New Residence!

so we bought a house!!!! We now reside in Fayetteville near Peachtree City. It is about 25 miles to pete’s work and I found a job down here in Griffin at Hibbett Sports as an assistant manager! We went in with Pete’s brother Mike and his family to get the property that neither of us could afford by ourselves.. but as a team we get this sweet lay out and have great neighbors! It is on Lake Horton and sits on 7.5 acres. There are two houses.. we obviously have the smaller one on the left in the first picture and Mike and Mercy and their 5 kids live in the one on the right. The two are connected by an air conditioned breezeway that also hooks to the garage. The basketball court cement was already there at the house just ready for us to play on (we added the goal) Our house has some work to be done like laundry hook ups and we are going to be adding a kitchen this year sometime. The closets are huge! And as of now since there are no children yet we get to have our own closets for the time being! We love our new ward and have started to feel more comfortable living down here about 1 hr 15 min away from my parents. (The tv is also now up on the wall, added 2 mini ottomans in the living room, and our curtains are on rings and makes our curtains longer. Some of the decorations have been put up also and we acctually have pictures on our walls)

Carribean Cruise 2010

Pete's family reunion this year was an all adult Carnival cruise to the Carribean.

1st stop.. Key West :Day full of Beach Volleyball and w

alking around town

2nd Stop: Grand Cayman Islands- Snorkling and swimming at Sting Ray City

3rd stop- Ocho Rios Jamaica- Zip Line and ATV rides

We really loved our time with family and on the beautiful ship! We highly recommend the ATV and Zip line in Ocho rios.. it was all together a wonderful experience (called H'EVANS SENT i believe) We loved playing card games and going to the shows at night. The ice cream machine got worked the whole week. Mike won the free-throw competition on boat. We had perfect weather the whole week. We had plenty of relaxing time out in the sun. And the food was superb! We really would love to go on another soon!

Summer of Blonde

Why not...

College Graduate

As of May 2010 I am now a College Graduate from Kennesaw State University with a bachelor of science in Sports Managment: Recreation degree

Thanks to my wonderful husband and famly I got through these last 5 years with very little stress and really have enjoyed all the schools I attended and the people I've met!

Shaking hands with the Pres. of KSU Dr Papp
A wave to the parents and all those who supported us through school. Where's Lisa?!

Left foot.. BROKEN

So about 7 weeks ago Pete decided to get together a team for a charity basketball tournament called Hoops for the Homeless. Sounded great as it would be right after we'd get back from moving my brother and

sister in law down to GA from Chicago. Pete was on a rolll being charitable and all and then....

which needed...

which leads to...

and.

..

and now looks more like...

Synopsis: pete goes up for a rebound.. guy takes em out in the air... lands on foot.. which gives way and lands hard on elbow.. broken fibula in 2

spots, broken radius bone in elbow, plate and 11 screws in leg, 12 weeks of recovery, 3 x a week Physical Therapy (started last week), and will get screws out at the beg. of next month... can't work for another 6-8 weeks light duty when he can walk on it..now he can atleast use crutches!

What a trooper!! or shall I say Mountaineer?!

Internship/New Job!

So this semester has been a breeze so far and lots of fun! I am doing my internship with A5 Volleyball Club which is one of the most prestigious clubs in the whole southeast.. How lucky am I to be learning from the coaches and these girls! I help coach the 15-1s team (aka the best 15 yr olds that tried out in the area). We have won our first 2 tournaments and it has been a blast! I am proud of our girls, but there is still a lot of growing and learning for all of us!

I also interviewed last week with a company called The Fun Pack. I found the posting off craigslist, and Got the job! I will be part of a team who goes to different daycares (mainly in gwinnett and Alpharetta I am told) And teach them the very basics of many different sports. This next week I will be teaming up with a girl and learning from her and then wed. I will be all by myself teaching day care kids basketball! (how perfect for my first lesson!) This experience I feel will greatly benefit me in my marketing and make me want to truely market myself so I can get paid more! (I get paid per kid in the class.. so recruit more kids = more money!) The lessons are only 30 min long! I can do anything for 30 min! But I am so excited as this will be perfect for my schedule! http://www.thefunpack.com/Programs.html

We are also officialy moving back in with my parents in Gwinnett which will cut my traveling time to this new job immencely! The main reason why we are moving is to quickly save money for a house! We could still live in our apt and be just fine.. but the savings would go by soo much slower! But we are really excited about moving back in since we have so much fun with my family!

been forever.. typical

SOOOO about this vacation update... I'll try keep it short and sweet!:)

*Thanksgiving was lovely and always a blast... i mean w

ho

doesn't love the best food and great company?! I helped make broccoli salad, and some DELICIOUS pies!:) one triple layered heath bar, chocola

te pudding one and a yummy peanut butter

and chocolate one for my lil peanut butter lover (pete)

*Started my internship in Nov. with the A5 Volleyball club i

n Alpharetta.. one of the best clubs in the southeast supposedly.. and I assist coaching

the 15-1 team... aka some of the best 15 yr olds in the area! And I am also going to help out the di

fferent aspects of the club in finance, trave, records, data entry, and all that fun stuff to get

mo

re knowledge how it all works out!

