Whew, it is finally Friday.

I cannot even put into words how happy that I am that it is finally Friday. This week has been a hectic week.

In addition to my regular school and work load, I also had a make up class on Tuesday and Thursday. Normally these aren't a problem, but this week, with everything else going on, it was a nightmare. It took up my free hour on each of those days. Then I was on call for Criminal Procedure class on Thursday. That means, I was assigned to speak in class. I was assigned to the prosecution team (which in tihis class usually means the losing team) to discuss the set of problems for that day. So on top of regular reading for that class, I had to prepare my extra work in that class. I seem to be asked to speak a lot more than anyone else in my group. I think part of that is just in the past couple of weeks, he realized how to pronounce my name.

Then we are getting to a busy point in my pre trial litigation class. We have been moving right along in the process. This week and next week, we were suppoesd to conduct two depositions. I had my first last night. It gets complicated when you have to work around 3 schedules. But at least that is done now. It wasn't too bad. Hopefully the one next week goes even better. Then last night once I got home I watched Greys. Yes, despite my busy week, I had to make time for that. I also had to write a will for my estates class. On top of school stuuff, I had to do laundry, pack my bags and load up the car. I always have such a huge list of things to bring back with me.

I got in bed last night a little after midnight. My guess it was at least 12:30 before I feel asleep and then I was up (wide awake on my own) a little before 5. I finished the packing my stuff and loaded the car. The car is fueled, fluids and tires checked. We are ready to go.

I am currently sitting in the Courtroom at the law school waiting for a Symposium to start. It is for dispute resolution. It is the makeup for one of my other classes. Once I leave here, I will head into work. My manager is out of town for the day, so basically that leaves me in charge of my department. We are fortunate that my department is doing so well right now. I hope that nothing too crazy arises becuase I have hopes to leave Columbia by 1 at the latest.

I'm so excited to be going home for the weekend. It has been 3 weeks since I have seen Christopher, my puppies or my family. My brother Chris is in town too. He is looking at houses as he will be moving to WP in a couple of months. We are supposed to have a family dinner tonight. Hopefully my sister will show up and I will get to see my new nephew.

Hope that you all have a great weekend. It is supposed to be beautiful weather in Missouri. We plan to enjoy it!!!

Weekend Recap

This week is crazy so this post won't be extremely detailed and I doubt that I post much the rest of the week. I have so much going on at school with presentations, papers, mock depositions and make up classes, then on top of that add work. My life is craziness right now. I haven't even been able to look at a wedding website in 3 days (and likely will not until the weekend).

Friday night after work, I headed to a friend's house for dinner. Brynn is a newest girl in my department at work and it was nice to get to know her more. I also met her boyfriend and they are adorable together. We had a great dinner of grilled chicken, salad and bread. I headed home early and crashed. Last week was craziness too.

Saturday, I was up early like always. I never can seem to sleep in. I got my grocery shopping done before 8. I love going to the store when no one else is there. I met up with Maggie around 11. We headed to lunch and then ran a few errands. I finished up buying all of Chris's presents for our upcoming anniversary.

Here is Maggie and I before heading out for the evening.

Saturday evening, I had dinner with Maggie, Brynn and Sara. We went to a cute little place downtown. After dinner we strolled downtown for a bit. There were tons of people out. Most people were headed to and from the bars becuase of the big Mizzou game on TV. Around 7, we headed up to Columbia College to attend a play. We thought we should get there early, but then realized that we were way too early. We played around outside and took tons of pictures. I'll share just a few.

As you can see, we had a lot of time to spare and we made the most of it. It was a lot of fun. The musical was fantastic. It was the story of Gumbo Bottoms. The story was written about the wonderful Missouri. I loved it. We all originally went to see Steve Jones peform. Steve of one of the attorneys at Faber and Brand law firm where I work in Columbia. I saw him in a play once before and he has never let me down. After the play we took a few pictures with him.

I hope that he gets in a few more plays before I leave Columbia next July.

Sunday was a busy day too. Maggie crashed at my house Saturday night. I got up early started landry and dishes. I made breakfast. Maggie and I watched some TV while I did a little homework. We then headed to Joys around 11. We were babysitting the kiddos again. It was a lot of fun but a very tiring afternoon. We went to the park which was a good walk from the house. We played inside for a bit too. Those kids are adorable and they are beginning to get close to Maggie and I. Sophia was so excited that we were coming that she made us presents before we got there. They were little cards to each of us saying that she liked us and was glad that we were coming to play.

