guilty pleasure

We all have our guilty pleasures. Whether it be chocolate, watching a trashy or overly dramatic T.V. show, or making cookie dough with no intention of actually making cookies but just to eat the dough (I'm so guilty on this one!). I have to admit one of my favorite guilty pleasures are the Twilight books. I read them all almost as fast as I read all of the Harry Potter books and I'm obsessed.

I was watching T.V. last night and I was so excited when I saw that the Twilight movie was on! It was the first movie, the worst of the bunch in my opinion, but of course I watched it nonetheless. While watching I got even MORE excited because I remembered the first installment of the last movie is coming out in less than a month, ahhhh! All of this Twilight excitement and obsession prompted me to use the rest of my amazon gift card to buy the whole entire Twilight series on my Kindle, which after the gift card only cost me $22.00, what a steal!

I can't wait to re-read all of the books and see the new movie that is coming out November 18th. Looks like I'll be taking, or forcing, Brett out for a movie-date that night!!

i love sundays

Sundays are awesome. They are especially awesome when you have also had great Friday and Saturday nights. Case in point = my weekend. Friday was a chill night for Brett and I, we made a much needed Target-run, then just relaxed with each other and planned out what we were going to get done the next day. It was a perfect way to unwind after a long, busy week at school.

Saturday was crazy busy because we were preparing for our pre-Halloween party! We knew people would probably have big plans for Halloween so we decided to have our costume party a week early, and I'm happy to say it was a success! I love having people over and I feel like we don't do it enough, so needless to say I was extremely excited to have friends come over and celebrate Halloween a week early. The party was so much fun! Full of great costumes, games, and friends - a wonderful Saturday night :)

Now here is why I love Sundays so much: after an eventful (or even an uneventful) weekend, Sunday is the perfect day to hang out, relax, watch football or a movie, and reminisce about what a fantastic weekend I have had. I especially love Sundays during the fall and winter because I can cuddle up in a blanket while doing all of this relaxing. I hope everyone is enjoying this lovely Sunday as much as I am, and I know everyone in Denver is because the Broncos actually won a game today! Woohoo!

just because

I love Beyonce! She is so talented and I wish I could dance as fierce and as hard as she does. I think this song of hers is so cute and the video is fun too! It puts me in a good mood hearing it so I thought I would share. Enjoy :)

Love On Top

adorable!

I just watched this and it made my day! So cute!

update

It's been 4 weeks since school has started and it's been going well so far! We have a super cute class this year so I'm looking forward to teaching them. Even though I feel lucky to have a job at such a nice school, and I'm lucky to have such a good class of kiddos, I still can't wait to have my OWN classroom in a high school. Someday my school dreams will come true! Until then I'll enjoy my time with the little third graders.

Nothing too exciting is going on here, Brett and I are just enjoying hanging out together and loving the fall! I've never been so excited for the fall as I am this year, and it's turning out to be everything I've dreamed of so far. The weather has been absolutely beautiful (good weather always puts me in a good mood :)) and we have been trying to do some fall-like activities to take advantage of it. This weekend we went to a local high school football game and had a lot of fun. It made me think of the good ol' days at TJ! We also had a movie date last night and are going to play tennis today, so it has definitely been a good weekend for us.

This coming Friday we are leaving to go to Charlotte for the long Columbus Day weekend and I can't wait! We are going to the Davidson football game on Saturday and I'm sure we'll be having a lot of fun with Brett's friends the rest of the weekend :) Hopefully I'll get to see Beth too, she is living in Charlotte now and we haven't seen each other since we were in Holland together; such a long time! I hope everyone is having a great October so far, yay for the fall!

p.s. I am SO pumped for Halloween! What is everyone going to be this year?!

1 year

As of yesterday, I have officially been living in Connecticut for one year. Crazy! It feels like just a few months ago that Jess and I took the FOREVER long, three day road trip to get here from Colorado. Time has flown by so fast and I'm looking forward to another good year!

Jess and I building furniture for my apt. last year. It looks so empty!

homesick

Homesickness strikes again! I feel like it's always with me in the back of my mind, but sometimes it creeps up and really gets to me when I least expect it. I know that I chose to move away from my family and friends, and I know that living somewhere besides CO has given me the opportunity to do things, meet people, and have experiences that I wouldn't have had otherwise. And of course, the best part of moving away has been living with Brett and finally getting to spend some great, quality time together after being apart for so long!

But sometimes I just can't help it and the homesickness consumes me. I hate being away from my family. I want to go to Ft. Collins and visit my brother at school and see where he lives, I want to hang out with my parents and Chance, I want to stop by my grandparents house to say hi and catch up on things, etc. I hate being away from my friends. I hate not being able to go grab coffee with them, go to a rockies game, hear that funny joke they will be laughing about for weeks, and just not being there to know what's going on in everyone's daily lives.

When I'm feeling like this I remind myself that even though I'm not there with everyone, I still am just as close with them as I am when I'm there, and they are missing me just as much as I am missing them. I remind myself how lucky I am to have such special people in my life and how I could not have asked for a better group of friends or a better family to be apart of. I try to remember that this time spent apart from everyone I love so much really won't seem that long in the big scheme of things after we are all reunited (whenever that may be). So until this homesick feeling goes away I'm going to think positively and be thankful for those people I love and miss so much :)