Awards night!

I have had one of the best weekends thank to starting my Friday off right with a meeting for school. It was institute day and normally the meeting are really boring, but for the first time we got to go to a meeting about LAUGHTER and incorporating it in our classroom and everyday life! We did some exercises where we were laughing and he even had people on stage. I of course volunteered and got to go up on stage. There were five of us and we had to pretend to be Lady Gaga thanks to the audience. Then we had to stand in a row and one person who was on stage asked us a question and each of us could only say one word to answer the question. It was tricky but fun to participate.
Then Friday night I got to hang out with my best friend Joe and we went to a comedy show at a local college campus.

Then Saturday was the reunion and Sunday was a great day! I got to see my 90 year old grandma, who is just so funny when she is on and making sense. She has dementia. So simple moments when she lights up and see's me is worth a lot.

Later Sunday was the Awards show and my friend Cait came over and we had my famous Guac!!
Thanks to learning how to make Guac, it is my new obsession, meaning making it and eating it!
Besides that we had our

Yes there is cork in there. It is always fun when Cait and I get together to open wine bottles. :) 

I was happy to see that Christian Bale won best supporting actor!  Did all your favorites win? 

Loras Reunion

Yesterday I got to  go to this fabulous place with some Family from Loras!

I haven't seen some of them since November and others I haven't gotten to see in a year! It is quit crazy that once you graduate from your bubble of college, people go start having a life of their own and it makes it hard to communicate with each other. Especially, when you are so use to four years of seeing each other every day or chatting every day. It is always fun to catch up and see where our lives have taken us. Especially when we were all enjoying this bad boy

It's my Anniversary!

It's my 2 year anniversary of being a SURVIVOR!!! What I mean by that is, I have survivored a sexual asault that happened 5 years ago ( when I was a Junior in College)  and until the last year I have finally become a survivor of this past event.  I went through  Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder for a very long time because of this. As long as it took to get past this scarry event I had  

I made this in a pottery making class. The person on top represents me and celebrating that having HOPE GETS YOU THROUGH TOUGH TIME! 

Thanks to taking time to learn about what happened to me and learning how to heal. I have finally come to a good place. A way I healed was by talking to someone and going to some helpful websites like, RAINN , and for a local website which I support and have gone to events, the group is called Mutual Ground. Both of these places share great messages. You can find both of these support groups on facebook. Another way I like to celebrate my healing is by making posters. I made a poster of what I use to be like. It was very dark and sad.. Now my posters are happy like this

I made this one this year!

Last years poster

This is to all the survivors and people struggling out there! 

Insecure???

It's about 4 am and I am woken up with lots of thoughts traveling through my brain. I was thinking about all the Facebook friends I have deleted that dated back all the way to high school. Then that made me think of High School and who I use to be back in the day. I was thinking about the very first day of High School when my sister was a Senior and I was a Freshmen and I was about 5'0 tall with my huge backpack and scarred out of my mind as I walked in the doors with my sister and her friends. I remember my sister telling me that on the first day her friend chased me down the hall because she saw me going the wrong way in the hallway because I was showing my friend where her class was.

I then was thinking of that insecure, scarred freshmen and who I use to be. I remember I was very quite in class and in general I was shy. I was one of those people that was shy around guys and well didn't know how to talk to them. I remember I talked to a guy in the hallway going to math class and I automatically thought they were my friend or then I started to think I liked them.. OH goofy me!

Now it is 7 years later and I am the complete opposite of who I use to be. Thanks to college and finally embracing who I was I broke out of my shyness. What I mean by this is,  I actually have guy friends! I use to think that was ever gonna happen.  I went on dating sites and met guys. FYI-  I would never recommend people to go to the free dating site where I met Billy Bob( his named changed).
Well, I became this persons friend and one day we were discussing who we were, and at that point in time I couldn't tell him who I was except all the physically aspects like I am a 5'0 girl that loves to box.
 He decided to point out things about me. He said that I was not outgoing and that because of not being outgoing( in his eyes) I was insecure! That because I do not take initiative in things it shows I am insecure!  For a long time I took those words to heart well because I respected this Billy Bob. I remember I then started to think how I acted towards people and started to doubt my outgoing personality I thought I had.. I remember on a vacation,  the whole time I was preoccupied on how I was coming across to people. I remember thinking, "I am showing people I am insecure because I am not sitting tall and my head held high. I am giving off a vibe?"

Now that  I think about it, there is always going to be parts of ever single person that they think is insecure.. For me that would have to be the way my calfs look.  I am not ashamed of admitting that. I am embracing my flaws and realizing well that's me. That's the way I LOOK! It also makes me think that does it really depend if you are OUTGOING OR BEING....

(loud)

does that make you more secure person???

TO BE honest, I thought for a long time I had to become more outgoing to show I am not insecure but that is not true. I like HOW I AM!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I think there are always parts you can improve on yourself, for example getting in shape,which I am doing :). Or being aware of your tone of voice and how you talk to people. You have to except who you are and BELIEVE IN YOURSELF and tell yourself it only matters what you think of yourself NO ONE ELSE!!!!!!!!!

