merry christmas

hope y'all had a very merry christmas!

it's my birthday

and i am 22 today. woo hoo!

i am proud

of myself.

* i ran two miles yesterday without stopping to walk. today i ran one mile without stopping and then biked 3 miles. if you know me and my knees you are proud of me too.

* i graduated from asu. gpa 4.0 woo hoo!

* i got my teaching certificate today. i am a real teacher. {now if i could only get a job.}

* my tree turned out so cute. red, silver, white, and lots of sparkles and glitter. {a great starting point for my christmas decorations}

every now and then i am just happy to be me.

ps i am loving the christmas season. merry christmas!

i fell down the stairs

again. really. i fell down the cement stairs at my apartment complex for the second time. me and stairs not a good combination.

i give thanks

for my endless amount of blessings.


have a happy thanksgiving! i know i will. four days of family filled fun = happiness.

asherversary #1

so its been a year since kason and i were married for time and all eternity. we made it! one year down, eternity to go and that makes me happy. what have i learned this past year? marriage is hard sometimes, but worth it. i have learned so much about myself and how i can be a better woman. i love being a wife. i love being kason's wife. and i love kason. life is good. actually, it's great.

happy one year anniversary to us!

p.s. ask me what kason gave me for our anniversary? ok i'll tell you. a pearl necklace and i love it! isn't he the best? the answer is yes. aren't i lucky? again, the answer is yes!

for baby and me

who: halima harrison and khendra ryan {my sister in laws} proudly present

what: open house for baby and me a new store for babies and mommies specializing in cloth diapers and breast feeding essentials including lactation consulting

when: november 14th {mine and kason's anniversary} from 10:00 to 1:00

where: 2876 e. camellia dr., gilbert az, 85296

why: 1) because you know looking at baby things makes you happy 2) because you know someone who is a having a baby or just had a baby and you can't resist buying them something that is absolutely adorable and a must have 3) because you are thinking to yourself "really? cloth diapers?" but there is something inside of you telling you to find out more 4) because everyone needs a good reason to go shopping, look at cute things, and get some awesome prizes!

hope to see you there! spread the word!

happy day

thank you down east basics and abc 15 for making it one happy day. 50% off everything in the store including sale items. that is my kind of shopping. love it!

seriously love it.

october 31

happy halloween!!!

happy friday

have a great weekend!

thank you

mucinex DM expectorant and cough suppressant

you are a great friend. thanks.

what am i going to do all week?

get sick and do absolutely nothing.

woo hoo! it's fall break!

student teaching = no school

teaching dance = no work

i wonder what i am going to do all week?

what happens when you live across the street from costco?

you end up running there to pick up some toothpaste and buy a ridiculous amount for just two people.

attention to all students

please

1) put your name on your paper

2) turn in your work

it's not that hard. i am pretty sure you learn how to do this in kindergarten, maybe 1st grade.

my mother loves me

and bought me 3 pairs of shoes!

say goodbye to the hobo named kali who wears shoes with holes in them to school.

its raining, its pouring

and i love it! that monsoon storm this morning was lovely!

what is the most disgusting place on earth?

high school bathrooms.

seriously you know it is true.

early mornings, awesome husband, and some sweet golfing

its been a week of student teaching. good thus far. mostly just observing introductions and all the boring beginning of the year stuff. one down side= a hour. i have forgotten how bad waking up for a hour is. waking up at 5:30 is just not for me. i know its not really that early, but i am so not a morning person. i am really dreading the days when 5:30 means its dark and cold and getting out of our warm bed. on the brighter side of things i don't have a fifth or a sixth hour so i get done early. still i am gone a lot and i kind of feel bad leaning kason home everyday. though i do love having someone to come home to. i better enjoy it now before his school starts. he has been so great doing things for me while i am gone. one day i came home and the house was totally clean. i love the smell of cleaning products as i walk in the door. knowing everything is disinfected makes me smile. i hate leaving to do lists for him and i love that i don't need to. another day kason decided to take me to the driving range. i have never golfed before and i really was terrible at first, but i really liked it. i even had some good shots and impressed the hubby. i think i liked it because i am not limited by my knees. if i stink at golf its just because i stink not because my physical body is limited. so i like golf. who knows maybe i will get good at it.

sorry for such a long post.

sorry to those who actually read it.

back to school

yesterday was my first day of school as a teacher. a student teacher that is. i am so excited to finally start student teaching and really learn how to be a teacher. i love that i am going to be working with judy cotter this semester. its going to be fun. woo hoo! graduation here i come!

one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish

last week kason's dad took us fishing up at lake mary {near flagstaff}. we left at 3 in the morning and i slept the whole way there. it turns out i really like fishing. i caught 8 fish! kason caught 1 and dave, well, he did his public service and cleaned up the bottom of the lake. i guess i am just a natural fisherman. actually they gave me the best lure. all i had to do was put it in the water and wait for a bite. i let kason take the hooks out of the fish. that is one job that is definitely for the husband. thanks kason and dave for a great fishing trip!

