~ LAULU LOVE ~: March 2008

Sunday, March 23, 2008

A vacation to REMEMBER!

I left for Salt Lake City on Thursday afternoon with my roommate, Melissa, to meet one of my really good friends, Brooke, who flew in from Spokane Washington and her sister, Kate. Girls weekend out! Wahoo! I went tanning that morning and they had just changed thier bulbs... I got BURNT! But I wasn't gonna let that put a damper on our AMAZING WEEKEND that we had all planed out! We like to party! We kept it pretty low key Thursday night, we just sat in the hot tub of the hotel... VERY relaxing and much needed!

The next morning we got up and got ready for our EXCITING DAY! Here Brooke and Kate are getting ready to break some hearts...

We went to the Hogle Zoo and I loved it! I haven't been there in SO LONG! It was so much fun!

Look... The girl elephant is stealing the water out of the boy elepahant's mouth! I thought that was so funny!

Have you ever been to an arena football game? This was my fist one and it was SO MUCH FUN! I will for sure go to another one! We went to the Utah Blaze game and had the best time ever!

The Blaze lost! :( It was tied and the other team kicked a feild goal with 1.2 seconds left. They won by 3 points.

Brooke and I got home from the Blaze game and we were BEAT! I fell right to sleep! The next morning I got up to get ready and go visit some of my companions from the mission. When I went out to my car I noticed a black trash bag over my passanger window. At 1st I thought that it had just blown there from the wind but when I got closer I saw glass EVERYWHERE! My window had been broken out and someone had stolen my IPOD. I was pretty disappointed and upset. The hotel workers were worried that it was going to rain so they put some plastic on my window to protect my car. Whoever broke into my car went through my jockey box but didn't find anything. My wallet was on the back seat, they didn't see that because it was covered by my coat. I know I shouldn't be too upset because it could have been way WORSE if they had seen my wallet, but I was still pretty mad. The hotel workers were so sweet! They vaccumed out all of the glass... It was EVERYWHERE and put some clear plastic wrap on it till I made it to the glass repair shop. It blew off when I got on the freeway and it scared me almost half to death! I got my window fixed but it's not tinted yet... It looks kinda scary but I'll get it fixed soon enough. It wasn't cheap to fix either, but it's all good. The only thing that I am frustrated with now would be that they messed something up when they took my door covering off, my handle won't go down and the door wont stay shut unless I SLAM IT HARD! Oh my! Bless my HEART! I'm still pretty mad!

Trisha, a companion from the mission, and her son Eli came to pick me up while I was waiting for my car window to get fixed. We went to ColdStone's and I got some chocolate ice cream... Chocolate fixes EVERYTHING! It was so good to see her and her son was so dang cute! He is a very happy boy with the cutest personality! Just like his mommy!

I got to visit another companions from the mission and good friend, Lindsay and her sweet son, Porter! It was so good to see them and he got her eyes! How adorable! He was a little busy body!

The hotel felt so bad about what had happened to my car that they bought us Jazz ticket... SAWEET! The tickets said section 21 row 2 seats 4-6 which was 2 rows from the court... WOW! I was so excited! When we went down to get our seats one of the guys who was trying to help us said that there must have been a misprint on our tickets because there was no row 2 in section 21 so they took us into the tunnels where the locker rooms are and made us wait till they figured out where we were supposed to be. Turns out that our seats were in section 109 row 19! Yep! It was really 2 rows from the very TOP! Wow! Could my luck possible get any better? At least we got free Jazz tickets, Right?

The Jazz won and it really was a GREAT game!

Well there ya have it! A vacation to remember! I guess ya gotta take the good with the bad! Overall I had a great time with a few minor set backs!

Coloring Easter Eggs!!!

On Wednesday night a few of my friends decided to celebrate my getting into the Counseling program. Dave took me to Craigo's and I at a whole cookie monster almost by myself... I gave Dave a few bites! It was SO GOOD! Then we came home and colored Easter eggs... It was a ton of fun!
Dave said he didn't want to color Easter eggs...

