Day 12

7 things that brought a smile to your face in the last 7 days. be specific.

1. My babies (well that I nanny).

2. Love...and falling there! :)

3. Being in a basketball gym again.

4. The anticipation of going home this weekend.

5. My special someone

6. Daisy baby.

7. friends, mine are amazing! :)

Day 11

favorites. questions here and there.

color: pink...but I wear a lot of blue.

song: changes a lot...but right now I'd have to say "That's Beautiful to Me" and "Kiss Goodbye" 

tv show: private practice, biggest loser and OTH.

book/series: Dear John

author: nicholas sparks. 

movie: all time favorite is Love and Basketball

photo website: I don't use one.

season: spring.

actor: umm...if it can be an actress, I'd say jennifer aniston.

animal: dogs, by far.

food: pizza…

cereal: honey bunches of oats.

beverage: dr. pepper, water

drink from coffee shop: hot chocolate. 

store: umm, express or Gap outlet.

restaurant: george's, olive garden and huhot.

fast-food: subway! 

perfume/cologne: I have 5, one for each day of the week! :) two j simp ones, dkny apple, victoria's secret and true by faith hill.

outfit: i don't have one.

shoes: currently my privos

car: don’t have one.

hairstyle: when i had long hair, it was half up and curly

5 favorite things to do that you don’t do every single day:

run. play with my nieces. cuddle with my certain someone. be with family/friends. play basketball.

3 guys that have stolen your heart:

sam. adam (only 2)

2 things you wish you could do or be:

-singer! have a dog rescue shelter

4 things you want right now:

my man. lose weight. be in mn. a tan.

3 people you would payback for all they’ve done for you:

mom. dad. my grandma i live with right now.

4 awesome memories:

-senior year high school. my nieces being born. california. play sports. 

Day 10

share some pictures of your group/s of friends from your high school days. keep in contact with any of them? still close to anyone?

I know I just used this pic, but it's a good one! :) 

I keep in touch with most of these people.  Some of them it's just once in awhile we'll talk or see each other and others I see almost every time I go home.  I had some of the greatest memories from high school and these people were a big reason for it! :) I wish I could get my group of friends from high school back...they were amazing and now the relationships are so much different! :(  One of my best friends is from high school though and I don't see our relationship changing! :) 

Day 9

what was one of the best times of your life to the day? something exciting. not simply just: the day i graduated college. the day my children were born. etc. be interesting.


I could go two different ways with this one...but there is a story I tell over and over again and I simply laugh every time.  It was the summer after my first year at college and I got a group of high school friends to go to the Tim McGraw and Faith Hill concert at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.  Since I planned it I drove.  We headed up towards the concert and stopped somewhere along the way for a cheaper dinner than we'd get at the concert.  We stopped at Subway, packed back into the car and got back on our way.  Well at a stoplight right after we stopped I looked at my gas tank and it was at about a quarter of a tank.  I thought we could make it cuz it wasn't that much further, my friends thought I should stop, but I decided to keep going (we were on a time crunch after all).  


Well, we got stuck in concert traffic about a mile or 2 before our exit...we were barely moving.  Right before this time my gas light came on...GREAT!  I can still remember all of us constantly looking at the fuel thing on my dash.  We came up on the parking ramp and I just kept saying "what if we run out of gas in the middle of this thing?"  Well we made it to a parking spot.  I almost missed it, so I had to reverse and fix my parking job. Just as I put it in reverse, my car wouldn't move...We had run out of gas (with a stream of cars behind me).  I quickly turned my car off and then back on and pulled into the parking spot.  We went to the concert and had a great time.  I had made arrangements with a friend in the cities to bring us a gas tank. Well, 15 minutes before the concert was over she was too tired and couldn't stay awake any longer...GREAT!!!!!!  So there we were not knowing what to do, so we decided to just walk to one.  This was at 11:30pm in downtown St. Paul...


