I love the covered bridge:)

Don't you just love fall?! It's the perfect temperature to wear sweatshirts and it is just plain BEAUTIFUL outside. Now that I go to Messiah, I'm especially grateful for the beautiful things I get to enjoy on my walk in from the partking lot to campus. This is the famous covered bridge I walk through every day on my way into class:

I don't know if you can see, but in the middle of the bridge sides are two openings...sort of like windows...and you can look down into the yellow breeches. I love walking past them every morning and watching the sun shine on the water....seriously, it's something out of a magazine!!! I always think of "Charlotte's Web" because on the window openings are tons and tons of shiney little spider webs, so intricately designed.

Anyway, fall just makes me so grateful for such simple pleasures! Walking under this bridge starts off my day so well, and hopefully you can find your own "covered bridge" in your day!!!

My new favorite show...

Drum roll please...

I mean, come on, who doesn't like a good reality tv show about crazy selfish indulgent brides with over the top wedding budgets and $5,000 gowns??? It's GREAT!!! This show has been around for awhile, but I just started watching it again because it's on during my breaks between classes. And not only is it totally entertaining, it's somewhat practical...I'm getting some good ideas!

If you're a glutton for this kind of TV entertainment, tune in to the Style network from 11am-1pm...

Ok, seriously, I should get some sort of award for the advertisement I just gave for this show. And to think I did it for free, out of the goodness of my heart....(*cough cough style network*)

Well, here's for a short blog post. Until next time!

And so it goes...

School at Messiah is going well. That is, as good as "school" can possibly be. I made it into the concert choir, which is the touring choir at MC, and i also joined the MCSO....which stands for the syphony orchestra. Here's a pic of the concert choir....I'm not in it obviously...this was last years pic:Both are really good outlets for me because quite honestly I can't stand to be in class for too long of a time! And speaking of that, I even dropped a class because I didn't want to go bizirk at the end of the semester taking 6 finals, so I dropped down to 5 classes. Amen for that option!

This weekend we have our church Stake Conference, and to spice things up a bit we are having Elder Bednar, one of our general authority apostles come speak....can you say, RAD? I'm totally reved for him to come and feel really lucky I am going to get to hear him speak!!! Here he is:

Last night me and mom couldn't stand it anymore and we broke out the christmas movies.... We are total gluttons for Christmas movies and as soon as september comes around we are watching them like crazy!!! And my mom, bless her heart, has had the Mo-Tab christmas CD's playing all thru the house.... I love it!!! My dad makes fun of us, but what do we care? We LOVE Christmas.... even if it is still september.:)

I'm a falcon

Not literally of course, come on now.:) I'm a Messiah College falcon. I start classes on tuesday the 4th, and I think that pretty much means I'm no longer a nittany lion. I am ready for the change. The drive to campus is a whopping 3 minutes from the house (equates to about .75 miles) and that just makes me jump for joy because it used to take me 30 minutes start to finish at PSU. I'll tell you how it all goes.

So here's my funny (and slightly gross) story of the week. Wednesday was my last day of work, which was both sad and happy at the same time. Since all of the kids I taught over the summer moved up into Preschool 2 last week, we got the new batch of preschool 1 kids. This little girl Paige (very very adorable) has been having some issues with not making it to the potty on time and we all can fill in the lines as to what i mean here. Well about 5 minutes before I was about to leave on Weds. she says "Potty! Potty!" So I ran her to the bathroom and sat her on the potty. As I was standing there waiting for her to finish she pointed at the floor behind me and said, "Look at that." I looked down and to my horror was a pile of poop!!! I was so confused....whose poop was it?!? I ran out of the bathroom and told the other teachers that "someone pooped on the floor!" We all stood there really perplexed (and in silent laughter) until we finally figured out that it was Paige's poop! I guess it must have rolled out of her undies when I got her on the potty...and I didn't even notice it!!!!!! How funny and totally disturbing is that?! Oh man it was just plain flat hilarious, as you can imagine, and quite a way to end my last day of work. So, think of this story whenever you need a good laugh....I'm still laughing....2 days later!!!

And that, folks, is why I love 3-year-olds.

The Latest Buzz

Hello Hello! Back again. I took a little "vaca" (vacation) from blogging and have returned to give you the latest skinny on my life, etc.

