Stay Tuned...

Oh, how school has overtaken my life... I can't have a nice dinner with my husband on a Tuesday night. I can't sit down at my computer without having to do research. I can't even call Mallory without having to complain for a while just because she knows how I feel. I can't read a book that doesn't concern the Civil War or the French Revolution. I'm sorry blog readers...I can think of nothing but school and therefore it has all but consumed my blog. However, please stay tuned for the soon-to-be blog of a student-teacher...Coming in late December! :) (Guarenteed to be at least a little more exciting!)

So, what's new with me, you ask.... Yup... You guessed it... S...C...H...O...O...L...
-I'm currently working on the research for my big paper and I can't find enough sources...
-Impatiently waiting for my praxis score...
-Attempting to juggle midterms, weekly, quizzes, and weekly book reviews, with the new all- consuming paper...

---Is this semester over yet??

Aside from school, I get to go home tomorrow. (Thursdays are my new favorite day of the week.) Friday is Blocton's homecoming and I'm going to go spend the day with Tiffany. Saturday we are supposed to run at the Frog Level 5K but Josh and I want to talk Tiffany out of it because we would have to leave our house at 6a.m. (Not cool!) Saturday night we are going to Jeff and Donna's house in Gardendale to hang out with the family. We LOVE going over there and I hope the weather still feels this amazing! Sunday we have regular church and down time. (Sundays are also my favorite day of the week, except that they are followed by Monday which happens to be my least favorite day!) The days of this semester are passing slowly but surely... I'm looking forward to it being over and hopefully our trip to the mountains! December will be a great month because school will end, the mountains, the beauty pageant, and Christmas! ( I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!)

That's all for me today...

( I would like to dedicate this blog to my research paper...Thanks to myself for choosing the hardest topic ever to find sources for and so instead of writing my paper, I am blogging at the school library -which I'm pretty sure is illegal- because I can't find any more sources and it's stressing me out!)

Little Miss Winter Sweetheart Pageant

There's not too much new stuff in my life right now! Just the same ol' boring school stuff...I am really trying to stay on top of things (I want to make all A's!) but it is starting to get overwhelming! I have seven classes and they are all history...(Including one Methods class that is teaching history)...It just makes me SO excited about teaching next year! Yesterday we talked about ordering cap and gowns!! AAH!! Tiffany was talking about how some people don't walk and they give you the options...I was like...YES! OF COURSE I'm gonna walk! I plan to dance across the stage! haha.....To those of you who are recent or soon-to-be graduates- You know exactly what I mean!

I am still waiting on my Praxis results...I'm freaking out a little bit...but I know it's going to be ok! I felt pretty good about it this last time so I'm just praying that I passed!

As most of you know I have done pageants all my life...the last one I did was Miss Bevill State in 2007 when I was still in school there...I have thought about doing some since then but I won that one and it was a pretty big deal for me so I figured I would just go out a winner...haha Anyway, my mom is now full-fleged involved in the "Little Miss" pageant circuit with Olivia (who just turned 5 last Sunday!) She has been on a winning streak and has been accumulating an entire room worth of trophies and crowns...which just fuels the fire for her and my mom...haha Well, anyway, I was thinking about how much money those women make off of those pageants because they cost a fortune to enter and a lightbulb went off in my head! :) So, I talked to my mom and my sister and we are going to have a pageant of our own...My mom has done one before and it was kind of small scale and she made $2000...(IN ONE DAY!!) So, we have started the process...My mom isn't working right now so she is SUPER into this! We have business cards and decals for our cars...( I know...she's a little bit crazy!) But, anyway, we are going to have our first pageant in December...It's called Little Miss Winter Sweetheart and its for ages 0-18 years old. There are tons of prizes and AMAZING crowns and trophies and banners...My mom has really went all out for it. We're having it at the CHS building in Jasper in the big Exhibition Hall where my prom was. We're going to decorate it for Christmas and there's even a Christmas wear contenst. I think it will be lots of fun and were going to make good money off it for Christmas! I'm pretty excited about it! So, if you know any little girls that might be interested let me know...

New blessings and updates

I took the Praxis this morning...again... Tina brought me a prayer cloth from her church and I kept it in my pocket during the test. I prayed all the way there. It's so stressful because if I didn't pass it this time then I only have one more chance to pass it in order to intern next Spring. I went to West Blocton with Tiffany yesterday. It was such a fun day. I went over and visited all of my friends at the middle school. I didn't get to see any of my kids but all of the faculty and staff were so excited to see me. It made me feel so loved and missed. Mr. McGee has asked me to come and do their beauty pageant this year because I did it last year and he loved it. So, I said that I would and that maybe I will be there for my intership. He said that if they call him he would love to have me and Mrs. Wilson said she would love to have me in her room. That means that if I got her class i would be interning with my group from last year. I love those kids so much. I am really praying for that blessing! Josh and I are enjoying this weekend together. We are catching up on the new season of Heroes. Tomorrow morning is the first Sunday of our new Young Married Couples Sunday School class. We had a meeting about it and met all of the couples a few weeks ago but it all starts tomorrow. I can't wait. I know that God has some big plans for Josh and I there. I got a call about local missions and also an e-mail about doing skits for Worship Kidstyle. I am looking forward to becoming more involved. We have joined the choir and are working on Christmas Musical right now. It's so exciting finding our place here. I know this is where God wants us to be. We are as happy as ever. It's hard being away from home so much but God has blessed us so much that i have nothing in the world to complain about...

Skydiving and such...

We have been so busy lately that I have had no time to blog. I'm almost all packed up and ready to go to bed. Tomorrow is the first day back to school and I will be staying at my mom's house this week. Thankfully, we had a three day weekend and I only have to spend two nights away from my husband this week. Those nights away are really hard and they just get harder each week. This will be week three of this aweful semester and I am thoroughly looking forward to the end of it. I am taking the Praxis this Saturday so PLEASE say a little prayer for me. I have been studying but you never know what will be on it. It's super stressful. I would just love to pass it this time and be done with it!

On Friday (my 24th birthday), my mom, sister, brother-in-law, and I all went skydiving. It was my first time. IT WAS AMAZING!! We are going back in a few months for Josh's birthday and I can't wait! I was nervous because I had never even been on a plane before but I absolutely LOVED it! If you have never done it, I would totally reccommend it!