Flashback

I have a real treat for you today.  Or I had nothing current to blog about.  One of the two.  Anywho, here's some super sweet old school pictures of me.  Not to brag or anything, but I was super adorable as a young child.  Most of these pictures will reflect the extreme cuteness.  One, however, is not so cute.  Okay, I'll just post the pictures now and you can see for yourself.

Here I am the first summer after my birth with my grandparents in Indiana.

My mom was super stylish.

Ready for church.  Check out my mom's ginormous hair.

I love this one because Krissie literally looks like a tiny old person.  The way she's standing, her outfit, her hair, the giant glasses...

This was Scottie Bear.  I believe my dad won him for me at the fair.  I later changed his name to Jessica.  I'm assuming that was the case in this picture, since he's wearing a dress.  Eventually, I changed it back to Scottie.  But I'm sure he was forever confused about his identity.

How cute is this? Seriously.  Don't I just look like a sweet kid?  Yes.

This is when I played T-ball.  I've never been good at sports, but at least I looked good in my flower shorts and ruffled socks...

Krissie looks like Michelle from Full House.

Look at my long, skinny chicken legs.  Yikes.  I eventually grew normal human-sized legs...

 Here's when we looked like boys.  When my dad got home from work and saw our hair cuts, he said we looked like little Dutch boys.  This was at Seaworld.  Shortly after this picture, Krissie and I decided we had to sit in the splash zone for one of the shows, even though it was like 50 degrees.  We got drenched and cried all the way back to the car.

And just for kicks, here's a few pictures from Jesse's childhood.  Brace yourselves again, he was also super cute!

He was a naked cowboy!

I think this one looks like a Baby Gap ad.

He eventually grew into his hair.

2nd grade.

And my favorite,

3rd grade! Apparently he really wanted to wear his suit for picture day.

In conclusion, Jesse and I are going to have some pretty darn cute kids.  How could we not?  

Also, I don't want you to think I'm full of myself.  Shortly after these cute pictures I got glasses, stopped brushing my hair, started breaking out, and started wearing baggy t-shirts.  It wasn't pretty...

Homework Shmomework

Not much has happened since my last post a week ago.  That's probably why I don't blog that much.  Let's see.  Jesse and I finally forced ourselves to go to the gym yesterday.  And I didn't die!  yay.  I just wish I had more time during the week, but with work and school taking up all my time, it's really hard to find the time and motivation to exercise.

Technically I'm supposed to be doing a little bit of homework right now.  I told Jesse to do one math problem and I would do one section of my Classroom Management Plan.  And, I'm blogging.  But the plan is due tomorrow, so it must get done.  Also, I can hear Jesse in the kitchen.  So he's not doing his homework right now either...

We "planted" our green onions in water like Pinterest told us to do.  They grow crazy fast.

 This is after about a week.

  This is what it looked like yesterday.  I'm not really a fan of green onions, so they don't get used much...

Also, we put up a nice shelf in the living room to hold the projector, Wii, and Xbox.  It looks pretty sweet.  Jesse made the shelf with a big piece of wood and some moulding, and then we painted it.  We had to do a little rearranging to make it all work, but I like it.

 I did my best with what I had.  I know the decorations don't look awesome, but it's hard to work it in with all the electronics.  Plus Jesse added some speakers and a big bass box thingy.

It's a lot more spacious now.  Here's the view from the living room looking into the kitchen and dining room.

Anyway, I don't think I really have much else to say and I really need to get this assignment done...

Oh, but I did think this was funny yesterday.

I told Jesse to stop playing with toys and do his homework.  He was actually wearing the Wolverine mask at the time.  He told me he was getting his helicopters (he has three) charged now so that he could play with them when he wanted to later on.

Oh Hey, Remember Me?

Warning:  there are no pictures in this blog.  Sorry if it's a little too wordy for ya.

Anywho, I really need to be smart and have like a weekly blogging day or something.  My current style of blogging makes it really hard for me to remember what has happened lately that may be worthy of sharing.  Also, it really doesn't help that I never ever take any pictures.

So, let's see.  Jesse and I decided to give the old vegan thing a try.  I think it's trendy these days.  Anyway, Freya and Brett are the ones who inspired us.  They are kind of our mentors.  We're not as good at being strict as they are, but we've done pretty well so far.

And don't worry, we already know the perils that are ahead for us.  You don't need to tell me.  I repeat, keep your comments to yourself.  We already know that we are going to shrivel up and die, that our brains are going to shrivel and we will become idiots, that we are going to become crazy liberals, that we can't possibly get all of the nutrients we need without meat, blah, blah, blah.  Thanks for the concern, but we can handle it.  If we start to deteriorate, we will make some modifications.

Too rude?  If so, sorry.  Anyway, we've been doing the vegan thing for a little over a month now.  It's working well for the most part.  I've lost about 10 lbs and Jesse's lost more than that.  We really went into this thinking that it would be good for health reasons and to lose some weight, but the not eating animals is just an added bonus.  I tried to be vegetarian when I was a kid because eating animals made me sad.  My mom told me I couldn't until I was an adult.  Well, I'm an adult now! So ha!  Also, I happen to have a little thing called PCOS and am extra prone to Diabetes, heart problems, and weight-related issues, so we thought it would be good to get things under control now.

If you're still reading this now, thanks!  I won't bore you with anymore diet-related things or rants.  Yesterday, Jesse and I went to Orlando!  Woohoo!  We have season passes to Universal/Islands of Adventure, so we can go whenever we feel like it.  We decided to go down and go to the temple, and then hit up the parks for a few hours before driving home.  Yes, all in a day.  Our original plan was to leave around 6 a.m.  That soon turned into 7, then 8.  I was feeling a little under the weather and literally could not get out of bed, so Jesse, all dressed in his suit since 5:30, stopped trying to get me up and decided to let me sleep.  I woke up on my own at 9:30.  I didn't think it would be possible to still do our trip.  I was wrong.  We got on the road at 10, due to Jesse's driving skills got to Orlando around 1:15, and went to the temple.  We got to Islands around 5, it closed at 7, then headed over to Universal at 7.  It was way fun.  It's nice to be able to just take a little day trip and get away from it all for a while. We didn't get home until 1 a.m., but we survived.

Today we went to Kelly's wedding!  Kelly and I went to high school together.  It was nice to have like a little high school reunion with about 7 of us.  It was a really nice wedding at Maclay Gardens.  Outside.  And of course, this whole past month and a half now it has been like spring weather, but today, it was like 35 degrees! haha.  We all survived, but I think Kelly was a popsicle after all of the picture-taking.  Anyway, we had fun, and accidentally had a sip of alcohol.  I thought it was orange juice.  I guess the fact that it was in a champagne flute should've clued me in, huh?  Oh well, I won't make that mistake again!

Anywho, sorry, did I use "anywho" already?  Well, I think that's about all I have.  Oh yeah, tomorrow marks a whole year and a half that Jesse and I have been married! Crazy!  And awesome.  Jesse's the best husband I could have ever asked for!

Okay, seriously, if you made it this far, I am thrilled.  But I will stop.  I tend to ramble.  Oh, and Jesse just made fun of me because I'm listening to Yanni.  I'm really done now.  Bye.