yep, its broken

Well, thanks to all of you who have been praying for Justin. Please continue to pray that his foot heals quickly. he is heartbroken that he cant play basketball tomorrow night, but he should be better by volleyball time, so thats good! anyway, his ankle is indeed broken and he is wearing an air cast right now and has to go back later this week to get it looked at again. hopefully it all goes well. And by the way...that aircast is the second worst smell I have ever smelt in my life! I honestly almost ralfed when he took it off.

The week went pretty well. I love my nanny job and Alex is the sweetest little baby boy. I love the family i work for, they are adorable and sweet and fun so thats always good. I basically just get there while he is napping, when he wakes up I feed him, play with him, change him, and then put him back to sleep. Its quite fun you could say. I get paid pretty well for what I do. Which I suppose is because you cant have any other job so this is your income, so they pay well. Also tomorrow Justin and I have to finalize some stuff with the house situation. i am also excited about that!

this weekend we spent time finishing the rest of the first season of LOST, which Im obsessed with. I didnt see all the episodes in the first season so this is helping put some pieces together of things that have happened in the second season. its just so good people. Friday night we got to go out with our friend adam, whom I love, and his fun girlfriend Becca. We went to Fridays and stuffed ourselves with their 3 course meal thing they got going on. It was quite yummy. Saturday me and Jenny went and did Yoga, which by they way did actually kick my butt. I had no clue i would be so sore. anyway, the rest of the afternoon me and jenny chilled in my bedroom while justin and kyle played tiger woods for a while. That night we went to Brian and Haleys and acted a little nuts and played some mad gab, thats always a good laugh. We also went to Brian and haleys again tonight for the Sunday Night Supper Club. We had tacos and then once again acted like fools and laughed til we cried. Its really a good time with all those kids.

Anyway, we have a very very early morning tomorrow so I will leave you with all of this nonsense. Have a good week everyone! and please do continue that justin pain is not so unbearable and that he heals soon. I love him and to be frank, im sick of taking care of that winey boy! ok ok, just kidding, i dont mind, I just know that he would love to be able to do some stuff for himself. love you all =)

golf ball in the foot

so here's the deal. Last night Justin sprained or twisted or broke something in his ankle and can hardly walk. He cant go to work today, and is in a lot of pain. It is however my first day of work and so therefore i cannot take care of him or do anything for him and I feel just awful. If you guys could pray for him that its nothing serious, since we cant go to the doctor, and that his pain subsides, that would be great. thanks so much! have a good thursday!

i love weekends

This past weekend was jam packed with fun, friends, and lots of foooood! Friday morning, I headed over to my friend Shannon's house to watch her little boy Chase, he is adorable. She had a last minutes meeting she found out about and so I was glad to help that girl out becasue i really do love that kid. we had sooo much fun just being silly and watching cartoons and eating go gurt! Friday night, we had a girls night, but it wasnt just any ordinary girls night. It was Blues themed. We ate blue things or things that take away the blues, we brought blue presents, wore blue clothes, and had to write songs about the blues. I seriously had so much fun just laughing and being silly with some great women, they really are just so fun! I also got the coolest gift! I got a TLC book which is perfect because I moving into a new house! I brought a homemade gift. it was a cd with all the songs I love to listen to when i have the blues or just need a pick me up. oh, and some footfizzle stuff for a pedicure, because lets face it, a pedicure takes all my cares away. also that night we split up into groups and had to write a song about the blues, it was hilarious seeing what all people came up with and the songs they wrote. I just love nights like those!

Saturday I had to work and I dont wake up early on week days so waking up early on a Saturday is even more difficult for me. Well, Saturday started out badly and only seemed to get worse. I got pulled over on the way to work by a cop that was really bored and had nothing else better to do. He said I apparently had an expired tag, which ended up not being expired which resulted in him wasting 15 minutes of my time and making me late for work. I got to work and taught crazy classes for about 3 hours with a migraine and then headed home. It was a rainy nasty day so i just was in a mood, and it wasnt a good one. I am so bipolar when the weather is like this. Anyway, I came home and took a very good nap and then woke up and got ready to go to eat with the gang. We picked up the Dinclers and went to Cheeseburger in Paradise to meet the Reagans and the Frosts and we had a good time just being retarded and making Chuck Norris jokes and drinking Margaritas. We left there and headed to the Brian and Haleys and played with their kittens that are SO CUTE for like two hours. It really actually was a good time. I always have a good time with all of them.

