Cannot wait for Thursday

Well not really because it is "Thri-day" (Thursday/Friday) for me on the work week ------

But because I am going to see my wedding dress for the first time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have so much to look forward to in the next couple of weeks.

1. My First Wedding Shower on May 1

2. Finalizing the Guest List to get to the Calligrapher.

3. Helping John move all his stuff home on Friday. (now only a month left of this long distance bull-honky!)

4. My BACH BASH in June :)

5. Friend's Weddings from now until Fall!:)

Snow Day 2011

After a weekend spent with John in Charleston, and planning for the upcoming week, the South gets hit with a Snow Storm 2011. Milk and bread was flying off the shelves, as I was heading back to good ol' North Augusta. Instead of sleeping in and enjoying relaxing on my snow day (that i did not want might i add), I got to wake up call with the announcement from John that his car was giving him problems again.

So after finally waking up, and realizing what is going on, and 5 hours later, we have found a car online being sent to Charleston from Columbia and hopefully will be buying "us" a new-to-us Toyota Camry.

Goodbye Blazer, Hello Sedan

Hopefully, I will be down in Charleston for my long weekend with a new car in our possession. His friends at school must like him alot because they are going to pick him up and take him to work and help us save some money and not have to rent a car. I mean he is a catch, who wouldn't like John?!?

Back to Snow Storm 2011, Snow in the south is like a once in a liftime experience it feels like. I thought moving home to North Augusta was going to make my snow days slim to none. During my time at Winthrop in Rock Hill, SC, we atleast had one or two snow days a year. We even had a fire day my last year in graduate school. Another story for another time.....

The Homestead after the Winter Storm.

Mom & Dad aka the Roomies

Me & the MOB

Mom in the Snow

Happy Snow Day to All!!!! Back to Searching for Lesson Plan Ideas before indulging in the BCS Championship game!

Welcome to 2011!

Happy New Year Everyone!

I am so excited we have made it to 2011 & with all of my upcoming things to look forward to.

1. My Friend's Weddings


2. MY WEDDING


3. Completing my First Year Teaching


4. Hopefully getting a house with John


5. Finding out where John will be next year


6. Enjoying Life :)

Merry Christmas to All

Wishing All My Bloggers a Little Merry Post Christmas! I am loving my break from the children but cannot wait to see them next week.... still have to plan but still cannot wait to see them!

But I got a new upgrade of a camera from Santa John. I love the pictures it takes and just love being able to take good fine quality pics. (PS I got it the night before Christmas... :) )

Night Before Christmas Tree Picture

The Sink Family Christmas Ornament from 2010.

Dad, Mom, Kyle, Megan & John :-D

My Matron of Honor's Christmas Tree :)

Snow From The Day After Christmas

John & His Stocking :)

TGIWB

Thank goodness its Winter Break!!!!

I plan on spending my break with a whole lot of nothing. Maybe some wedding planning. But other than that, I don't want to do anything much at all.

Update to all, we did get a really great wedding band. The Appling Road Band is playing at our wedding and then recently played at the Home Extreme Makeover Augusta party with Ty Pennington and the gang!!!!

Mom recently had another surgery to help fix her mastectomy. Her mastectomy had fat necrosis and dead tissue in it from where it never latched. She went back under on Tuesday to have this fixed. Well by Thursday I had heard she is coming home. Well much to any of our surprise she had to go back under the knife to make sure the blood was flowing to the new muscle/tissue. She is still in the hospital as they never closed her up. We are waiting and praying each day that she makes it home. It just stinks to be at the Holidays and having to be in the Hospital. But don't you fret, Lou has her a baby Christmas Tree in the room. Just no stocking lol!!!!! All my blogger readers keep her in your thoughts and prayers so we can get her home FAST!!!!

P.S. John is home for TWO WHOLE WEEKS!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!

All Great Thanks Must Come To An End..

Well with the Thanksgiving Holiday coming to a close on this Sunday evening, it is back to my Third Grade world tomorrow to see my 22 students who I know have missed me so!

