Life =)

Apparently it's way harder this semmester for me to update my blog cause it's definitely been awhile! Well... things have been going well. :)

Right now I'm lying in Mary's bed at her house where Heather and I have spent the last several days. We've discovered that if nobody sets an alarm to wake up, we'll all sleep soundly till 11. I love spring break! We spent Easter weekend here and are heading back to school today till Wednesday morning before we pick Shanna up from the airport (HOOORAYY!!!) and head down to San Diego to spend time with the Tullsens :)

Easter Weekend was great. Friday afternoon Heather and I arrived at the Spagnola's, and then went to the movies so Mary and I could see our new favorite movie, The Last Song. It was amazing, we both cried and just in general loved it. It was kinda cool too because afterwards we got to meet and get a picture with the little boy who played Jonah in the movie. (picture above... us with Bobby Coleman!) He was SO cute - ah! We wanted to adopt him. The next day Heather and I went into town for awhile to have coffee at the local coffee shop here (I love the coffee place - I wish I could live here so I could spend all my time there), and then went into all the vintagy/funky little gift shops in town. If I couldn't grow up in Seattle, I would wanna grow up in here. It's the cutest little town, and just completely beautiful. I'm totally in love with it. Easter Sunday was crazy! The Spagnola's have a huge family and had at least 20-30 people over yesterday for Easter dinner. It was so much fun - so many different personalities around the table, the conversations were always interesting. I love big families and felt right at home all weekend - The Spagnola's are the sweetest people.

Spring Break will be great. I'm going back to school in a few hours to do some homework and pack for San Diego, and to be nearby for when Shanna comes in at Long Beach in less than 48 hours... ahhh!!! I can't wait to see her, it's been 8 months and just far too long. When you spend almost every other day with a person for 4 years and then don't see them for 8 months it's just SO weird, and I really hate it, so I'm sooo happy she's flying down to spend some time. :) We're gonna go to the beach and just relax down there and enjoy being together and with the Tullsens.

School has been kinda intense lately... just mainly because I gave my first speech (which wasn't the intesne part) about Chrysler Corporation and their irresponsibility in the design of certain car models. That was the intense part. But I'm very glad I did it. Other than that it's been pretty mellow school wise. I've done a pretty good job of keeping on top of homework and projects this semmester. I have an interpretation paper coming up soon that should be amazing and a ton of work, but I'm really excited. I want to do it on 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 (I think) which talks about comforting others with the comfort we've recieved ourselves from Christ. I love those verses cause that's what I want to do with my life... so I think I'll write my paper on them.

Future -I've finally decided to officially declare my major as Psychology (which, by the way, I'm still impressed that I know how to spell that), and I want to become a grief and trauma counselor someday. I got to meet with Norm Wright, a well known psychologist in this field, and ask him plenty of questions about how much school I'll need, and just talk about some of my hesitations with him... It was a great conversation and I walked away from it 100% sure and confident that this is not only what I want to do, but it's what I'm called to do at this point.

Whew! Well that's a pretty big update for now - I'll try and update this more often! I hope you all are well - I love you. Till next time!