Exercise and Sport Science

I already love the one and only class that is actually in my degree! I am taking basic biology, which sucks, lets just be honest, and a nutrition class which is pretty interesting. Not to mention his assignments are GREAT because we venture into the real world and put the material we learn in class to work. To top it off his name is Thunder Jalili and looks like Ben Stiller! BUT my Exercise and Sport Science (ESS) class, Explorations of Movement, is the greatest! Or second day of class we played kick ball, third week we got to go to the PEAK Academy and get our blood tested and had to do the whole fit test thing! Also homework was to run so we could learn how to figure out our VO2 max, to see how strong our heart and lungs are! Where else would you ever have homework that required you to run, its GREAT!

There is my update on school so far!

I HEART Audi

I must share this story just in case anyone has the same problem. My seat heater had been "acting up" and I just decided it was easier not to use it at all because it got to the point it would get too hot just in one spot. So driving along one day Shane had the heater on and put my mitten in the hot spot and it all seemed good, until I picked my mitten up off the seat and smoke billowed out of the hole it had just created.... WHAT! Yeah I had a quarter sized hole burnt in my seat now! I was so bummed so I started researching what to do, in my mind I was hoping there would be some way to fix the leather or something. I found a site where other people had had the same problem and there recommendation was to call Audi of America and report a claim. So I did and I just have to say that was the best thing I could have done. I have a brand new drivers seat now... my car is 10 years old and they replaced it for me! I couldn't be more thrilled to not only have a new seat but a heater that works again! So there is my crazy story with a happy ending, I have always loved my car and still to this day if I were to ever get a new car I would still get and AUDI!!

Official Student!

Here we go again... on to Bachelors degree #2 and I am so excited about this one! I think I am almost prepared besides the fact I still have some juggling to do to get my schedule down just right, whew! 1st lesson learned and I have not even started classes is to register early, they were not kidding when they said classes will fill up fast!

Goodies!

I want a puppy oh so badly! This is Dutchess, my Aunt and Uncles pup! So she is just an example of one I would take anyday... she is so cute! We tied a big red bow around her neck at Christmas and she was beyond darling!

Ever since I made my own tutu I love everything tutu! If someone can figure out how to buy this skirt I would take it!

And Beach Cruisers... the are so underrated, you just feel happy riding them and this one is super cute!

And she is pretty! At the same time wearing a tutu like shirt! Love IT!

I just like this dress and I am trying to decide whether to buy it or not?

Christmas Card Preview!

Every year we take a Christmas card photo and at home we have a wall where they all hang, starting before any of us were even born. For the most part, Hank, a family friend has taken almost all of the pictures and the last two years he has decided that he should add pictures of just the three of us in! So here are a couple I thought were cute!

(Bland was throwing snow up to try and make it sparkle, and i guess that was more interesting than the camera for ALL of us)

Christmas Time

Padgett, Tucker and I went for a walk one beautiful day!

We always have a fantastic Christmas Eve party at our house in Jackson, and it has been so long since we have had little kids their. So this year family friends of ours brought their little girl Ashland and she sat for so long next to her Grandma, Tica, while she played the piano! It was the cutest thing!

Shane and I made Gingerbread houses!

And one more cookie bake night at Lara's house to top it all off!!

This little guy was so fluffy and provided me with lots of entertainment while I was home! Although very, very dumb and kept running into the house and finally the day after I left hit a little too hard... poor little thing! But I had a sweet picture of him to remember him by so I thought I would share him with everyone!

Bake Sale

Every year for the past half-decade, I help Christi make cookies for her church's bake sale. We have had a couple of disasters in the past (measuring miscalculations, burning and emergency runs to the store for forgotten items), but this year we had none of the above! We successfully made three very different non-traditional snacks: Biscotti's, Wreaths, and Christmas Hard Candy!

Tada!

So thanks Christi for giving us a good reason to make cookies and not have to eat them all ourselves!!

***Results of the sale - Biscotti's and Wreaths were the first gone!

Smash Ball Fun!

We (Me. Padgett, Bland, Sam and Charlene) played Smash Ball on the beach today for like 3 hours! It was endless fun and we created every different variations to the game... We tried playing with our left hand then we decided that we had to say a state every time you hit the ball or some random category. And didn't stop there we had to jump and hit the ball or hit and then spin or hit and then trade places with someone, or moving in a circle and playing and reversing the circle! Just funny that you can take such a simple game and change it in so many different ways... just shows you there is always something you can add to make it BETTER! All and all the sun started setting and we got some fun photos that I thought I would share because I thought they were AWSOME!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Always a success is the giving of THANKS! I had an amazing day! Running on the beach in the morning, played with a gigantic hula hoop (video's to come... it is hilarious) and laid out by the pool! Could it get any better! Then had family and friends over for dinner, which is always amazing. . . the food and company was GREAT! And ended the night with Scattergories!

And now must go to bed because as tradition has it, Padgett and I must go shopping tomorrow to join in the fun of . . .!

San Diego!

I forget how pretty Balboa Park is!

He was just standing there reading... I thought it was CRAZY!

Of course walked down the La Jolla shores beach! We ran into a wedding that was happening on the beach and the groomsmen's suits matched the sand... ewww!

Went to SeaWorld! Great as always and they had a special Halloween Sea lion and Otter show!


I was in dire need of a vacation and Christi and Lara helped me make it happen!! We all needed to get away and what better place to go than La Jolla! We were going to have a girls weekend and added Robbie so it turned into an adventure! We were just there for 4 days but we packed in a ton of stuff!