*WON FLAG FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP-

GO THUNDERING HERD!! we really started out awful! and then we changed our defense and started playing with authority!

I also did break my finger in the championship game.. but no biggie.. it was worth it! We got a sweet football trophy. Champion team consisted of (Wolferts, Thomas', Forsyths of course, Angie douglas, john king, david schmid, ezra owen, jambors, thadeu

s, jeff babcock, conner hogan, and I am sure I'm missing someone...) But it looked scary.. but

tou

rnament time is all that matters!:) BACK 2 BACK CHAMPS!

* Went to Disney World!! Havent been since I was about 4.

. we got to hang out with one of petes' bros family and his mom and it was SUch a blast! the 3 1/2 yr old twins road all but 2 rides because they weren't tall enough.

We went to Hollywood studios as well and started the day off at the Tower of Terror, and finally I got to ride Aerosmith. We also spent a day at the pool and

shopping with the twins as the older boys got to have some fun with their parents and grandma. OVERALL- AWESOME TRIP!!

*JOHN BOY CAME HOME FROM THE MISH (Bolivia Santa Cruz)!!!! :):):):):) I am also so glad he's stickin round here and we get to play again!

*We had everyone home for christmas minus Spencer who is floating in the Arabian Sea. We played tennis, ticket to ride, Ooodles, RockBand Beatles (my parents are rock stars.. I wonder where we get it from :) Ate lots of food, watched a lot of good movies, played with baby Mason for the week they were in town!

*Christmas was celebrated early which was great (pete had to work and brooke left on christmas) Pete got the PS3 he'd been wanting along with Madden10, we got a BEAUTIFUL painting my mom did of Lani Kai Beach! And my dad's book And thuse we See that he has been working on for many years and finally finished. Stacy gave us a great photo album of her pics of us in Hawaii from this summer, some new clothes and accessories, a cute lil Mason calendar for the year!, New wallet and Jewlry from Bolivia, and a HUge bag of sweedish fish which were devouered during all the movies! And dean gave group gifts of Beatles rockband, 500 days of Summer

*New Years- we threw it DOWN! we always gotta go big to open the new year and so pete got some BIG fire works! They were so good! I was so amazed! we also did our anual Sobe bombs and had great food but even better company! a few of us stayed up till about 5:30 in the AM catching up and sharing stories. Nate and pete of course played an intense game of ping pong going through atleast 4 balls and having to play on a cracked one on game 7 in the series!

But we did indeed catch up on lots of sleep and have not gotten back to a normal shedule since.. it's been bad!

*PETE WON 2 CHAMPIONSHIPS! In one week might I add.. both monday and tuesday night leagues won their championship and it was a great start to the new year! He of course was ballin it up!

*And our volleyball team is just getting ready for its 1st tournament this weekend in Suwannee!

= thats it for now.. sorry it took so long

*ps.. Its been freezing here in Hotlanta.. icy roads, schools cancelled, white-ness around (snow like.. haha)

Backpackin in the Backwoods

So for my Outdoor Recreation class our final assignment was to go on a weekend trip packpacking to Jack's River up in north GA and it was so pretty! The trip was only 9 miles round trip.. which could have been done in a day.. but It was fun to be able to go to this beautiful waterfall. And the weather was perfect for us! Here are some pictures I took that I am pretty proud of especially taking them with my camera phone!

The Big 23!

So I didn't update about how my bday went! Maybe it's because I don't have pictures but that's even more of a reason to blog about what happened! But It was such a fun day on the 3rd of Nov I took the day off school since I only had 1 class that day and pete wasn't working! We spent the morning running some errands and watching my moms tennis team play which is always fun- they crack me up! Then I had to get back for my tennis lessons for the 5-7 yr olds that I still coach. Then went to Glady's and Ron's Chicken and Waffles which is just delish!!! And they had a recording of Glady's singing a happy birthday song that they played for ME! It was great and yummy! For my party we had about 30 friends and family come to celebrate at Dave N Busters to play! Everyone was also asked to represent their favorite team or player and I wore number 23 to represent the Hall of Famer and great Michael Jordan! It was fun running around playing the arcade games and I must say.. I did beat Pete and Dallin in the Nascar racing game! it was so awesome- and they weren't even letting me win! haha But my friends were winning tickets for me which I bought some cheerleading shorts with at the end of the day for my present! I also received some gift cards, a stuffed ga bulldawg from Dave n busters and my wonderful husband gave me a compound bow and arrows!! I took an archery class and I would come home telling pete how much fun I was having and he got his mom to ship out his Dad's old bow that pete would shoot with as a kid! At first we didn't think it would work because it was a 60 lb bow.. aka i couldn't pull it back! but We made it work and we tried it out at my parents last weekend! It was great.. and it looks like I'll be bringin home the dinner!! But finally my last birthday present from the dallin and michelle were tickets to see Twilight and New Moon on opening night! It was great to go out with the girls and I was so excited to see the movie!! I just love love stories! I enjoyed myself!! I think my overall conclusion is I really like Taylor.. and I really like Edward... if that makes sense.. haha and I meant exactly that. But I can't wait till number 3.. and then 4 (which i hear might be 2 movies!!!:))