That is where the true adventure began.  We asked multiple police officers where the closest one was but got different answers, so we picked one and went.  Well it was a good half mile walk.  During this walk we walked past a bar on the opposite side of the street.  A guy smoking outside decided to whistle at us.  Erin speaks up and yells, "Do not whistle at us, we are not dogs!!!!"  We all about died laughing.  We rounded the corner when I car stopped to ask where the detox center was.  Erin again spoke up and said, "Why do you need to go?"  They replied, "no but our friend is there."  Erin then says, "Oh that sucks.  Do you know where the closest gas station is?"  The other three of us were not the happiest with this, but we laughed anyway.  They offered us a ride, we declined and kept walking.  We saw a prostitute or two around the corner and then finally saw the signs to the gas station.  We walked in, got a little tank and paid at a counter that was protected by bullet proof glass (boy did we feel safe).  We started walking back when all of a sudden we saw my parents (they had started to drive up and said they weren't going to turn around until I had a full tank of gas in my car).  So, we jumped in the car and got a ride back the rest of the way! :) 


It was such a great night, one I'll never forget! :) 

We got free energy drinks after the show...I'm truly not drunk or high in this picture! :)

In my parents car on the way back...

The quote on fb for this pic..."Why is this so erect?" None other then the great Erin Becker! :) 

Day 8

Playing catch up a little bit...

more music. what device do you play your music in? turn it on shuffle/random. what are the first 34 songs played?


I usually listen on my computer or ipod, but the music is the same on both, so I'll use my computer for this (since it's handy and all) ;)
American honey. she is love. i'm in a hurry (and don't know why). the house that built me. the way you love me. happy. til kingdom come. backseat of a greyhound bus. here comes goodbye. times like these. i was here. man enough. no end in sight. first time. cry. down the road. change. just say the word. when the stars go blue. the man i want to be. lovin' you on my mind. yesterday's rain. let her cry. any other world. red light. the women in my life. sweetest sin. amarillo sky. far away. only grace. last kiss. beautiful disaster. tell me why. this love. 

Music

I heard this song the other day and it talked so much about what is going on with me and a special someone.  I could listen to it 50 times a day, it's just amazing!

You were Juliet and I was into you
And I asked you out til you couldn't say no 
And you finally felt it too.
I drove you down the boulevard 
That's where you took my heart
And you gave me yours instead
And every day you find new ways to be beautiful
You laugh at the garden that won't grow in the lawn.
Drink coffee in the kitchen with no makeup on
Sing all the wrong words to my favorite songs
You're beautiful and that's beautiful
You got lines on your face from sleeping on me
Call me at work cause you lost your key
Go to buy a dog and you come home with three
You're beautiful and that's beautiful to me
You turn every head when you walk into a room
But your kindness and your sweetened soul lingers like perfume.
Babe, you coulda gone with Romeo
But you let him go 
And you stayed with me instead 

And every day I find new ways that make you beautiful
You say honey give me roses but don't buy red
You need 46 pillows all over the bed
You guess every punchline before its said 
You're beautiful and thats beautiful
What's she doing with a guy like me?
You're so cool and I'm high tea.
I don't deserve to
Have a girl as beautiful as you
You laugh at the garden that won't grow in the lawn.
Drink coffee in the kitchen with no makeup on
Sing all the wrong word to my favorite songs
You're beautiful and that's beautiful
You got lines on your face from sleeping on me
Call me at work cause you lost your keyGo to buy a dog and you come home with threeYou're beautiful and that's beautiful to me
You're so beautiful
And that's beautiful to me.

Day 7

musicians that speak to you. one song or every song. can you think of 20?


j simp. jaron and the long road to love. darius rucker. casting crowns. blake shelton. zach brown band. sara evans. sugarland. kellie pickler. steel magnolia. the band perry. miranda lambert. little big town. brandon heath. eli young band. daughtry. third day. carrie underwood. lady antebellum. kate voegele.