Today

Classes start today and I could not be more excited! My signing skills have slacked over the summer {my fault} so I'm ready to get them up to par again! Hopefully they aren't too horrible.

I finish in May, and hopefully take the first portion of the test this December, and the second portion right after I graduate! I'm excited to improve and practice and prepare to become an actual ASL Interpreter! 

Also this week Taylor is taking the GMAT! He has been taking a prep class and studying all this month and last, he's nervous, but I know he'll do great! He is the smartest most motivated person I know and I'm excited for him to see evidence of that on his test scores!

Needless to say the remainder of the year is going to be extremely busy! Between his GMAT and all the applications to MBA programs, and my classes and prep for my National Certification test, by the time December rolls around we'll both be ready for a little break I'm sure! 

So good luck sweet, charming, handsome, intelligent husband of mine! And good luck to myself as well!

I hope everyone else has a splendid week with whatever may be occupying your time :)

I'm not one to wear loads of jewelry, in fact majority of the time I only wear my wedding ring and stud earrings. But...

I need this ring, desperately

{by Marco Bicego}

thoughts

1. I eat waaaaaaay too much Kellogs Honey Smacks

2. Flo on the progressive commercials is SO annoying,

3. but not as annoying as Madison on ALT nation on my xm radio

4. unlike Flo and Madison, the lady on the Hillshire Farms commercials is HILARIOUS

5. I eat waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much Kellogs Honey Smacks

pardon me

while I'm under construction!

update

This is most likely going to be a fairly random post. I have nothing specific to blog about, so I'm kind of mashing everything from the last couple weeks together.

For those of you who would care to know, I shut down my pitty party shortly after my last post. It's still hott, but that's life, so I got off my lazy keister and have kept myself pretty busy! 

Now, I'm not the most crafty person, but thanks to pinterest I have a lot of crafty examples before my eyes, and I chose to copy some. I'm most proud of my wreath, its pretty impressive, and rather Fall-y {I can't wait until FALL!}

{I am by no means a photographer, but you get the idea..}

We had our Robinson Family Lake Powell Extravaganza at the end of July, and while I didn't personally take any photos, Kelvin and Christy were kind enough to share some of theirs.

We celebrated my 22nd birthday while is Powell! It was so fun! My sweet husband decorated the house boat, my mother in law made me my favorite Chocolate on Chocolate cake, and I even got a special fireworks show! It was so fun! I love having Lake Powell birthdays! {this was my second in a row!}

The Daniels brought 'The Brawler', it was literally the funnest tube I've ever been on, my entire life! It was a nice little change up from wakeboarding :)

I thought I was going to die

our nephew Ben won the ugliest hair contest! 

Hopefully we'll be doing the annual Lake Powell trip for the rest of my life! We had a blast and can't wait for next year!

Current Conditions

If I lived anywhere but Phoenix I probably be a little more exciting and a little less boring. I would probably go hiking when I had nothing else to do, or at least go for a run. I would probably be content walking to the nearest cute little boutique or going on a bike ride to no where in particular. I'm pretty sure I have some friend right down the street. I might even take up cooking all day long, because my kitchen wouldn't get nearly as uncomfortable from the oven being on. But I don't do many of these things, because I do live in Phoenix.

The A/C is turned off from 1pm to 8pm everyday, its 106 outside on a typical summer day, and I am at least wearing 3 layers {out of necessity} everyday, sometimes getting away with only 2. If I want cookies, or bread, or anything other than fruit, my oven or stove needs to be turned on. So no A/C plus the oven heating up the house...I don't think so. Instead, I sleep a lot {which I HATE because I wake up with a headache every time}, I watch a lot of ridiculously stupid shows on hulu {destroying what intelligence I do have}, I try and read, but its not easy to find books that keep my attention longer than 10 minutes these days. I don't have cable {and don't really want it, to be honest}, I already play my piano until I have trigger finger in all ten, and I have a minuscule number of dependable friends {and a good amount of not-so-dependable friends, but everyone needs those kinds too.} so, needless to say, I am bored.

I want school to start so badly! I want this last year to fly by, I want to finish school and start working! I want a full time job with cute little chillens {both to fill my craving for their cute little faces, and remind myself why I'm waiting 5 years to have any!}, and to not be such a lazy bum!

But school doesn't start until the 22nd, and until then I guess I'll just go to a lot of movies {by myself, as is the norm}, keep reading the first 3 chapters of a book and then moving on to another, probably sleep some more, possibly go for long drives in my air conditioned automobile {except then I'm paying for more gas, which defeats the purpose of turning off the A/C from 1-8...hmmm}, and dream of the day we live somewhere where its 85 degrees all year round, wouldn't that be lovely!