What I’m Loving Wednesday

Linking up with Jaime for What I’m Loving Wednesday.

I’m LOVING that we finally have found an officiant!!! See…we had one, but then when we switched the venue the time also go changed so that person couldn’t marry us because of a time confliction. Well then we were left with less than 10 weeks to go and no one to marry us. My awesome step-mom found someone yesterday and I’m sending the deposit and form to the person tomorrow!! Go figure that the one huge problem we would have with the wedding planning would be with the officiant, which is kinda a huge part of the whole wedding!!!

I’m LOVING that I finally get to sleep in tomorrow!! It’s another full week of subbing for me with tomorrow being the only half day of the week and it’s in the afternoon. 5 days of subbing in a row is rough because I’m still working my other job on the weekend so if I have a full week of subbing, that’s a lot of days of me working with no days off!!!

I’m LOVING the new season of Hell’s Kitchen. B and I started watching it earlier tonight and this looks like it’s going to be a great season!! We were 12 minutes in and we were on the edge of our seats!! We’ll have to wait until Friday night to finish the rest of the 2 hour premiere though.

And as always, I’m LOVING my wonderful fiance and our cats!! I’ve been picture crazy with the cats recently so here are some recent pics I took.

I have no idea what she was doing here. I kept calling her name and she wouldn’t even flinch. And she stayed in this position for a good minute or so.

Went back to my room and saw this…

She had her head down and was so much cuter before I took this pic. I tried to sneak up on her so she wouldn’t move, but it didn’t work. 

What I’m Loving Wednesday

It’s Wednesday again…this week is going by fast!!!

I’m LOVING that today I get my first real paycheck from subbing!!! The first one I got only had one half day on it because it was near the end of a pay period, so that paycheck doesn’t really count. This second paycheck has 5 full days worth of subbing on it (some were full days and some were half) and I checked my account online, and it is over $400!!!! And I’m getting paid from my other job tomorrow, so that is awesome!!!

I’m LOVING that my local radio station finally opened up the voting for the cutest couple!!! They do this every year and we have yet to win. It’s more like a popularity contest though. Whoever has the most friends and family wins. But oh well, I’m still gonna try. Click on the picture below. Then you will have to enter your email and sign up. You can tell it to not send you emails so that you don’t get any emails from the radio station. Then we are couple number #173. Thank you all in advance for doing this for me!! You can vote once a day, so if you remember, please vote once a day! And pass this along to anyone you know!!!

 

I’m LOVING that my wedding is about 3 months away!!! Another post about that will be coming in the next few days!!!

I’m LOVING these new pins I found in the past week or so.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I gotta remember to get some tortilla’s so I can make this!!! This looks so simple!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: fabulousfoodblog.com via Nicole on Pinterest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is one of the cutest pregnancy announcement ideas I’ve seen!!! I can’t wait until the day that I actually get to use one of those ideas!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: janamelendeztsk.blogspot.com via Nicole on Pinterest

 

And as always, I’m LOVING my wonderful fiancé!!

Happy Birthday to Me!!

Well, I am officially 23!! I don’t really feel any different though. I just can’t believe that January is almost over! Where does the time go? Soon there will only be 3 months until my wedding!! When my fiance got home from work, he got a quick shower and then we went out to dinner where I got a free meal for my birthday! Then we came home and he passed out right away. He said he was going to take a nap, but that was 6:30 and now it is about 9:30, so he’s out for the night. I’m kinda sad that he went to bed so early because the next 3 nights I have to work till either 9 or 10, so I won’t get to see him that much. I really can’t wait till I get a full-time teaching job so that we will both be working during the day and then can spend our nights together. Oh well, right now I just need to work when I can. We have the rest of our lives to spend together so for now we just have to deal with not seeing each other a few nights a week.

Overall my birthday was pretty good. I stayed in my PJ’s until 3:30, did some wash, and watched some shows on my DVR. I also picked up 3 new subbing jobs today so I’m really excited about that! It is nice to have at least one day off during the school week so that I can pick up more subbing jobs. I find that most of the jobs get posted during the school day. I have 11 subbing jobs scheduled so far and my farthest one out is on May 3rd!! I also have one each in March and April! Let’s hope I can keep getting this many subbing jobs!

Well, that’s about all for now. Have a great rest of your Monday night everyone!!

What I’m Loving Wednesday

My first WILW post of the year and in a long time!!! So here goes…

I’m LOVING the Jobulator app. If you are a substitute teacher using Aesop, you definitely want to have this app!! You get alerted immediately when a sub position becomes available! And the jobs are gone within seconds!! Tonight I’ve seen a ton of jobs come up, but could only take 2 of them! The other ones were for tomorrow and Friday, and I already work day shift as a cashier. But starting on Monday, I’ll be working night shift, so I can start taking all the subbing positions I can!! So I picked up a subbing job for next Thursday and the Thursday after that!!

