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May 31, 2011.

WESLEY AND I GOT ENGAGED!!!!!

it was p.e.r.f.e.c.t!

He could not have made it any more special or wonderful!

I am so blessed to have him.

And absolutely cannot wait to be married to him.

I'm excited for our future together and all the things we have to look forward to.

I thank God that we found each other.

June 22, 2011.

I FOUND MY DRESS!!!!

Already, i know. it's crazzzyy.

But its beautiful and perfect. And my kind of dress.

I would love to show you a picture, BUT absolutely cannot let Wesley see.

I want him to be to utterly stunned and maybe fall over when he seems me at the end of the aisle ;)

ohmygosh. I love it tho.

Now for more wedding planning :) Advice is welcome.

life as of now.

i guess i just haven't felt like sharing much this year. it's already May and this is only my second blog for 2011. woo! so what's new in my life?

well....... not a whole lot. and thats okay. for the most part i'm happy with my life and the way things are going. i may not know what i'm doing or what's going to happen tomorrow but God does. so maybe a better question is what's been going on in my life?

i'm working at the three dog bakery and it has been going great. i really enjoy my "littermates" there. it's been a good fit for me. i still watch the stump boys every Wednesday. have to get my fix each week! love them. they are getting so big i can't stand it.

<--- my boys. Paul, Hank and Peter :)

my parents found a house in harrison, OH. it is very cute and i love it. mom is still going back and forth between the house and my apartment. dad is permanently in ohio and i don't see him much.. and it's sad, that part i don't like. i also miss oreo a lot :(

kelly started school at Aveda and seems to be enjoying her time there, for the most part anyways. its been an adjustment for her, but in my opinion a very good one. i'm going to be one of her color models once she is training on the floor. yikes ;) no but really its pretty cool to see her excited about school.

wesley and i are doing wonderful. we celebrated our one year anniversary in March. we went to chicago and it was a lot of fun. i am so blessed to be with him. he makes me so happy :)

<--- picture of us at the "BEAN" also known as the cloud gate.

and now for me and my schooling... at this point anything could happen. this spring i chose to pursue a new career, new major, new school entirely from nursing. i think i'd enjoy working in pediatrics, but nursing at IUPUI is just not going to happen. so i've been looking into a vet technician. it's something i wanted to do out of high school but didn't want to go to purdue, IUPUI was cheap and close so i went there and chose nursing instead. well here i am looking into it three years later. weird how things turn out. so nothing official yet. mom dad and i are still figuring out money and if its an option. i hope it works out, but again who knows.

cleo is still a stinker. still eating my plants and knocking things over and trying to rip up my carpet but i love her. she's now nine months old and weighs about nine pounds. she's got a little belly on her, but it's cute.

<--- here she is in one of her favorite spots. the sink. waiting for someone to turn it on and let her have a drink.

anything else?

my apartment has been a fun project to decorate. i've had a good time bargain hunting. tjmaxx is the way to go. it's coming together quite nicely.

my sleep schedule is totally weird. i always close at work so i stay up too late, sleep in too late and i have tried to fix it, but somehow i fall back into the same routine. it sucks.

i can't wait til the weather stays warm and stops with the raining and tornado warnings. my head cannot take it anymore.

i just finished this semester at school, working almost full time and am still the busiest person ever. even if i have a day off it somehow slips away from me. i find mini projects for myself. i need to learn how to just do nothing.

i finally quit american eagle :/ and i kinda miss it. the discount was unbelievable. but i was just getting too busy for it and scheduling was getting more and more difficult. not to mention wesley did not like our saturday date night getting cut short so i could go fold clothes at a floorset :P so its sad, but better this way.

okayyy thats enough.. now i'm just rambling.

have a good week :) thanks for reading.

ice storm

February 2011 - ice storm madness.

round one- cars covered in ice. I had to chip away the ice to break the seal and get into my car. let it warm then proceed to scrap more ice away. it took almost two hours.

round two - we put sheets over the windshield to help keep the second round of ice and snow off. The sheet took three people to get off.. and it was so very hard. thick ice chunks everywhere else... AND my tires were stuck. They would not move... some guy from the apartment complex pulled my car out with his truck. ha!

wow. this was amazing.

how I feel about snow

Dear snow.

I do not like you, no I don't!

I do not like you on my car.

I do not like you on the roads.

I do not like you in my way.

I wish that you would not stay.

I do not like you in my hair.

I do not like you anywhere!

So if you please just go away.

I do not like you any day.

Sincerely,

Rachel

what to do.

I've recently hit a bad luck streak. It seems to be slowing now, but there for awhile it was almost out of control. In the midst of my bad luck I received my letter from the nursing school letting me know I was not being admitted to the IU school of Nursing :( After being declined twice I'm beginning to wonder if I am meant to do this. I have looked into a few different majors to pursue instead of nursing.. nothing has really sparked my interest too much. But here are a few options... Dental Hygiene, Medical Imaging and anything else that I can use my previous prerequisites for. I'm leaning towards dental hygiene. I'm just waiting to see which classes I can get into for next semester.

I have ONE week of this semester left. Two finals to go. I will officially be on winter break after 5:30 PM on Friday and I cannot wait.

I'm feeling terribly burnt out on school and could use some encouraging words..

life is crazy

Just wanted to give you guys an update on a few different things!

• new job

I got a new job at the Three Dog Bakery. I love it! I get to work with Natalie and some really fun girls. For those of you who are not familiar with this store it is an all natural bakery for dogs. We make some of the treats ourselves in the store and its a lot of fun! Check out the website if you are interested... http://www.threedogindy.com/

• nursing interview

This past week I had my nursing interview. Try number 2! I will find out the beginning of December if I have been admitted to the IU School of Nursing. Keeping my hopes up! If I don't get in I will be working towards the medical imaging program my next semester at IUPUI. And it will be rough squeezing in 6 classes. But I'm not giving up!

