application process for the program.  In March I found out that I would need to take the GRE in order to get in to the program;  I signed up for the GRE.  I was not excited about this part I am not of taking test but I would what ever it took.  Then about a week later I got an e-mail stating that out of Further Review of transcripts and with my 4.0 from St. Catherine in education classes I would not need to take the GRE.  This was very exciting. This was just before we went to Disney world.  I had to set up an interview with the head of the program.  This was scheduled for the day after we got back from Disney World. We got home really late that night or really early in the morning how ever you want to look at it.  I got up early to go to my interview.  When I get to the school I realized that I not gotten the location of the office that I was suppose to go to.  My thoughts OH NO I am not going to get in now.  I went to the information desk to ask the person at the desk if they could help me find it.  The only thing they could do is call his office.  He was not answering.  The person thought that I had the date wrong because the school was closes because it was Good Friday.  So I asked do you know where his office is the answer I got was NO.  Great I thought so I asked do you know were the education office is NO.  Great I thought again.  So I found a campus map I found what Building that the education office was located in.  So I went into the building and started walking the hallways. After about a half hour I found the education office it was locked and the light were off.  So I waited and waited and just about the time of my interview here came the head of the program around the coroner.  That was great I had made it before he did.  We went into his office for the interview.  After about 40 min we were done,  I had to write a response to an article as a writing sample for the program that took about another 30 min.  Now it was just a waiting game.  I was told that I should hear something by the next Thursday or Friday.  So I went home to enjoy my Easter weekend.  This was a great weekend spent with family.  I went a bit crazy again with my camera.  I went to work the next week.  Then Thursday came.  I checked my e-mail as many times as I could through out the day.  Nothing.  I went home so that I could go to a gift gathering party for Rosana's pharmacy.  I had gotten off work a bit early I did my normal things on my way home.  I called my Mother-in-law to figure out what I needed to do once I was ready was she picking me up or was I meeting her there.  I then called my mother to tell her that I had no news and what I was doing for the night.   We got off the phone as I was getting off my exit.  I then called Maria real quick to see what she was waring to the party.  She told me so I got off the phone real quick.  I was driving down the road on my way home I got to about a block away from my house and the traffic was stopped this was a very normal thing to happen on this street.  I was sitting there I had looked down and I am not sure why at this point then I felt a wham and my car went forward and wham again someone had hit me from the back and pushed me into the back of another car.  I froze all I could do is cry.  Once I could talk I asked a by stander to get my phone for me it had been thrown across my car.  I called the one person that I knew could come and help quick.  Thanks Rosana for being their for me.  All I could do is sit there. When the fire men got there they had pull my door open it took two of them to do this.  Rosana got there she took me to the hospital.  We got a hold of Jon and he got off work and meet us at the hospital.  This is not an easy thing to do because he works on the phones so I was doing this through text.  I was not thinking clearly so I was doing my best.  I got to the hospital and they ran x-rays and checked me out.  They did not find anything just bruising on my collar bone. This was good news.   I went home and reseed for the night.  I tried to go to work the next morning they sent me home by 9:00 am.  Jon came and picked me up because me car was at the shop for the insurance to take a look at it.  They had set me up a rental car.  I went and picked up the car and tried to rest for the rest of the day.  I got a call from the insurance company they had decide to total out my car I needed to go out and get my things out of the car and let them turn it over to the junk yard.  I said OK and hung up the phone I cried some more. When I was done I called Rosana to see if she would take me out the car and help me clean it out.  I am glad she went with me because I would not have thought of every thing.  After we got done we went back to her office for a few min.  I decide to check my e-mail.  What do you know there was an e-mail form the Mount.  I had gotten into the program.  If you can guess you probably got it correct I cried again.  I think that this would count as one of the few times I have cried some much in a two day period.  I called everyone that was on my list of people to call when I got the news.  That was so much fun. 

