My Adorbly sister

IMG_3291seventies, a photo by vjisenbarger on Flickr.

Carli has been working on a scarpbook with focuses on Temples and here commitment to be married in them. For this scrapbook, she wanted pictures of herself to use. Of course I volunteered. She is so fun to photograph. And I love the idea she has. It is super cute and creative.

Oh the Joys of Easter.

This pretty much sums up my lil bro. He's pretty cool.

Curt Dawg, maning the egg dying station.

I couldn't wait to eat the delicious eggs.

My sisters ballin egg.

My egg. I like to call it "Flower Egg"



AHH this Easter was so so SO much fun.
I love holidays.
Another reason to celebrate the blessings we have,
and remember our Lord, Jesus Christ.
What a miraculous day.

We also are SO blessed to live close to family.
Saturday,
Curt and I kicked it with my family.
I was looking forward to this day for FOREVER.
I love dying eggs so much.
And we made some pretty intense eggs,
as you can see.
That definitely was a lot of fun.

And on Sunday,
Curt and I had our very own egg hunt.
He hid my eggs in the bedroom and bathroom.
I hid his eggs in the living room and kitchen.
The problem was,
we didn't come to a consensus on how hard to hide the eggys.
I hid Curt's super hard.
It took him a while to find his eggs.
I laughed,
and thoroughly enjoyed this.
He did not hide mine so hard,
with the thought that we were already running late for church.
Fair enough.
Next year we will just have to wake up earlier than 11 o'clock.

Then we looked for our baskets,
which we filled with lovely goodies.
The day before,
Curt and I went to Payless, both with ten dollars.
Curt had ten minutes on the right half of payless to find goodies for my basket,
and I had ten minutes on the left side to find Curt some delicious goodies.
Then we switched.
All was done under secrecy.
I love this crafty idea.
Sometimes it is quite difficult to surprise your spouse on such occasions,
but this way we were able to!
Curt filled my basket with Princess and the Frog fruit snacks (yum) (I love that movie),
Yogurt,
Raisin Bran Crunch cereal,
Peanut M&Ms (yesss),
TAPIOCA pudding (im a huge fan),
Mac and cheese,
and snickers eggs.
He got a lot with his ten dollars.
I was impressed.
I bought Curt sour cream and onion chips,
original chips,
sour cream,
hot salsa,
fruit roll ups,
and a bag of twixes.
I think it too was pretty successful.

But all in all,
Easter weekend was wonderful.
 We spent dinner over at Curt's parents,
and celebrated Jenny and Lisa's birthdays.
Good times, good people.
Like I said,
I love the holidays.

Used can look good.

So today I had one of my communications presentations. We have been working on this forever. I made posters, a website, and my group put together an infomercial about the event we want to host (more on this later, I'm sure your dying to know how it went).

Anyways, we are required to look professional.  

Stuntin' in other words. 

(I love dress up days)

This was my outfit for the day:

I was complimented 4 times today at school.

And asked 3 times where I bought them.

You know what I told them?

Goodwill baby.

Everything I wore today was from GW.

The shirt is from Limited.

I bought it for 4.65

(normally 29.90 from The Limited)

My sexy work pants are from Limited.

I bought them for 3.99

(normally 69.90 from The Limited)

My adorbly shoes are from target.

I bought them for 3.00.

(normally 16.95 from Target)

The outfit's total=$11. 64

So moral of the lesson is, 

used can look good.

You just have to look a little harder.

And now your wondering about the presentation I was working so hard on. WELL, our objective was to convince our school president (Cordova) to award us with a $1500 dollar grant, which we would then use to enhance the Purdue experience. Our group decided to do an obstacle course, a muddy one. We called this event "Klimbing for Kids" and we would open it up to all Purdue students. Not only would their be an awesome obstacle course, but we would invite three local charities to come, allowing students to learn more about them and volunteer with their programs. Sounds good doesn't it? It gets better. I made a poster for this hypothetical event:

Now you want to go, don't you? I for sure do. So we passed this poster out to all of our classmates and instructor. They were impressed. Heck, I am impressed. I love it. But wait, it gets even better. I put together a website for this fake event. 

Check it out: Klimbing for Kids website

This site is awesome. If you ever need to build a free website for anything, go to wix.com. It's super easy and addicting. 

We didn't stop there. Our group got together, on a frigid windy day, and made a promotional video for the event. There is no way Cordova could say no to us. Not after this video. 

It's on my facebook if you want to check it out. I think it's silly. facebook

SOOO that is what has consumed my life right now. But it's been fun, and I had a great group. That helps a lot. Curt's been working on a group presentation right now too. When he's done with his, I'll show you what they did. They thought of some pretty awesome stuff. Stay tuned for more.

Camping under a plaster sky.

