Slacker..Slacker...Well Not In School but definitely on this blog!!

Excuse my lateness for writing my back to school blog...I really am going to try to get better, I just never seem to have time! But here is my back to school, yes 3 weeks later blog.  So school has started, it has been super crazy busy, even worse then last semester...literally!  I go from 9am-6pm everyday(except Fridays I get done at 4)!!  But I guess thats what I get for taking two lab classes, that would be chemistry and biology, oh dear goodness me what was I thinking.  Thats ok though, I am getting through it with a lot of time spent at the library!  But now I have to tell you the Most BESTEST parts of my everyday, that would be eating lunch with Christopher, no matter how bad or good my day has been it just makes me a thousand times happier to see him :) Mostly he brings me lunch everyday or every once in a while we will go out.  Since I have such a crazy schedule thats about the only actual time I get to spend with him, and I LOVE every minute of it!!   So now the second best part, we moved into a new apartment, yay! It is absolutely wonderful and I just love the new layout of my room!!  Only downside, you cant shut the bathroom door in my room because of the bed, but its not a problem at all, thats what I have a hanging sheet for ;) Here is the first night in our apartment with everyone :) Third best thing, can you say CROCK POT?!? So as most of you know I got a crock pot, probably the best thing ever, I cook in it almost every night.  I am pretty sure the boys love it, we have had everything from sloppy joe's to roast to lasagna!  And not to mention about 10 people over every night!  I am becoming quite the cook :) {Just practicing for later on in life}    Oh and the boys got nerf guns, it always a war in our house!             The last couple of weekends have been nuts, we have had people over like crazy, almost every night!  I shall put pictures up to explain everything that has been going on! Oh and with my Bestest Friend Courtney who I have been spending a lot of time with :) Both of us went to both a basketball game and gymnastics meet for UA!!  So fantastic!!!  I also have an another "Big Sister" through CRU(my church group), her name is Amanda and she is super awesome!! And the coolest thing ever, as a sisterhood event with Sigma Alpha we got to go to the Zoo overnight!  I got to feed the giraffes, have a scavenger hunt, sleep over the monkey sanctuary, make beads, see how food is made, and go in the ant eaters night house!  What an amazing evening!! 

The next night was Kevin's 20th birthday party...soooo much fun!!!!!!!!!!!

So I am a little scatterbrained because its midnight and I am exhausted! But I promise to start blogging more!   Tomorrow I have a CRU party, super fun!  Oh and I just found out I got an A on my bio test!!  Probably the best news I have gotten all week!!  So yahoo to that one!!  

PS. I want a hedge hog as a pet as well :) Which means I cant live in Arizona :) o darn!

Tata for now!

I shall be writing soon!!

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!

New years Eve..... we went on an extremely fun off-roading adventure!  So it was snowing in Roosevelt-I could not believe it!  We decided that it was most necessary to go off roading in it- at the time it seemed like a grand idea now that I think of it not so much BUT it happened! Well we have a rhino and only one jeep now, sad day, Herbert(my jeep) was sold to my cousin in Cali so we no longer have 2 jeeps...which means that not everyone could fit in the jeep. Yup you guessed it right Lauren, Chris, and I pleasurable got in the rhino meaning NO TOP!  You should have seen us, it was a comedy show, each of us had about 5 layers of pants on which included tights, jeans, 2 pajamas, and sweats and for the top long sleeve, short sleeve, jacket, sweatshirt, heavy coat, and for our heads, beanies, headbands, and 2 hoods!  We looked like 3 oompa lompas but it was freezing out, could you blame us?!? The entire ride was actually fantastic it was not too cold until we were headed back and we hit a blizzard literally!!!!!  I thought my nose was going to fall off, the snow was hitting us so hard on our freezing faces I could only laugh/cry.  It was quite the adventure but life is what you make it and that was definitely a memory that I will never forget!! 

 So for the actual night we were just bums, actually the whole week we were super lazy, I have officially seen all the new toddlers & tiaras and played the dance game enough to want to keep playing!!  We lit off a couple fireworks and laid by the fire all night, Lauren and I made New Years Noodles- basically an experiment dinner that we thought was delicious and Chris said it tasted gross and then it was midnight, of course I got my first 2011 kiss from Christopher Jon Malmanger, the man of my dreams and the only man I want to kiss for the rest of my life and then me and him stayed up and watched I believe it was 3 movies- Yours, Mine, and Ours & Wanted & My Big Fat Greek Wedding!!   I cannot believe it is already 2011~ Happy New Year!!  
Now for the normal new years resolutions I only have a couple because I always come up with more as the year goes by but here are the few..

