Holy, Hard Classes, Batman!

We clearly took for granted those classes we claimed hard our Freshman and Sophomore year of college. I think as soon as you hit your junior year in a bachelor in science the professors begin speaking in different languages, not foreign languages, worse....science language. "Please find the isomer of this molecular structure, how are these two compounds related? Diasteromers, Enantiomers, Stereoisomers, Structural Isomers..." WHAT?! Sadly I know what those words mean, barely. I'm taking everyones advice and taking a breather from those...words.

This blog, though sometimes neglected, is sometimes very helpful to get blow off some steam. I'm all registered for next term and its a bit of a lighter load, just more focused on Science and Nutrition. But thankfully that is what I'm majoring in so it makes sense.

 I've been day dreaming all day today about what life will be like after college. Maybe I'm just not laid back enough, or haven't been putting myself out there enough but I would really like to know what those people are talking about when they say that these are the best years of your life.

I'm poor. I eat chicken and rice every night for dinner. I sleep an average of 5 hours a night, and spend the other 19 hours cramming information into my brain.
I usually pride myself on being an optimist so I'll give it a try...

I'm learning how to budget my money and time I could be eating cup of noodles every night?
At least I'm sleeping, I could have insomnia
I'm becoming smarter and a better contributor to society
 Yeah whatever, I still like my day dreams about having a beautiful house with a yard and being able to afford our heating bill... One of these days I'll look like this:

Instead of this:

Wedding Nightmares?

As school ticks on I have not had much time to think much about the wedding, let alone plan for it! However, my subconscious desperately wants me back in front of my binder of ideas for dresses, centerpieces, and what not. The other night I had a dream that our venue had to be changed last minute from an indoor modern-ish venue to in the middle of an abandoned field, without explanation. Try selling that to a bride on her imaginary wedding day. In my dream, since I had no choice I proceeded as usual with what I believe to be my "day of" festivities, which might I add are NOT what I have in my conscious mind. I dreamt that I put on my long beautiful wedding dress and proceeded to put my hair in a simple pony tail. NOT how I envision me looking the day of, but none the less the dream continues. If things were not weird enough already I then am told that only twenty people will be arriving and we have food for 150. Slight panic attack. Also, that the bartender refuses to serve anyone any form of alcohol. Slightly larger panic attack. I wasn't able to finish the dream because my alarm woke me up, thank goodness. I thought it was maybe a fluke thing, I hadn't thought much about the wedding in quite some time. BUT THEN! A week later I had another nightmare! This time our wedding was in our normal venue, but the venue had no roof, and was in the middle of a dang field again. The day of festivities seem to be proceeding as I imagine while awake, until I realize that we had not bought Lance's ring! I was about to walk down the aisle to the man of my dreams without a ring to give to him. So we called all of our guests ( all 150 of them) and informed them that the wedding was to be pushed back 3 hours to 8:00PM (What!?). Alright so the wedding was pushed back and our venue was...not what we had planned, no big deal. But then I begin to curl my hair and it wont hold a curl. My make up will not stay on my face, and i'm NOT WEARING SHOES. Thankfully my alarm came to the rescue yet again. I don't know how much more of that I wanted to see. I guess the take home message from these dreams is that it doesn't matter, outside or inside, ponytail, or straight, food or no food, I am still marrying my very best friend, with or without shoes in 10 months and I couldn't be more excited about it :) I did have a chance to meet with the florist the other night and we have a boat load of ideas in store, I cannot wait for Winter Break when the planning can be picked back up. Hopefully the crazy dreams stay in the cage until then. Here are some ideas

As far as everything else goes Lance and I have been spending an average of 6 hours at the library 7 days a week. I wish I had more exciting news but that has been our life. 5 more weeks. 5. more. weeks.

The Weekend Off!

Well for me anyways. I had Friday and Saturday off work so Friday I deep cleaned the apartment to get ready for school and then picked up my sisters to come stay over with us since it was our parents 17th anniversary. Wow..I know...17th!! They are such an inspiration. It shows that when the going gets tough the tough over come the going. My little sister Kim is a wonderful photographer. It's a skill she picked up a little over a year ago and has been doing amazing ever since. She's done a few mock engagement sessions with Lance and I to build her portfolio and has done a couple senior picture sessions! She's fantastic! They went home yesterday morning right before people started to come over and get ready for the game. My friend Sam, Jayme, and some of Jayme's family came over to my apartment and we walked to the tailgaters and such after Lance got home from work. It was extremely warm in the student section. Aluminum benches and 87 degree weather tend to create that result, however. And then we didn't win, so that was...upsetting. BUT it was so much fun being able to hang out with our friends, cheer for OSU, and yell at UCLA. We left the game early due to heat exhaustion and lack of winning and drove up to Hillsboro to meet the newest member of the family, Reese Makena Holcomb. Oh and she is absolutely perfect. I could have held her all night. Bria is such a good big sister, she held her and loved on her, and Lindsey and Brian seem just so overjoyed and happy with their beautiful family. Watching Lindsey makes me so excited to be a mom some day...in the future, quite some time from now. Anyways, here's some pictures from this weekend.