I’m LOVING 2013 so far!! I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again…2013 is going to be one of my best years yet!! I’m getting married in 4 months and I’m starting the next chapter in my life so I’m excited!!!

I’m LOVING that I rekindled a friendship with someone that I was friends with in high school! We’ve only hungout once so far, but it’s not going to be a one time thing!

And as always, I’m LOVING my amazing fiancé, which from this post on, I’m going to refer to as B (short for Billy).

Have a great rest of your night everyone!!

Wow…

It has been 2 whole months since the last time I blogged!!! I’ve just been so busy with student teaching that I haven’t gotten the chance to blog or read any of the blogs I follow!! Last week I started my second student teaching placement which is the one for special education. The week before that I finished my first placement which was 5th grade! I absolutely loved it!! It’s only been a little over a week since I left my co-op and the students, but I miss them!!

For my new placement I am in an emotional support classroom for students ages 12-20. It is definitely different than anything I’ve done before. The students are a lot older than the students I’ve worked with and their behaviors are more severe. But I’m going to get through it. I can’t believe that there are only weeks standing in the way of me graduating!!! It seems like not that long ago I was just starting college!! But I’ve finally made it to my final semester!!!

Well, as I write this, Sandy is making her way here so I have no school today or tomorrow. This is kind of nice to have a little unexpected break, but I’m hoping the storm doesn’t do that much damage. We’re kind of up on a hill so we should be safe from the flooding. So I’m just taking advantage of still having power while I can by watching some shows on my DVR and doing things online. Oh, and maybe I’ll play a game on XBox since I don’t get the change to play it that much. I still remember when we first got the Xbox, I said I was going to play it everyday, but that hasn’t happened! My fiancé is still working and even took a sleeping bag and some food to work in case he gets stranded there, but really hope that doesn’t happen!!! I hope he gets out of work a little early so he can get home before the worst of the storm comes!!! It’s just sprinkling a little bit now but every now and then it gets really windy and rains harder.

That’s about all I have to share for now. I’ll leave you with some of the newest pictures of Mia and Tiger! They are so adorable and Tiger is still so full of energy!!! He is one crazy cat!! We also carved pumpkins last week. (I also painted 3 small ones) And I’ll throw in some pictures of our new fish tank!

   

 

He used power tools for his…

 

 

This is the front of his…
  

And here is the back of his…

And here is mine, I just did a design on the front…

  

   

 

 

   

On one pumpkin, I painted both sides so here is the design on the other side that you can’t see in the picture above… 

 

  

 

What I’m Loving Wednesday

I’m LOVING that we finally got the pool up last Tuesday and I have been getting to enjoy it as much as possible!! Last Wednesday, a day after we put it up, we got a storm and lots of rain! I was so mad at the weather that day!! I worked 9-5 and was planning on going swimming the second I got home from work. I got in for about half an hour on Thursday and then on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday it was too cold to go swimming. But Monday, yesterday, and today, you can bet I was in it! Probably for about an hour or more each day.

    

I’m LOVING that me and my fiancé are going to the beach soon!!! We didn’t think we would make it to the beach this year cause we gotta save our money for the wedding, but since his mom lives near the beach, we are going to spend a few days with her. We don’t take that many pictures of the 2 of us anymore, but that is going to change this weekend!!!

I’m LOVING that I get to see my future sister in law on Friday!!! We are going to spend the day together and then she is spending the night and we’ll have most of Saturday to hangout, too!! It’s been a while since I’ve seen her so I’m excited!!!

And as always, I’m loving my wonderful fiancé and our 2 babies!!!

Hmm…

…what to write, what to write. I’m just at a loss of words and I don’t know why. I haven’t been blogging that much recently and again, I don’t know why. In my last post I think I wrote about how our pool got a hole in it. Or maybe I didn’t write about that, I don’t know. So we submitted a claim and will be getting another pool liner at no charge. Now we are just waiting for them to ship it out! The only good thing to come out of this is that we will be able to level out the ground more. My fiancé plotted a box with some string and we are going to get wood to put around the box. Then we are going to get that to be level and fill it with fill dirt. I’m hoping that by the end of next week, we will have the pool up and filled again!! It stinks that it is almost halfway through July already!! By the time we get it up, there won’t be that much of summer left!! I am definitely going to be in the pool every single day!!! Before work, after work, whenever I get the chance!!!

