Yikes!

Let me start by apologizing for my lack of blog posts. I've been feeling super stressed lately with the last paper I wrote for class and now that it's over I might finally have some free time!

To catch things up: I'm in week 4 of my second MBA class. I've written two papers regarding management and had a hard time with both of them. Although I thought it stunk my paper on the Verizon mission statement got me an A+ and great reviews from my professor. Not going to lie: it was a HUGE confidence booster!

In puppy news: Buster and Bella have learned how to get underneath the porch (boo!) so we spent a few hours moving stuff around so they couldn't. I don't think we would mind as much if it wasn't DISGUSTING underneath our porch. We've been weaning Buster off of his kennel at bedtime and he's done pretty well. The hardest part is that he loves to jump on the bed at 3 or 4 in the morning, which we hate. I think he's pretty smart though because he chooses a time he KNOWS I'm too tired to put him back to bed so I leave him on the bed. Silly boy!

Other than that we just got back from a weekend getaway in Kansas. We spent a majority of the weekend in the Kansas City/Lawrence area seeing as many friends and family members as we could! It was a super long 15 hour drive, but the puppies did fabulously well! They spent the first five or so hours trying to figure out what we were doing, then relaxed and slept most of the way!

Thursday night we got lunch with my best friend Brenna and boyfriend Drew. We spent Friday in Lawrence getting delicious burgers from "The Burger Stand" in downtown Lawrence. Then I took Brenna to get her first pedicure. This hour pedicure and gossip made me realize how much I miss my girl time with Brenna. She's one of my best friends and I have such a blast when we hang out.

We went out to dinner with our friends Megan and Dusty. We drank some margaritas, ate some delicious food, and visited about life. I forgot how much I missed spending time with them. We spent Friday night at my favorite bar in Lawrence, the Sandbar, and was glad to see that nothing has changed. After witnessing a Hurricane (google it!) and slugging down a couple of Shark Attacks I remember what I love about that bar.

Saturday was our day with the least amount of activites planned. We visited my brother, sister-in-law, and nieces in Lenexa because my brother just got his gallbladder removed (ouch!) and weren't sure if we'd be seeing them at the family reunion on Sunday. After playing UNO and Mancala with my nieces we headed back to Brad's place where I took a much needed NAP!

Saturday night was a BLAST! Our friend Sasha had an awesome house-warming party and we ended up taking a FREE suburban to a nearby bar. After drinking too much we headed back home where I woke up with a killer headache, ick.

We headed to Seneca on Sunday for a family reunion. It was SUPER hot and humid, which I definitley don't miss about Kansas. We got to visit with my favorite aunts, uncles, and cousins and got to wish my favorite and ONLY! little brother a happy 20th birthday! It's still scary to think that he's 20! We then went back to my parents house where I finished my paper and was taken out to dinner by my parents.

Overall, the trip was a great success. Made me realize how much I miss Kansas, but know that things will work out the way they are supposed to. Thanks family and friends for the FABULOUS weekend! Miss and love you all!

And because the blog needs some excitement, here are some fun photos!



Aaron, Erin, Matt, and I enjoying our time at Saints!



Matt and I



The crew!


Buster fell asleep on my shoulder



Buster climbed into the taken apart kennel and Bella decided to climb in too. Then she fell asleep on him.

Back to School

back to school, cleaning, kansas, graduations, and more puppy fun

I'm turning into quite the blogspot slacker, not that I'm surprised. I have a few bits of news, but mostly just observations of life recently.

