What a mother should be....

In honor of Mother's Day I thought I would write about my Mom. I know this would be in a couple of weeks, but I thought about this today and would like to get it written down.
To me, a Mother should be nothing less then what my Mom has been for me, a best friend. Since I was young my Mom (and Dad) has been the constant support in my life. She is the one I call the minute something in my life happens, and is consistently on the sideline cheering me on. She knows my flaws and my fears, my wants and my hopes. But most important she knows who I truly am. She is wonderful! I know this may sound cliche, but someday I hope to be half the Mother my Mom is to me. I hope to be the role model, the friend, wife, and Mother that she has shown me how to be. My Mom has become a successful business woman while being the glue to our family. Thanks Mom! Thank you for showing me how to hold my baby dolls, and how to bake cookies. Thanks you for teaching me what is important, what is right and wrong. Thanks for letting me be your little "helper" when you had Isaac. Thank you for telling me it will be ok when my heart was first broken. When I needed a shoulder you were always there, you have always been there when I have made decisions to help me to make the right ones. Thank you for being my Ma.
And to all of those Moms out there, don't forget how much you mean to your children. Someday they will look back and realize how wonderful you have been for them. I promise.

Spring Break

Jason and I began our Spring Break by throwing my parents a 25th Anniversary Party. Jason is such a help through anything, and this time was no different. We both had been planning the party for a few months and the turn out was great! The party was at my church and my parents had the chance to celebrate the wonderful team they have made for the past 25 years.

After the party Jason and I went to visit my sister in Grand Junction. On the way there Jason was going 70 mph through Glenwood Canyon. 250$ ticket!!! But anyways..... my sister is great!! They have a one bedroom house that is just perfect for their family. Marley has started crawling and is just the cutest nephew I could ask for.

Look at that cute thing!! So big! I cannot believe it!

Jason will make such a great Dad someday!

The next day was Jason's Birthday and we spent the day at Beaver Creek. Jason decided he wanted to try snowboarding and he did great. He only fell a few times and thank God he had a helmet. He enjoyed it but admits skiing is probably easier. We ate dinner at Vail Village and ended with ice cream and chocolate from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. I hope he had a good birthday, I know I had fun spending the day with him!

Jason after the first run!

Jase on a lift, definitely shows why I love him soooo much!

Not a bad picture of us! Happy 22nd Jason!

I made him let me take a picture before dinner with this girly hat on! Sorry Jase!

Friday night and never been happier!

In high school I was a 4.0 student. I never had to study it just came easy, I remember planning college out like it would go as smoothly as high school. Engineering, Easy? What was I thinking? Freshman year I had to learn that getting a C in an engineering class, was an A in a high school class. Granted it took plenty of nights crying over "bad" grades and seeing other people studying the same thing fail for me to realize I was doing just fine for an engineering student. My mom tries to explain that going to college is one of the hardest things that I will do. As a college student you have multiple distractions as well as being in a new environment. After two years living in an environment that was not compatible with me succeeding in my classes I realized getting my own place would be the right choice. Last night I took my first Differential Equations Exam (this is my last math class!!!!). This morning, at 8am. I went to class wondering if I did as good as I felt I did. BINGO! 91.25% on the first exam. The average was a 79%. I have never felt more on top of the world! I had to brag, engineering is not second nature to me, and I work really hard for average grades, but maybe now that I have my habits down I will get back into my high school grade mode! So excited to get such a good grade!!!

To keep me sane....

So in the next couple of weeks the "busyness" of day to day life is going to quadruple!! This week I am helping to put on an event that the Society of Women Engineers puts on once a semester (I am the activities officer) and I still have to work, as well as classes and the mounds of homework I get every week. I also will be starting to prepare for my two engineering exams next week. Obviously due to this Jason and I will not be seeing each other very much.

Tonight we spent two hours eating dinner and playing 3 games of Settlers and this ended in laughing and endless smiles as it always does. As you know Sundays usually come before Mondays and I am extremely bummed. I thought to make my weeks go better I would share one or two things about our future wedding to also give me something FUN to think about.

So here is number one,we have chosen our flower!!! I know that Nathan and Kalli had gerbera daisies, but we will be having only yellow gerbera daisies, (yellow is my favorite color!). I know that if I start chosing things now it will be a lot easier when the wedding gets closer. And it will also probably feel like the time between now and then is forever, but hey I am already excited so I am going to show it!! Happy Sunday!!

Divine Intervention

On August 4th 2007 the Lord blessed me with my best friend. Jason and I agree that we were both in a place where we needed friendship and someone to belong to when we met. I met Jason 12 days before I left for College. We spent each night together. Either going to a movie or playing twenty questions at a park. On the eleventh night of knowing Jason, he took me to Daniel's Park to look at the stars. When he began to dive me back home I looked out the window and thanked God for showing me some good in the world. Jason.

I remember that night better then the rest because when I got home I sat in front of my house and cried. I thought "why, why would this wonderful person come into my life right before I had to leave"? I also remember promising myself that night that if this were to end ever, I would be thankful for the time I had with Jason. The next night Jason made me feel better I never asked him if we would still talk or what would happen, I guess I didn't want to know. He still made me happy. That is what matters right?

The morning that I left for school he talked to me, and every morning after that. I didn't expect this. Jason tells me now he wanted to be with me and an hours drive wouldn't have changed that feeling. I am so glad. Jason came to visit a couple weeks into school, and he did this the entire year we spent apart. The second year Jason moved up to Fort Collins and we have been inseparable since. Yesterday was our third Valentines Day together. I am so happy I met him, and I will never break my promise to myself. I will always be thankful for the time with him.

Oh to be young again.....

During winter break Jason and I had the chance to take care of my 8 year old little brother, Isaac. We started watching a movie and naturally the child in the movie was more philosophical about life compared to the adults in the movie. We got about half way through the movie and the child told the adult how life is too short and we shouldn't waste it not spending our time doing what we love.

My brother quickly turned to us and said "life is long what is he talking about?" I tried to tell him when I was his age I thought the same thing, but now that I look back on when I was his age it feels like it was just yesterday. He didn't pay attention and continued to watch the movie. I turned to Jason and smiled. Later we talked about how in March Jason will be 22 and I will turn 21 in June. It doesn't seem possible to either of us.....

I am just about ready to go into high school and experience the "high school" scene and Jason says he is just about ready for kindergarten... :) We feel that already life has flown by and cannot imagine how the next twenty years will fly by.

I was talking with my parents about the wedding, they feel like they are still twenty so it is hard for them to see their 20 year old daughter prepare to have her own wedding. My mom was twenty when she was married, but still tells me I am "too young" to get married. Believe me since Jason and I have talked about being married that sentence has been played over and over by friends and many family members.

This Friday Jason and I will have been a couple for 2 1/2 years. When I met him I did not think he was "the one" and our relationship has had its bumps. Yet when I think about marrying someone I know through watching my parents that it is important to be with someone who is not only your best friend but also someone you can see yourself with forever.

Jason has helped me to become a better person. He has shown me how to be happy and shown me what friends really are. He is my best friend and really the only person that wants me to be happy more then anything else. I know that we will grow old and "laugh at each other as we fall apart".

So, despite how old I am, or how old I feel I know that Jason and I are meant to be. We are going to start our short life out together young so that we can spend more of our lives together!!

And I am so EXCITED!!!!