Showing posts with label Celebration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Celebration. Show all posts

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Happy Birthday Nicki!!!

I am so blessed that I was able to celebrate Nicki's birthday with her, at the Happiest Place on Earth.










We spent our nights in the scariest/dirtiest/most uncomfortable place on earth (which we still found hilarious), and we spent our days having a blast.

Day 1 was spent at the above pictured wonderful Disneyland and California Adventure where we pretty much ran to every ride. We also got buttons, hers said it's my birthday!, and mine said I'm celebrating. Guess whose button made a greater impression, the birthday girl :)

 And Day 2 was spent having lunch with the Johnsons before we went back to Phoenix.

Mom packed us some delicious snacks, Nicki and I ate way too much candy, and we asked each other first date type questions, like we haven't known each other for the past 10 years.

Happy Birthday Nicki, love you!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Life Update 2.0

Lauren, has requested another life update. Thanks for thinking of me lovely. :)

I have been on a bit of a break from blogging. Not because I don't love to put down my thoughts, events, etc., but because I have been way too stinkin busy.
Real Estate
For 12 days in September, I crammed 90 hours worth of education down my throat. In addition to my part time job? I was way busier then than most 2 week intervals in college.

Then I spent hours and hours between the end of my class, September 18th, and yesterday, cramming for the exams. 1 school exam (average of 3 attempts before someone passes- I did it on the first shot - woo hoo!), 1 national exam (pretty easy based off my previous studying) and 1 state exam (see national exam). I finished with my testing yesterday! woo hoo!

Thhhhheeeeennnn the 6 additional hours you have to take, finished that this last Saturday [awesome Saturday. sarcasm intended.]

I interviewed brokers. 3 to be exact. [If you don't know, interviewing brokers (the person who is, sort of, legally responsible for a real estate agent) is not like interviewing for any other job. Instead of them interviewing me, it's more like me interviewing them. So all in all, a pretty awesome experience.] I met with one good broker, 1 horrible one, and 1 absolutely fantastic one. Guess which one I went with. That's right, absolutely fantastic brokerage. More specifically,
I am absolutely extatic about choosing KW, and the Biltmore Partners seem to be a perfect fit for me.
Licensing
You don't just become a RE agent over night, too bad, hunh? but I have completed most of what I need done. In fact, I hope to be licensed tomorrow!!
Life
In spite of the fact that I have been crazy busy and absolutely overwhelmed, life is fantastic.
-This past Friday we celebrated Brandon, Dad and Grandfather's birthdays. It was really nice to have the family together.





-I spent this past Saturday evening with Cammie and Nicki, eating confusing pitas and seeing What's your number? Absolutely hilarious and it was wonderful to spend time with ma ladies.
-I was in Tucson just over a week ago, which was also fantastic. [see separate post when I'm blogging from home] and this upcoming weekend Nicki and I will be rendezvousing in California at Disneyland in celebration of her birthday! [believe me, there will be pictures]
-A pretty fantastic group of us are planning a half marathon at Disney next September [which my mom has started training for and I'm so proud of her].
-Dustin is fantabulous- and doing so stinkin well at his new job :)
-Nicki and I got to visit Kieren about a month ago, her little Clara is just so precious!!! Also, her new place has so much space! It's a pretty wonderful place.
looks like someone missed the stripes memo
Ma Face/Body
As you probably remember from these Frankenstein pictures, I was in a pretty gnarly accident. Well, I'm lookin a little bit better! I've finished 6 weeks of physical therapy, and finally was able to run my first mile this past Monday (and again with mom yesterday). Welcome back knee!!! Although, I would like to say when I was in Tucson, peeps felt it necessary to rub my scar without my offer/their asking. you're weird.

Ehhh, that's enough for now. How about I just become a little bit more regular on my posting? deal.

What does your life update look like?

Sunday, October 10, 2010

More birthday celebration

So, Nickis birthday was celebrated a few different times.

You've already seen it here, but this celebration included Dustin, Kier, and Anson as well!

We went to The Cheesecake Factory on Friday October 1 for some deliciousness.

Nicki- smiling/wish making
We talked about everything under the sun- and for the record I still love all the Twilight movies as well as the Saw series. :)
Happy birthday girl!
they're awesome. love you girls.
Great times with great people.

celebrations.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Happy Birthday Nicki!!!

Nicki, one of my very best friends, is celebrating her 23rd birthday today!

We have been through such great times together, some crappy times, becoming sisters, and so much more. I am so blessed to have her in my life as an incredible friend and an awesome sister. Pi love!

Black Diamond Ball 2010

Happy Birthday Nicki!!!

ce le brate good times.

Monday, September 27, 2010

The perfect crazy week remedy!

Last week was absolute madness.

I had to write 4 papers... three 5 pagers and a 1 pager.

The GRE killed me. Literally. I got 50 points lower than the first time around. However I'm not too upset about it because obviously that is not a correct measurement of knowledge. Study longer and harder and get a lower score? awesome.

SO it was wonderful to get away with some of my favorites to Vegas this past weekend!

The birthday girl
Mom, Nicki, Cindy and I left for Vegas Friday morning, and what a trip it was!

Gambling, blowing our little horns, celebrating Nickis 23rd, The Bank at Bellagio, Craps lessons and mucho playing. It was awesome.
Our crazy, but awesome, moms
the crazy, but awesome, daughters
We got into the Bellagio without waiting in ANY line, for free, and with free champagne in the club. I've had special treatments and VIP lines before, but this was awesome.

livin the good life

On our last night there we all were so exhausted that we decided to hit the hay early, and then got up the next day at 5am to get some gambling in before we left at 10:30am!

We didn't get many pictures, but hey! That just goes to show how much fun we were having!!

Our only group pic, blurry!
This was after a lady gave us this bouquet of flowers!
The weekend was incredible. Good times with great people. Loved it! Can't wait to go back! :)

vacation.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Celebrating Dad's 56th and Grandfathers 80th!

Last weekend I was in Phoenix to celebrate some birthdays! It's hard to believe grandfather is 80! He acts like a 60 year old. :)

Precious.

We had Aaron, Kristen, Julianne, and Alex over to our house for some of moms amazing fried chicken. YUM!

It was really nice to have a family event like that. :)


I didn't get a lot of pictures while everyone was there but here's a good family shot.

Happy Birthday Dad, Happy Birthday Grandfather!

celebrate good times.