1. Make someone smile everyday

2. Get back into shape

3. Get better grades then last semester (cross our fingers NO B's)

4. Eat Better

5. Keep on crafting!!

6. Make sure to find time to blog 

7.  Stay on top of everything! 

8, 9, 10 shall be filled in at a later date  

Christmas

This is my AMAZING family!!

The wonderful day of Jesus' birth!!!!  What an exciting day to celebrate with family and friends.  Christmas was a little hectic but well worth it.  Christopher decided he was going to join us this year, yay (I was a little excited, ok alot of excited ;) ) So Christmas eve after he did Christmas with his family he came up to the lake house!!  Oh how I love the lake house, sitting by the warm cozy fire, snuggling on the couch, looking at the christmas decorations, oh how wonderful!  Christmas morning we were all woken up by my obnoxious in a loving way sister, Lauren, even though she is 18 years of age she still believes we need to be up at 7. So her wish is our command rise and shine for everyone- which means Chris, me, Mom, dad, Kera, Brian, Grandma & Grandpa Cake {even though I know they were already up}  Time to open presents....or so you think, my dad has this lovely belief that we need to drag Christmas on FOREVER to make it last all day, sounds great in theory but not if you are excited to see what you got.  As always we started with the stockings....the normal but fun trinkets in stockings to name a few, See's candies, gum, bath & body, toothbrush (I must be stinky), jewelry, gift cards and much more....Santa sure does love us :) Then Santa's presents---Wii games, Yahoo!!  We got this Dance game that me and Lauren are pretty obsessed with its truly super fantatsicly fun!!!!!!  {Chris secretly loves it too even though he wont admit it}  And of course as I said earlier Dad likes to drag Christmas on for ages, so we had breakfast the traditional Jeuvos Rancheros (not sure if that is how it spelled but thats how I am going to spell it), mmmmmm DELICIOUS!!! That is one thing I look forward to every year and only get it once but boy o boy do I love it!  For those of you who have never tried it, you NEED to! Then everybody had to go get ready for the day to you know drag the process on longer.  Then it was time to open presents and for those of you who dont know how presents work in my family we get 3- a want, a need, and a surprise!!  The three things I got which I am so stoked about let me tell you a crock pot {a super fancy one}, a TV {so now I can actually have a desk in Tucson}, and this was so a Dad's present but a huge tool kit full of tools that I do not even know how to use but I have them and thats all that's important, right?!? Actually it was a great present because I do need tools for my apartment so I can hang pictures up and do other things without hopefully hurting myself.  Soooo this was super exciting but I wanted to save it for my Christmas post since it was a Christmas present from Christopher I my present was for us to go on a dinner cruise!  Probably the sweetest thing ever, I had no idea what we were doing until we pulled up to it.  It was at Canyon Lake on a ferry boat, we had dinner {steak, chicken, bake potato, salad, and dessert) Delicious!  and it was 2.5 hours around the lake with wonderful music, words cannot express my love for this boy but it was probably the best present ever (possible even better then my ring because I got to spend a whole romantic night just with him) Anywhoo back to Christmas, after my family's shenanigans Chris and I headed down to Gilbert to spend Christmas night with his family, it was so great to spend time with both family's on Christmas!  I also did get some wonderful Christmas presents from everyone, though I do not have time to go into each one, I love each present dearly that I got from everyone and appreciate them so much so thank you!  And that was Christmas....  

Lauren and I playing our new dance game in our wonderful feetie pjs!

Precious :)

Love her!!!

Thanksgiving!!

Well since I have been so busy I have not been able to do my thanksgiving post!  I also could not do it because of the pictures we took, I was not allowed to post them yet, so I waited!! For thanksgiving I went up to Grandpa Taylor's and Grandma Noni's cabin, it was so great to see everyone and be up in Pine.  I have not been up there in ages.  We lounged around all day, played outside, and just spent time with family.  Nothing tremendous happened, we just took A LOT of pictures!!!!!!!! And the rest of the weekend I spend with my family and Chris studying for my Chemistry exam.  Here are all the wonderful pictures :)  

Semester End! Yahooooooo!!!!!!

