Mud Wrap

Today I went to The Spa at West Glen for a mud wrap. It was very enjoyable. I had a glass of wine, got muffified, sat in the sauna, and just relaxed.
Thank you to all the the families at Jordan Creek Family Church who all chipped in and got the gift certificate for me. I really enjoyed my time away from reality.

Birthdays

Andrew and I celebrated our birthdays a couple of weeks ago. He turned 33 and I am now the big 30!
For Andrew's birthday we went over to his parent's house and had a nice dinner and spent some time with them.
The next day we went to Paradise Pizza to celebrate our birthdays together. I love their pastas there. Everything is just so good there. YUM!
I worked the night into my birhtday and we had a taco party. Everyone brought something to make tacos with. My friend Amie and I made cake and covered them with fondunt. For our first time, it didn't turn out too bad, but now we have a better idea for next time.
I was supposed to work the night of my birthday and got to work, to find out the patient we were expecting went to a different hospital, so I got to go home. Didn't do anything to exciting but homework.
Andrew and I decided not to get each other gifts this year. Instead we decided to donate our spendings to the local food pantry. Everyone could use a little help this year.

Brush with greatness

I have had my brush with greatness this summer. First in June or July I was at Hy-Vee and ran into Shawn Johnson. Then today I ran into Target to get a few things when I about ran her coach over with my cart! It is just so surreal to go shopping and run into these people. It is just strange to see them in such common places, even though they needed to shop too!

tattoos

Okay, I understand why people want to have tattoos, I have 2 myself, but this is extreme if I say so myself. I was flipping through the channels this morning and stopped on the History Channel where they were discussing tattoos. Well I guess the new thing is to get your eye tattooed. The tattoo artist takes a small hyperdermic needle and places it on the sclera and tatoos it. One person just had a blue dot on his eye while another actually was tattooing his whole sclera blue!! I can't even fathom doing that!

Playing for Pizza

Playing for Pizza by John Grisham was an okay novel. I haven't ready any of his other books, but I thought this would be interesting. It was a great read for a few days, it kept me interested, but I wouldn't call it a favorite.

"Love the One You're With"

Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin is a story of a newly married woman, Ellen, who runs into her old flame, Leo, by chance one rainy afternoon. Old feelings of romance surface when Leo and Ellen do a photoshoot/story together. Only Ellen's husband has no idea what is going on. Well, Ellen's husband, Andy, is from Atlanta and is very, very wealthy. Ellen is also best friends with Andy's sister, Margot, and she is not happy when the friendship of Leo and Ellen resurfaces. Ellen is left with hard choices, especially when Andy wants to move back to Atlanta from New York City to be by his family. Will she choose Andy, the one she gave her life to or Leo, the one who got away?
This is a great book that kept me turning the page.

Resignation

I have decided to resign as the Nursery Coordinator at Jordan Creek Family Church. I have held that position for 3 years now, since the church was founded. I have enjoyed it immensly, but I feel it is time for me to move on. Other things in my life are happening and I need to focus on them. I also need to be in service more. I haven't been in service much over the past three years and most people in the congregation don't know me unless they have children in the nursery. It will be hard to leave. I have seen so many children grow up. I know I will cry my last Sunday, but God has great things in store for me and I can't wait to see what they are.