You don't need a lover to have love in your life

One of my favorite quotes for this single part of life.


(please excuse my allergy eyes and face... )


I was reminded of this tonight as there were 4 of us in a car driving around- several of us heartbroken and the rest of us heartbroken for the ones that were heartbroken. We love each other. The other 3 girls are some of the most amazing, optimistic, bright, lovely people I know. They just simply deserved to be loved my good men. As I was wishing for them I was reminded that we have each other. Through tears spurred on my heart wrenching music I was so happy to have this girls and so many other people that I love and that love me back. I was also thrilled when I realized that I'm totally and completely, 110% over all the boys I've ever thought I was in love with. I was more sad that the girls were sad than over any boy. HALLELUJAH!!!!

Here's to moving on:

schedualing taking a shower

Do you ever have weeks that you have to schedule real showers- ones where you wash your hair and shave your armpits. Its been one of those weeks- I just took my scheduled shower and it felt like heaven!

Day 2 in Denver

We started the day at the natural history museum... COOL!!! I could have stayed all day and was sad I didn't have more time. The highlight was the space section... I learned all about stars (remember how I got my only "C" ever in astronomy) I learned more in 45 minutes than I did in an entire semester in college. I love to learn cool stuff like it takes billions of years for a star to die and bigger stars die faster then little stars.

Next we went to the Denver Mint and saw how our coins are made. I am a money magnet! Money comes to me because we're like magnets (got my first check from AAA today :)It was rad did you know it costs 1.7 cents to produce a penny and 9 cents to produce a nickle. There is a bill in congress to change the metal to steel so that the coins are cheaper to produce. They gave us all 2 pennies- one stamped and one blank.

After that we went to the second rodeo and believe me- I don't mind being there:) Something about tight jeans, hats, chaps, carhart jackets that does my heart good. Man, they are attractive! BUT.... they're stupid. Who in there right mind almost gets killed every time they do there "sport" At strawberry days I feel like the cowboys are pretty safe. Here I felt like every one was going to get killed in front of me. One guy gets stepped on my a bull and painfully limbs slowly out the area instead of having someone help him- prideful, stupid men! So I was told I need a county man but not a cowboy. I felt like a city slicker.

Love my kids, and so happy to be home :)

Vegas: April's Birthday Bash weekend

A few more pics worth posting from Vegas. What a fun trip!

FFA trip so far

I got up at 6 am, worked out, showered and loaded the bus at 7:45 am. I got the kids tucked in around 11- I'm exhausted but need some wind down time so here I am blogging. I wish I ran the show... we are all tired and its ineffective. Yesterday we spent the entire day on the bus I mean 13 hours.... yuck! Today we ran and tomorrow we're going to run again. I need downtime- "this just isn't working for me phrase" doesn't work here.

On a much better note my students are perfect! They have been nothing but a delight and they don't complain. For example: for breakfast we went to McDonalds- all 150 of us. My kids suggested that we go sit down and wait till everyone else got there food then we could get in line. so we did and then we did it again at lunch. They are offering to pay for each others food and want to make sure everyone is taken care of. I feel like I'm the only one throwing a fit internally.

We started our day at the Pro Rodeo Museum where someone else got a hold of the camera and took all these pics of me. From there we went to the Bass pro shop, then the stock show (really an indoor fair) and then the rodeo. The rodeo was amazing! More on that later.

Night from a tired teacher- tomorrow will be better after some sleep :)

This is what I was wearing when....

First lets just talk about how this slammin dress cost me $2.49 at Ross... that's right people for less than I meal I rocked Vegas.

We went dancing at Pure (the club at Caesars Palace) and it just happened to be Ray Jay's birthday (Brandy- yes, from the 90s, is his sister). He threw his bash there and we went kinda on accident. The next thing you know he has a mic in his hand and he's rapping to his stuff and then our man Snoop Dog comes out and gives up some love. Then a scene straight from a movie happens but it was real life. They threw out dollar bills in stacks and made it "rain". Only in Vegas... I'm good at it.

$2600 of love

AAA (my insurance company) Called to tell me my car is totaled and they're going to write me a $2600 check. Thank you AAA!!!!! Miracles happen everyday in my world. So on to Car shopping!