I was writing a post about last week’s episode of The Bachelorette, but my laptop died and when I turned it on, instead of resuming my session, it rebooted completely. So I lost that post and didn’t feel like rewriting it. I just got finished watching last night’s episode, and I can’t believe that it is almost over!!! And the final 2 guys are guys that I knew would be there in the end, Arie and Jef!!! I cannot imagine being in Emily’s shoes at the moment when she was faced with 3 guys and had to send one home. All 3 of them have told her that they love her and she probably felt the same way towards each one of them. I think the final episode where she has to send the last guy home will be one of the hardest days of her life!! But at the same time, it may be one of the best days of her life!

Right now I’m catching up on some of my other shows on my DVR including So You Think You Can Dance. I’m watching the episode where they revealed the top 20. I thought it was cool how they revealed them this year by showing us who made it on the live stage instead of how they did it on seasons past.

So that’s about it that’s going on with me. Since I can’t be out in the pool right now, I’m just taking this time to clean up the house a bit and relax. Oh and working, but this week I’m only working 3 days, one of them being a 12 hour shift! Have a great Tuesday everyone!!!

Hey there…

So, I haven’t been blogging that much recently. Here I thought that since it was summer and I don’t have any classes to worry about, that I’d get to blog more. Well, apparently I’ve been busier than I thought I would be. Sunday night and Monday night, 2 of my cousins spent the night and I just took them home last night. Now I have to work until 3 today and then my fiance and I are going to my aunt and uncle’s house for a 4th of July cookout. Then tomorrow I work a 12 hour shift, Friday work 4 hours, Saturday I work another 12 hours, and on Sunday I work 4 and a half. So I’m going to be pretty busy the next few days!!! It stinks that there are only 2 days out of the next 4 days that I can actually swim in my pool. But oh well, next week I’ll be able to swim in it everyday except for Sunday (another 12 hour shift).

I love all these 12 hour shifts I’m getting!!! The more money on my paycheck means the more I’ll have extra to put in the wedding account!!!! We are about 10 months away and there are still tons to do!!! The only things we have done is pick the venue and our photographer. Oh and I have my dress!! So there is still tons to do!!!! I need to start looking at things and see what can be done this summer because once the fall starts, I’m going to be busy with student teaching.

Well, I guess that’s about all for now. Please leave me your comments with what you would like to see more of on my blog. Happy 4th of July!! Have fun and be safe!!!

Weekend Recap

I know, I’m a day late with the weekend recap, but it’s better late than never, right? So if you saw my last post, you saw that on Saturday my fiance and I went to the Humane League and we adopted a new kitten, Tigger. He’s doing good and is just so full of energy! I see a little bit of Milo in him with the way he is so playful!! And Mia is doing a little better with him. There are times that he’ll go up to her and she doesn’t hiss. All he wants to do is play with her!

On Sunday I went to the Dollar Tree to get Tigger a collar that would jingle. Well, it ended up not fitting him yet so we’re going to have to wait until he grows into it. Then my fiance and I just sat on the couch and played the Sims, I guess you can say we kind of have an obsession with the game, lol. We went to visit my dad and step-mom to give my dad his father’s day give. I got him this shirt (but in blue)…

He loves riding his bicycle, so when I saw this shirt, I knew it was perfect for him!!! I also got him a baked apple pie scent pak from Scentsy that he can put in his car to make it smell good.

Then we went to Walmart to get some things to make for dinner this week. We also got another expansion pack for the Sims 3, the Ambitions pack. It’s pretty cool because you can have the Sims have professions instead of jobs and they can work at other places than just the office. Then after we got home I had to go to work. So other than going to get Tigger on Saturday, nothing too eventful happened.

One of my bridesmaids is coming over tomorrow so we can hangout all day so I have to go and clean the house a little bit. I’ve kind of been slacking with keeping up with the housework. I definitely need to get better about that! Leave me comments! Have a great Tuesday everyone!!! I leave you with some instagram pictures I’ve taken recently.

I’m doing a little better…

So as you may now if you read my post from yesterday morning, my 9 month old kitten, Milo, passed away yesterday. I’m doing a little better today than I was yesterday. My step-mom was with me the whole day until my fiance came home. I tried to give away my shift because I didn’t feel like working. But, no one would take it so I had to go to work from 6:30-11. On the way to work, I started tearing up. That was the first time that I cried since early in the morning when it first happened. I just had to get my mind off of it and think of something else. At work I was alright. I was talking to a co-worker about it and I felt some tears in the back of my eyes but I didn’t cry. Then on the way home, i completely lost it. My fiance was sleeping when I got home, so he doesn’t know that I was crying last night. Mia, our other kitten who is 10 months old, has become a lot more attached to me than she was before. Usually Milo would sleep right beside me and Mia was at the bottom of the bed by my fiance’s feet. Last night, Mia was right beside me the whole night. That made me kind of sad because that was always where Milo slept at night. I woke up around 3 AM and then I couldn’t go back to sleep because I got emotional again. But eventually I fell back asleep.