John traveled back to North Charleston, to go back to teaching at Berkeley High School. Today was only fun because we were "hanging" out (which consisted of me in the spare bedroom with the desktop computer lesson planning and him in the den with the laptop lesson planning) like teachers do!

I am so thankful for him in my life right now because he gets me through the good days and even bad days. I have realized God really does have a plan for everyone. It takes being patient, not forcing something, and just.....waiting.

PTL for Desperate Housewives tonight! I am getting through this week and then off to Charleston this weekend to spend the weekend with John & get some Christmas shopping done!

Give Thanks...

I am thankful for all the many blessings that I have received over the past year!

Especially for my wonderful family, fabulous fiancee John, a stable job, and my great friends!!!!

What do you give thanks for??

Here Comes the Bride...

(not real dress)

This past Saturday, while the Clemson Tigers were losing (sad times in my house), I was wedding dress shopping with my MOH & MOB. (Matron of Honor & Mother of the Bride ha!)

We went to Elegant Bridal and the service there is AMAZING. We were there from 10:00 (when they open) to almost 2:00. After trying on dress after dress after dress, and feeling overwelmed at times, we finally came to a conclusion about the dress of my dreams. I looked at mom while Traci walked away and told her I didn't want to go anywhere else to look, I loved my dress and love the store. Erin got her wedding dress from Elegant Bridal, so I was familar with everyone there when it came to getting my bridesmaid dress.

This weekend was full of wedding details, once John got to town, we went out to eat for the first time as an engaged couple just the two of us. We went to Takosushi and their food is out of this world. We also went to a bar with his Aunt and Uncle to hear a potential band play. Still have to contact them!

Sunday after church & Bush Family Lunch at his grandparents, we went and started to tackle the Registry at Bed Bath & Beyond. Two hours later, and only 4 pages done, we gave up and said another day or to tackle online. Well yesterday I spent alot of time adding online and deleting! It is even more fun just clicking then just scanning.

Hope everyone's Halloween was Spook-tacular & are starting a great week!

I'M ENGAGED

Well alright, I've gotta give up on the 10 days since I started it well over 20 days ago....

But some exciting news to my blogger readers is that I got engaged on October 16, 2010! We are having our wedding on July 16, 2011. I am sooo excited and have gotten so much done in one week that is kind of crazy!

We are super excited for the upcoming craziness of planning a wedding, getting us both back in the same area, getting married, going on a honeymoon, and living happily ever after! I am meeting with my photographer, Brooke Turner on Tuesday with my Matron of Honor, Erin & Bridesmaid Trish! I am super excited!!!! I have the church, reception, florist, and photographer all inked in and ready to go!

Day Four

Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot...

1. When will God show me a sign for his plan for me in life. As much as I love staying busy with subbing and working at the Gap, I truly feel that I am missing out on so much not being in my own classroom. To be practicing what I was taught, and to be implementing my awesome ideas, it is just not the same when subbing and being the classroom nazi.

2. When will I get to be the Big Kid I want to be. Living at home stinks - but heck its free and paid for and I have two awesome roomies - My parents. I am lucky to not have bills right now but I mean I just cannot wait to have my own space eventually.

3. When will it really get to be true fall weather and not this hot one day, cold only in the morning weather.

4. What will I do for halloween this year?

5. Will John and I really go to a corn maize this weekend? I love corn maizes! Ask Laine & Amye, they know my love for them :)

6. Where will the future place me. I am anxious with the direction mine and John's relationship is heading, and wondering where will I be next year. He is 99% sure he will not be at Berkeley next year, he wants to get back closer to home or with a new coach, so I wonder where we will be. This whole year apart thing has been rougher than ever; we did it last year, but I had grad school to keep me busy. This year its just I have a lot of sad days where I cannot wait till the weekend, not because I hate weekdays, because I know I will see him.

7. When will I get motivated to put up all my spring/summer clothes and pull out the fall/winter attire.

Day Three (A Little Late)

Day Three: Eight Things You Couldn't Live Without...

1. The Office

2. John

3. My Family

4. DVR

5. My Friends

6. Funky Jewerly

7. Facebook (lol)

8. Sports

*Sorry For So Late...I just get in a funk where I forget to blog....Will get better!

