Eating out and friend time!

Since last week I feel like I've been eating out every night. Don't get me wrong, I love not having to cook dinner all the time and I really do love eating out at nice restaurants, but I'm kind of over it!


Over the course of 7 days I had two graduation dinners to attend, and then my friends took me out for Mexican for my birthday. That's three times out. Friday, Dustin who is Japanese wanted to came over and cook Josh and I dinner. He prepared a complete Japanese dinner for us! It was technically at or home, but the food tasted just like eating at a Japanese Restaurant and I didn't have to cook, so it was the same! Saturday was graduation and my family treated us to some Ruby Tuesday's for lunch and that night I went out with some old' (but still good) friends for dinner.
I definitely feel like I have gained like 20 pounds, because we all know it's hard to eat healthy when eating out.

This week I am kind of happy about cooking some homemade meals! And I kept to my $60 grocery budget!
I also was fortunate to have some friend time this week. My friend Amanda came down this weekend to visit her mom for Mother's Day and she through Valdosta before heading to Thomasville and had lunch with me (I picked up Chick-fil-a, because it was a last minute deal and I had no food, so another eating out meal). It was nice to visit and see her little girl! See:

Ms. Lilyanah

She is so cute!
Friday, our Friends Dustin and Kristen came over. That was a special treat, because we haven't had a couple over in a long time! Sorry no pictures though..

Saturday, like I mentioned earlier I went out to dinner with some girlfriends of mine I hadn't seen in a long time. It was great to catch up and talk!

My week (actually past few weeks) have been filled with tons of family and friend time. What a blessing!

College

I started college at Thomas University at age 17. Yeah, I know, sounds young, I was just really smart...okay maybe not, but I was a homeschooler and well that's what us homeschoolers do! I didn't really want to go to college. My sister went to college at T.U. So, of course I would go there too! I had no idea what I wanted to be or do in school, so I just started taking my core. Of course being uneducated by the ropes of college I probably took more classes than I was supposed to. When Josh and I got married we decided to move to Valdosta. You can’t transfer from another college to VSU until you have over 30 credit hours (I know strange), so I enrolled in South GA College, which was a entry type program to get into VSU. We also, had planned on transferring to the University of Georgia, but God had other plans. Finally, I got into VSU, after a long journey. Not really sure how I stayed in school, since I transferred three different times. Most people would have given up by then, but thanks to my family I stuck with it. My last semester at T.U. I had finally decided into getting my degree in Social Work. I've always been intrigued when it comes to family needs, children, and helping them. T.U. had really opened my eyes to the need, but also the MANY job possibilities I could get. So, that was my plan when transferring to Valdosta. I quickly found out that VSU didn't have a Social Work degree..I had to get a degree in Sociology or something and then get my masters in Social Work (ha! Yeah right). At this point I was clueless, but I didn't know that VSU had some sort of dance program, but I wasn't sure what it was. I decided to look into it and it just so happened my first semester there was when they offered for the first time a BFA in dance. It was a BFA In Theatre and emphasis in dance. I decided to put my nerves aside and audition for the program. I had never auditioned for anything in my life, I was extremely nervous, but if all else failed there were only 100 other degrees I could get. Well, low and behold, I was accepted into the program!

I feel like I have been in school for a long time (well, I guess 5 years is a long time, but it doesn't help I changed my major), but then again it feels like it just flew by.

Yesterday I graduated and received my BFA in dance! It hasn't really hit me, and probably won't until the fall. It was a bitter sweet moment. I really loved the program I was in, the people and teachers. Yeah, the school work got old, but overall I had a great experience. I can't say I'm not proud of myself. It was a lot of work being at school all day and being married (which most of my colleagues weren't married and there responsibility's weren’t like mine at all).
I know you probably are wondering. So, what is next? I’m not really sure. I have been praying about it for a while. Most of the dance teacher positions won’t start up again until the fall. So, I will probably look for a little job during the summer. I just can’t stay home all summer and do nothing. It’s kind of pointless and we could use the extra income. I’m praying that God will bring the job he wants me to have.
Here’s some pictures of the event!

I was given 2 awards. 1 for The highest GPA graduating in our program. 2nd one was a research award (The piece I choreographed and took to ACDFA) I have two plaques that I get to hang up! That was a high honor for me!

Sick days

A few days ago I caught what I thought was a simple cold. Well, a day later my body started to ache and I had a fever. Josh woke up yesterday with the same symptoms. I was still battling the same symptoms. It's very uncommon for Josh and me to be sick at the same time. Normally, I'm sick or he is and we can "baby" each other. Well, yesterday with us both "down" we decided to do nothing, and nothing we did all day! We rented a few movies and moved our bedding to the living room. We watched movies and lifetime all day. We sat outside to get a little bit of vitamin D. We even skipped dinner and just nibbled on random things. Josh and I dislike having to do nothing for a long time, we both got real antsy, but when we got up to do something we ended right back on the couch.
Josh and I don't get sick very often. Maybe twice a year, but that is really it. I think this is the first time we have both been sick at the same time. However, it also never fails that I normally get sick right after my stress level goes down, for example: right after school ends or a big performance. Not sure why this happens, because I would think it would be opposite. When my stress level is up it would cause my immune system to be weaker, but for some reason my body does the opposite.
It was nice doing nothing together, but we are both over being sick. Today, we still aren't 100%, but we don't have a fever, so we are up and at em'… well slowly we are, but we are doing more than yesterday.

Celebration!

My mom wanted to throw me a graduation party, so we decided to go ahead and kill two birds with one stone and have our House warming party at the same time. Since most of the people we would invite for that I would also want at my graduation party. We planned it for April 30th, because the next day I had a banquet for school to go to and the next weekend just gets crazier with graduation, etc...
My mom really went overboard, but what is new. She planned a wonderful dinner and all!
It was a little stressful, because I had to clean my whole house. Last week I was so busy with the dance concert that my house was real neglected and it is really hard to clean before hand, because it only takes it a few days to get dirty again, no thanks to our two dogs. So, Friday, with the help of my sisters, we cleaned the whole house top to bottom. I also caught a cold the day before and it was just getting worse, and then the rain came :( It wasn't supposed to rain until Saturday, but the front must have moved in quicker. We had the outside set up so beautiful and Josh's family bought us a brand new patio set as a gift, and we were so excited to have it all set up so everyone could use it. Thank God we had a backup plan. We ended up moving all the tables into the carport. We were so blessed with all the family and close friends that traveled through the rain to come! We were surprised how many people we could fit( we had about 30+ people) in our house; if it wasn't raining we could have fit about 20 more people outside!
Josh grilled chicken breast and corn. I have to say he is quite the chef, I wonder why I even bother cooking. My mom made the best potato salad and had created her own mixture of Sangria and Champaign!
Thank you for all who came out and celebrated with us, it was such a blessing!
Here are some pictures of our gathering!
Home Owners Childhood friends!
Me and London
Some of my family enjoying some good food

Friends!