Kendra's Graduation

Well it looks like quite a few of my friends are growing up. Ellie's engaged and moving, Michelle is moving to U of I, and Kendra graduated from nursing school Friday!!! She's going to be working in the Emergency Room at St. Francis. So thrilled for her! She's going to be an awesome nurse.

So yes, I'm kind of feeling left behind... I'm glad I still have some friends around here living the college life, even though I never get to see them! (JENNA!....)

Anyways, Friday night I got to go to her pinning. It wasn't the most exciting ceremony.. but the fact that she was graduating from a very stressful 2 years of nursing school was AWESOME! :)

I even bought her roses!

Nurse Lori pinning her daughter

The whole class on the stage

The Leman family

Afterwards Clayton, Kendra and I went to Panera for dinner. Then I went and hung out at their house and spent the night. Neither one of us really had tons of homework to do which is kind of a rare occasion.

As for me... yes, I have completed my semester and I am so relieved! I am now a Sophomore in college! Weird..

I get a whole entire break of 36 hours, and then I get to be right back in the classroom for my minimester. I wanted to get a lot accomplished, but I was just kind of lazy instead and just enjoyed myself. :) I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.

I got to go and see/hang out with Ellie which was fun, since she has pretty much dropped off the face of the earth. :) It's totally true, but I don't really mind... she's gotta be the cutest engaged person I have ever seen. :) Just as long as she doesn't drop for too long. :)

I started this post earlier, but I'm just getting around to it. So I should be going to bed. I get to sit through a 8:30-1:15 lecture tomorrow.

Hoping it's fun though... it's a music class, so it should be.

Mothers Day

This post is a bit late, but our family had a wonderful Mothers Day. I hope my mom is able to say that too. :)

Sunday afternoon we drove up to Kenyon's for dinner with Heidi & Luke, Uncle John & Aunt Jeanne and Kristy. We always went to Kenyon's for Mother's Day with Grandma Pfaffmann. It's not the fanciest place, but it's just kind of tradition. :)

It was fun when we ran into half of the Pfaffmann (or I guess Fehr) family there too, and they sat right by us.

Not the greatest picture, but here's all of us at Kenyon's. Lester (sitting on my lap) wanted to come be in the picture too.

We came back to our house for a walk and dessert. It was such a beautiful evening.

I hope all the mom's out there had an enjoyable day and were spoiled!! Thanks to each one for all you do!

Poor Mom, her birthday and Mother's day are just about a month apart. Sometimes it's hard to do 2 special things so close together. :)

But I hope you still had a good day, Mom! LOVE YOU! Thanks for putting up with me! :)

Unmotivated

Yep. That's how I've been feeling lately.

School is finally beginning to wind down. Only finals left... and I am feeling SO unmotivated to do anything.

1 more paper + 5 finals =DONE.

But then I only have two days of nothing, and then I begin my mini-mester.

Then 3 days later, it's my baptism weekend.

And the whole thing of it is? I keep telling people that it's going to be SO stressful... blah, blah blah...

... but I'm not stressed at all. In fact, I'm just feeling like, oh well, it will be busy, but I'll be fine.

Am I complaining about this? Not really... I'm glad I'm feeling relaxed about it. BUT, I hope my finals aren't bad scores because of this unmotivated, who cares attitude. :)

So June 2nd is my last day of school, and then I have the entire summer off! So exciting!

Summer will fly by I know. But yay for Ellie's wedding and wedding plans. :)

My family is going on a family vacation to Glacier in Montana with Phil & Jessica's family. I've always wanted to go there, and I'm really looking forward to it. Surprisingly enough, we aren't even going to Wisconsin for the first year in like 8 years!

In August I was supposed to go to Mexico for VBS, but now that Ellie's wedding is then, I'm not sure when or if I will go. . . but I hope it will still work out.

I was hoping talking about all of these summer plans would motivate me to go study. They haven't really, but I'm going to go do it anyways.

Oh, and I am so GLAD to see that Spring is finally here!! Wow, it's been a long winter. Hope you are all enjoying the weather!

Change

"Well...."

...that's all Ellie said to us and we began to freak out. Then she showed us a text saying it was from.. Troy Steffen.

One of my best friends, Ellie is engaged. Unbelievable.

Yes, I was very sad for the first couple of days. Not only is she getting married, but she's also moving a couple hours away. This is a change that kind of took me off guard!

But after meeting him and seeing them together, they are SO cute and sweet. The sadness of it all is slowly disappearing because how can it not when Ellie is just full of smiles and giggles? It's so great to see her so happy. :)

God has totally blessed both of them big time.

You know, I always tease my friends about getting married but I think I need to stop it. :) I don't think about it really happening like this soon!! AHH!

I feel like I'm copying off of Michelle's blog, but I totally feel the same way. I just hope that we don't grow far apart.... how sad if in 20 years we barely say hi to each other.

All I know is that I will probably drive them crazy by going to visit them every other weekend. ;)

Saturday we got to go meet him, and then after he left that afternoon, Ellie and I went out for dinner(where we saw Seth & Adam :). Then we hung out with Kendra & Michelle that evening (and Seth & Adam). Just like old times. :)

If we add another to the group, we won't be able to play dutch blitz anymore since there will be an uneven number. :)

When we were telling Ellie goodbye, Kendra goes, *sigh* "Cherish Every Moment!" :) Yep, that's what we will have to do in the next few months.

Yay for getting to be in a wedding that will be gorgeous and with gorgeous people.