Top Ten Reasons to Go to the Easter Festival!!!

10. It's Free (hotdogs, sno cones, face painting, games, egg hunts, pics with the Easter Bunny--everything)

9. Anyone and Everyone can come--bring your friends!

8. Stevie G and the rest of the praise team will be mixing it up with some live music!!!

7. Not only are there Easter egg hunts, but they're age appropriate so your sweet 2 year old who is just excited about getting a yellow egg won't be trampled by a ten year old trying to fill his basket, his pockets and his baby brother's basket with as many eggs as he can. :)

6. Pastor John, Audie, Steve, Jenny and I would look quite silly bouncing on the inflatables... I think we should leave that for the kiddos (though the obstacle course inflatable could be a fun staff challenge....hmmm...)

5. Your canned good "entry fee" will be donated to the Food Bank of Corpus Christi and will help feed the hungry in Corpus Christi.

4. If you don't come, I'll have not only a stomachache, but several cavities from eating all the candy out of 4,000 EASTER EGGS!

3. 4,000 Easter eggs are ready to be found.

2. You can get your picture taken with the Easter Bunny!!!

And the number one reason you should come to the Easter Festival: TO HAVE FUN!!!!

School, school, school

It has come to that point in the semester:

• research methodologies were due last week
• second set of exams was this week
• research papers begin being turned in next week
• Bible Studies are to be turned in in about 2-3 weeks along with a paper on my philosophy on counseling
• and then it's final exams.

Whew. The last part of the semester is always so busy...have you ever noticed that? Even if we took away the school part of the semester and just focused on life, it's so busy. If you think about it, in the beginning of the semesters (January and August), we've just been through two busy seasons (Christmas and Summer) and we're relaxed and relieved that the business is over. Then, about Spring Break/Easter time or mid-November, things start picking up---planning summer vacations, summer activities at the church, EASTER FESTIVALS (

), a Wii Bowling Tournament for Kids Camp Fundraising, KIDS CAMP, and so so much more---then in November begins the Thanksgiving/Christmas rush (need I say more?). So...what if the semesters started in like November and went until March. And then the Fall semester could start in late july and run until early november.

PROBLEM. SOLVED. :-)

I think I ate a whole cucumber today.

I also studied from 1045am-4pm with pretty much no breaks, but it paid off (I hope!): I think I did really well on my Life and Letters of Paul Test and my Church and Personal Finances Final Exam.

Now, to study for Hebrew Prophets. Test in the morning...woo.

Spring Break in ATX

I spent Friday and Saturday of Spring Break in the Austin area.

Friday was a WONDERFUL day of shopping with my Aunt Barb:

Lunch at Cheddar's

Round Rock Outlets (got new running shoes!)

JCPenney

IKEA!!!

Friday night, we went to Roadhouse for dinner---Me, Missy, Bryan, Landen, Lleyton, and Bryan's parents. It was YUMMY!:) Then we went home and Landen and I played and played and played until Missy said it was time for us to go to bed. :)

Saturday we played again and then went to Landen's birthday party at Main Event--an awesome place in ATX that has bowling, laser tag, games, glow in the dark golf, pool, rock climbing wall and more. It was great!!

I headed back to San Marcos to meet Audie and her family for some shopping and the Johnson's for dinner.

It was an AWESOME weekend!

Here are some pics:

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Spring Break with the Johnson's

I was so excited to get to spend some time with the Johnson's over Spring Break. I went up to SA on Thursday afternoon, picked up the kids from their daycares, and met Erin at Pizza Hut (thanks for dinner!!). After dinner, we stopped at HEB to get Megan some birthday cupcakes (Happy 5th Birthday, today, Princess Megan!!), and then went home to hang out. She got the beautiful dress in the mail for her birthday and had to try it on, of course. The next morning, I offered to take the kids to school, and got an extra hour or so to play with them.

Here are some pictures from the trip---not sure why, but it wouldn't let me rotate the pics..sorry!

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Thanks so much, Johnson's for letting me stay with you!!! I love you and miss you!!

