Family Pictures

At Christmas we finally got the whole family together to take some pictures. We just now got them back so I thought I'd post them for everyone to see!

Happy birthday Mariah!

On March 11th Mariah had her sweet 16 :]
Shawn, Mariah, Sheila nad Me all went out to Garbo's Pizzeria and then to Willard to see grandma Pauletta for ice cream!

home sweet home

Just wanted to give out a big
THANK YOU
To everyone who helped me move this past weekend.
It was a big job moving all of my stuff but I was amazed at how many people rushed to my side to help on such short notice. I thought it was going to be a night mare and even though it had its moments, as I was hanging up pictures on the freshly painted walls I had a moment where I literally had tears in my eyes because of how grateful I am for the people in my life. Signing papers Wednesday, packing Thursday, moving boxes Friday, moving furniture Saturday and unpacking all Saturday and Sunday night after church and work.... I have to say I am exhausted after a crazy weekend, but very relaxed to finally be in.
This is the perfect first home for Shawn and me. It's spacious, in a great town and it's never been lived in so it's in perfect condition. I love the way it looks, the way it's laid out and the homely feeling I get when I walk in the door. I promise to put up pictures soon, but I haven't got internet set up there yet so I can only get online at school and they don't have the port for my photo card. But I promise it's adorable :]
Thank you Missy for helping me pack up my entire kitchen and haul fifty thousand boxes 25 miles up the road.
Thank you Sheila and Mariah for staying at my house on Thursday night till 10 helping me pack up all of my crap lol, and then helping me Friday night unpack some of it and Saturday morning haul more of it. And Kevin for helping get that couch through the door, holly cow.
Thanks Mom and Dad for letting my use the Scrapnook trailer to carry most of the big furniture, and thanks dad for helping get it all in place.
Thank you Billy, Wade and Jack for carrying my way to heavy oak bed set and dining room table. Even though I thanked you with pizza you have no idea how incredibly grateful I am that you helped out.
Last but not least thank you Shawn for helping me unpack until the wee hours of the morning as we slowly made our duplex and home. I can't wait until you move in with me in June as my husband, there is so much to look forward to this year and I am so excited to see what this first home holds for us. I know one day a couple years from now, after we have built our dream home on the land by your parent's we will look back at our first place together on some great memories and be so thankful for the stepping stone God gave us on our way to our life together. We are truly blessed and he has led us to some amazing places.
So thanks again to everyone :]
I love you all and would be lost without you<3 You guys are my best mates!
lovelovelove
-lc-
ps: come see my new home sometime
103 Mill Street Willard Mo 65781

sorry

I haven't been on here in FOREVER! So I decided to make it up by uploading our new engagement pictures :] They are so adorable.
These are the favorites, I put up a lot more on myspace and facebook: ]

prom pic memory :]

i just came across this picture again and it almost makes me sad. This is almost our 3 years together at our senior prom :] now its two and a half years later and we are taking new pictures but I have got to remember to keep this one for our kids. We are so little :(

the great big never ending very very long process of getting an education

When I graduated high school I got a card from my crazy cousin that had a comic strip on the front of it. It showed a graduate running away from high school jumping and screaming with excitement. The next picture showed the high school off in the distance with the graduate still smiling and carrying on. Then the next picture showed the graduate running into a brick wall and falling to the ground. This brick wall was a building with a sign reading "College" at the top of it.

Shawn and I felt that brick wall two years ago and though we went into the building with high hopes, it seems like a never ending process and more like an obstacle course dividing us from now and life. I like college and appreciate my education, but I am so burnt out! I want to open my day care and start my life. I feel like this is never going to end, even with the end in my sights and almost in my grasp. Even after I graduate next year Shawn still has at least a year because he is double majoring. I just want his graduation date to be here. That's the starting line of "real life" that I see. We will buy our house and start a family after he graduates and we both have our careers in order. It just takes so long and today, I am feeling impatient. So I wanted to have a venting spiel on how much I hate college today. The end.

feels like the world just might end

school is starting two weeks from today :(

Shawn: up at 5 work at 6...all the way till 4:30 M-TH. School 5-8:30 right after. Work at the conservation department Friday and Saturday. Off Sunday for a day of church and family.

Lauren: School M-F 8-3... work after.

The question is, when do the bride and groom to be get to see each other?

The answer is my friends, Sundays and Holidays. Long distance relationships suck, but I think that actually living ten miles apart and never getting to see each other might suck more.

I always dread the upcoming semester because I get mad that I won't get to see Shawn and spend as much time together as we got to over break. I wouldn't trade a minute and then BAM! A new semester starts. I can't wait to graduate next year. I can't wait to get to live together. This is hard for me, but it's hard for him too. We have to work at it every day.

I just feel like the world is coming to an end as the semester draws dangerously closer *sigh* My world anyway.

-lc-