After leaving Joys, Maggie and I headed back to my house. We watched a Lifetime movie that I recorded a couple of weeks ago and made homemade pizza. It was delicious. After Maggie left, I finished my homework for the night and went to bed. The weekend had been exhausting.

Now this week is crazy. But I'm just counting down the days til Friday when I get to see Christopher. Hopefully I will also see my new nephew (that is if my sister and her husband decide to let Jansyn come over)

Hope you all have a great week!!!

5 Question Friday

It has been so long since I have posted on Five Question Friday, so I thought that I would this week. So, here it goes:

1. What do you listen to while driving? Most of the time I have a country music station on. When the radio bores me, I put in a CD. Typically that is country also. But lately I have been listening to my Glee cds. They are amazing
2. What is your least favorite thing about Fall? The temperature changes right now have been messing with my allergies and I also don't like that the sun goes down earlier in the day. I love the sun being out to 9
3. What does your dream house look like, inside and out? Ahhhh, I love thinking about my dream house. It will be huge for our family and to host family get togethers. It will have a huge kitchen with lots of cabinets and a large walk in pantry. We will have a big master suite with attached bathroom for me to relax. It will be very country looking on the outside sitting in the middle of 1000 acres. I want a porch to entertain outside too and spend time sitting outside watching the kids and doggies play
4. Would you ever own a minivan? Nope. I will have a larger SUV when we have kids but never a minivan. They just aren't my style
5. Do you wash new clothes before wearing them? Depends on how soon I need to wear them. If I don't need it right away, I will wash them.

Hope that helped you get to know me just a little bit more. Head over to My Little Life to play along.

New Household Decorations

I just thought that I would share the photo of the new household decor that I bought over the weekend. We have one room that will be decorated in cowboy/western decor (at Chris's request). So over the weekend at the Apple Festival, I found these. I am totally in love with them too.

Weekend Recap

This past weekend was a great weekend.

Friday at work ended up being a way crazier day than I expected. I had plans on leaving work a couple hours early so we could get on the road. Well that didn't happen. I actually only got out of work about 20 minutes early. Leaving town was a little crazy. Maggie and I got on the highway around 5:00 p.m. headed to the small, adorable town of Versailles, Missouri. We got to Cheryl's around 6:15. The rest of the company was already there. We visited with the family all evening. We helped with dinner too. It was so nice to just be with Chris's family. I just wish that Chris would have been there. We crashed pretty early, around 10. Most of us were completly exhausted. Maggie and I were stuck on the living room floor due to the number of people at the house.

Saturday morning, I was up pretty early. I first woke up at 4:00 when a few were getting ready to go set up at the festival. I fell back asleep until aroung 6. Then I was up for good. I had a nice warm cup of hot chocolate and visit with Chris's mom. I sure do love that woman. Guess I really lucked up to have a wonderul mother-in-law. (Some people have horrible stories and relationships with thiers). I cleaned up and got ready before most everyone else was out of bed. With that many people in a house, I knew it was best to take the opportunity when I could. Once everyone was up, we spent some time visiting. I played with the kiddos. Sadie is one of my favorite little girls. She is so full of life. Here she is Saturday morning.

Sadie sure does love Maggie too. They are "best buddies". However, my favorite picture of the day was of Caden. He had no idea that I was taking his picture. He was laying in the living room floor watching TV before we headed to the festival.

We headed to the festival around 9:30. The parade started at 10 and we wanted to make sure that we got a good spot for that. The kids were very excited. I tried taking pictures of the kids lined up, but Sadie would not cooperate. I thought I had a good one, but I guess the sun was so bright, I couldn't see my camera screen real well. This is what I got

We had a good time. I only bought one thing at the festival. I'll have to post a picture of them later. They are still all packed up. It was decorations for our house. It was pretty chilly at the festival so we didn't stay real late. We went back to the house around 1:30. We had lunch. We spent the rest of the afternoon watching movies. I might have dozed off for just a bit too. We also had some good family card games. I hardly get to play cards anymore, so I was pretty excited about that. We had dinner and visited some more the rest of the day.