Who's serious these days? :)

The photographer herself

Just Because

I feel like everyone has to learn at some point or another just exactly what truly matters in your life. When you're young, EVERYTHING is a big deal from who said Happy Birthday to who is going to what game. As the years pass though the important people remember the important things and those are the only ones who truly matter. I've been blessed with truly great people in my life who help me celebrate the important things, or the "just because's". Where would I be without them? Probably still making a big deal out of EVERYTHING. This week has been a mundane routine. Lance works everyday, as do I. However, he works days and I work nights, therefore we don't see each other except for a couple minutes before bed. But he still finds small ways, just because, to let me know how much he cares. For instance the other night he greeted me at the door after my late shift with a bouquet of roses and a clean kitchen ( the boy knows me really well! ) And so I learn that the simple things that are important. Without my truly important, soul mate, I would most likely be making a big deal out of EVERYTHING. So now we prepare for school, which we are actually both looking forward to. We have a class together! Which is something we never expected to happen. And we are also preparing for the wedding. 359 days as of today! It seems so far away when you put it into days but with school it will most definitely creep up on us faster than expected. This journey is just going to be full of laughs and I cannot wait.

Obviously, since I'm marrying a goofball, I'm the luckiest girl in the world

Thank you Kim Davis for the beautiful pictures!

5th time's a charm?

After changing, debating, mulling over, experimenting, and completely hating the four majors I had chosen originally before this one, I am happy to say I think we found a winner!! I have decided to major in Dietetics. What the heck is that? Well it's a fantastic little major that gives me a better, more knowledgable excuse to give to Lance as to why we should in fact not eat that delicious looking cheesey, bacon topped, hamburger. But on a more serious note it will give me a lot of knowledge for later on down the road when food allergies hit our children, as they have so generously done to us, and it will also allow me to do two things that I am very passionate about at the same time! I am able to work on a scientific basis, such as how does what you are eating digest in your body, how is it stored, what do the ingredients in the food do to your organs, and so on an so forth. The other part of it is interacting with people on a very personal basis. I will have a cliental that I hopefully work with through either stressful points in their life, tragic points, happy points, such a pregnancy, or achieving a goal such as running a marathon, and so many other points. Needless to say this fits me well. Because of this major change I have spent that last 3 weeks with this little gem:
Isn't she a beaut?
I've managed to become excited with this topic though, chemistry has for once in my life intrigued me, which is another reason that I feel this major is going to fit well. Except for today is my birthday and I do not want to even look at that book. (But I am)

So Lance and I have been slowly chipping away at wedding plans, in and out of Chemistry conversations.
We declared our colors, reserved our venue, drooled over caterers, and have narrowed our photographers down to 3.
I'm so excited for the next year, Lance will be home for every holiday, every OSU football game, and we're planning our wedding! Which is sure to be fantastic. There is just so many wonderful things in the future and I couldn't be more appreciative of everything life has given me thus far.

20? weird.

I'm always the last of my friends to turn a certain age. Hence why I have not been able to go out with any of them on their 21st. The benefit to that, however, is that ALL of them get to come out with me on mine, strategic, I know :)

So last summer I welcomed in my last year as a teenager with my very best girlfriends with a Freaks and Geeks party. Everyone dressed up AWESOME. We had characters such as:


Followed by these hooligans:


In a nut shell it was so much fun being our inner goof balls and dancing the night away. I'm truly blessed with the best friends, ever. But this year will be slightly different. Courtney will be in Hawaii....so we are going to have to replace her with a cardboard cutout. And Lance will be home!! So I think that I'm bringing in my first year that doesn't end in "teen" we should be sophisticated. Maybe a black tie affair? Maybe everyone dresses like they are from the 20's? Or maybe we'll be low key and go out to dinner. Either way, I will be spending it with my very best friends and for that I am forever grateful :)

And it begins!

We put our deposit down on our venue Monday night. Let's just say I was like a kid in a candy shop, all wide eyed staring at all the beauty that was now going to be ours...well for a day. We are getting married at The Vue, it's close to home, relatively inexpensive compared to other places, and fits us perfectly. Finally booking it made everything seem so real and we may have finally chosen our colors! Hopefully. It is simple, but elegant, classy, but homey, modern, but we'll add some classic touches. I've been planning forever, but now it's so real :)