Weekend Fun - My Loves

I've been lagging a little on the blog... It probably has to do with the paper I need to write for Writing, but I'm almost done!! 

Meanwhile, here's a little update on the weekend (It was a fun one) and my loves:

Love: My niece

Jen came by this week so I got to hang out with her little family. LOVE them.

Holy man. I can't resist this face.

She smiles...

... she crawls...

... she... wait what?? She walks!! I can't believe how fast this kiddo is growing up!

Love: Katie

I was bored on Friday so I called her up. We decided to dye her hair hahahaha greeat experience. She probably hates me for talking her in to this, but it turned out SO cute!

Love: My Pop

We're crazies together.

It's blurry.. but you get the picture :) 

I love a million other people/ things too but these ones came up this weekend. Prepare to see more "My Loves" posts in the future. I can't possibly fit them all in one.

Sharing Wisdom

Today at the dentist:

Dental Assistant: Hello Angie my name is Jenny! I don't think I've met you before, but are you alright if I do your cleaning for you today?
Me: Sure, that shouldn't be a problem.
Dental Assistant: Alright now Angie how old are you?
Me: I'm 18.
Dental Assistant: Oookay well have you decided when you want to get your wisdom teeth out?
Me: Ummm. I was kinda waiting for someone to tell me when I needed to.
Dental Assistant: Oh, well the earlier you get it done the better. How about we take care of that for you pretty soon. I'll set up an appointment with Dr. DeDecker's dad for you next week and we can see what they say!

That's right, I've finally gotten to that point where those 3 little teeth in the back of my mouth need to be removed.

Yes that's right, I only have three wisdom teeth! I don't know if you can tell, but I don't have my top left one. I'm not sure if this thing runs in the genes, but if it does, thank you mom (the same thing happened to her).

 My thoughts?
Super... I've never had surgery before so this should be pretty sweeet.

When I was little I remember dreading the day I had to get these babies out. I was scarred by the horror story of Lise's experience in getting them removed... All I remember is watching her throw up blood all day and being nauseous for what seemed like forever. I guess it was most likely just a negative reaction to the anesthesia or something, but I was paranoid child as it was.

I guess I'm really not all too worried now. It'll be nice to have it over with at least. And it'll sure give me something to do during spring break!

Do any of you who have gotten your wisdom teeth removed, have good tips for a quick recovery? If you have any pointers let me know! I still have a little while, but I want to prepare myself for it if I can.

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!

I can't remember enjoying this holiday as much as I did today, since elementary school!

It was simple and sweet for lots of little reasons but I'll give you the lo-down of my day just to explain what made it so perfect.

First off, I got to start the day doing something I love; I got to skate this morning (and I'll have you know I made it on time for the first time in... way too long). Joleen and I were both in a good mood so I worked hard and we had fun too. Just as I was leaving she caught up with me and gave me my first valentine of the day- I love her so much!!- as we discussed our plans for the holiday.

Next on my agenda was to visit Lise's second graders for their Valentine's Day party. I brought Jodie with me because she loves kids and wants to be a teacher, it was so fun to see her! We couldn't wait to meet the kids and as I got there they showered me with a million and a half questions:

"Are you ANGIE??", "Heeeeey Angie, I know who you are, did you know that?"

"Wait a minute... I though you were supposed to have blonde hair."

"Does Miss Welch like BYU or Utah better, PLEASE tell us!" -(punching his friend in the shoulder) "Hey you're not supposed to ask that she said she'd tell us at the end of the year!"

I had such a fun time and it was great to see all the kids enjoying the holiday. I loved those little parties we had in school when I was a kid. I would've taken a picture of the class to put up but some have photo release forms, bummer.

I finished the day off with a much needed nap and woke up just in time to go to class (and find out that our refrigerator was exploding and flooding the floors... that's another story though).

When I got home my Dad gave me a sweet Valentine's Day card (thanks Daddy I love you!) and my visiting teacher brought me some of my favorite chocolates (I love that woman).

A pretty good day if I do say so myself. I hope you all had a good day as well; single or not, busy or not, I hope you took advantage of the happy moments and enjoyed the little things.

XOXOX

I Think I was Born in the Wrong Decade

Today was a LAZY day. Without a job and having night school, I have the whole day free to do whatever. Yes, I study and yes, I do homework, but when I'm not doing those things, there's a heck of a lot of free time to myself. This is usually when I get out my camera and take Charlie for a photo shoot.

But today Charlie wasn't my model. 

Last night as I was trying to sleep, I was thinking about how I wanted to design my future wedding dress like a 50's housewife style (I LOVE their dresses back then, so cute and fun). Then that led me to thinking about hairstyles; the cute pin-curls with wavy bangs.

So when I woke up this morning I YouTubed how to do those hairstyles in my own hair and decided to try it out. I put on a fun dress and snapped a couple pictures. This is how it turned out:

WAY too much fun. I'm going to have to convince Katie or Jamie to do one with me next time... they'd make excellent models.

A Letter To My Prickly Friend

Dear Fish,

Sometimes I think that this is why I can't sleep:

Perhaps you would consider having your daily run in the morning? Or maybe becoming a little less nocturnal?

Sincerely,
Angela

What a stinker face

Bingo, Babies, and Blessings

This weekend we had our annual Christmas Bingo party! We always have it after Christmas, it just took us a little longer to get it up and running this year. Since it was so belated, we decided to integrate Valentine's in by marking our cards with conversation hearts. WAY too much fun :) 

 

Everyone was able to show up except the Wilcox's and Stuehser's, and aunt Lori who was sick, we missed her but Lanna did a good job at keeping a card for her. 

There were also LOTS of good prizes this year! Among them were snuggies, giant Toblerone bars, the rabid squirrel puppet (it's been around since the earlier bingos), outdated calenders, tofu beef jerky, cute lunch bags, head scratchers (or brain scramblers and dad calls them), and much more. 

All in all, it was an awesome night! I think everyone had fun and it was really nice to get together as a family. For more pictures and overview of the night, visit Jamie's post here.

On Sunday the family got together again for Sarah's sweet baby, Eilly's blessing! She's such a beautiful baby girl and it was so neat to see her daddy bless her. Congratulations Sarah and Garrett! You two are going to make awesome parents!

 

We finished up the weekend with yet another family get together by eating way too much food and watching the super bowl (Go Packers! Or "Go Green Guys!" as Sarah would say).

After such a fun weekend I wish you all a happy Monday! Here's to the start of another week.

Playing With Shadows

It's been COOOLD lately.

But more than being just cold, the beautiful sunny skies have been deceiving. For the past few mornings, I have woken up to gorgeous sun spanning the horizon (I think it's trying to make up for all the fog we had last week). Just when I think it's going to be warm enough to take Charlie for the walk I promised him, I take one step outside and my nose almost freezes off... sad story.

SO as I sat inside dreaming of warmer days, I looked over to see a perfect silhouette of my face framed on the wall. The sunshine was so bright and in just the right spot for my shadow to fall on our big empty wall. It looked awesome so I had to take some pictures:

The orange one on the bottom right didn't take any editing! That's how colorful and bright all the originals turned out!

Coo Coo Ka Choo

Who knew shadows could be so fun?