Halloween Dance in Columbus

Just thought I would post a few of my favorite pictures from the dance. Aaron...you are amazing! At least me and Katie think so.

This was our group. We were contestants on the price is right. We stuck to old school Bob Barker days. Our friend Bob was such a champ to play the roll of Bob Barker. He was eating it up. "Control the pet population. Don't forget to get your pets...." (don't need to make anyone queasy)

Now I think Will must've disregarded the memo about not cross dressing....but COME ON! this was super super funny! and He won one of the prizes! It was hilarious.

And Wendy...takes a great picture. I just love the lights and her gorgeous smile! Which reminds me, I need to go get her lip gloss from my car.

The photo op. We won best group costume!

Thanks to Sarah Wendy Bob Holly and Katie for making this possible!

We had fun making these shirts the night before. That's about as crafty as I get for now.

Good Finds in recent times in my life...

A few things that would describe my last week or two in the way of good finds. I have now finished twilight and I'm well on my way through the second book :) LOVING IT!

Got to visit the twins...and their mom. Was a good afternoon. Thanks Sarah for letting me interrupt your normal everyday life to visit for a bit. I had a great time. Its fun catching up with friends.

Speaking of friends :) This picture was taken the night we went with Diana and Chad and a few others to the haunted cave. AMAZING. I had a great time. Good friends are always a good find. And good roommates too. (I don't have a picture of the "fun sized roommate" :) but she knows who she is)


A slight bit of an inside joke, but a funny picture even still. "I think I found his wallet" OH Andrew...you are a truly a rare find. Thanks for being a great home teacher and lookin' out for us.

This picture represents finding Good times at church functions. I mean honestly. FHE...could it get any better. How did I end up with multiple men on my lap? Well I can attribute that one to my fabulous roommate and her playing the YES game.

And a couple more things I've found this week...along the same lines of friends. I recently got connected with my friend Mary from Jr High. She is pretty awesome. This website is a song she wrote. I enjoy it. Great find of my week.

http://www.anchorsforsuccess.com/

Thought I should end with a scripture...No need to worry

Isaiah 41:10

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

The New Car...

So the Parents got a new car. I still can't believe they got a Mercedes...thats crazy. I guess my dad wanted a somewhat fancy smancy car. And you will notice my dad cleaning it. No need to clean under the hood though. Its already super duper clean. I think the only thing I remember about it is that its a 1998 with a 6 cd changer in it. All the important stuff. whatever. Oh and that you only really need to change the oil once a year. Must be nice. its about time for me to get an oil change on mine. I'm betting Jordan is wishing he had his license now. Not that he would be allowed to even drive this car, but still no license. I think he is waiting until he is 18 so he wont have to take driver's ed and have to pay an arm and a leg for it.

Cincinnati University Branch Retreat...

I thought it was time to talk about what I did this past weekend before I forget how much fun I had. It was a beautiful weekend. The weather was perfect. The cincinnati branch invited us to come to this retreat. I almost didn't go. Katie really wanted me to go...so thankfully I gave in. It was a much needed weekend away from home life. We left on friday night after a baptism for a girl in our branch. We did a lot of socializing. Then I went back to our cabin to finish reading the last 3 or 4 chapters of twilight. Now I just need to find the second book to borrow from someone. Before going back to the cabin we met a few people, put on some name tags and sang a lil karaoke.
The next morning Katie Holly and I all went on a little walk over to see what was in this little camping area. We stayed at Camp Bountiful. Other activities included....service project, volleyball game, ultimate frisbee game, cornhole, "not to fear, fear factor" game. Thats my partner for the game (nick) we got 4th place. We lost basically, no prizes, but whatever, we had fun. There was also a fireside around an actual fire's side. It was a good talk. Reminding us all how important friendships are in our lives. Made me appreciate all the friends I have...and have had throughout the years. My friends really have helped me become the person I am today. They help encourage me to make good choices and its always such a blessing to have people around that understand. I have a countless number of friends that I wish I could thank separately for taking time to be there for me...but this blog will have to do.
On our walk we found Jesus. Me and Katie decided it was a perfect photo op.
There was also a dance on saturday night. I had lots of fun dancing with my friends. I'm thinking I should've met lots more people, but I didnt. Only a handful. Either way it was a good weekend and I so much needed to get some fresh air and sunlight. Maybe I'll meet some new people in columbus next weekend. We are going to be going to a dance in columbus...its been awhile since we've had one of those. SOOOO long and short of it. October has been good.

A few things about today...

