When Things Come Crashing Down

Dramatic title right? Well sorry but its a little bit of a false hype. My life is pretty great right now, the only thing that has come crashing down is a cabinet. A 50 pound cabinet which a neighbor and I were moving out of my house onto the street for people to take for free. 50 pounds of cabinet, right on my big toe. Luckily it is not broken and it does not look like there is damage to the joint. It could have been a lot worse, but it feels like someone replaced my big toe with a sausage. And it is getting progressively more black and blue, so yeah it is icky. So that is what came crashing down. Literally. On my toe.

Sorry I have not been posting as much, but I am officially a member of the working adult public, so that means that I do not have as much time since I am working 3 days a week, 8 hours a day. Lots of secretary work, a far cry from my dreams, but I am so grateful to have good employment. What I want to do with my life is to be an elementary school teacher. Have I mentioned that before? Maybe not. Well I will now. I have wanted to be an elementary school teacher since I was 5 years old. I used to teach my dolls and play school with anyone who would play with me. The dream continued until high school when my dream became a passion. I worked in an elementary school for 2 years, one year in 3rd grade, one year in 2nd grade being a teaching assistant through a program at my school. That was when my dream of being a teacher was realized to its full potential. I am now at NAU to study and become the teacher I want to be. In 3 years I will have my bachelors in elementary education with a minor in Spanish and a concentration in Social Studies. I will also have my teaching credential in the state of Arizona, and after a few little things to transfer over, my teaching credential in California. Mike and I have talked a lot, and we know that we want to move back to California after we graduate and get married. It has always been my dream to teach at the elementary school that I went to and worked at and have good teacher friends at. Mike knows that dream and our plan has always been to try and do that if it works to find a job for him as well.

Well enough about hopes and passions and dreams. Lets talk about love!

After much hype up and excitement leading up to seeing him. (see: snapchat picture below), we got to see each other after a week or more of waiting. Mike came by and spent the weekend with me and the best thing was, he showed up at my door with a bouquet of red roses, for no reason at all. "Just because I love you" roses. Isn't that the best thing in the world? Isn't he the most amazing man? I feel like the luckiest woman in the world. I love that man so much.

Pathetic? Yes. Accurate? Yes. The life of a semi-long distance relationship.

The love of my life turned 19 this past weekend! Yay! We had a fun celebration with his family that included lots of time in the pool, 2 cakes and fun memories. We had a day where we went out to a nearby canyon and had a picnic on the bed of his truck overlooking the beautiful view we drove up a tiny dirt road to get to. So wonderful! All in all it was a great weekend full of family time, fun in the sun and a lot of stolen kisses.

Updates on my various crafts and such. 

Quilting: My quilt is really coming along! I have done 19 squares out of 42. 23 more to go! Here is it, except there will be one more column of 4 squares on the right side. Here are some pictures! It is set up on my couch, so you can imagine how he this quilt is going to be!! 

My sweater is also going really well. I have over half of the back! Lots of progress, and it is beautiful! 

I have been looking at lots of ideas for my apartment for next year. I am thinking about doing it in the same colors as the quilt. I am also planning on having candles, christmas lights and fairy lights strung around the room. I want it to be that when all the lights were off, it would still be warm and welcoming in my room, a contrast to the harsh fluorescent lights that are in the room. I have an old lamp from my moms office that I am going to spray paint the same dark grey color that is in the quilt. Then I am looking for a lamp shade with traces of gold in it, like how some of the squares are in the quilt. I am so excited to decorate my room! It is great to be able to have all these decorating ideas and bring them to life! I am also discovering that Pintrest is my new best friend. 

I am also excited because I am going to go scrapbooking at a family friends house this Saturday and begin my college scrapbook! Excited to scrapbook my first year!

Well I should be going to sleep because I have work in the morning. As usual, hope you enjoyed this post about a cabinet falling on my toe.