This and that...

I have all of my graduation tassels hanging from my printer feed tray, I was looking at them the other day and realized that since I graduated from High School I have graduated every two years!
High School in 2002, Junior College in 2004, and Cal Poly (just barely, December Graduation) in 2006... I guess I am a high achiever??

My Family came out to visit last weekend, bringing with them my aunt Jill from MN, who wasn't able to make it out for the wedding, so she had to meet Kyle and "approve". :0)

It was foggy out in the bay, but nice and sunny in Avila...

My Aunt Jill. She didn't know I was taking this picture. She probably wouldn't approve... :0)

My Mom (Kim), Dad (Steve), and Aunt Jill

I have been popping into Beverly's Fabric every couple of weeks and looking in their 50% off bins and have found quite a few fabrics that I really like and that go together so that I can eventually make a quilt. I buy 2 yards of the fabrics I like, so I am sure to have plenty!! I have never done this before (made a quilt), so we will see how dedicated I stay and how it turns out... :0) Thought I would share the fabrics with you.

I actually have fabrics that don't go well together, so I will make two quilts eventually.... First colors

I Love the Little Bumble Bees on this one!!! and the color is fairly acurate.


This one looks very orange, it is actually a nice picnic blanket red and white.



The yellow is off a bit in this one, but you can see the checkered details.


Next Quilt fabrics...

Color is pretty accurate, a light pink, I have a lot of this, it was a hand-me down.


The color is off, it is a nice pink, with some white, with little red flowers.


A cute pink check, it was always off when I took the picture closer, so it is from a distance. Sorry.

A cute medium blue with pink, yellow, blue flowers.


I love this one!! it has little dragonflies all over it! it is actually a pair of pajama pants that I found and have wanted to use for while! the color seems pretty accurate.

So that's my fabric. Maybe I will actually make it into something... :0)

everybody goes, awwwww....

Okay, so, um, this could possibly be the cutest puppy that God has ever created... and I want it! so so so adorable!!!

yahoo!?

For the last two days I haven't been able to access Yahoo! I only use it for my email, and it's my junk email account at that, but if I don't check it at least daily it becomes a massive chore to wade through all the stuff I get to make sure there isn't actually something in there I want to read! Kyle says he can access it at work, so I think it might just be our internet connection, but everything else is connecting just fine...


I am so excited for tomorrow night's Grace Summer Nights! I love talent shows so much!! I thought about entering, but didn't know what I would do. I have a staple that I do for talent shows, it is a hula dance to Shout to the Lord, but a friend and I got into trouble once for performing it at a bible study talent night (it was too suggestive because of the hip movements. They really aren't that bad I don't think) and it has been performed at my parent's church on Sunday morning with no issue, but they are a little more... relaxed? than Grace is, and I just wasn't sure how it would go over.... I also didn't think I had enough time to prepare something to sing, or find a monologue that I could memorize fast enough. So, long story short, I will be sitting in the audience, laughing, crying, and enjoying it a lot!


My parents, brother and aunt, from MN, are coming out this weekend! Just for a day, but it will be great to see them, especially my aunt Jill, I haven't seen her in a couple years!! Will take pictures and post them (hopefully)!

My sister is coming out in 3 weeks!!!! yay for sister time!!! she is my best friend and I love her to pieces!!

Wedding pics Part 1

As promised.....





The Church



We get very emotional in my family... Me and My sister Abby


Waiting to go into the church


The wedding party



Showin' off the garter!

Wedding Pics Part 2

New siblings


It was breezy, so we just let the veil do it's thing...


I have a very big family now!


My sister, me, and my tan sister...


They are "serious" about being brothers!

Wedding Pics Part 3

Us


Kyle got a break from pictures for a bit and hung out with my Daddy


Just me... odd face, because the photographer was still giving me instructions


First dance. Sadly I don't have pics of the Father Daughter Dance yet... :0(


Run away!!!! They had filled the car with balloons and covered it with streamers and written on the windows, and then they pelted us with silly string!!!

Mrs. Haughey

So, as of today I am officially and legally Mrs. Carrie Haughey.

1 hour at social security, mostly spent waiting
1 hour at the DMV, 40 mins. sitting and waiting, 10 talking to the clerk, and another 10 waiting in line to get my picture taken.
1/2 hour at the bank getting all those accounts changed.

The only thing I wish I had had was a book to help pass the time. People watching isn't as fun when they are all sitting too...

Wedding pictures will be coming soon. I personally don't have any right now. My mother has a few, but I need to get those from her and once I do, they will go up. The professional ones won't be ready for about a month... :0( those will go up too, once we get them.

Honeymoon

in Tahoe. It is very nice up here. There is a fire in South Shore, it is kind of big, but we are about 50 miles away, so we should be safe. We can smell the smoke, but other then that everything is normal. We haven't done much the last couple days, just relaxed, but the rest of the week is going to be fairly packed. Will update later...

Lost

I am handing in my two weeks notice to Hayward on Friday.

It just really isn't the job for me, i get up in the morning and it is a chore that I have to do, going to work. I want a job where I am happy to go to work and that is perfect for me. Unfortunately I am discovering that I don't know what that is.

I have spent so much of my life trying to please others and fit in that I now am learning that I don't really know who I am or what I really like. I have no idea what my ideal job is; well, actually, I want to be a stay at home mom, but that is a couple years down the road, so until then I need to know what else it is that I can do and love.

• I love organizing and rearranging things so that they are more functional and astheticley pleasing. I rearranged my bedroom about 7 times through high school.
  
• I love working with kids, especially younger ones. 5 and under is my fave.
  
• I love working with my hands ( I learn best by physically being able to do something than watch someone else do it).
• I love filing, (yes it's true!) it is so organized and precise.

Now I am getting married and need to have a job so we can afford rent and to send Kyle to school, but I don't know where or what.

I am trying to set up a meeting with Danny Martin to see if he can help with vocational stuff, and figure out just what I should be doing.

Ragamuffin

Currently reading The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning. It is a really powerful book, he is very insightful to a lot of things that seem pertinent to my life lately. One of the things that stuck out the most recently was this prayer in one of the chapters.

Abba,
I abandon myself into your hands. Do with me what you will. Whatever you may do, I thank you. I am ready for it all; I accept it all. Let your will be done in me and in all your creatures. I wish no more than this, O Lord. Into your hands I commend my spirit. I offer it to you with all the love in my heart, for I love you, Lord, and I give myself, surrender myself into your hands without reserve, with boundless confidence, for you are my Father.

It speaks to me a lot. It is the desire of my heart, and yet I am such a control freak that I can't seem to live it out. I want to hand over complete control, but, what happens when it isn't the way I want it to be. Such is my life.

Abba... help.