New Zealand Earth Quake!!

I was looking at Yahoo home page to get my news for the day and I stop dead in my tracks and gave a big  GASP!!!!!  when I saw this: New Zealand Quake that killed 65 people. The reason I stopped and read this is because my sister and brother-n-law use to live in New Zealand and I got the joy of going to this gorgeous place and visit.. Here are some of my favorite pics from my trip.

 The day I arrived my sister and Mat took me to this gorgeous beach!

The Sky Tower from a boat.

They call their trash Rubbish! I thought it was funny.

Those are just a few photo's I love.  Enjoy

SouthWestern Chicken Lettuce Wraps

Thanks to my parents being out of town, I was resorting to my new cookbook( Cooking Light, Fresh Food fast weeknight meals) my mom gave me for my birthday.

What I decided was this..

What this deliciousness is made of is this..

Iceberg lettuce

chicken, brown rice( the brown rice was pre cooked) and Bush's black beans with my favorite part

Fresh Salsa. You can make it or just buy it from Jewel.

Last but not least, if you like a kick in the mouth with flavor you can add this Chipotle dipping sauce that is a piece of cake to make.

How to make Sauce:

1/2 cup sour cream( low fat)
1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
1 tablespoon lime juice
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon chili powder.
Mix all the ingredients together and BAMB you have it!!!!

Charming Charlie's

Thanks to my lunch hour with some fun and energetic teachers I learned about a jewelry store called
Charming Charlie's. If you click on the link you will learn where it is located and everything it has to offered. I wanted to try this store out because this store separates its jewelry by color and I was thinking I could buy some purple and pink jewelry because my wardrobe consists of those colors. Plus I need to expand my jewelry collection.

So after about two hours of my friend and I going through the entire store looking at every single piece of jewelry I decided on these...

The stones are purple. Very simple but they will match lots!

Check out the website there might be a Charming Charlie's near you!

Lazy Saturday

I watched Sex and the City on Demand and then my dad informed me he signed up for

Netflix's is the way to go. Instead of paying 4.99 to watch a movie I watched my Spice Girls and another chick flick movie for free on  a free month's trail that I signed up for. :) If you haven't tried it I would

What do you do on your lazy days?

Superbowl Sunday

Today instead of being interested in the football game. I was interested in the commericals. This year I noticed that instead of beer commercials it was mostly car commercials. It made me think back to the old school commercials that I loved..

Who can forget this one with the frogs!

As I watched the half time show with the Black Eye Peas it made me think of my favorite half time shows.
This one for sure is up there.. It is from Superbowl 35!

Old School

On the weekend a joy of mine when I have the house to myself is go Ondemand and watch music videos. One of them I came across is by one of my favorite artists... The one and only Britney Spears!! This music video got me hooked into Britney in the sixth grade. Then made made me think about all the music I grew up with..

I  compiled a group of music video's of songs I grew up listening too.. Enjoy

Nsync's Bye Bye Bye

Man I feel like a Women! Thanks to my sister we use to sing this song all the time in the car

Boys to Men and Mariah Carrey!

What are some of your favorite artists you use to grow up listening to?

Tangled

Today was a great Friday. I work in a kindergarten class and each  week  there is a star of the week. The star of the week brings in a book about themselves, their favorite toy, their hobby, favorite book and mystery idem.

Today I was fortunate to be in the class when they were doing star of the week and we were reading the star of the weeks favorite book. The book she brought in was Tangled. It was great because my teacher  was reading it and I could just sit and listen. Half of the kindergarten class had already seen the movie and both me and the teacher said how we have both been wanting to see the movie so we were looking forward to reading it.

Normally read alouds last 10 mins but because both me and my teacher wanted to see how the story ended we read for 20 mins.. After twenty mins we did torso twists. It is always a joy to watch 22  kindergarten kids doing exercise.

This is an exercise I also do on my wii fit that I love. You can do this exercise with your hands extended out to the side. You will look like a capital T.

Has anyone seen tangled and would you recommend it?

25 is the year!!!!!

Hello there,
So, this is my first blog which I  have to thank my friend Cait and my sister's blog Pink to Green for the inspiration. For a while I thought I could never do this, write a blog about important things, but surprisingly enough after reading my friends and sisters blog, their worlds seem interesting with just their simplistic loves. I decided my passions and love could be shared to others because maybe my followers  will have the same loves and they might find something they like. So here goes...

So it has been a couple of weeks since I have turned 25 and every year I think how I can turn a new chapter in my book of life. I have decided that turning 25 is gonna be the best year. I am gonna find my passions, make myself happy and live life the way I want! :)

To start my year off right my parents bought me a Wii Fit! I have had the wii for over a year but hadn't really used it yet thanks to not having many friends that like video games and my obsession with just facebooking everyone( fyi- horrible addiction).

My parents bought me the Wii Fit because I canceled my membership to the gym to save myself money..
I am so glad I did that because I have find my new fitness friend and obsession I feel.

I have only had it for 2 days but it's just fab... pictures to come!!!