So updates for y'all is in order.
Firstly, we are super super super busy. Days are runnin together.
Not sure if its a good thing or a bad thing. There is no time to think about it.
Curt has been busy with work, and school, and boy scouts, and home teaching, and cooking, and cleaning. Recently he's been asked to help with some training vids at Perfcu. I'm married to a famous person.
I have been working non-stop, pretty much every day now. The YMCA and School Date Books (sdb we will call it) is keeping me busy. But we must remember that school is going on right now also. And for some reason all of my teachers thought it would be a great idea to have group projects. yaaay. pause. not. so time consuming. On top of that, I have been helping with young womens on the reg (we just had a clothes swap on Wednesday---super fun) and trying to get a garden goin on our little porch.  Oh yes, last week I had a talk at church. Kind of a disaster, but Curt swears it wasn't. This is what happened:
First off, when I get a tinsy bit nervous I have to pee very bad. That's all I could think of. Would it be bad for the speakers to take a quick potty break? Not sure. After the first speaker, it was my turn. Bishop told me I have about 15-20 mins to speak. Got it. Except, for some reason my throat was really really dry. I could feel particles of dust coating my throat the longer I spoke. I was coughing between every sentence. I tried to keep it cool though--didn't help. One of the counselors actually got me a glass of water towards the end of my talk. Then bishop gets up and tells me I'm running over. I still had two more pages left! Not good. So I had to hurry up and finish my talk. All in all, I am glad its over.

Anyways, that was last week. This is this week. Wanna hear what we did last night?
Of course you do...after going to the beloved goodwill and express for men, Curt and I were exhausted. But an idea came to mind. How bout we go camping. Right here, in our living room. So we did. We set up our tent in our living room, brought out the sleeping bags, pillows, chips, and soda. If was actually the first time I've used it since we got it for our wedding. (Curt uses it a lot more with the boy scouts). It was great. We kicked back and watched Fast & Furious and then fell asleep under a plaster sky. Picture perfect. We decided next time we are going to roast mallows on his grill...because there WILL be a next time.

things I really really like (maybe love) today.

#1. I love Curt's scruff. He's such a hunk. Sometimes I want to steal his razor so he always has his manly scruff. But then I remember that it leaves beard burn on my face, and I put the razor back. Still, I love it.

#2. Intense volleyball. I love when it makes me sweat and dive and hit and set. I love the intensity. It's a stress reliever.

#3. Spageddies. Curt and I went on a date tonight. This place is delicious and way way better than Olive Garden. No offense.

#Trilogies. We have watched the Oceans, Bournes, Lord of the Rings, started Austin Powers and Star Wars. We want to watch the Jurasic Parks. AHH so goood.

The Highlights.

 This was Addie and Braden's first time at the beach.

They absolutely loved it.

They were making sand castles,

then destroying sand castles.

They were splashing in the water,

and chasing loud seagulls.

It was so fun.

While driving around the beautiful city of St. Augustine,

we ran into a GOOGLE CAR.

Of course I had to stop and take pictures,

while he was taking pictures.

Seriously,

highlight right here.

We also ended up going to a fake fort,

instead of the real fort.

How were we supposed to know?

The situation was quite humorous.

We walked inside the lobby area of the fort,

and asked how much were the tickets,

this was the woman's response,

"Are you sure you you want to see the fort?"

uhhhhh....

We should've taken her advice and split!

But we thought it was THE famous fort in St. Augustines.

Apparently not,

and that lady knew it.

We paid 11 bucks-per person-

to see a FAKE fort,

filled with first graders running around.

This is us,

playing some indian games.

Curt whooped me.

THEN,

we did the best thing ever. 

We rented a scooter,

and scootered all over St. Augustines.

That was so fun. 

We went down really neat old streets,

saw the lighthouse,

rode past the alligator farm,

got lost for a while,

raced old buggies.

It was super fun.

 THIS is the ACTUAL,

famous fort that we WANTED to go to.

To bad we spent all of our monies at the fake fort.

And apparently, 

the Abominable Snowman lives in Florida,

who would've known?

 This is Curt,

lookin fine on the beach.

Definitely a highlight.

We ate at a restaurant that was located right on the harbor. 

Thanks Kyle and Ashley!

It was beautiful.

SO,

overall our trip was fantastic and we want to go back tomorrow.

Kyle, Ashley, Braden, and Addie and so lucky 

to live in paradise!

Rewind.

We started our conquest to Florida the moment we were able to, March 12, 2011. We made a wise decision to split the trip into two segments, stopping of course with the beloved Tennesseeian Isenbarger (Cole & Emily). But BEFORE we reached Murfreesboro, we found a beautiful and secret place...

Check out that name.

Big Bubba Bucks Belly Bustin BBQ Bliss.

So great.

The food was even better. We had ribs, sweet tater fries, corn bread, pork sammiche, and peach cobbler. I want some now. And check out their grills...

This was a very legit BBQ.

With our stomachs happy, we continued our drive and wound up in Emily and Cole's parking lot. We checked out their place and then met up with more family-Betsy and Sam and Preston, Carla, and Ryan and Mikah and Mackenzie.That was a first time for me. They were great, lots of good times right there. We ate at Chuy's (pronounced chew-ies) and had some delicious mexican foods.

Soooo, already within the first day of our trip, it was great. We ate great food and stayed with people we love. It only gets better from here...


MORE LATER.
I don't want to overload you with wonderfulness.