Man....

This past week has been crazy busy. I mean crazy. We have been prepping our house for a bachelor party for Adam's friend. Total cleanup of the yard and house. It was so much work, but so worth it. The yard looks great, the house is nice and clean and the guys had a blast. It was a day full of music, bbq and paintball. 2000 to be exact. They guys started arriving around 11 a.m. and getting everything ready for a massive paintball game. Around 1 or so, 7 guys charged into the woods. At 3:45, I called them back in for some bbq. They came in and ate a ton of food. What would you expect with 7 grown men? After lunch, they played music and cleaned up to head out for a night on the town. They went to a few pubs, and went to Barneys to play some pool. I'm not sure how everything went, around 2:45, I got the call that they were heading home and I don't remember anything else. It was a great day for Adam, I know he had so much fun hanging out with the guys. We are going to have to plan more games and things for the men to do for some time away.

My first week of school went well. My math class is going to be pretty easy. It's going to basically be a review for me on the algebra that I took my freshman year. English was pretty boring this week because we just reviewed for a grammar test that we have on Wednesday. Pretty basic stuff. I have a paper to write, just a 2-page one about what impacted my life the most. I'm about halfway done and will finish later tonight.

I'm babysitting next week, all week, so I will probably be out of commission. Not that I've been doing a great job of blogging, but just so ya know. Until next time......

Well...

We have been working hard to get things ready for a bachelor party this weekend and for some new bedroom furniture we got. I was so excited to be getting it. We decided to repaint the bedroom and so we picked out some paint, moved everything out of the bedroom and got started. We found new homes for just about everything in there except the headboard...(anybody want a king sized headboard? :) I painted the walls blue and the trim cream. This morning, with the help of Adam's brother, Kort, we moved the furniture into it's new home!!!! YEAH!!! I love it as much as you are allowed to love furniture, which is a ton! It is so dang nice. And it all matches!!!! That is awesome lol. We steamed cleaned the carpets and everything. This morning, the bedroom was wonderfully cleaned and ready to be changed. It feels so great!

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After:

On another note, tomorrow I start school. College...me, a college student, wow. I am so nervous. I don't even know why. I've had my bag packed since Friday, I have a copy of my schedule sitting on the desk and I'm all ready. What is there to be nervous about, probably the change. I am starting something new, something that is going to change who I am and how my life will be. It won't be as easy to do the things that I need to do, I will have to have more time to myself, putting more responsibility with Adam. I will have to discipline myself to study and do my homework. Changes, that I am hopefully ready for. This will be such a fun experience once I get there and get going. I am going to be there early so I can find my classrooms and be ready. Wish me luck!!!

Not to Toot my Own Horn, But.....

Man, yesterday I felt so dang good. I went up to the college (what???) to find about about testing for college level placement for some classes I am gong to take. I stood in about 4 lines before I found the one that I needed to actually be in. I went upstairs to test after I paid them my money so I could take a test. Doesn't that suck, I had to pay to take a test. Depressing almost. Anyways, I finished the answer portion and only had my essay left. I took a break, since they offered me one and came back to start the essay. The topic was over one that I could actually relate to and so that made it so much better. I finished up and headed over to get my results. Yeah, they print out as soon as I hit submit, so they were with the front desk before I made it up there. There were multiple people watching the students and one walks over to me with my scores. I asked her if I passed and she said, "Honey, you did awesome, I've never seen an 8 on an essay." She pats me on the back and both of the ladies are standing there smiling at me. Kinda weird, but she proceeds to tell me that I need to go down stairs to meet with an advisor. So, back down stairs for another line. This one took like 30 minutes. It's my turn so I show the lady my test results and ask her what, "This score is out of range, Please check with your advisor" means. She looks at it for a while and says, that is really good, I've never even seen an 8. Apparently, 8 is the highest you can get and it was a high enough level 8 that it was putting me out of the range of actually having an 8, Make sense??? We start trying to register me for some classes and she shows someone else. A loud someone else. He says, "Where is this genius, I want to meet them?" I'm beet red now, with all of these other people in the stupid office looking at me. He comes over, shakes my hand and asked if I really got an 8 in 26 minutes. I tell him yes sir and he said, "Amazing. Did you show Tom?" No, she hadn't showed Tom, but she sure would. Off she runs to find this Tom guy and show him my results. He proceeds to tell me that I should frame them and maybe play the lottery. Really now, frame some results from a test. I hurried up and got out of there because I was embarrassed. When I was in the car, it hit me, man they made me feel good. I felt like I was on cloud nine, it was great. Okay, enough with my story, I was just so proud of myself and wanted to share my experience.

