Smart Cookie-Ha

So, after reading numerous blogs and seeing pictures of sugar cookies decorated with royal icing I decided I would try it out. My main goal is to practice until I am good enough to start an "on the side for fun business." ha!


--Not bad for a first try!

I have been doing A LOT of thinking about the future lately and after talking with friends, researching an amazing program that I am seriously considering, and watching a video in class yesterday about poverty, I think that I have found my passion for teaching again. This is good since I will be student teaching SOON and I have been scared to death that it would be an awful experience because my heart would not be in it, but now I am excited and looking forward to it! All I can say when I look at the next year of my life is.."CH CH CH CHANGES." Big changes. Nobody is holding me back and I will prove to everyone who thinks I can't make it on my own and that I don't know what I am doing that I will make it. I know I can do this.

Now I am REALLY Twenty-Three =)

My birthday was Thursday so I can officially start my year of being young, free, and 23. Wednesday my aunt made me a birthday dinner...she makes amazing burgers! Thursday, Christa and I went to Tulsa to see Lady Antebellum and Tim McGraw and we had a great time! Friday Lacey came up and we went shopping and bowling...I won of course ;).

Having a birthday usually makes people stop and evaluate their lives and I took some time to do the same. I am determined to make this a year that counts. Looking back I have wasted so many days getting nothing accomplished and not making the most of my time so I am changing that. I will make the most of and enjoy everyday.

Sunday my dad's side of the family got together to celebrate Easter and the February, March and April birthdays. We all had a great time! I have learned to cherish those moments with family because I realize that not everyone has what we have.



--Singing "happy birthday" to this many people is not easy! This is a terrible picture of me but since I spend most of my time laughing when I am with them it's real.


--The now traditional Easter cousins picture. =) Love these girls...looking forward to our next girl's night out! Last year we got a hotel room in Bricktown and had soooooo much fun. Hoping to make that a tradition as well. :)


*I have pictures from the concert Thursday night but it takes me five hours to upload pictures onto this thing, so if you want to see them just go to my Facebook. ha!