The front of my car

The back of my car



The rental car

 Here are pictures of my car an my rental car it was very nice but it was not my car that I had come to love.

Disney 2012

Yep you guessed it.  Jon and I went to Disney World again.  This time it was over spring break and we took Megan and Jake with us this time.  This was the first time for the two of them.  This was fun for myself I hope that everyone had as much fun as I did.  This was the first time for Jon and I drove to Disney World the second time that we have drove to Florida.  I will have to say will never do it in one day again.  I did not think that we were ever going to get out of the car.  Oh and it was the day of the UK vs. UofL so we left at like 3 am so that we could make it to Disney before the game this did not happen so we stopped in Gainsville to watch the game at Ruby Tuesday's  We did live to tell about it. 

We made it

We made it

Every time that Jon and I go to Disney we try and stay at a new resort.  This time we stayed at the Animal Kingdom Lodge.  This was a really nice resort and we loved that we were able to see animals it was fun to go look out and see if we could see any different animals.  The resort also had different out looks that we could step out on and try and see different animals. 

Master Bedroom

The view of the animals from our room.

Sunrise from our room

The tile in the Kitchen

We made sure that the kids got the full Disney experience.  We tried to get them on most of the rides.  I am very proud to say that they did try most everything.  They may have not wanted to get back on after they got off, but they tried and that is all I could ask for.

Jon and Jake Riding Space Mountain

The Tea Cups

Before we got on Tower of Terror

Watching Shows

Making sure she was tall enough she just made it

Enjoying the ride

The Boys enjoying the ride

Cooling off in the heat

The first day we went to Hollywood studios.  We had fun riding the Toy Story Mania Ride.  This was the top request of the Teenagers.  At this point I can not remember who won but I am safe to say it was not me.  We also road the back lot tour where you can sometimes get a little wet.  So I made sure that they were on the side that could get wet.  Megan ended up on the out side and she get a little wet.  But it was all in good fun and she did not stay not mad for long.  At our time at Hollywood studios we took some drawing classes.  We also got to be part of a flash mob that was fun I have not gotten to do that.  We went late one night to see Fantasmic and it was great as I remember it. 

Coming into the part for the first time

Flash Mob

drawing class

Hat Picture

Here comes the water

Megan's I am so happy face

We ate lots of food over our trip.  We took Megan and Jake to some of favorite restaurants.  If there was steak on  the menu they had steak.  We had fun at 50's Prime Time Cafe trying to get Jon in trouble.  He had to go put his nose against the wall.  That was fun.  We also enjoyed eating in car and with different characters. 

Megan did not finish all of her veggies

In one day we took over 25,000 step, we went around the world, saw the past, the future, went into space, became cash dummies, flew over California and Journeyed into our Imagination.  I could only be talking about one place Yep that is Epcot.  The steps were not just in Epcot we did hop between Epcot and Hollywood Studios but it was a packed day.  Some people were running across the park my not me. 

We also spent time at the Magic Kingdom and the Animal Kingdom.  There were so many things that we did I think I will just put up some pictures.  I may have gone a bit on the crazy side with photos with my new camera Megan and Jake helped me together we took 1050+ pictures.

Megan also celebrated her birthday the whole week I may have suggested.  But it is fun to have your birthday at Disney even if it is not your birthday and it is just the week.

Birthday Cup Cake

OK so I think that is mostly it.  It was a great week.  Sorry it took so long to get it up but life has been crazy.

Birthday (late but still good)- 27 Blessings

So I know that this post is late but life seems to have away of sneaking up on me and then running away. So I thought that I would just take the time now to sit down and write it.  So it has been about a year since I started this blog and last year on my birthday I wrote about how unhappy with where I was in my life and all the hopes and dreams I had for Jon and my life to be going and how I had to stop dreaming and just start doing.  Well since then a lot has happened and I have tried to keep you all up on everything that has been happening.  So this year for my Birthday I thought that I would so something different.  I thought that I would count my blessing.  Because I turned 27 I thought that I would give you all my top 27.  I am going to stick to things that have happened over the last year.  I know that I have way more that 27 blessings but I thought that it would just be fun to do.  So here we go 27 Blessings late but still good.