Sunday, I was up early again. I helped grandma with breakfast. We had biscuits and gravy with bacon. YUM!!! Most of us left Cheryl's pretty early. Maggie and I did becuase we both had homework to tend to. But before we left, I made sure to get a few more pictures of two of my favorite neices

Aren't they precious? I spent the rest of the day doing homework and took a small nap. This week already seems to busy and I have 5 classes cancelled this week. Ahh!

Loving Imperfection

So, I was talking with this girl today at work. She stated that her husband is "perfect" and that they never fight. As adorable as I think it is for someone to call their spouse/significant perfect, I just don't believe it.

I would love to be able to tell people that Christopher is perfect, but we all know that he isn't. I am not perfect either. No one is. But part of falling in love and being together is knowing the imperfections, accepting them, and learning to love the other person, despite the imperfections.

I know that I have my faults and I try not to hide them. I tend to be an open book in terms of who I am and in my personality. I think that it most important is being able to be honest with each other. But Chris and I have been together for so long, it would be hard to keep a major fault under wraps for 7 years. I have had to deal with a few quirks of Chris that I never thought that I would have to. But I love him and want to be with him, so I deal with everything. I am thankful for the faults. It makes us realize that we aren't perfect. It makes life interesting and gives us something to talk about. But the best part is that knowing that although he is not perfect, he is perfect for me.

Chris and I are complete opposites in many ways. He is so laid back and go-with the flow. Me on the other hand, I am a psycho control freak and obsessive planner. I like to think that we balance each other our in that respect. Plus is makes our life interesting. I have had to learn to let control of a lot of things and have also taught him to be a little more OCD. I don't think that I ever could have got along with a partner who was just like me. That would just not have ended well. I am thankful that Chris isn't just like me. He challenges me in many ways and also helps me to realize where I am wrong and allows me to see the other side.

Chris and I are similar in other ways. We both have very traditional and conservative values. We both love family and have become bery close to each other's families. We are both hard working. We both are willing to make sacrifices of ourselves just to make something better for someone else. We are puppy people. We are also both in love with our little farm house in the country. These are the things that brought us together and keep us together. We are alike where we need to be and different enough in other ways to keep the other guessing and keep like interesting and wonderful.

Lastly, the girl mentioned that her and her husband do not fight. I do not understand how this is even possible. Two people cannot possibly agree on everything. To me, this would make life boring. I would hate it if Chris agreed with everything that I said. I would also hate to feel like I could not be honest and had to bend to his every opinion. Anyone who knows me, knows that isn't me. I feel like people who claim to never have disagreements are not being true to themselves.

Not everyone will have huge fights and I don't think you should, but there has got to be disagreements. That is part of life. I even have differences of opinions with my closest friends and family. Chris and I have fights. We both have terrible tempers and are opinionated. We are both stubburn and have a hard time letting go of a point. Though we have learned through a relationship communication class that passioinate fights are okay so long as we both fight like that. Plus, people who fight passionately also love passionately.

Plus, if you never fight, you never can make up. That is sad. There are times that I would like to start a fight just to make up.

Hopefully, I didn't offend any one else by writing this. I just think that some people are not living in a reality. People are not perfect. The point of life is finding someone to love despite imperfections. Love is also about being honest with yourself and your partner, even if it means you don't agree.

I Really Hate People Sometimes

What a terrible idea to start a Friday in a terrible mood.

My sister had her third little boy this morning and I found out by facebook. Really? You have time to post on facebook but you don't have the common decency to call your freaking sister?

I am beyond words at this point. I am so pissed and I feel terrible being pissed about a baby being born. But I am not mad at my new nephew, I'm just pissed at my sister and her husband.

She didn't even call my mom when she went to the hospital. My mom has been there every time that my sister has babies. She had went to every false alarm. My mom is one of the happiest grandmas ever. But not this time. Stacie didn't bother to call my mom until about an hour after she had the baby. She was supposed to call me at that time too, but that was over an hour ago and not a word from my sister.

Now I will admit that my sister hasn't been as close to me in the past six months as she has been in the past. Mostly because her husband is a controling butt and won't allow her to talk to me or associate with me. But geez, this is a baby. I deserve to know. I deserve a freaking phone. I have been there for you through everything and this is how you repay me?

Well, class is starting now, but I just wanted to get my thoughts out there. Words of advice. If you have a baby - great to let everyone know on facebook becuase you can reach the most people, but call your immediate family first.

Thank you and that is offically the end of my rant.