This morning, I went down to my aunt’s house with my dad and step-mom to help my step-mom’s dad level out the pool. Then I rode with my step-mom to Verizon to get my uncle’s phone fixed. I just need to be with friends and family right now. It stinks that I don’t have that many friends, but I am going to be hanging out with one of my bridesmaids later today around 4, so I definitely need that! We are going to get my veil and I’m going to try on my dress for her because she wasn’t able to go wedding dress shopping with me. I can’t wait to try it on again and for her to see it!! Then after that we’re gonna go to the mall for a little bit. Then later tonight, my fiance and I are going to go mini golfing! I’ll be sure to take tons of pics (which I haven’t been doing much) and then share them with you all!!! Have a great Friday everyone!!

Congrats Miley and Liam!!

So last week, Miley Cyrus got engaged to her boyfriend Liam Hemsworth. My local radio station asked it’s listeners on Facebook and Twitter are their thoughts on the engagement and if they think Miley is too young. I just had to post about this because like Miley, I was 19 when I got engaged. I was 19 and my fiancé was turning 19 in less than a month. So no, I don’t think Miley is too young to be engaged. I think when you are with the person you want to be with for the rest of your life, you just know. Every relationship moves at a different pace. To tell you the truth, my fiancé and I started talking about getting married about a month into the relationship. We both knew that we were meant for each other and that we wanted to spend our lives together. So then we waited until we were together for at least a year (it was about a year and 4 months to be exact) and now 3 years later, we are still together. And when we get married, we will have been together for about 4 years and 1 month.

I don’t think there should be a rule that says you have to be together for a certain amount of time or that you have to be a certain age before getting engaged. I’m not saying that 16 year olds should go out and get engaged. But if 19 year olds do, then I think that’s fine. Have a long engagement, stay with that person to make sure that you really want to be with them forever. That’s another debate, that marriage doesn’t necessarily mean ‘forever’, but I won’t go into that now. For me, marriage does mean forever. I grew up with parents who were never married and then both my parents were married at least twice. So for me, I’m getting married once and that’s it!

What are your thoughts on this? Leave me your comments!!!

Pinterest and What I’m Loving

This week I’m linking up with both Oh, How Pinteresting Wednesday and What I’m Loving Wednesday. I thought I would combine both of them into one post.

   

I’m LOVING that I found something for me and my fiancé to do this Friday night and next Friday night! I posted on Monday about how we had nothing to do on Saturday. So I did some looking online and found a miniature golf course that is about 20 minutes away that we’ve never been to. So that is what we are doing next Friday night because they are having a 21 and over event from 9-11 pm. Then this coming Friday, we are having one of his friends and his girlfriend over for game night with our Kinect (that never gets played anymore).

I’m LOVING that I got to hangout with a friend and bridesmaid Monday night that I haven’t seen since last October!!! For months now we have been trying to get together to hangout but something always came out! We definitely can’t go that long before hanging out again!!

I’m LOVING this idea from Pinterest!! And instead of using chocolate melted in a bowl, I’ll use my Velata warmer to coat the kiwi in chocolate! I’m definitely going to have to pick up some kiwi after work tomorrow night!!

Source: ohsweetbabies.com via Nicole on Pinterest

 

I’m LOVING these Dr. Seuss quotes! Who doesn’t love Dr. Seuss?

Source: mamiverse.com via Nicole on Pinterest

 

As always, I’m LOVING my wonderful fiancé…

And our two adorable babies…

What I’m Loving Wednesday

Linking up with Jamie at This Kind of Love for What I’m Loving Wednesday

I’m LOVING that I found my wedding dress this past Sunday. If you missed it, you can check out my post about it here. I can’t wait to try it on again!! On my wedding day, I’m never going to want to take it off!!!

I’m LOVING that I picked up an extra shift at work last night and I’m working an extra shift this coming Saturday. Before the semester ended, I kept saying that I was going to pick up every extra shift I could and until now, there haven’t been any shifts to take. I guess there are just a lot of college students back for the summer so there aren’t that many extra hours to give away.

I’m LOVING that my garden is starting to bloom! I went out and took some pictures yesterday afternoon…

Broccoli…these are the first plants that came up in the garden

Potatoes…the one thing I’m worried about with these (along with the carrots) is how I’m going to know when to harvest them since they grow underground. I’ll have to ask my grandpa, unless anyone reading this would know.

 

Carrots…

 

Corn…not doing too much yet

 

Cucumbers…

 

    

As always, I’m loving my wonderful fiancé! We need to plan a date night sometime soon. All we do is stay home! There has to be something we can do that doesn’t cost that much (or is maybe free). Got any ideas? Leave me a comment! Have a great Wednesday everyone!!!

(Since we don’t have too many recent pics of us, I decided to put up an old one.
This was back from 2009 right after we first started dating!!!)