Hello 30, Good bye 25

Tomorrow I turn 30 and I can't help but think of the Friends episode where they all turn thirty and Joey keeps saying, "Why God, why?". I sort of feel the same way, how on earth am I this old. I also feel like I have not really done most of the things that I wanted to and some of them I am glad I did not do. Well time to go run a triathlon before I turn 30 (it is from Scrubs). Well at least I am spending the day getting pampered with the gift card Jason got me for Christmas. Also I am 25 pounds lighter than I was at the begining of the year. I am pretty happy with my weight lose so far. I am hoping to lose another 20 pounds. After that I can eat sweets again. Well other than my birthday we have not had a lot going on. I have been trying to keep the weeds at bay in my yard and I finally have some peas. I also found a little tomato on one of my plants which made me happy.

Surprise Birthday Date

About a week and a half ago Jason told me that he had a surprise date planned while he was on vacation and he wanted me to go pick up a new outfit for it. I was so excited because I love surprises like this and Jason does not plan big dates like this often so I knew it was going to be good. So I got a new outfit and the 2nd got here. I gott all ready and Jason had to go pick up my dad at work because he had to take his car into the shop and borrow our car. While I was waiting for him to come back the doorbell rang and it was Tyler and Julia. So our date was a double date and I was happy I was hoping it was. I knew Julia had a surprise date in June too so I was hoping they were together. We waited for Jason to get here and when he did the men took us to the Olive Garden for dinner. It was good and fun to talk.

After dinner we came back to our house, which I thought was weird because I thought we would just go to the next part of our date. The doorbell rang again and this time in the glass of the door I could see a limo. I could not believe that they rented one. Julia was so excited. In fact we were all so excited that I forgot to blow the candle out that I had lite. So in the limo I had to call my dad to see if he would stop by and blow out the candle so that we would not burn down the house. In the limo they had sparkling apple cider and the ride was fun. They took us to Capital Theater to see Les Miserables. I was so excited because that is what I hoped our date would be.

So the show started and it was really good but about 20 minutes into it they show had technical difficulties and so we were just waiting. I started to worry what would happen when we were out with the limo. So finally Jason had to tell me that he had dropped the car off to take us home. I did not believe him at first, because my dad had the car. I found our it was all a trick. We teased Tyler and Jason for their "web of lies". The show started again and it was really good I am so glad that we got to go.

When I got to the car Jason had a teddy bear and carmels in the car for me. It was so sweet and the best surprise birthday date ever. It was so nice for Tyler and Jason to plan such a special night and work so hard for months to put it all together. Julia and I are so lucky to have such wonderful husbands.

I know I am a slacker

Hey everyone if anyone still reads my blog. I have had a really busy last couple of months with school and a lot of other stuff going on in our lives. Our deck started to collapse after the winter and it has been a chore getting it rebuilt. Luckily we are so blessed to have wonderful family and friends who helped us work on it. We can never thank them enough and today it finally was finished.

Here are the before and after pictures. Ugly deck on the top, pretty deck on the bottom. I am so glad that it is done and that this deck is so much better than our other one. When we tore up the deck we found out that they had used untreated wood under the deck so it was all rotted. We are grateful no one hurt themselves on the old deck. The new one is made of treated wood and Treks which should last forever. Eventually we will have to replace the fence. Apparently they did not believe in levels.

In non-deck news my semester went better than I suspected. I have to say this was my hardest semester with classes and all the unexpected things that happened this semester. I had five papers due within a month of each other one being 15 pages another over 20 pages. It was just really stressful. Fortunatly I did well enough to stay on the Dean's List. In addition I got my 23 page paper back and my teacher thinks that it is good enough to submit to the student journal at the U. I am thinking that maybe I will submit it. My dad says that the worst that could happen is that they say no to publishing it. I need to fix some things and maybe do some more research but I think that I will try.