Sunday we woke up late again for church and got there and enjoyed at least some of the service. Afterwards, justin and I came home and cooked lunch and watched some disks of the first season of LOST. I LOVE IT! That afternoon Jenny and I decided to go to the gym up the street and attempt to work something out with them to get a membership cuz we want to be hot and skinny! Also while there i watched the end of what was an upsetting loss by the Colts, oh well. That night we went back to Brian and Haleys for our Sunday night gathering. Sometimes we do God stuff, last night we mostly just chilled. it was pizza and beer night. We had a small bible chat, it was pretty good, then we had some good prayer time, and shared some cool stuff. Afterwards, we all played Catch Phrase, once again, the girls lost.

This is pretty much all caught up so i hope you enjoyed the lengthy random chain of events. I promise i will write deeper later. Love you all! time to watch more LOST!

we are homeowners!

This past week has been very hectic because Justin and I finally found a house we wanted to buy and its been nuts trying to get everything done to purchase it. From the financing, to the paperwork its a little stressful getting it all completed so we can move in. I am really excited about it tho and cannot wait to get in! its quite the change from what we have been living in. Moving into our apartment I had toooo much stuff and now moving into this house, I got rid of a lot of stuff to fit into the apartment and could now use that stuff to fill this house. So the house could be a little empty, which is cool, we dont need anything else so its totally fine, itll just take time to finish it all nicely, but we're young so it will come in time. I am super excited though! Thats a picture of it at the top!!!

Well, last week justin was ridiculously stressed out with school and he finally finished, yay!!! i did really feel bad for him, he had class from 8-6 and then had to come home each night and read about 200 pages and go to sleep and wake up the next day and do it all again. I just love that boy and seeing him so pooped out made me sad. I was glad when the weekend came and we were able to relax and hang out with our friends and just have fun. The weekend was spent having lots of fun, but sad football days. Justin was a little heartbroken when his Jaguars lost, and the entire city of Cincinnati was devastated when their long time wait for the playoffs arrived and then their QB went out, and so did their chance at the Super Bowl. Anyway the weekend was still fun for me and this week I only worked two days and now i get to just hang out until next week. I met little Alex that I will be taking care of and so Im really excited about getting to work next week and getting to love on him everyday!

I have many errands that need to be taken care of but I have to update you with the nutty world around us!

last week I was watching the news and there was a report about a woman who had been in her home dead, and it was said that she had been there for about 6 months probably. Anyway, they questioned the people who were living in the home and they said they had nothing to say. Earlier this week it came out that the woman had been there for TWO AND HALF YEARS!!!! and that her caregiver left her there on purpose with the air running because the dead woman told her caregiver that "she would be back." and just to leave her there. WHAT IN THE WORLD!

People need the Lord.

auld lang syne

well its a new year and so I find that it is time for me to look back over the past 365 days and see all that has taken place. A year ago i had just moved home to be with my family before making the big step of getting married and moving away. I was starting an internship for social work and just trying to save money, of which I did not do. I was planning a wedding and looking for bridesmaids dresses and cakes, of which I did do. I was trying to spend as much time with my friends and family back home before I moved 10 hours away and could no longer go to their house at 11 at night and just chill or wait for a hurricane or meet them at Chikfila and run to target. i did all of these things as well, which made me even more sad when it was time to leave. I got married and moved to ohio, learned how to drive in the snow, got a job as a nanny which is something i never imagined doing, my sweet sister lost her little baby boy, we started looking into buying a house, and I had two of my best friends get married and two more get engaged. its just nuts what can happen in a year.

last friday as we were making the long drive home, i was also thinking about what has changed IN me over the last year. i never thought i would have the emotional roller coaster i had. not to wine and complain and say it was awful because i know a lot of people went through way worse and i really have it pretty good, but i was blindsided. I moved up to Ohio thinking it was going to be soooo fun to just be with only Justin and make this change together and I hated it. i loved being with him all the time, but I hated that i could no longer make the drive over to Merry Beth's, or meet Emily for lunch. it was the most lonely i ever felt and the most i ever struggled spiritually. the Lord blessed justin and I with great friends and a great fellowship at our church here. now looking back i see all the hand holding and hugging that the Lord gave to me when i felt lonely or out of my element. that though everything around me changed the preciousness of God's love continued to remain the same and always gave me peace when i was broken hearted.

I now can look back and see how the Lord strengthened justin and i and how he blessed us with the friends and fun we are able to have here. i was just so comortable back home and so it was so hard to leave. im sure when we get ready to leave here i will be sad and it will be hard because we will have just got settled here. I was thinking that maybe I shouldnt get too settled anywhere. I think thats how life itself is and sometimes I mess up. Sometimes I get so comfortable on this place called earth and it satisfies me, however, i know that i should look forward to the journey home, to where we were really created to be. that was just a random thought i had ;) hope you enjoyed it

anyway, im going to get back to getting stuff done around here. love you all, and miss you much