What I've Been Reading

It all started with the Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer, surprisingly, I didn't like to read very much until I found these books as a 15 year old.  But, thanks to those books, I found my love for reading!

So lately...

"Water For Elephants" by Sara Gruen

If you have not read this book go buy it and read it now!  I absolutely loved it! Its funny, romantic, exciting, suspenseful, etc...! I could not put it down and was definitely worth all the late nights I stayed up reading it!! Also I suggest seeing the movie, but of course not before reading the book.  Usually I am dissappointed in movies they make after books.  However, the movie was pretty much as good as the book! I was so glad! I think it's because they followed the book so closely! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did! 

"The Help" by Kathryn Stockett 

This book surprised me by how good it is! I would highly recommend it! It is set in Jackson Mississippi and tells the story of the african american Help in white women's homes.  Its not a boring biography about racism. Its wonderful and I couldn't put in down!  Also the movie is coming out in the fall I think! It looks like it is going to be very good!

"At First Sight" by Nicholas Sparks

This is an older book that I just came across in my house and decided to read.  It was a sweet story and a good read.  I enjoyed it and would suggest it as a read maybe on a rainy day or while at the beach.  I have to say I didn't like the way it ended but thats just personal opinion.

Enjoy!

The End Of A Chapter!

Wow! The past few months have been packed full for me and it finally feels like things are going to slow down a bit! I haven't blogged in forever, but now I am ready to start getting back into it! So I am just going to recap the past few months in one post!

March, Senior Day!

The HHS baseball team celebrated their Seniors in March, and it was a bitter sweet day for the players and their families.  Everyones excited for the next Chapter in life for all of the seniors, but at the same time its sad to think they have all grown up together and played on the same team for years and its all coming to an end!  I found myself getting emotional during the ceremony, and I started thinking "why am I crying..I will still get to see AJ all the time?" But then I realized this is the end of a chapter for us.  We met in High School and life has been simple.  We saw each other everyday at school, after school, and just hung out at our parents houses watching movies on the weekend.  Now that is all going to change! I guess my feelings were bitter sweet.  I am so excited for this next step in our lives! And im even more excited about starting this new chapter together!  However, I will miss these days that mark the whole start of our relationship.  School where we met, the baseball games.., everything we have ever known is now in the past.  Im excited and nervous, but ready for everything that lies ahead!

AJ and his family! Minus his brother Steven who wasn't home yet.

April, Easter!

Easter was beautiful this year! And I had so much fun with my sweet puppy Marley, and Easter Egg hunts with the family!  AJ gets competitive no matter what were doing haha even Easter Egg Hunting and he definitely dominated running around with Olivia's girly Easter basket haha!

May, Graduation and State Champions!

Finally, AJ is joining me as an Alumni of Huntsville High! The Baseball Team went all the way in the State Playoffs and because the final games were in Montgomery on the same night as the 2011 HHS graduation, they had a separate graduation for just the baseball seniors on the baseball field before they left for Montgomery!  It was wonderful! All of our friends and family were there and it was short and sweet! Witch was the best part we were all thrilled about not having to sit through a 3 hour graduation! The players all wore there gowns and wore there baseball caps with the tassels! I loved it!  But graduating was not the thing on the players minds!  They were getting ready to go and take the State Championship!!!  We had to win 2 out of 3 games to win State. The first game we won 6-1! Then the next day we played and WON 10-2!!!!  It is the first time in HHS History, all 103 years, for the baseball team to win a State Championship! So they made history! AJ was amazing! All the seniors deserved this, and it was a wonderful thing for AJ and his brother Jordan to share this their last year on the team together! AJ's last at bat he hit a home-run!  AJ started playing for the HHS Varsity team in 8th grade, and his first at bat for the team he hit a home-run, then at his last at bat 5 years later he hit a home-run! We were all SOOO proud of him!! It was a day we will all remember forever and those boys will tell stories forever!

6A STATE CHAMPIONS!!!!!

Congratulations HHS and AJ I am so proud of you!!! That was the way to end this Chapter in our lives! Now on to whatever God has planned for us next!