1. Welcoming a new member to our family with the birth of Lilah in July.
2. Being able to get closer with Brian the week that I sent with him while Lilah and Maria were in the hospital.  I am so thankful that Maria and Shawn allowed me to do that.
3. Being asked and accepting to be Lilah's Godmother.  That was a big honor for me.
4. Megan asking me to be her confirmation sponsor.  I love getting to share the special moments in my family's life and the feeling that it gives me to know that they want me to be part of it.
5. Having parents that will bend over backwards to help Jon and I.  Every time we have needed to move there have been right there to help.  Even if it was just form one building to another building on campus and then about a month later to Northern Kentucky and watching their grand-dog any chance they get.  I don't tell them enough thank you and that I love them.
6. Having in-laws that will bend over backwards to help Jon and I.  We don't tell them enough how much everything they do is appreciated,  how thankful we are to have them in our lives and that we love them.
7.  Having an extended family that is always there for us with whatever we need.
8. Megan and Jake even though they are growing up they don't feel to cool for me.  It will be great to have Jake at NKU next year we may get to spend more time with him.  They also come and help us every time we move.  Even when Jake is giving me a hard time it is great to spend the time with them.  Megan also came up when I had my surgery to hang with me and help it was great to have here there. 
9. Being able to go to Florida in November to be able to share in such a special day for my cousin Sarah and her new husband James as they got married.  It was great to be able to stand up there with her as she got married. 
10. Getting accepted into a great group of friends once we moved up here that Jon already knew thru his sister that we get to meet up with once a month and have a meal with it is so much fun. 
11. We have a wonderful home that we are living in that we are working on making our own and that is so much fun for me.
12. My Grandparents all three of them are wonderful people they are always there to try and help me all that they can.  I am so thankful for all of the wonderful memories that I have with each one of them.
13. Knowing that I am loved by a lot of people without them always having to tell me that they love me even though  it is still nice to hear.
14. I am blessed to have a great do to come home to everyday he might be a little crazy but I love him.
15. I am blessed to have a great sister that would do anything for me and that I can always count on when I really need her.
16. I am blessed to have a great sister-in-law that would also do anything for me and that I can always count on.
17. I have been blessed to find teachers at school that I have become friends with that I can talk with as well as eat lunch with.
18. To be able to help out my family as much as I want and be there for them as much as I want to be.
19. That over all I have good health.  There are things that I could be facing but for now I do not have to face them. 
20. Great College Friends that even though I don't get the chance to spend as much time as I would like with I  know I could always call them and they would always be there for me.  
21. That I have so many people in my life that believe in me that I can reach all of the goals and dreams that I have set for myself.
22. Living close enough to our niece and nephew that we can be involved in their everyday life.
23. I feel that it is a blessing that at 27 I have figured out what I want to do with the rest of my life and how I plan on getting to the point were I can do what I want to do.
24. Having our time at St. Catharine College.  It gave us the time to figure out that we really wanted to be around our family.  It also gave me the time to figure out that I really am supposed to be a teacher,  by taking some classes and shadow teaching and loving every minute and doing really well in all of the classes.
25. Having a Family that has supported Jon and I in our transition from Springfield to Northern Kentucky.
26. Having a Husband that is so loving and supportive that he followed me to Northern Kentucky so that I could become a teacher and follow my dream.
27. Having a job teaching.  I love the kids that I get to see every day when I go to work.  There is something special about each one of them and they are teaching me as much as I am teaching them.

OK OK OK

So tonight I got asked tonight what was up with my blog because I have not been posting on it so much.  I promis I will try and get better about doing this thing,  I just seems some times as if there is just something more that I would love to be doing. So this weekend I am hoping that I can get cought up on alot of things and my blog will be one of them.