Prom 2012

Hey everyone, sorry it has been awhile. Well, last weekend was not only a crazy weekend for storms and tornado's, but it was also Prom weekend in the small town of Minneola. Mom and I had worked hard the week before to get my dress just right and finally got it done on Thursday night. I borrowed the dress from my good friend Amber, along with a fitting necklace. My appointment to get my hair done was scheduled for 10:30 Saturday morning. Ethan arrived late Friday night and we hit the sack to get our beauty sleep. Around 5 o'clock in the morning mom awoke me from my slumber and informed me that she had gotten a call from Bryce and Sarah that Sarah's water had broke and they were going into the hospital. As she sat there on the edge of my bed in silence I had a million things running through my mind. 1st and foremost was that I was so excited for my brother and sister-in-law for their new addition to their beautiful family. Next came the understanding that her and dad would be heading up to be there when the baby was born, and with that understanding came a brief moment of fear because that meant that mom would not be here to help me get ready. I quickly gathered my thoughts and told mom that the baby was more important and that I could have Amber come help me. They  packed and headed out by about 5:30am. Despite the rain and hail and nasty storms, Ethan and I made it to my hair appointment and were dressed and ready just in time for promenade. The theme was Barefoot Blue Jean Night and the decorations were western. After promenade was the dinner banquet where we enjoyed home made chicken fried steak and apple pie. Next was the dance, followed by after prom in the grade school gymnasium. After prom consisted of two big  inflatable entertainment structures and some tables set up with games. Needless to say, when everything was done we were exhausted. I had the best looking date there and Grandma and Grandpa Buchanan made wonderful photographers. It was definitely a night to remember.

Breathe. In...out...

Just a few last touches

What a gentleman

Don't poke him, don't poke him.....

Promenade in GS Gym

Ooooo

Ahhh

My replacement (mom) for the night...Granny!

So the biggest thing that is new in my life is that I got a new car. Dad's truck got totaled about a month ago so he bought my Jeep and I bought a 2007 Ford Focus. It is the most gorgeous color you have ever seen. I cant even describe it, sort of a metallic, glittery blue. It gets great gas mileage. I was able to transfer all of my Supergirl accessories from the Jeep into the Focus except for the steering wheel cover that is too large. The first golf meet of the season was Thursday in Meade. I am the only girl on the team this year. I shot a terrible score. 68 strokes on 9 holes. I'm not too unhappy though because it was the first meet and I still had a lot of fun with a great group of girls. I have been bombarded with homework every night but somehow still managed to keep up with turning in scholarship applications about every week. Lets just hope it pays off.

Spring break is finally here and I started it off well. Friday morning Mom and Dad and I headed to Hays and spent the day with Randall and Leslie and the kids. Randall's friend Andrew was there so we went out to the RC field and flew planes most of the afternoon. Eli is just as intrigued with flying as his daddy. Mom and Leslie and I went shopping for a while and took home supper. Eli is getting so tall and he is so smart, he can count to twenty now, still working on potty training though. Isabella is getting more beautiful every time we see her and she just rolls all over the place. Saturday morning we left Hays and headed to Manhattan. Dad decided to take a different route than normal and estimated it to take about 3 hours when in reality it was more like 5. I have to admit the different scenery was nice. We spent Saturday afternoon visiting at Bryce and Sarah's house and talking about baby stuff and then watched a few movies. Sunday morning Ethan got there and we went to the park behind Bryce and Sarah's house and played a few holes of Frisbee Golf. We got rained out after a few holes and went back to the house where we played cards. We spent the evening walking around the mall and then went to a field where John flew his new RC plane. Monday morning we met John and Erica at IHOP for breakfast and then headed home. On the way home we stopped at a few car lots in Hutch and looked at cars. It was a great weekend and I can't wait to meet the new baby girl in a few months! It is always a blast with our bunch :)

