sunny days chasing the clouds away

This is Melissa and me in the process of getting beautiful!

School at Bethany ended yesterday. Today everything felt empty and quiet at work. I had forgotten how lonesome the summers can feel at Bethany. We had our end of the year banquet this afternoon and officially shift into summer mode next Monday. Outside of summer camp weeks I will only need to be at Bethany during summer office hours, 8:30-12:00! Yeah for short days.

I have 11 people taking tennis lessons with me this summer. I picked 6 dates this summer and am just packing the afternoons full of lessons. I have decided I want to buy a new digital camera with my tennis money. I love scrapbooking, but have never gotten excited about taking pictures. I am trying to change that.

I started a new summer project last night. I bought a new summer dress pattern and fun fabric. I've gotten all the easy stuff done. I preshrunk the fabric, cut out the pattern, cut out the fabric and am now ready for the hard stuff. I am somewhat hesitant to start sewing because I have so much trouble reading the directions. I am more of a hands on learner. Maybe I can convince Mom to help me this first time!

Tonight is my first summer tennis league match. We are playing over in Michigan City and I am actually a little nervous. My new team is having me play singles all season and I feel high expectations from them. I hope I don't dissapoint. My team is gunning for a bid to nationals this year!

4 Day Weekend

Melissa used fish as part of her reception decorations! She wanted people to take them home after the wedding. I'm pretty sure she ended up with a lot of left over goldfish!

Today begins my 4 day weekend! Yeah! Got to love that. I am here at school for a quick meeting today at 2, but I decided it didn't count. Sophie and I got our run in this morning before the rain came down and I am planning on a nap and movie this afternoon after I get home.

A week ago I was hit by a car while I was waiting at a stop light. I was really lucky to walk away unhurt and with minimal damage to my car. The truck that hit me swerved at the last minute and just clipped my left side. I have a small dent and a few scratches and had to replace my blinker, but other than that was very lucky. I picked my car up this morning and am glad to have a left rear blinker again after driving around without one for a week. Talk about another accident waiting to happen! This accident was a reminder to me about how quickly things can happen. I can't even begin to count the number of times I drive from home to work or work to home and pull in to park, hardly remembering actually driving. We drive so often on auto piolot and it only takes a second of inattention for something awful to happen.

We don't have much planned for this weekend. Aaron Lehman is getting married tomorrow and Bethany's commencement is Sunday, but other than that I plan to get a lot of relaxing in!

I love Gilmore Girls Reruns!

Yeah for free afternoons! Today officially begins my free afternoons and evenings. I had forgotten what it was like to have free time from 4-6pm. I get to watch Gilmore Girls reruns again! It's my favorite show. Seth isn't a huge fan, but I don't care. It makes me laugh.

I got to watch Seth play indoor soccer last night. It was the first one I've gotten to see this season. They play so late at night. When I had to be in to work at 7:30 and often didn't get home till after 7pm I didn't want to go to soccer games in Elkhart that started at 9pm. It's nice to be able to sleep in a little. It makes me feel okay about doing things in the evenings! I enjoyed watching them play, even though they lost 9-1.

Tonight is the big night! American Idol Finale Results Show! Seth and I haven't been religious this season, but we still did a pretty good job of following the season. I don't know if we will watch all 2 hours of the finale, but we will definitly be tuned in to the last 5 minutes!

Melissa's Wedding!

Well I have heard from several people that we do not update our blog often enough. Since my husband seems to have lost interest, I guess it is up to me to keep posting, even though he started the blog!

My tennis season is done. We ended with a winning record 9-8 and lost to Jimtown in the sectionals. While it is always dissapointing to lose I was excited about being able to spend time in Berne on Friday and Saturday for Melissa's wedding! I helped do some set up for the reception on Friday afternoon, went to the rehearsal, and rehearsal dinner in the evening. They had a fun evening planned; a bonefire, hotdogs, s'mores, volleyball, horseshoes, etc.

Saturday morning Melissa and I got up at 5am so we could get a run in before all of the days activities. The morning of my wedding she got up and did Tae-bo with me, so this was kind of our tradition! We got 4 miles in before 6am and had time to shower and eat before heading off to get our hair done at 7am.

We had several hours of downtime before pictures at noon and the ceremony at 3pm. It was fun to hang out, do our nails, and primp and prine before everything. Melissa looked so beautiful in her dress! It was a fun, full day.

Now I am back to school, but have most of my afternons and evenings free. I don't know what will fill all of my free time yet. I do have some tennis players who are interested in taking lessons. My office hours will be less and less as the summer progresses, minus two weeks of summer camps I am in charge of. I am looking forward to reading lots of books and laying in the sun this summer. We have one week of school left and it is exciting to feel things winding down.