So, I registered for 4 classes for this semester. What was I thinking right? Well, I have been wanting to go back for a while, but the timing just hasn't been right. Now that Kaydence is a year old, Adam will manage just fine for the hours that I need to be in class. Which isn't that many. I'm taking two on campus and two hybrid classes. So a full schedule, but only part time away from the family. I am so excited. I am a college student again!!! Crazy, I know. I am so nervous, I mean, what if I can't keep up with everything? It's going to be an adjustment, I'll have to have some alone time for studying and homework, but I can't wait to start. I start a week from today. OMG, one week from today, at this time, I will be coming home from my first day at college!!!!!!!! Wish me luck!

Hopson Family Reunion

So today was our family reunion on my mother's side of the family. It was family from my Great-Grandma's siblings. We had a big variety of family there, about 50 people came. It was nice. So pretty. I didn't realize how beautiful Lake Livingston actually is. The pavilion overlooked the lake and it was just beautiful. I can't wait to camp there...hint hint!!! We played games, swam, ate some seriously good food and walked along Lake Livingston. It was a great trip! I really enjoyed myself. We were running late and got there shortly before it was time to eat. Everybody had brought different items. Like a dinner meal and a dessert. I made a chicken casserole from the cook-book from my great-grandma. There was so much food. Everybody got to take some home if they wanted it. Then, the younger generation put on their swimsuits and headed over to the pool. I decided not to swim because Kaydence was with us and I knew that it would just be easier to not. We stayed inside and played games and visited with relatives. Kameron decided that he wanted to jump of the diving board. When he started walking along it, I totally thought he wouldn't do it. But, he did, just jumped right off and wanted to keep doing it!!! It was great seeing everyone and getting to spend some time together. Next years will be great!!! WoooHooo!!

Garner State Park

Wheew, what a trip. We left Wednesday morning and stayed until Saturday afternoon. It was so much fun. We went with some friends of ours, so in total there were 7 of us and two infants. It was so beautiful. The Park is located on the Frio River, which is a river fed by three natural springs, making the river cold, hence the name Frio. The first times we went, the water was perfect. The last morning we were there though, we went earlier in the morning and it was cold!!!!!!!! Once we got used to it, it was great though. We made smores, played games, went hiking, cooked over a campfire, made friends with about 4 skunks, saw huge deer, played putt-putt golf, rocked the babies to sleep while sitting in the river, went crawling through a cave, had two different people get stung by a bee and many other things. Here are some pictures from the trip:

Procrastination

That is me, to a fault. Here is is 9p.m and I still don't have our bags packed for camping. I don't have the food gathered, I don't even have all our camping stuff gathered under the carport. I accomplished nothing today for this camping trip tomorrow. I left it all for tonight, when the kiddos went to sleep, why, I'm not too sure. But, as soon as this gets typed, I'm going to be moving fast and efficiently. Then, in the morning, we are heading out on a four day camping trip with some friends of ours. I am so excited. Kameron is too, we've been talking about it today and he keeps begging to go tonight. We are going to be fishing, hiking, floating down the Frio River, dancing, going on a hayride, and tent camping. It is going to be a blast, I can't wait. I will be sure to take tons of pictures and share them when we get back. Until Saturday...........