Just something cute and fun

Just something cute and fun.

We made these at Fabulous Friday for the Relief Society.


They are really easy.

All you need:
1 wreath
1 roll of yarn
2 squares of felt
Hot glue gun

First you hot glue the start of the yarn to the wreath, and start winding the yarn around the wreath.... over and over and over and OVER, until all of the wreath is covered.
Hot glue the end of the yarn to the back of the wreath.
Make the felt flowers by cutting out circles and then cutting a spiral out of that circle and rolling it up. You hot glue them together and then to the wreath.
I decided to cut out some leaves to add some spunk.
And that is it.

Easy and fun to do while watching a movie... possibly Pride and Prejudice

Mini Marathon

I completed (what seemed to be) the impossible.

I have been getting ready for the marathon since I decided in November that I was going to run it.

Everything was going great and I ahead of training, until... school got hard, things got in the way, I kept getting sick (please recall scarlet fever, strep, colds, ect), and had problems with my knee and my gut. I wasn't as ready as I would have liked, but I made my goal of finishing under 3 hrs, (by a good amount too) and HECK I finished.

I questioned within the first mile what exactly I had gotten myself into. There were CRAZY people with no shoes, or no shirt, or that pee behind buildings.

I realized just how long the race was went I hit mile 7. My joints and muscles started to ache and I was starting on a couple nice hot spots on my foot.

BUT I made it. I jogged the whole way (except for a potty break- that took forever... I even questioned peeing behind a building... )

I'm so glad that I completed this hard, but so satisfying goal.
LIVE IS GOOD RIGHT NOW. I have a lot going for me and I'm loving it!

The 15000 runners

Getting ready to run

The last stretch! (check out those leg muscles... I didn't even know they existed!!)

Done for now

DONE WITH THIS SEMESTER!
PASSED MY FINALS.
ONLY ONE MORE SEMESTER!

it still hasn't sunk in... I didn't ever get that nervous/stressed out feeling before finals.... I was too busy and stressed already. That said.

I HATE PEDS and MOTHER - BABY.
Had to just state that...
HATE HATE HATE.

There should be a slu of posts here in the upcoming days.... I have NOTHING to do, (other than cleaning the house and such...)

Stay posted in the next couple days.

Caribbean Cruise - Day Two

OK So for day two.

Sorry so slow on getting these days done, things have been quite busy lately.

We awoke that morning to look out the window at The BVI or British Virgin Islands. We didn't really plan anything to do that day and decided to see where the day lead us. BUT since it was Sunday we both agreed that we would not be swimming on the beach.

(you asked for more pictures you got it.... )Jared with me in the reflection of his sunglasses and the ship in the background

On the island together
Me with the shipand the island

We walked on the island and were immediately bombarded with sales people. One of which was a scooter place. We agreed to do the scooter. (don't worry dad we had helmets) Jared drove. I did not. I was the designated 'left side of the road' reminder, since Tortola BVI is British (duh) they drive on the opposite side.

Just some stylin' people

The man in the shop gave us a really vague map and pointed in the direction we should go and we were off.
IT WAS SCARY AND WEIRD being on the wrong side of the road. Not a fan of left hand turns when on the left hand side. WEIRD. We had fun, got just a little lost and saw some of the BEST beaches out of the whole trip. Which kinda stinks because we weren't swimming. We did however walk along the beach and enjoyed the warmth and sun.

The jungle on one side

Beach on the other

Us on the beach

The scooter was not very powerful and going up the volcano/mountain in the center of the island was quite the feat.

On our way down from the 'almost top' we did not think our scooter would make it to the very top peak, but our ship looks so small

The day was fun and the night ended with a semi-formal night at dinner. The food was ALWAYS DELICIOUS.

We also found THIS when we came back :)

I loved Tortola, it was very beautiful, not too crowded and so sunny and nice.

Jared's thoughts on our Relationship (and food)

"You know we match very well. I'll eat anything and you can't taste."

Caribbean Cruise - Day One

So I have been lacking on blogging. But I have been just so busy. So to make the blogging of our cruise easier I'm gonna break it up into days.

So day one.
We started this lovely day with a trip to the airport. Where else?? Our flights were smooth and we ended in Puerto Rico. It was a little trippy to me to look out the window and see blue EVERYWHERE. I couldn't figure out where the ocean stopped and the sky began (except for when some clouds blew in)

We caught a cab from the airport and were within minutes at our ship! It was so exciting to see it. IT was HUGE. (we found out later that it is only the middle size ship, there are 2 classes bigger...wow)

We went to our room, and I was very happy that we upgraded to a room with a window. The views were awesome throughout the trip.

Our small but comfy room.

We didn't have long to roam around the ship before dinner. We met 2 different couples at our table. They were so very nice- fun to make new friends.

The dinner was so fun. You can order as much as you want. Jared always ordered 2+ appetizers, 1-3 entres and 2+ desserts. AND the waiter that we had was awesome! He always expected jared to order many things and would lay out the silverware before we got to dinner and was always looking out for my 'red food color' allergy.

After dinner we just walked around the ship looking at all the fun stuff to do. Eat (of course) golf, rock climb, swim etc.

A view of Puerto Rico

We then just hit the sac excited to start our adventure.

A Loud Night

As most whom read this blog do not know (because you don't live in the east) we had some rather large strong storms this last week.
And me being the nerd that I am knew they were coming for about a week before. (love you weather.com!!)

there were the normal warnings... severe thunderstorm, flood warning. Normal. Well, it was a not so normal early morning (about 4:30a) when I received a text message from the school. (they have an emergency text message system to inform students of snow days, robberies near campus, etc). The message said, "A Tornado Warning has been issured for Jefferson County. Please seek shelter in a safe location."

I knew that it was windy and raining that night so I just knew I would be tossing and turning, but when this text came I really paid attention... the wind was really loud this time... but Jefferson County doesn't mean anything is necessarily near by, so I cuddled up to Jared and was scared.

The storm finally passed and we didn't sleep anymore because by the time it was quiet enough to sleep Jared's alarm went off. (boo)

Later that day I heard that there were 3 tornados that touched the ground. An EF-1, EF-2, and and EF-3. (the bigger the number the stronger) I looked at the locations... and what do you know....


This baby tornado (EF-1) crossed the river from Indiana to Kentucky... prospect, KY. And the last time I checked we live in prospect, Ky, but in a location that is not 'central'. (luckily)

Let me show you....

The path of the tornado and our home.

I was told that the tornado lifted only a mile from our house. (I think it was just a little further... and it was 100 yards wide - YIKES!)
We didn't have any damage - and the worse thing that happened was the loss of some sleep and a tipped dog house.
However many branches were broken in other places and a barn a mile away from us was destroyed. (a mile the opposite direction of the tornado) I'm pretty sure there were no injuries from any of the tornadoes. But it scared the crud out of me, I would have hid in my safe place if I would have known how close it was.
AND to make things even better... the tornado sirens were not set off. WOOPS! Someone is in trouble for that minor mistake, I'm sure.

What an early start to tornado season. Lets hope this is not a predictor for the future.