Busyness

Today I started a new season of my life....a busy one.

I am starting my internship this week. Which means in order to fit that in I have to starts working 10 hour shifts at work so I can fit in 12-15 hours at my internship each week.

So I am working 8-7. And taking on extra responsibility at work because we don't see families from 5-7 so I will be doing extra duties for those extra two hours. Plus taking grad school classes on top of all of that. Phew just typing it makes me tired.

Tomorrow I start at my internship. I am nervous. It is a lot of change this week. I awoke early before the sun rose because I am anxious. I am not excited to be spread so thin for the next year of my life. I don't do well when I am that busy.

So I awoke early and was praying. I needed some good face to face time with God anyways :) I was praying for a lot of things,

patience

mercy

strength

focus

determination

perseverance

health

and sleep!

God told me to be still. Be present in each moment. Be aware. Be focused. Choose joy!

I needed to hear this. I needed to be calmed by my creator. The only one who really calms me in that way. I just got back from vacation and it was wonderful. I will post pics of that soon!

Today I am remaining calm and enjoying some quietness before my world gets turned upside down for the next while. I keep telling myself to take deep breaths and take it one day at a time. Which is hard for me. I worry, too much. It comes naturally though :) But I can't go much forward more then one day or I think I will melt.

So here today, I will put one foot in front of the other and move forward. It will be a busy season of my life, but a good one. I am going to try my hardest to be present, to love James well in all of this busyness, to get good grades in school, to do well at my internship and learn a lot, to be able to learn how to do therapy with kids, to work with offenders, do well at my job, sleep somewhere in there, and most importantly spend time with the one who created me!

Think I will go crazy? :)

Photo Scavenger Hunt

Have I mentioned before that I have the best friends?

well if you have not heard me say this....I do!!!

For my birthday, my sweet friends put together a

photo scavenger hunt for me.

It started out when James bought lunch for all us, which just happened to be boriello brothers pizza, yum!

and from there we set out.

Girls vs. boys of course!!! We gathered points for how many things on the list we got pictures of. And the girls won!

Now I would post all the pics, but my wonderful dear friend jennifer, did a great job. To see, click here

Thank again guys for making me feel so special on my day. It was truly one of the best!

My birthday

So I know this post is a little late,

but cut me some slack

I am a busy woman :)

For my actual birthday I was actually at a training in Alabama, (which I do not recommend being away from everyone you know and love on your bday)

where it was so hot you started sweating as soon as you walked outside.

Seriously people that live in the south, I don't know how you do it.

I was soooo ready to come back to Colorado by the end of the week.

My sis in law and bro and avary and stella send me a sweet wine stopper with a k in the top.

James sent me these pretty daisies, unfortunately they got to me a day late and I had to leave the next day, but aren't they so pretty?

Then came home and James and I set out on a scavenger hunt of sort. These pics are a little backwards.

So I will tell you in order.

I have been bugging james to teach me how to cook for awhile, so one clue had to do with the fact that I was ill prepared to cook and

thus we walked into my apartment

and J had gotten me all this fancy cooking stuff from

a store that only chefs can buy stuff at.

I got 2 nice pans, 3 great knives, cutting board, cooking sheet, whisk and lots of other really great goodies.

Below you'll see me holding one of my new knives.

From there he gave me a card that said it is your favorite place.

which you are also not good at preparing for.

So I knew my favorite place to be was on the back of James' motorcycle.

So he got me sweet leather riding jacket

and a sweet awesome pink helmet!!!

I loved them :) especially the helmet.

here I am in the jacket

with the knife

Me in the awesome new pink helmet.

At the very end of the night James brought me to a park where I first taught him to dance (and I use that word loosely :o), the boy has white boy rhythm)

and he gave me a card that had dancing lessons for us in it!!!

How fun!

From there I opened a box

and......

there was a ring!!!!

just kidding :)

It really was a locket he picked out for me, which I also love.

The boy did good!

I felt so loved and appreciated.

It was great.

K group Second Annual Camping Trip

So this is the second annual k group camping trip.

I am pretty sure that I have the best friends in the world.

They are just the kind of people you want walking

down the road of life with you.

You can read more here from my friend jen's

blog

or my friend carey's post

coincidentally I did not take that many pictures of the weekend.

and the ones I did take all included alice,

guess I like her or something :)

steve and alice

me and alice

she was a such a trooper while camping

she just would conk out in her little bassinet

and take these awesome monumental naps

Isn't she so precious?

great evening

Last night James and I celebrated 9 months!

We went out to Bistro de Pinto

and had a phenom meal

with great conversation.

Doesn't my man look hot?? :)

I am so blessed

hey!

So because I have been a bad blogger as of late.

I am now updating with some recent pics from this holiday weekend.

This pic was taken from our hike

in the beautiful Colorado mountains.
It was really hot that day.

But you get the idea nonetheless:)

Fourth of July Party!

Red, white and blue attire were suggested.

So I had a red flower in my hair,

you can't really see it,

but it was there :)

Some of my favorite girls @ the party.
Carey, Me, and Jen!

Party at the Cheney's where we got together with all of our friends and watched fireworks behind Sky Sox stadium.

July 4th parade,
james and john were on the float because it was their 10 year high school reunion

and they got soaked by the fire department, it was awesome!

Another pic of the handsome men!

It was a nice hometown parade in Brush.
It made me miss good ole Grandville's parade.

He was posing next to his dad's sweet old Chrysler.
Larry, let us take the Chrysler to their 10 year high school reunion picnic.

my man, hot huh?

James was the first person to everdrive the car off the property, without it being larry!
It was so fun to roll up in this sweet car!

Sweet baby Hudson
who was out as I was holding him at Mike's birthday celebration!

Today

I got off work at 1:30 pm cause I had some extra comp time,

so I went and got a pedicure

see below

cute huh?

After that I had to write papers....LAME!!!!

But I had to cause I am a semi procrastinator and grad school will get the best of you that way

So after I had writer's block and just starred out the window for awhile,

I finally got at least 1 of the papers done.

Procrastination kicked in again and wanting to be outside.

I went for a run tonight in Garden of the Gods.

It was gorgeous!

At one point after my run I just sat there and watched the sun set behind the mountains.

Listened to the birds chirping above my head

felt the wind blowing on my face.

I was up high enough that I had an incredible view and just

felt close to God.

It was such a peaceful moment.

Hope you all had as peaceful of a night as I did :)