First big news...I'm going back to school!!! I've always wanted to go back to school, but now it's going to be official. For those of you who know me, I have a BA in history from KU, but was always planning on going to law school. Well now that I've had almost two full years away from school I've decided that law school isn't in my future. I've doing some searching and found a great online program through Baker University in Baldwin City, KS. I'm going to start the application process soon and am going after my masters degree in business administration with a marketing concentration! I'm excited to get back into things, but also a little nervous. It has been a full 1.5 years since I've done the school thing so I'm nervous about how I'll handle it. The great thing about this program is that instead of a full 18 credit hour schedule for a whole semester it's one class at a time. One class for 5 weeks, then another, then another and they automatically enroll me in the next one. Basically I'll know exactly which class I'm taking that week and I log in to the system every week and turn in papers, assignments, etc. I am very excited at a chance for a masters degree and hopefully a newer, bigger, and better job after that!!! Everybody has been super supportive so far, including my parents, Matt's parents, Matt, friends, and family. Hopefully with that many people behind me, I'll be able to put my full focus into it. Wish me luck! I probably won't start until August so we can get our vacations out of the way without me being distracted!

Happy graduation to a few of my best friends. To my cousin and one of my best friends, Stephen, my best friend and maid of honor, Brenna, and both mine and Matt's old roommate Aaron. Happy GRADUATION!! CONGRATULATIONS! You all deserve so much in life. On a similar tangent, how sad is it that after this year all of my good friends will be done at my alma mater? I don't have a day where I don't miss my days at KU so it's sad that my friends days are numbered there also. Graduation is such a joyous occasion, but when I think back to all of the memories and friends of my college days I do tend to get a little mopey. I miss so many things about KU; friends, campus, Mass. st., the Sandbar, awesome history professors, all of the buildings, being an ambassador, and so many more. College is truly the best time of your life, but it usually takes you a while to realize it.

On a nice little addition to the KU paragraph, Matt and I might be going back to visit! I've been really missing friends there lately so when I brought up the idea of going back in August, Matt seemed interested. It's also the same weekend as a family reunion so we'll get to see a lot of friends and family. We'll see if we decided on it officially, but it's definitely becoming more and more of a possibility!!!

I don't have any fun puppy news really, except for the fact that they are still super adorable and becoming fairly well-behaved. We had friends over on Sunday night and they still couldn't resist jumping on people for attention, but they are still puppies so nobody really seems to mind. They seem to have mastered the art of "sitting" but we're still working on it. Another improvement is in the kennel area. Buster and Bella both HATE their kennels, and for good reason. Well lately we've been reinforcing them getting in their kennels by themselves and they are getting better at it. If we go back there at night Buster goes straight in his kennel because he knows it's time for bed. Bella usually takes some coaxing, but she goes in eventually. Bella will go into the kennel when she's tired though, so they are progressively getting better. All I have to do is pat the kennel and Buster goes in so that's definitely better than dragging him in. On another note, they are growing so fast that I almost don't notice. It's harder to notice now that they are with us everyday. When we saw them once a week it was easy to see the difference, but lately their have been signs. Buster is getting longer and his tail is growing longer also.

Anyways, that's a good catch up on our lives so far. We've having a housewarming BBQ this weekend. I don't think many people are coming, but that just means we'll have more booze for us! lol. Happy reading!

First Post!

Well, I finally got suckered into the hysteria which is blogging. I used to have one a while ago, but I kept running out of interesting things to write about. My life isn't any more exciting now, but I hopefully won't run out of things to discuss.

Since my last blog I have moved to Colorado, got married, got a house, and gained two very hyper, adorable puppies. For those of you who don't know me- I was born and raised in Kansas and graduated from the University of Kansas in December 2008. I got engaged that month also and was tired of doing long distance with my now-husband Matt. So I convinced my parents to help move me to the beautiful state of Colorado. I finally found a job that I like and am busy making commissions selling the addiction we call cable television.
Matt and I took the plunge and got married in my Kansas hometown in October of last year. As a wedding present our friends gave us a black labrador puppy that I named Buster. Nobody wanted his sister and I felt bad, so we asked them for the female too that I named Bella. Not great timing for a blog, but we're actually moving into a house this weekend.
Marriage has been an interesting, yet amazing change in our lives. So within a year I went from a dating Kansan college student to a happily married Colorado resident. The change from college student to wife has been a fabulous one. Less homework and papers, more cleaning and cooking. But I love it.

I will try to keep up with this blog since I actually have friends reading it now. Happy reading!