Today is my fourteenth Holy Ghost birthday! :) I got the Holy Ghost when I was six years old on June 3, 1998. I'm so thankful for God's many blessings on my life and for keeping me in the church. I love Him so much! <3
Ugghh...tomorrow is the first day of my summer semester. I'm nervous and excited...but not excited that I have to be there at eight...this is SUMMER-not get up early time. :O Both of the classes I'm taking have labs so they take pretty much all day, and they're at two different campuses-both of them pretty far from my house (which is another story :) Thank God campuses are closed on Fridays, if not these teachers would be running my gas bill through the stinkin' roof! I'm pretty sure I won't be able to go to Heritage but I'm doing all I can to make sure I can go to camp. I just might have to skip like two days of school (
oops), but camp is
super important and I'd really, really like to be there for the day sessions!
But the good news is that by the end of the fall semester I will have all of my prerequisites out of the way and I'll be able to start the nursing program in the spring. So technically, I'll have my Associate's after the fall semester if all goes well...yay! :) The nursing program is two years but TCC and NSU have a program where I can get my BSN concurrently while in TCC's program; so that's what I'm planning on doing. I just hope and pray I'm accepted to the nursing program for the spring semester; TCC goes by a point system, I've got a good GPA (only two C's on my transcript, the rest are A's and B's
{excuse me while I toot my own horn. lol}) and I made an 18 on the Nelson-Denny exam but I'm still nervous. I just want to be done with school. Done. Completely. No more homework, essays, quizzes,
finals...ugh.
I ran another 5K! :) I don't think I wrote about my second one, Brittany did so you can read it
here, at her blog! :) Anyway, my third was the Orphan Run 5K in Owasso. It was a pretty good course with not too many hills. Brooke, Shelby, and Johna ran this time. Okay, I always knew Johna is a runner but I didn't know
she's a super fast, speedy runner! She ran this 5K in 23:51!! Holy cow that is fast!! She was third place in her age group; I'm in awe! :D I ran this one faster than my last two at 40:16. Pretty disgusting compared to Johna's
faster-than-the-speed-of-light running but decent for a chunky girl with not much running experience! :D
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| Myself, Shelby, and Brooke (we couldn't find Johna! Probably bc she finished in half the time we did! lol) |
Sooo...we sold our house! We put it up for sale in March and it sold like three weeks later! It's been really bittersweet. One great thing about it is that the buyers bought it for exactly what it was listed for, quite a bit more than we paid for it (I say we, when really I don't think I donated one penny). We had it built it in 2005, right before my thirteenth birthday...we made lots of memories in seven years! When we moved in both of my brothers still lived at home, since then they've both gotten married, one had a baby (well, his wife did), lots of birthdays, Christmases, and more. It's crazy. I hadn't really thought much about moving until like two weeks before we moved and then it
hit me....OH MY GOODNESS...we're
really moving!! But I didn't cry until I got home from work and saw the U-Haul in the driveway.
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So I had a little crying session, wiped up the tears and went inside. And I was fine.
Kind of. :} So I went into the kitchen to eat my healthy Taco Bell that I got on the way home and I accidentally cried some more. Kitty found me and gave me a hug, she informed me that everyone else had taken turns crying so it was okay. :)
P.S. After helping us move they had to take a trip to Alaska to relax. Check out their pics here. So we're staying at my Nanny's (dad's mom's house) until we buy another one. She's got a pretty good sized house and she lives there all by herself so we'll just keep her company for a little while! :) My poor little doggy is finally getting used to it. I felt so bad leaving her! Nanny said she cried all day last Sunday when we were at church (Bella cried, not my Nanny! lol). Last week she followed me around everywhere (even to the bathroom
{I know, TMI!}) but she was scared I was going to leave and I felt so bad for her! But she's better now, she's even hopped up in Nanny's chair a couple of times! :)
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| She's settled quite comfortably as I write this. She has her pink monkey for company. :) |
Annd...Miss Bristol Avery is getting so big!
She's smiling now! And she's so very sweet!! I can't believe how much she's changed already. Here's some awesome pics of her! :)
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| Look at her big smile! :D Ohh I love her!! <3 |
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| At her dedication |
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| She's already stylin'! ;) |
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| The parents and grandparents after the dedication. Notice, the church is EMPTY; yes, we stayed talking and taking pictures and were the LAST ones to leave. :) |
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| Another big smile ;) |
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| Another one from the dedication (sorry these aren't in order!). |
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| In the pool ;) |
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| Today after church I got her to sleep and then I got to be a baby hog :)) |
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| While I was hogging her at the restaurant :) |
Okay, that's all for now! :) For more awesome pics (and better ones) go to my brother's photography blog
here. But be warned, he never updates either.... :D
Thanks for reading (or at least looking at the pictures, kudos to you if you actually read the whole thing!).
Much love, my friends! <3
p.s. Happy hot summer :)