College, farming, and other stuff

This past weekend was full of a variety of fun and exciting things. I headed east Thursday night and went as far as Ethan's house in Augusta. Early Friday morning we headed to Emporia State University for my college visit. We took the turnpike the whole way there and it took about an hour (and a $6 fee). The college was great! The name of the housing complex I will be applying to live in is called Towers and there is a north and south tower that are identical. There are 6 floors and each floor is either a girls or boys floor, they alternate. Just this year they have started adding laundry cost into tuition which is good for me because it means no quarters!! The nursing building is actually off-campus, it is about 5 blocks away. The nursing building was wonderful, what I really liked was that they have their own library that is always quiet and even a few study pods that are always open and you can access them even if you are only a first year student. So even if I am not yet in the "nursing program" my first year, I can still go over and study at the building and take advantage of their librarians who can check my papers before I turn them in. After the visit at ESU, we headed back to Wichita and loaded up Ethan's new bed he bought and moved it into his apartment. Saturday I went out to work with him at Fisher Farms and spent the day preparing the foundation to set a building on. We poured concrete and leveled it off. My main job was using a shovel to fill low spots by scooping up excess concrete that ran over the edges. Sunday we went to Sheri's (Ethan's mom) work and used her computer to find and buy our plane tickets for Prague this summer. The tickets we got have us departing from Wichita on May 15th around 12:45 in the afternoon. We have 2 stops at Atlanta, GA and Paris, France and arrive in Prague around 11:45am May 16th. All in all it was a very busy weekend and now I can't wait to graduate and get the heck outta dodge :)

Kiowa County 4N6 Meet

Today started off with an early morning, we left the high school at 6 a.m. with 4 participants. Just before we left it started to sleet and the farther we got toward Greensburg the roads just seemed to get worse, but eventually they started to clear up and we arrived just on time. My partner, Shandie Ratzlaff, and I participated in Duet Acting and IDA. Today was the first time we have performed our Duet and it went very well all 3 rounds. Rounds are and hour and a half each and in that time we have to do both events. Having more than one event definitely makes the day go by faster. 1st round our IDA draws were a Professional Athlete (I was a golfer of course) and a Basketball Player. Our setting was the Pyramids and our Situation was "Excuse me, waiter!".  Usually your characters do not go together this well but we got lucky :)  2nd round we were an Ugly Duckling and a Tar-die Student . We were landing a plane that is going to crash and we were on a College Campus. There was a little bit of argument over the Ugly Duckling.. haha. 3rd round we drew a Comic Book Superhero (with me as Supergirl) and a Person Who Needs a Hug. We were supposed to be in the Emergency Room, Weightlifting. There were 24 Duets entered in the competition and 29 IDA's. They average your scores for the first 3 rounds and choose 6 finalists. We were ecstatic when we broke for finals in both events. We placed 6th in Duet and 5th in IDA. It was one fun, successful day. 

This week at school is homecoming week/spirit week. Monday was "fake an injury" day. Tuesday was "class color wars" day, each class was assigned a different color and whatever class decked out in their color the most won. Seniors were black...I don't know why. I did not participate Monday or Tuesday due to illness. Wednesday was "would you be my friend if I dressed like this?" Day. I wore sweatpants and an old t-shirt and made my hair crazy and wore nerdy glasses. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture. Today was "dynamic duo/movie cast/Superhero" day. Without hesitation I wore my official Supergirl costume today. Tomorrow is "purple and gold" day and everyone is to deck out in their purple and gold to cheer on the Wildcats to a victory. We will be playing the South Central Timber Wolves. During half-time of the varsity boys game a homecoming king and queen will be crowned. Tomorrow night will be the dance. Oh highschool fun!

So yesterday was Valentine's Day and I was sick with a head cold and came home early from school, but not before I could help fill a couple hundred balloons. NHS sells balloons every year around Valentines for $1 a piece with different colors representing different messages. Mom and Dad gave me a beautiful arrangement in a vase that lights up. Ethan went back home to Wichita on Monday so he wasn't here yesterday but he still got me something that fits me very well I think. It is a Supergirl bathing suit. I got him personalized M&Ms with special messages printed on them and even a picture of me :) how many people get to be on an M&M??? at least one!!!!

Getting Started

Hello everyone, I was inspired to create this blog by my wonderful sister-in-law, Sarah Buchanan. She does such a beautiful job with hers and I want to keep a sort of scrapbook of my upcoming events so I decided this would be the easiest way. These first few blogs are sort of test-runs to help me get started. I hope to keep this updated and I hope that you all enjoy it as much as I intend to.