This is more of a journal of today than any actual real story.
Working at the hospital has been good and bad for me. I enjoy so much having my lunch breaks up in the supply room in the ER. Its still technically my dept. but everything is different and only a few people are trained in that area...one of which is my friend Mary. LOVE her :) So thats the good portion. Luches with Mary in the ER. Well I eat up there on the days we work together. Its not so much fun up there if Larry is working. Just fun stuff to talk about...okay only our lives and all the craziness of sounds coming from the halls of the ER and the really good looking doctors. We have been making our rounds to check out the staff and patients. Just because we can. You know "looking for equipment to clean". SO last time we made our lap around the ER we heard a patient singing so we had to go get a closer hear/look. It totally made my day. Made me smile. SO the bad part is the dang concrete floors. They are killing my feet!!! I called off on Sunday. I couldnt take two days in a row. Then on tuesday had an appointment at the Doctor. He said I have plantar fasciitis. (google it, i dont want to explain). He had to go get some xrays to see if i have bone spurs in my heals. I dont think I do, but i'm not a professional. Who knows. No results back yet. all i really can confirm is the massive amount of pain i'm in EVERY single step i take. I would rather be in a cast then having this. So its probably combo of older shoes and concrete floors. BUT i just dont know why my body hates me now after i've lived through so many other standing all day jobs. Needless to say this is why I got a couple new pairs of shoes. They are starting to help...but... I would have to say the best thing of my day and the best thing to help my feet so far was my super sweet awesome favorite roommate....bless her heart...and hands...no really. She has been trying to get some pointers and learn some things from me. :) because "Beth, you wont always be around". Wow is she going to kill me off??? I know she thinks we wont be roommates forever, but i'm starting to warm up to the idea that it might be closer to forever than I was originally hoping. I mean with the single status and everything. SOO anyway. I set my massage table up in our living room and she rubbed my feet and my legs a little bit. I was super shocked at how much pain i was in. She solved the problem of keeping the thoughts of pain away from my feet by making my legs hurt by getting some knots out. wowzers. It was just what I needed. It was a good end to my day. That and well, watching The Office. A favorite show of mine as of lately. OH WAIT... LAST THINGS... i guess that wouldve been a good end to the day...but here I am and its not over. I did have one last tramatic experience.... um while picking my mom up from a crop tonight i turned into a killer! yes i sent the poor little raccoon back to his maker this evening. It stopped and had (if its possible) a deer in the headlight look. Then instead of sliding quietly between my tires and underneath my car. It moved a little to right to go back to the side of the road. I couldnt swerve :( He was a gonner! thud thud thud. Then I text holly to tell her that i'm a killer. She responded with what was it? Then she said tragic...then trying to make it better my friend andrew said its okay, He will hold a funeral....because he puts the FUN in funeral...oh my. I love my friends. (andrew works at the honor guard office on base...he secretly wants to answer the phone like that some day...it will never happen) okay SO that has been my day in a nut shell...

NOW its off to read more of Twilight. I couldnt put it down yesterday. I have to jump on the bandwagon before the movie comes out. I'm LOVING IT. I decided to read about someone else's life since I needed a break from my own....and needed to stay off my feet. soo there ya have it!

Free Handbag...

Thanks Rachael for the post.... thought I would be involved as well.... So here it is if you go to handbagplanet.com you can win a free purse from a new and up coming business no obligations attached.

Good luck....and happy handbags to all

Happy Birthday Dad :) 53! wow!

I love you!

Hope you have a chill day with mom.

Guess I should explain the picture. We decided to have everyone over for dinner and cake last night....well sort of cake. My mom made lasagna for dinner and then two pumpkin rolls instead of cake. There are 5 candles on one and then 3 on the other. *not subs kris :)*

Update on car...

So basically the dealership that looked at the car to give my mom an estimate had to take off the bumper and whole back end basically to assess the damage. Yeah, they told us that when it got to 6000, they wouldn't let them put anymore on it. It popped up as totalled. So sad, its a gonner. And to think....shoot. they just put gas in it :) when gas is the prices it is recently you have to be concerned about that sort of thing. I'm just happy to know that its around 3 bucks a gallon now instead of 4.

Funny boys...