Melissa is ALWAYS making fun of me...

Venessa and Stephanie didn't waste ANY time...

Venessa is the Pro of the TRI-COLORED egg... Wow!

What is this? I thought that Dave said he didn't WANT to color eggs... Ha! That didn't last long and he came up with some pretty CREATIVE eggs, all on his own!

Stephanie got pretty good at the whole TRI-COLORED egg thing too... She's a quick learner!

Stephanie's TRI-COLORED egg looks way better than just my plain yellow egg... Oh well ;~)

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

SO..... Guess What?!?!

These past five days have been some of the LONGEST days of my life as I have been waiting to know about whether or not I got accepted into the Master of Counseling Program at Idaho State University. I have been going back and forth in my mind, thinking of what my reaction would be either way. I even had a dream last night that I didn't get in and I woke up crying and traumatized. It's been a pretty crazy week, to say the least!
So today while I was in staff meeting at work I got a text message from my roommate, Melissa, saying that I needed to come home NOW because my letter had come. I couldn't leave so I texted her back and told her to open the letter and tell me what it said. She texted me back and told me that she wouldn't do it because she felt like I should do it. I told her that I could not wait that long to know and I wanted her to open it NOW! We texted back and forth a few times arguing about it. I finally told her that she was KILLING me and I needed to know. She then texted me back after what seemed like an eternity and told me that I GOT IN!!! Yep! That's right! I was accepted to the Master of Counseling program (Mental Health Counseling)at Idaho State University. It was all that I could do to not jump up in middle of my staff meeting and start screaming and jumping up and down out of pure excitement! I almost started crying because I was so dang excited! I'll be honest, I got super misty! I told my colleagues and we all went to lunch at Buddy's! It was delish!

I really am so humbled and thankful for this opportunity! I thank my Father in Heaven for this opportunity to further my education and better cultivate and develop my talents. I look forward to what the next two years have in store for me with much anticipation!

Friday, March 14, 2008

Sigh of RELIEF!!!

Well, the interview is OVER! What a relief!!! I feel pretty confident but I'm not quite sure what The Big Guy Upstairs has in store for me. They said that we would find out sometime next week via mail. I promise to keep ya posted!

On another note... We are getting ready to move into our new facility which is pretty exciting! We are expanding from 8 residential clients to 12 and possibly 14 in the future so there are big and exciting things in store for us here in the near future! I am sure it will be a great growing and learning experience on so many different levels. I just found out that the office that I have been working on and getting exactly how I want it has to be converted into one of the bedrooms. I was so happy with the blue and brown paint job that I did. I must confess that it looks DANG good, even if I do say so myself! Needless to say I am pretty sad. I lost my dream office. It's all good because I get a new office that is blue and I still like it but it's not MY office yet! Don't worry though, this is a great opportunity to take my lemons and turn them into a Delicious thirst quenching lemon aide! It will be MY new dream office before too long!

Thursday, March 13, 2008

The BIG Day has come...

These past few months I have been contemplating applying the counseling program at ISU as an attempt to earn my master's in counseling... considering that I am a substance abuse counselor for adolescents and have noticed the increase need of mental health counseling for some the clients that have the opportunity to work with I thought that it would better prepare me to provide the services that they need. Well I sent in my application and have been invited back for an interview TOMORROW at 8:30 A.M.!!! I am so excited and at the same time so dang nervous! I guess we will see what happens!!! I found out that there are 31 people interviewing and it is my understanding that they accept around 23 applicants at the very most, so... that makes my chances of getting in around 74%!!! I promise to keep ya posted!!! AHHHHH!!! ;~)

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Party like a ROCKSTAR!

My brother has rockband and we go rock out OFTEN! LOVE IT!

Brandie, Melissa, Sarah and Me!!!

A FEW GOOD MEN!!!

Braden and Kam have been two of my really good guy friends. I just wanted to dedicate a post to them and let them know how much I appreciate them! Love you guys!!!