Reflections on life, love, and happiness: my busy life

It's a lazy Saturday afternoon. I am loving it! I slept in. I took a cat nap. I am watching Alabama beat Texas in the Rose Bowl to win a National Championship. Life is great!

I really needed this lazy day. It was a long and rough week with the first graders. I can't say anything about it. I am asking for prayers regarding the situation. Thank you.

26 days of school until summer break!

They are having a dunking booth at Field Day. I volunteered to be in it. One of my precious little boys told me to have bad hair that day, because I was getting dunked.

Physical therapy has been going good. I think I have two more weeks to go.

I am going White Water Rafting in July. It came up on groupon last week and a group from church is going. I have a slight fear of water, and at one time swore I would never go. Prayers will be needed for that as well.

I am loving my new phone! I bought some educational games I play with my students at school. They love it. I like to play angry birds and words with friends. I am pretty bad at words with friends, but it is fun.

A few weeks ago I had dinner at Ruth Chris Steakhouse. My mom's boss, Mr. David, was celebrating 25 years of Steak Out and I got to be my mom's date. I felt rather fancy eating dinner there. I also realized that it might be the only time I eat there because my cheap self can't justify spending $100 on dinner.

Me and Mr. David

Mr. David is also super cool and has sky box tickets at Bryant-Denny. The past four years he shared those tickets with me for our spring game, the A-Day game. This year I wasn't planning on going. Correction: At one point I was going to go with the BF, but now he is the ex-BF so I wasn't going to go. Most of my friends don't live in Tuscaloosa anymore. Although there was 92,310 or so people at the game, most of my friends don't care to go. I definitely didn't want to sit in the sun for a few hours to watch a scrimmage game. I would have ended up red like a tomato. Well last Friday my mom sent me a message asking if I wanted the sky box tickets. Truthfully, sky box tickets were the only reason I decided to go. I love sitting in the box! So I told her yes. She asked who I was going to take with me. Becca had plans. There was a brief moment I thought about asking the ex-BF. Then I decided I didn't care to do that. It would have just been the two of us. I see him a good bit at church, but that is in a group setting. So I asked my mom if she would like to come, and she said she would come with me. Then I remembered my friend Laura still lives in Tuscaloosa. She is a football fanatic like me and I knew she wouldn't mind watching a scrimmage game, especially from the sky box.

Me and Laura in the skybox

I made some really good apple dip this week. I thought I would share it with y'all. Also, then I won't forget it :)

1 bar of cream cheese

1/2 a cup of white sugar

1/2 a cup of brown sugar

toffee bits (I probably used 1/3 a cup, but you can use as much or as little as you like.)

Mix the cream cheese, white sugar, and brown sugar with a mixer. Stir in the toffee bits. Eat with apples and enjoy! Or if you lack self control eat it with a spoon! It is that good.

me and Rachel

This is one of my very best friends Rachel. We have been friends since Bid Day way back in 2003. That's 7 and a half years. It doesn't seem like it has been that long since freshman year. Rachel called me last week. I missed the call because I was at the bowling alley and didn't hear my phone ring. It surprised me, because neither of us are phone-talkers. She even left me a voice message. So without thinking, I called her back. She had big news to share with me. She's engaged! It didn't come as much of a shock. Brad and Rachel have been dating for a few years. They are precious together. They met at law school, because they are both super smart. They're both really tall, too. Thus looking precious together.