Maybe I should play the Lotto today

I'm thinking I should play the Lotto today--I might win.

My camera's been broken for awhile & I started messing with it, and now it works.

I woke up early, not feeling well, but had planned on going to BodyPump, so I went ahead and went--and felt GREAT as soon as we started (and still do)!

Went to the building after BP to get the curriculum ready, and it took a lot less time than I expected.

Went to HEB for a couple of things: fabric softener (had $1 off coupon), Razors (had $1.75 coupon), mascara (had $1 off coupon), toothpaste ($1 off coupon), Gas Treatment (was marked down), Sunflower seeds (marked down), and bananas (not marked down, but I wanted two and there were several bunches that just had two). Then, I went to electronics because I've been looking for a converter for a SD card to a USB since neither my PC nor my laptop have SD card slots. Everywhere else I've looked, they've run between $25-$45. At HEB Plus= $9.98! Woot!

On that note, I'm off to do laundry, pack, clean out my car, take my mom lunch, and go to SAN ANTONIO to see the Johnson's!! (Then tomorrow shopping day with my Aunt Barbie!!! And Saturday is Landen's 7th BDAY party!!)!

Spring Break!

Monday was my first day of Spring Break! :) And I spent it at the aquarium with Samantha, Sophie, Susan, Paul, James, and Berea! It was sooo much fun, especially the dolphin show! Here are some pics:

watching the dolphin show

Me and the bestie

After the aquarium, I took Sophie's older sister, Chloe to Chuck E. Cheese to play games and to Petco. It was a fabulous first day of Spring Break!!

The rest of my Spring Break includes another trip to Chuck E. Cheese today (with Hayden), working all day Wednesday, San Antonio to see the Johnson's on Thursday, and then Friday and Saturday a trip to Austin for my sweet cousin Landen's big 7th birthday! Can't wait for it all!!! But...wish Spring Break was longer. :)

Also, here is a pic from life group Sunday night---I spiked Jamesy's hair! I have been wanting to do that for weeks, but kept forgetting to bring something to spike it with! After the picture, James told me: "You wipe off hair now, please?" Too cute!

One of THOSE days

I am having one of those days...one of those days where no matter how hard you try to fix something, nothing will work to fix it. Really, it's not that big of a deal...it's actually quite amusing to me. You see, since I've been up, I have been trying to fix this:

my hair. Yes. My hair. I have tried hairspray, mousse, water, rewashing my hair, everything. You can't really tell too much in the picture, but it's pretty much standing straight up in the majority of places. Oh well. It just feels like standing up today, I guess. So I'll just laugh at my crazy hair day. :)

Giraffe Shoes!!!!!

AHHH! My favorite fake!cousin Amanda is on vacay in Indiana and just texted me this picture:







GIRAFFE SHOES! If you really know me, you know that I "freakin' love giraffes!"

So, I have now bought these shoes!!! WOOO

Not Me Monday

I have begun to read this blog quite often--I love reading MckMama's humor, seeing her pics, and seeing her live out her faith. Anyway, every Monday, she has "Not Me" Mondays, so I thought that I would join this week. Here is MckMama's "Not Me Monday."

I did not have leftover pizza for breakfast both Saturday morning and this morning.

I did not take a 2 hour nap yesterday and then stayed up way too late because I couldn't sleep. I did not watch 4 episodes of Bones while trying to get to sleep either, nope, not me.

I did not actually get all my homework for this week done early...by Saturday night... so that I could not take the aforementioned nap...

I did not paint my toenails blue over the teal that they were just because I couldn't find the nail polish remover. I would never do that. :)

I did not forget to mail a congrats card to my friend and just found it last night. Nope.

I did not burn a blister onto my thumb with my hair straightener. I would never do something like that.

I did not buy Fun Dip and eat in the car, while driving home yesterday. Not me. I also did not spill that Fun Dip all over my pants and my arms. Not me. And of course, I did not lick it off of my arm because I didn't want it to go to waste. Nope, not me.