Work at the Preschool has been it's typical concoction of crazy kids, time-outs, sidewalk chalk, and ocean fun. Our theme for the month of August was ocean, so I've been having a lot of fun thinking up fun things for the kids to do. Namely: coloring in a life-size shark, making a "shark tooth" necklace, singing "Baby Beluga," reading books about Pirates that live on ships in the ocean (notice the tie-in...) and then making Pirate hats, and various assundry other little crafts. It's been fun, I must say. Last week the teachers were informed they had 2 days to move all the things from their current classrooms into another room...which was...you guessed it, LOADS of fun. NOT. It put all of the Fall teachers in a tail-spin, and needless to say tempers were at an all-time rage. I tried my best to stay out of dodge (since, in case you forgot, I won't be teaching there in 2 weeks when I start school) but it was inevitable not to step into some of the ___ (insert inappropriate word....if you need a hint as to what I mean fill in this blank: the ___ hit the fan...) Anyway, it was a total zoo at the center, and thank goodness for the TV, VCR, and the "Kids Songs" movie because I'm pretty sure the kids were about to kill each other...

ANYWAY, other than that, things have been pretty steady around here. Last weekend Amber and I helped plan a huge YSA (Young Single Adult) conference in Gettysburg for church. I think we are still perplexed as to how we got involved, but that's neither here nor there, and it's over with anyway. It was a LOT of work. But from what I heard from other YSA's that attended it turned out really well....(me and Am wouldn't know....we were stuck planning and running errands most of the time....) But at least we can look back now and laugh....or cry....at the crazyness of it all.

Hopefully everyone out in cyber-land is doing well. Keep up with your blogs...I love reading them!

And that, my friends, is the latest buzz. Until next time...

Boo hoo....

I took the day off of work (the ONLY day I've taken off all summer, thank you very much) to straighten out some last minute transfer issues with Messiah College. I met with an advisor and we looked over my Penn State transcript to see where I'm at in terms of what they can accept at Messiah. Bad news...the way things worked out a majority of my PSU credits don't even count!!! It is really quite wreched. I should technically be a junior, but am so far behind that i think i'm probably a sophomore..............total bummer! And that my friends, is the joys of transferring. The worst part is that some of the classes I have to retake, because of some miniscule little difference in the PSU vs. Messiah courses. It makes me so flippin MAD!

So, today i'm a little depressed.:(

Today I got a greater understanding of the term "eternal student..." Now when someone asks when i'll be done i'll have to say....never, i'll be in school forever.

I know, I know...a little dramatic you're probably thinking... But, in leu of today's events, just let me be on my soap box for awhile, please.

I'll let you know when i'm over it.

Camera nearly trampled by huge BISON

Doesn't that sound like a newspaper headline? I know...you must be thinking I totally just made that up, but I'm afraid I must admit it's true! Yesterday was fieldtrip day at work and we went to Lake Tobias. It's always a fun field trip for the little tykes, but with three-year-olds one can almost count on a few minor catastrophe's taking place. We got to go on a fun safari ride around the park where goats, bulls, ostriches, deer, etc. came up to the tractor and the kids hand fed them crackers. Of course there were a few freak-outs from some of the kids, but hey, that comes with the territory. Anyway, I was sitting with my darling boy Cameron and another boy Breydan when our tour guide stopped the tractor and was describing the bison that were coming up to us when I decided it was the perfect photo-op moment. That was when it occured. Breydan's head bumped into my hand (the hand holding my camera) thus catapulting my camera through the air and uh...down to the ground...directly under the massive 400 lbs bison. It was like slow motion. I just stood there staring at it in disbelief when one of the parents flagged down our tour guide who ever-so-kindly (and bravely might I add) got off the tractor and rescued my camera! Mind you, seconds before he retrieved it the bison starts moving his feet and I am serious when i tell you my camera was INCHES (if not centimeters) from the gigantic hoof of the beast. It is a MIRACLE it is still intact!!! Later talking with one of the parents we laughed as we realized the situation could have been drastically worse. I must have blocked out the massive pile of poop just feet from where my camera fell. Had I been in the next seet back my camera may have faced a very gloomy smelly and disgusting death...in bison poop. So, I think it's safe to say I really lucked out, all things considered. Needless to say it made quite the memory. And so when i say "Camera nearly trampled by huge bison" I really mean it!

And here's the part of the story when I tell you with surety that you're so lucky. Let me explain. You are so lucky because you know the very girl whom this fantastical yet realistic story happened to. You know the girl from the headline!!!

In advance let me say that autographs and other personalized paraphinalia will be available shortly. I know you're all excited...but try to contain your excitement.:)

Disclaimer: Headline used in blog does not reflect actual headline of any major newspaper. I wish.