Well I am looking forward to the rest of my summer with no school and my next semester will be easier with only three classes. And I can catch up with all the things that I wanted to do during school including talking to people. Hopefully no one has taken my inattention personally. Between school, the deck, and other stuff going on I have a hard time remembering my name sometimes.

New Roses

So after the winter I found that three of my rose bushes had died. I was sad because one of them was a really pretty one that smelled really good. So I am going to replace two of them and I have to decide what colors I want. So I am asking for your opinion. The ones that survived are lavender, a dark red, yellow, and orange. I lost the yellow, white and a multi-colored one. I am thinking about maybe getting multi-colored ones. So if you have an opinion let me know. I am also thinking about tearing out my laurel bushes that did not do well this winter and putting in butterfly bushes. We will have to see if I do or not.

A little bit smaller

So about a month ago I decided to start Weight Watchers. I always told myself I never would, but I was not having a lot of success losing weight by myself. I never wanted to go to meetings or have someone weight me and then discuss with me what my weight was, so I did not join. But now they let you do everything online, so I figured what the heck. I was not happy with my weight and it was time for me to change that. Well I have to say that I am now a believer in Weight Watchers. I reached my first weight goal of losing 5% of my weight. I have lost the same amount that I did two years ago, but in a month instead of eight months. The program has really helped me to limit portion sizes and watch what I eat. I still have a ways to go to be at the weight that I want to be at, but I am encouraged by my results so far. Maybe the will put me on a commercial. So we have a lot of big changes going on in our lives right now. One is that my parents are moving out. They have been living with us for almost three years and two weeks ago they signed on their home. I am so excited for them. Their new house has a huge garage and a hot tub. So next weekend Jason and I are going to be by ourselves in our house. We are not going to know what to do just the two of us. Well we do have plans. We are changing some of the rooms around. I am making one of the rooms into a craft room for me to keep all my yarn, flowers, wreaths, and paints. Also because my parents are moving I am changing my garden this year. I am not planting as many tomatoes. Although I say that now, but I always pick up plants, you know because they need a home. I have already planted peas, which the birds have been eating, which is annoying. I am going to plant beans this year and some lettuce. But no squash, Jason and I can not eat that much zucchini. Well that is what is going on. We are just really busy right now. I am trying to get all my papers written. I have 5 and only on more month left to do it all in. Heres hoping that I don't flunk. Sorry this is one long paragraph, I keep putting spaces and the stupid thing just puts it all as one paragraph.

Shy guy down my dress

So today we went to Jason's cousin's wedding and during the reception we helped watch our niece and nephew. They had little Disney figures and Mario figures to play with. My niece kept trying to put Minnie Mouse down everyone's dress, she is only 2 so it is cute now. But my nephew could not find his shy guy figurine, we looked all over the gym for it and could not find it. His mom said we would look after the reception was done. So Jason and I went home and I was sitting on the couch and there was a lump on my leg. I grabbed it and it was the shy guy. My niece had stuck it down my dress and I did not know it, when I took off my belt it feel down. Lets just say we all laughed hysterically and that is the first time I have ever had a Nintendo character down my dress. You have to watch out for those shy guys you never know where they will end up.

A first for me

So today was my first time being rear ended. The car is just fine and I am fine too. I was getting on to the freeway and had to stop for a pedestrian who had the right away. I was stopped and all of a sudden someone hit me. My head hit my seat, so I have a little headache, but there is no damage to my car. The girl said it was because the road was slippery, but I am pretty sure that it was because she was on her cell phone. Well I hope that does not happen again. Although everything is fine, it was still really scary.
Other than that everything is going fine. I am busy with school. I am also really excited to get out into the yard and get some stuff done. My tulips and hyacinths are starting to pop up. I am going to try and plant some peas this weekend if the weather cooperates. I am just really excited to have nicer weather. We have a lot of stuff we want to do around the yard and I want to start getting it done. I just hope we get to keep the spring weather for a little bit and don't go straight into the summer heat.