This Little Woman....

Who ever would have thought that such a little person could have such a huge impact on me?

Valentine's Day

Last night I went to A "Chinese New Year" party with some of my girl friends and as I was walking out the door, I noticed I had two packages...one was a dozen roses from my papa and the other was a basket with chocolates, cookies and a bear in it. It definitely made my week! :)

Today, for Valentine's Day, Allison and I plan on going to the movie Valentine's Day with our friends Sean and Cameron. The baseball boys are still in Arizona and are on their way back so looks like my real valentine is going to miss out! But that's okay, we have a day planned tomorrow! It's going to be so nice to see all those boys again. Campus has been a little bare without them.

Some pictures from the Chinese New Year party:

Some of my best friends! Kelli, Allison, Stephanie and Maddie

Megan and me

My best friend, Kyle and me

The poor kid wiped out on his longboard so he is a hobbling mess.

Steph and me

Great ol' G-pa

I came across some home videos the other day of Christmas time and some other random family events. One video that I found myself watching over 4 or 5 times was one from Christmas 2007, in my junior year of high school. This was the last Christmas that everyone was together and watching it made me choke up a little bit. The video was of Grandpa Oliver singing a Christmas carol in Norwegian. It's been two years since he passed away and man, has everything changed since he's been gone. I can remember everything about that stressful week; what I was wearing, what books I was reading in the hospital, what I ate and the first time I saw him in a mood that wasn't Grandpa Haugen. Sometimes I think he was what brought everyone together.

I still have the note from him right before I went to Texas for a mission trip, "May God bless you in all that you do throughout your life."

In Full Swing Again

As I mentioned in my last post, Max got hit in practice and their coach finally got to thinking that it might be slightly broken. So, I spent the majority of my afternoon driving him to x-rays and doctor's meetings in a beautiful lime green VW bug. (my childhood dream car that only my Barbies would ever drive) Around 9:00 last night, we found out he needed a cast, atleast for a week then it could be in a brace that didn't constrain his wrist. Bummer, but atleast he'll only be out for a couple weeks versus months. Can't wait to watch him pitch! :)

Spring Semester started yesterday and so far, so good I guess. I had Communications 190 yesterday and I feel like it's going to end up being a great class. My Professor has an amusing obsession with Lady Gaga and the show Lost. I found myself bursting out laughing at her sense of humor and comments to people; I'm going to enjoy this one. Next up for my Tuesday-Thursday schedule I have Anthropology 102 but it was cancelled yesterday. Once I found this out, I was having the best day ever...I think only one of my classes was cancelled all last semester so I'm already hoping there's more to come.

Today I woke up early to help Max and Spencer pack for their baseball trip to Arizona, lucky boys! I was stuck going to Religion 244, or Lutheran Heritage. I'm still not sure how this class will go with me; it sounds like a lot of work but should be somewhat interesting. Now, I just got back from Spanish 301 and to be honest, I was pretty nervous to sit in on a 300 level class. There are a few people from my 202 class but the other kids are either 30 or have studied abroad in places like Argentina or Chile...hopefully I can compare with my North Dakotan Spanish accent! ha! The professor was really nice and thorough and it will be a good class because there's only 9 other students in there besides me. No tests, just a lot of writing but I would rather do that.

The rest of my day/week now is dedicated to doing my reading and homework now....The baseball boys are gone so hopefully I can be productive and not procrastinate any more with Nintendo 64 or unnecessary Market runs.

I'm lacking on the pictures, I know, but hopefully this weekend will be eventful!

PLUtards reunited

Well, I've been back at PLU for a few days now and it's great to be here...A lot of people are gone because it's J-term break and there's still another week before spring semester starts. However, Allison's still here and so are all the baseball boys. I guess I could throw in that Max's friend Joey is here and isn't sure when he'll be back in Vancouver...but that's okay. PLU loves him. I'm not really doing anything different this week that I didn't do in Fargo but because there's actually people to hang out with, it makes time a little more bearable.

Tonight we're planning on going to Dear John and tomorrow is PLU's first baseball game and I can't wait to watch all day and all of tomorrow. Max got hit in practice yesterday so they're not sure if he'll still be able to pitch this weekend. After the boys' Sunday game, I think we're going to Allison's house for the Superbowl...My Washington mom (Allison's mom) loves having all of us over because we're her little babies. haha So far, a pretty laid back weekend here and that'll be good to prepare for classes starting on Tuesday.

Oh, and I still need to get textbooks...ugh

Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig

BACK TO TACOMA!!!!

3 November, 2009

Downtown Seattle