So I just wanted to tell some funny stories about my little brothers friend Anthony. His nickname around our house...mostly just from me is "Tiffany". My nephew Brandon used to call him Tiffany for some reason. He couldn't say Anthony i guess. Well Anthony is just another typical high school boy but this kid makes me laugh. All of Justin's friends do, but i have two funny stories to tell about TIFFANY right now. I guess after practice a few days ago he went to the locker room to get dressed and someone had stolen his pants. I'm pretty sure they were hollister pants. I think he loved them. He had had his birthday money in them. I think it was close to 200 bucks. WHY on earth he was carrying that much cash is beyond me. But my parents picked them up from practice and he came out to the car in his boxers because someone stole the pants. I lost it. he said something along the lines of...."come on people, my pants? you could've taken the money, but those were my favorite pants"....okay so for some reason that really made me laugh.
sssoooooooooo another funny story....a few months ago this kid made me laugh super hard when he was riding in my car with a bunch of boys...and said to me, Beth i have a serious question for you. "do you ever see us together?" ...haha riiiight. I was like, NO Anthony...keep your hands off me. I have to admit it made me laugh...oh boys. Now that is not an experience i ever really care to have with someone THAT much younger than me EVER again. I think those boys are 14 15 16...something like that. Sophomores for sure. So lame stuff to talk about, but it just is amazing to me how much these boys grow up so fast.

Fireside.....

Yeah I know you shouldn't really have your phone out during a fireside, but whatever. I had to take a picture of the girl next to me who was taking notes. ok I mean I had to take a picture of her NOTES! We had this fireside on Sunday night. Where to begin....I think I should've went with a better attitude for starters. We all started out watching a video which was pretty good. It was only really a clip of a great speaker. (Mark Gungor...high recommended "Tail of two brains") I think he is actually a Marriage counselor or something. Not totally sure of his stats but one of my friends let me watch this DVD of his once and it was pretty funny and eye opening at the same time. The fireside wasn't outlined as well as a professional speaker. I shouldn't have expected it to be, right? Well we were told it was going to be a panel. Panel of 2? for real? and I guess panel to me didn't really mean bring questions in mind, but I should've realized that too. So when the guys stayed in the basement to talk to 2 wives...and the girls went upstairs to talk to two husbands...I didn't really know what to expect. They just wanted us to throw out dating questions or something. I don't really have any honestly. I know my mind doesn't work the same as any regular joe shmoe. I know lots of the "rules". But they were giving wayy too many opinions back and forth. I guess I struggle with giving out opinions at church functions and not doctrine. I guess we need to learn to apply principles and what not, but FOR THE LOVE. I was frustrated with hearing stories of "exceptions to the rules" and snipping back and forth between "Career Women" and the alternative. Seemed too much of an almost mediated argument. So if you will notice we were given the advice to "not date to be miserable" duh, uh ya think so? I was hoping I could have lots of miserable dates and then that would be great and wonderful. Not that you can always control it, but I've had awkward dates myself but still... some fun was had. And then the DFB dough for brains comment...apparently that's all men are in the words of men. Guess some are but honestly....was that really anything important to hear. Is that going to make me feel better about myself somehow? No, it doesn't. :) "You're totally fly and I want to date you right now"...okay, now this is one you probably can't read to well on that piece of paper. This was pretty comical...but honesty being the best policy can be good, but do people really talk like this? I guess I'm set on the fact that there is someone for everyone. Not sure where I'll meet the someone for me, of if I already have or not, but I'm not stressing out about it. I'm not sure I want to hear what everyone else thinks "the rules" are. Why does everyone care about everyone elses dating life?? I'm more stressed out about seeing people stressed out. Dating and such is fun but not when its forced....honestly. To me its like getting a testimony. No one can force you to have one. You have to go through experiences and learn at your own pace. Sometimes learning from others, but then having a true conversion of your own is the ultimate goal. I don't know how much the harping on guys to ask more girls out is really going to help. Plenty of people in this singles branch of mine have met and gotten married without being coerced by a fireside. Sorry but just one last time I had to sit and think about this and write it down. Hopefully I'll get over being frustrated about it soon. Guess I don't have the same sense of humor as some people.

Crazy friday night...

So this happened last friday night. My mom and my aunt that was visiting went for a little drive across town to pick Justin up from the football game. There were at this intersection stopped at a red light when some guy in a truck came smashing right on through.

I feel pretty bad for the car...i mean for my parents who just spent an arm and a leg to fix it. There was a few things wrong and it was undriveable for a couple weeks. I think my mom had only been driving it for one day again before this happened.
They took it to get checked out yesterday even though they are pretty sure its just going to be so badly wrecked it wont be able to be fixed. Sad day. I loved this car. Just glad everyone was ok after being hit so hard. I think my mom will probably end up going to the chiropractor for the next few weeks or so though.