I love WEEKENDS

After the week I had, I am glad it is the weekend....

Nothing bad happened but it was just either boring, uneventful, emotional, etc. I only subbed one day this week and only worked at the Gap 2 days (Sunday Night Shift [6p-12a] and Thursday Night). Oh yeah, back to why I was asking for prayers and great thoughts on Thursday from Wednesday's post, I got a phone call Monday for an interview at a school in Aiken County School District - Area 5. That is out towards the Savannah River Site. A teacher is having to resign because she is having to go back home to help take care of her parents who are not doing well. As I def. feel bad for her - it was another time for me to interview. I will hear back from them by Monday they said.

This weekend as I have previously blogged I am with John down in Charleston. We have had a great weekend so far as I am blogging and watching the Clemson game. Hopefully they will win. We have had a great Friday and so far a great Saturday. I am so lucky to be with someone who really does understand and is actually there for me and overall a GREAT guy :)

Hope all my friends & readers are having a great and blessed weekend! Also, Happy Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This week I'll share the article that was written about my mom.

The North Augusta Today was looking for people to interview in the North Augusta area who have are breast cancer survivors.

Well I emailed them & without knowing it my Dad also emailed them. Ha! So they called the house on Wednesday and met at our house on Thursday. The journalist with the NA Today interviewed and took a picture of my mom. I am excited to see the interview in the paper, as I missed her "big debut of celebrity status" since I had to work Thursday night!

Things to Look Forward to....

With all the dullness in my life outside of working at the Gap & subbing.... I do have some events to look forward to.

October 8 - Mom, Dad, Kyle, and I are going to see John's Berkeley Stags play in the homecoming game against Battery Creek.

November 15 - Me, Erin, Mom & Dad are going to see Lady Antebellum at the James Brown Arena :)

Well its not that many events as I was hoping to blog about but I felt that I needed to blog. Also, keep your fingers crossed for me and say an extra little prayer for me tomorrow as I have something going on that may head me in the direction of being more busy.... maybe a job?

i LOVE fall

I love fall! Fall time is one of my favorite times of year with all of the scents, colors changing, crisp cool air with a light weight jacket, football, and my list could go on and on. Just the other day mom brought us home a NEW....wait for it......CINNAMON BROOM!

My family is VERY football oriented. Between growing up with my Saturdays in the Fall time surrounded by Clemson Football, to growing up in a football town where everyone seems to be there on a Friday Night in North Augusta, it just has always been a football kind of fall. This year I have tons of teams to keep up with.

With John coaching the Berkeley Stags down in good ol' Moncks Corner, SC, my family has been following their scores, results, and even a game or two. We have a copy of his schedule on the fridge that daddy likes to mark with W or L. (He does this with North Augusta's too) I went down to the Berkeley/Summerville Game (Week 2) and my friend Brittany from Grad School went with me. First off we got lost, being from North Augusta, I assumed that the stadium was at the High School. Well I should of known better than that, I mean Rock Hill has a stadium shared between two schools, well after we asked a guy on a moped for directions, we were set. (actually he said follow me, after he went 10 mph, we passed and found it ourselves). This game was like being in Texas on Friday Night Lights. Both sides were PACKED to capacity, tons of team spirit, and summerville has a jumbo screen with live playbacks, introducing players, etc.

Now, once in every blue moon, does Clemson play a REALLY good out of conference team, well this year it was the Auburn Tigers at Auburn. I suggested to my family back in the Spring, that this would be an awesome game to go to since it is a ONCE IN A LIFETIME experience. So after figuring everyones travel arrangements, booking the hotel, we were off to Auburn, AL. We picked John at the ATL airport since he flew in from Charleston (He has meetings on Saturdays from 6am - ?). And then we were off! After parking in some college students front yard for $25, we were ready to tailgate.

The game was tons of fun regardless of the outcome in the end, and was a great experience overall!!!!

I hope this week goes by fast, as I am traveling to Charleston Friday to visit John. Varsity plays on Thursday night this week, so I can hang out with him on a Friday night, can't name the last time that has happened. Okay it happened in August, but still! I want to check out a Farm with a Cornmaize :)