Busy, Busy, Busy!

We have been very busy lately. Last weekend, I drove to New Albany, IN Friday night for a friend's shower. Drove back Saturday and cleaned the new apartment while Caleb was in a bachelor party in Indy. Moved Sunday & Monday. Worked Tuesday. Drove to Illinois to meet baby Rease Tuesday night & Wednesday. Worked Thursday & Friday. Caleb graduated Saturday...Today we don't have much to do. We are the library right now because we don't have our Cable and/or Internet hooked up. We are going to survive the summer without it to save some money. The library is right next door so we can come here to use the internet when we need to.

Anyway~ I have tons of pictures of the last week, but am not even going to try to upload any from here at the library. BUT here is one picture of me & Baby Rease. It's not a great one of her, but it's all I could get to easily here. She's beautiful. I cried practically all day Thursday at work while showing my friends her pictures. Oh well~only 9 more days of school then SUMMER VACATION! I'll be heading to Illinois a lot I'm sure :)

Admiring my new niece, Rease!

P.S. Abrah got this new straightener for Mother's Day & we tried it out on my hair. It worked! So...I went and bought my own :)

Get ready to Read!

It's been awhile since I've posted, so I'll update you on some things we've been doing lately. We are preparing to move so I've been busy packing up our apartment. How we accumulated so much stuff over the last 10 months is amazing to me. We are hoping to move this coming weekend, but I have yet to hear from our new apartment complex on whether or not the apartment will be ready then or not. Our current apartment is currently a mess as you can see from the pictures...

I have quite a bit of the packing done. That means I can't cook this week b/c I have no dishes :( Darn...we will have to hit up all of our favorite Tippecanoe County restaurants before leaving town.

In other news...Caleb will be finishing up his last semester this week! He has two finals: one Friday & one Saturday and then he is officially finished! He is more than ready to be out of college. He is, as I type, packing up all of his supplies in studio to put into storage.

Last weekend we celebrated our last Grand Prix. Caleb couldn't attend breakfast club because he was working on installing a green roof on one of Purdue's buildings, but our friends Brandon & Kathryn over for the weekend. Here is Kat & I in our costumes:

Other than that, Josh, Abrah, & Riley came to visit last Friday night. We went to dinner & the mall. I forgot to bring my camera but here is a picture of Riley and I at Easter.

Finally, yesterday Megan (my bro's gf) had her senior prom on Purdue's campus so they called when they got to town and we met them at the Union to see them. They looked awesome! Actually, I saw another girl with Meg's dress on right before I saw them (don't worry she was from Attica not Carroll...they were also having there prom at the Union). I was worried for Megan for a minute that another girl would have her dress at her own prom! Here is a picture of them..I'm semi in love with Megan's dress...I wish Caleb and I would have worn something like this to our prom :) I could have NEVER convinced Caleb of wearing those shoes to prom though. So way to go, Woody!

Okay, that's one LONG post! Don't expect another for awhile! Probably not til a) we are all moved and settled and I have pictures of the new place b) Caleb graduates or c) MY SISTER CHELSEA DECIDES TO HAVE HER BABY! Whichever comes first :)

HEY BETHANY!

Okay all you Twilight fans out there...

Did any of you know about this?

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Update: Book Reviews

So in my earlier post Book Reviews, I said that I was working on reading Multiple Blessings. I finished the book a few days ago and thought I would give my critique.

Multiple Blessings Review: C+

It was a quick read. Exactly what I expected from it. Takes you through their story up until about the time they get the TV show Jon & Kate +8. Worth reading but don't expect too much from it.

Book Reviews

This week is my Spring Break off of school. Doesn't feel much like spring though. Last week I rented the movie Twilight. I enjoyed it so much that I decided to read the books. There are four of them in the series. The movie is about the first one. I started the first one last Tuesday and finished the last of the series yesterday. I figured it up: that's 2442 pages in one week! Too bad I actually had to work 4 of those "reading days;" I would have finished them up much quicker! I teased last night that I probably had enough time to read them another time through before going back to work Monday. (Caleb did not like that idea). I chose instead to watch the movie again and start my next book. I am now reading Multiple Blessings by Jon & Kate Gosselin. I'll give you my review of that next post!

Twilight Series Review: A+

Multiple Blessings Review: Check Back Soon

I also recently started Tony Dungy's second book Uncommon. It was a gift from my mother-in-law for my birthday. I loved Tony's first book, but was not highly impressed with this one. I read the first part of it and decided I needed to pick it up again at a later time. I loaned it to another teacher over break so maybe when she returns it I'll begin it again.

A Deer, A Race, & A Birthday

This title pretty much sums up our weekend.

Friday Night I had the Kokomo Reading Council's Young Author's Conference. This is an event that encourages kids in Howard County School's to write their own books. My class participated and had their books displayed Friday night at IUK. It was good night and a lot of families came out to see the books. On the way home, I hit a deer. Props to Sally Sunfire for holding strong. Other than some deer hair stuck in my hood and my headlight being a little janked up, she's perfectly fine! I tried to get a picture of the hair, but my camera batteries are dead. Maybe later.

Saturday we went to Logansport for Jeremy & Mandy Hall's 5K Race to honor their son's, Connor, first birthday. We had a good time and were amazed at all the people that came to support the Hall family. Here we are before the race:

We joined the Johnson family during the race. Josh & Caleb ran together and finished pretty well. Abrah and I were planning on walking with Riley, but he of course had other plans. He felt that he needed to "race" too so he ran some of the race. He did great for his age group; he did, however, set Abrah and I back a little! Oh well! It was a good time. Here is the Johnson family before the race:

Finally, today is Chelsea's birthday. Happy Birthday, Chels! We want to visit sometime soon, but are thinking it will just be when Baby Corwin arrives! Hope you are having a great day! Get some rest! Love ya! Here are 4 of the 5 sister's at Chelsea's recent baby shower and Uncle Cal with his new niece. I want to clarify that Chelsea's face was not allowed to be in the picture of Caleb & his niece. Cal insisted that it be only he and the baby. Sometimes I wonder if we should allow him to be around these children :)

Happy Birthday, Peri!

My baby cousin Peri is a TEENAGER today! I can't believe it! Happy Birthday to you, Peri! We love you and hope you have an awesome day celebrating! Xoxo...