 I have had lots of exciting things that happened this week!!!  I have been super crafty.I think it has been helping my stress a lot because I have been way less stressed!!  I have made a baby boy wreath out of one-sies and bibs.  Then I made a picture holder for sigma alpha's Christmas party.  Then I made a bow for part of Nileah's Christmas present. And I decorated my room with garland, snowflakes, and ribbon!Last week was crazy, but I had a lot go on.  I did my presentation for chemistry, we got a 98%, woo, woo!!  It was my last week of coaching Tanque Verde, they went to state and got 8th out of 24, AMAZING!!  I am so proud of them!  They did so awesome!  They even want to start for next year, I love them, so glad I had this opportunity!  Also I am going this Tuesday and Thursday to teach Floriculture to her classes all day, soEXCITED!!!!UA played ASU, well we lost-ridiculous, I did not go to the game because of my tests.  Then I had a Math and Chemistry test!  I got an 85 on my math test, super proud of that!  And I have not found out my grade for Chemistry.  Friday night after my chemistry test I drove home to Gilbert for COLT the next morning, as always I LOVE going  home. 

Colt was great, Heather and I did a workshop on chapter news and agriculture issues, it was pretty awesome!  Then I went to Brittany's baby shower, it was so great to see her, she is due in 5 weeks!!  Then I drove back to Tucson for my Christmas party with Sigma Alpha.  That was super fun, we played this crazy game where you unwrap a present with pot holders on(very difficult) and then we had a gift exchange, I ended up with a super cute frame that Courtney made.  Saturday night I went over to Brody's and played poker with Cheyenne, Brody, Megan, and Kevin, I WON!!  Can you believe it, I actually WON!  This week is crazy but relaxed, I am studying and getting ready for finals!  Last day of classes Wednesday, then its finals!  I am so STOKED the semester is almost over!  Hip Hip Hooray!! Well since I never got this posted before I will just finish.  The next week I went to a Christmas party for CRU,  a Christian college group on campus, me and Courtney dressed up as Candy canes!  Hilarious!!  I also went to the Christian Challenge Christmas Party, which was great to see everyone!  The end of the semester was great, I ended up getting 4 A's and 2 B's (Calculus and Chemistry) which is not horrible, wish I could have done better but not the end of the world.  Also blogspot is being weird.uggg.......my pictures keep getting placed in silly places,so they are just going to be every where until I figure it out!    

 Then I had a baking party with Kelly and Courtney!!  It was crazy how many baked goods we made they included chocolate covered preztels, sunflower butter cups, snowballs, and oatmeal scotchies. We had so much fun!! And now I am home for Christmas!! yay! yay! Yay!! 

A $.54 apple is all it takes

So I know I still have to write about Thanksgiving but this was pretty cool so I thought I would share.  Tonight after Sigma Alpha I was craving some soup(well my body needed the heat since it was like 45 degrees out) so I thought to myself  "hmmm I shall go to Safeway" and on my way I also think "hmm an apple sure does sound delicious."  I arrived at Safeway ready to pick up my delicious soup and guess what?!? NO SOUP!!  They were all out, guess everybody had the same thought as me :) Then I contemplated, well I have an apple in my hand already, should I buy it, I am going to sure look silly standing in a long line to purchase one single apple.  Well something made me buy that darn $.54 apple.  And I discovered why.  I walked outside, apple in hand, next I know a homeless man comes up to me and asks me for some money, I don't carry cash normally, so I said "Sir, I am sorry I do not have any cash, but I do have this delicious apple if you would like it" and he replied "Thank you ma'am", a smile lit his face up as I handed over that $.54 apple.  After I thought, I wonder how long it has been since that man has had a fresh piece of fruit, it sure seemed to make his day and I know that God had me buy that apple for that purpose.  I took an extra 30 minutes out of my night to buy an apple that I didn't even get to enjoy.....but you know what I am sure glad I did because I know that man enjoyed that apple and appreciated it way more than I would have. Life's little blessings.

Another Goal in Life!!!!!!

I want a teacup pig!!!!!!!!!!!  The End.