• car accident

This past weekend Natalie and I were driving to Cincinnati to visit family and we got into an accident. I got off work at 9:30 so we thought we'd just drive in after that. Dad warned me it wasn't a good idea and it turns out he was right. We were only 20 minutes away from grandma's house when it happened. There was a deer that was just hit and left in the road, several cars on the shoulder and one against the guard rail in the far left lane. I swerved to miss the deer, swerved to miss the cars and ended up against the guard rail. Neither one of us were hurt. God was definitely looking out for us. My car may be totaled, may be salvageable... it has yet to be decided. It seems I'm always in the wrong place at the wrong time :(

• the house

The house is pending! It is almost official. If all goes according to plan the house will be sold and we close December 20th, meaning we have a month to pack up and get out. I have to find an apartment asap. The place I wanted to live has a wait list until february, so that's not going to work. There is lots of planning and packing to do. If you know of any nice apartments that aren't way expensive in the Fishers/Noblesville area, let me know!

That's all for now.

A break would be nice.

I am so burnt out. burnt out on everything. school. work. more work.

This last weekend was fall break. guess who did not get to enjoy fall break.. oh yeah me. why? because I worked ALL weekend. Oh and I had a microbiology test @ 8am the morning after what was supposed to be fall break.

And Thanksgiving is coming... about a month away. Oh wait.. guess who won't get to enjoy that break either... me again... because I work retail.

I'm 20. I'm supposed to be enjoying life. right? That's what I've been told. But it's so hard to do when I'm ALWAYS busy. I want to visit family, hang out with friends, enjoy my years in college. I feel like I work soooo much. I want to be less stressed out. I want to be able to get a good nights sleep. I work hard because I want a good job, I want a good life... but I want to enjoy growing up.

I wish I could just quit. But I also don't know if I know how to do that. I have bills and goals which make it hard to make an irrational decision like just quitting my job because I'm tired of being busy. But maybe I should try it and see where I'm taken.

I realize I'm having a minor pity party for myself right now. However, I needed to express these thoughts to someone... whoever may read this I suppose. I know that God has a plan for me.. and I know it's going to be WAY more awesome than the plan I may have for myself. But for now I'm just here figuring it out.

If you have any advice please do share.

kitty

This past saturday I adopted a kitten. She was free and came with pretty much everything. Someone found her and couldn't keep her, but bought everything she needed. My sister hooked me up and now kitty gets to hang out with me everyday. She is about 8 weeks old. And is veryyy active. I love her to pieces, she is so cute. But she's quite the biter. She loooves to play. She bounces spastically from one place to another and runs like a rocket. It's quite entertaining... And she plays in her litter box before she does her business. It looks like she's chasing an invisible bug haha. When she isn't playing she loves to snuggle. She sleeps with me at night. She has gone exploring around the house and finds the tiniest spaces to get into. But whenever I leave the house I always come back to find her nestled in the middle of my bed. It is the cutest thing!

This is my new kitty.

I haven't settled on a name yet. I'm considering Cleo. So if you have any ideas let me know!

Happily Ever After

In 1993, there was a movie that came out called "Happily Ever After". It is like a sequel to Snow White. But instead of the seven dwarfs there are the seven dwarfs' cousins. Instead of the queen, because she's dead, it is the queen's brother who is after Snow White.

Anyways. I loved this movie. I remember watching it all the time. I just recently came across a DVD store that has every DVD known to mankind... except Happily Ever After. I want this movie on DVD. We lost our VHS of it probably in one of the moves. The other day I watched this movie by chapters on youtube... someone else who loved it as much as me put the whole movie up. Ridiculous I know. I just w

anted to watch it so badly. I need to find it. Maybe Amazon will have it.

Just wanted to share this sweet movie with everyone. After watching it the other day I realized it is kind of a dark movie for children. Regardless, I still watched it and I still love it.

fun weekend.

I had a great weekend!
[For me it starts on Thursday night because I don't have Friday classes!]

Thursday night Emily and I reinstated date night. We talked and laughed and it was SO much fun! Can't wait for next week.

Friday I watched the Stump boys while Rick and Jaclyn had a night out. We played baseball and tag and made train tracks. I did baths and bedtime and enjoyed it so much. I love those two little stinkers. And for those of you who don't know... Jaclyn is prego. She should be popping out another one any day now. Excited for the new addition to that wonderful family! I hung out with Alicia that night, helped her pack for IWU. It was fun to talk and make jokes with her before she left for the semester.

Saturday I spent the whole day with the most amazing person ever. Wesley and I hung out outside for the most part because the weather was perfect! We went to Forest Park and played on the trains at the Indiana Transportation Museum. Then we went to Potters Bridge and walked around. The evening ended with a delicious dinner downtown at the Rathskeller. And he brought me a rose when he picked me up. He is so sweet!

Sunday I went to church with Wes and his parents. This was a blessing! I've had to work at American Eagle on Sunday mornings for the past month and this was the first time his parents came with us. It was an exciting morning. I worked later for a few hours.. it went by fast and I didn't have rude customers. After work my parents, Wes and I went to BD's Mongolian BBQ. delicious. Dad slipped on some water, fell to his knee and shattered his plate. He wasn't hurt. And Wes' blood boiled when no one cleaned up the water spill. This was fun to see. haha. That night we played cards. My parents almost always beat Wes and I, but it's fun anyways.

Monday I spent some time doing some much needed studying. [still a lot do to :/] Worked for a hours at American Eagle. time and a half! woo hoo. then enjoyed a fabulous dinner made by my mom.

I really enjoyed my weekend with family and friends. And the beautiful weather.

that's all for now. ♥