5 pike + 3 perch + a beautiful day on the lake = a great fishing day!

p.s. if you are counting you will notice there are only 8 pictures of our 9 fish. one got away as kason was getting the hook out of its mouth before we could get a pic.

trip to utah

kason and i went up to utah this weekend to visit some of his fam. it was a short trip, but a lot of fun. we went swimming, played catch phrase, and just relaxed and visited. kason played some b-ball and i had my first experience going antique shopping. it was a great trip! thanks to the Gerrards for letting us come visit and invade your house!

sorry no pics. i took my camera but didn't take any pictures. i am a bad blogger.

defy gravity

saturday night kason and i saw wicked with my fam. one word: amazing! kason even liked it! he is not a musical man but wicked is so good that even he thought it was great. of course i loved it. i had seen it twice before and it is my favorite musical. kason and i both have the soundtrack on our ipods and can't help but bust out the songs every now and then.

bluewater 09

for the 4th of july kason and i headed up to my grandparents cabin with my family for the weekend. it was so nice to get away! the weather was wonderful! the pic pretty much sums up our trip. sitting on the porch swing reading and relaxing. it was great!

i passed!

i just found out that i passed my aepa exams! woo hoo!

recital 09

last night was the recital for the dance studio i work at. again i was stage manager which means its was one crazy night! after three years of running the show i am becoming a professional and i wasn't as stressed out as i usually am. it went really well and my little girls did great. seriously so cute! i forgot to bring my camera so you will just have to trust me. they were adorable!

ps the foot is 100% better! woo hoo. i am seriously a f.o.n.! {freak of nature} who else gets random, nasty foot infections? just me.

pretty kankle

it might not look better, but at least i feel better. thank you mom, karissa, and kelsey for the pedicure! now i have a pretty kankle, which is way better than an ugly one. and...

HAPPY 18th BIRTHDAY KELSEY! woo hoo!

p.s. kelsey, i think you are crazy for wanting to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. better you than me. have fun tomorrow!

kankle part 2

so the kankle continues. my foot got a lot worse so i had to go back to the doctor. i was lucky enough to get a shot in my rear end and some blood work done. all of this because of a little blister! seriously?! only me.

kankle

saturday night kason and i enjoyed a little walk around san tan mall. it was so nice to slow down, relax, and walk around a bit. i even found a sweet deal and bought myself two skirts from ann taylor loft. {each were originally $60.00 and i got mine for $9.88 a piece!} it was a great night minus the little blister i got on the back of my heal from my shoes. i get blisters all the time so not a big deal...or so i thought. then yesterday my foot started to swell up and turn all red. i was in some serious pain when i tried to walk. kason carried me up the stairs, gave me some advil and some ice for my foot, and sent me too bed. when i woke up i thought it looked better so i went to work. apparently, it didn't look so good because all of the moms in there were worried about me and my bosses sent me home to go to the doctor. so i took a trip to the doctor even though we don't have insurance. {wasn't as expensive as i thought it would be.} one look at my foot and the doc gave a little cringe and said you have one bad infection in your foot. i guess that little blister got infected and now i have a problem. he gave me some serious antibiotics and told me to soak my foot in hot water and epsom salts three times a day for a week. i guess he is really worried about it because he told me to call him everyday for the next couple days to give a report on my foot. if it gets any worse i am suppose to go straight in. moral of this long story: 1) be nice to your blisters 2) 1 really bad foot infection = 1 serious kankle. the picture isn't that great but you get the idea. 

look at our garden grow!

it took a couple weeks but our garden is starting to grow! the other day i was out watering and noticed two baby tomatos starting to grow. i ran in and told kason. he is so excited! he loves our garden!

gone fishing

friday kason went fishing for pike with his dad. looks like they had fun! 

not fun is...

not fun is me home alone for three days and two nights studying for my aepa exams on saturday {teacher certification tests} while kason is on a 20 mile hike/campout. {i hope i pass!}

our little garden

ever since we got married kason has been dying for a garden. we really wanted to grow stuff on our back patio but unfortunately it was always shaded. i think our apartment is the only one in the complex that dosen't get any sun. until now that is. finally a little corner of our patio gets some sunlight at around 3:00. as soon as kason noticed those little rays of sun we headed to home depot and lowes to buy some plants to start our garden. plants + some cute pots + some soil and a watering can = one awesome garden! we planted tomatos, bell peppers, jalapenos, parsley, oragano, basil, and some flowers for me. kason dreams of one day having a huge garden, but our little one will do for now. lets hope out little plants survive!

kelsey d!

kelsey graduated from good old mesa high last week. congrats kelsey! 

schools out!

kason and i are finally done with this semester! woo hoo! couple weeks to breath then its on to summer school. yep...school is pretty much our lives.

yummy in my tummy tortillas!

so sorry for being the worst blogger ever. the truth is kason and i spend most of our time doing homework. sad but true. however lately we have been taking a break every now and then to make tortillas! i know the thought of kason and i in the kitchen attempting to cook is kind of scary, but believe it or not we have had some success! thanks to renee hatch's amazing tortilla recipe our tortillas aren't too bad. some would say they are actually pretty tasty! yummy in my tummy tortillas!

lion king!

for christmas kason got me tickets to the lion king at gammage. we went on saturday and i loved it! its not the best musical i have seen, but the costumes and production is amazing! kason wasn't toof thrilled with it. he thought it was weird. {hopefully i can get him to see wicked and give musicals one more shot. wicked is way better. my personal fav.} it was a great christmas present and i loved it! thanks kason!  

ps: so i have a mac and whenever i use it to blog blogger doesn't give me the options of changing the font size, color, or style...until now! i am pretty happy about it. maybe i will blog more...maybe. 

honeymoon!

one week in mexico near cancun in an all inclusive resort = awesome! we had the best honeymoon. most of the time we did, well, nothing but it was wonderful! we just hung out on the beach rode around in our golf cart and got to relax. the relaxing was definitely needed and we enjoyed it! kason's favorite part was getting to use a golf cart all week. our room was in a villa away from the rest of the hotel in the middle of the golf course {awesome!}. thus, since it was so far away from the lobby and the beach we got a golf cart to drive all week. we also spent a day going to the mayan ruins of chinchin itza {did i spell that wrong?} we spent 6 hours driving through the jungle on a bus but it was well worth it. it was amazing! we had a great honeymoon and we loved it! {thank you patti and dave!} now its back to reality. school starts tomorrow. good luck!