Overall..GREAT birthday!!! Thanks to all my friends

and family! My mom made me the best present! A b

lanket with a t-shirt from every school I have been to and my sports teams.. well the school teams at least.

playing Dress Up

Oviously being such a tom boy growing up I didn't ever really play dress up... Well the older i've gotten the more i've really enjoyed the art of putting costumes and outfits together! I think thats why i love shopping.. and accesorizing. But Halloween comes around and it is just so fun! I had to dress up three times in the month of october.. and was thinking about what to be in early/mid september... haha sad i know.. but here are the pics..

1st party- birthday/mission farwell for friends= Angry Serena Williams from US open

2nd= Olive Oyl for City of Acworth carnival

3rd =Pamela Anderson!:) (paired with michelle as kid rock who is not pictured)

Lately

So this lovely fall weather has been SOO nice! After all the crazy flooding it has been so nice!! It just smells of football season!! We have quite enjoyed watching football on tv as well as playing in our co-ed league that has just started up.. We are only 1-2 and my husband is quite depressed about it.. but it is fun to be able to play again! And i think i finally found the place i want to do my internship at. It is 2 miles from my apt. and it has a cafe, spa, indoor/outdoor tennis and swimming, gym, courts, and sandy volleyball.. SWEET! I don't know exactly what they would want me to do yet.. still have to email but I did get to talk to the manager and he said I would be able to do my internship there in the informational interview i had to do for a class. But it was a good experience and he seemed to really like me. Something else fun that happened this week was in my last day of archery class we got to shoot balloons on the target and it was so sweet! I got like 5 balloons! I have really enjoyed archery class and will now be moving on to badminton..not as exciting.

Random bit of info thats been interesting.. I have found the solution to my back pain.. I have an L6.. you're only supposed to have 5.. i have 6 lumbar bones. So i have been going to the chiropractor for about 3 days a week but finally there has been some improvements and I won't have to be going as frequently! Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of my low back pain! And pete has been doing great as well working and playing ball.. a little depressed about our flag football because we have not been winning as much as we should.. but life overall has been great!

The month of August

Sorry it has been so long! But the month of August has been quite adventurous!

The first week we had a fun time at the lake that our wonderful friends the Jambors put together! It was great Pete got up on the wakeboard for the first time!! It was so fun! I got to work on my skills and be more comfortabl

e out there on the water. Sadly michelle had to go get stitches on her head.. but it was just a lil adventure... but I am so glad she was alright! I was going back

and forth from my tennis camps and pete was working a few days as well

Then we got to visit some of Pete's old friends from Southern Virginia University up in Nags Head NC. Also being able to go to the tiny temple in Raleigh NC. It was nice to visit and play games. We also got to spend 2 days in the water.. one day was sunny.. one not so much.. But it was a great time! We are so glad for our wonderful hosts the Couey's. We also spent time Carla and Ryan and their boys.. one of them which fell in love with me! the 3yr old.. it was funny

Then the next week school started!! This semester my classes on Monday and Wed are: Developmental Movements( really for PE teachers.. but teaches how to play games and teach them..) Outdoor Rec. ( get to do teambuilding, orienteering, canoeing or kayaking, backpacking and camping) Archery and Badminton ( I have almost gotten a bulls eye every class! We use the Compact and the Recurve bows) and Senior Seminar ( where you do the practicum and work on resumes/interviews)

Tuesdays and Thursdays I have Intro to Italian (just for fun! Buon Giorno! I will go to Italy some day..) and Coaching Principles( I really like this class and learning more about coaching)

I am still coaching tennis through the fall and get to have some kids from my ward there! The campa twins and the Heckers son noah are playing tennis are there. But I am also helping Sequoyah High Schools volleyball teams. Also I am coaching their middle school team, or teams.. There were so many interested they made two teams and Both teams won their first game!! It was a lil crazy but it worked and i was going a lil hoarse at the end.. but we had victories!!

And last but not least.. We are now officially Macbook owners.. Our other computer crashed so pete went to the store and bought a Mac.. just like that! hehe but it is nice..