Birthday Weekend!

as you saw from princess week, Friday was my birthday!! Whoop!  This is how the day went...
1. woke up.

2. ran ( i knew i was going to eat a lot of junk food)

3. Come to jon jons for birthday pancakes!

4. Got to Little Cakes and get my FREE birthday cupcake. I chose strawberry!

     It was delish!! After Jon Jon and I hung out with alice' for a little while because she works there!

5. Go to lunch w/ Jon Jon.

        Sushi, My fav! No, I didn't eat all that alone! We share because its expensive!

6. Watch Law and Order SVU with Jon Jon to pass time until we went to my house for peach cobbler and ice cream with my family! I wanted that instead of a cake so that is what I got!! It was DELISH!

7. Jon Jon gathered some of my friends together to play sand volleyball, but it rained so we hung out with them and ate Chick fil a! It was fabulous!!

see, thank goodness I ran! All i did was eat! 

On Saturday I went to see Monte Carlo with Alice'. Selena Gomez KILLED it! It was so so cute seriously you must go!  

After Jon Jon and I played at a clock tower.

That night i went to his house and he had dinner cooked for me! it was delish!! Then we watched Law and Order! (our favorite past time)

Light Chicken Parmesan

Sunday... Fireworks.

not my best photo, i know. At least all my pictures were original and not from google! ha!

Goodbye birthday weekend/ Princess week.

See you next year!

princess week continued.

For week of the princess, yesterday for breakfast I got 

coffee 

and 

Blueberry muffins!! :)

Today was...

a Chick Fil A chicken breakfast burrito.
Confession: google didnt have a picture to do it justice so you dont get one either. If youve never had one, somethings wrong. It's seriously legit!

Tomorrow is my actual birthday and then princess week will sadly be coming to an end.... MAYBE since i have been kind of sick (congestion, snotty nose, etc.) Jon Jon will let me milk it more since this week i haven't given him a run for his money!! haha! #diva

how should i celebrate my last day of 22?

Week of the princess!

Friday is my birthday! Whoop Whoop! I'll be the ripe ole age of 23! This year I have decided to milk its for all its worth.. and since I love it so much I may do it every year until i have children or until its a little out of control. 

With that being said, I told jon jon on saturday that starting tomorrow (sunday) I will be a Princess as to celebrate my birthday week! His response "you're always a princess" :)  I told him I needed prizes everyday and since he loves me and everything that comes with my ridiculous he is going with it.  This is how its happened....

Saturday my lovely servant jon jon told me I wouldn't need breakfast any day at work this week that he was going to bring it to me.

Monday:

donut holes and coffee :)

Tuesday:

coffee and blueberry pancakes and sausage on a stick... kind of like a corndog!

seriously, it may not look like a jam but go to wal mart and purchase them from the frozen food section.. LIFE CHANGING!

i also came back to his apt to do my online class and found these treats...

pistachios and cookies and cream mint oreo ice cream.

yes i love food. yes i got all these photos from google.

I will obv continue to keep you updated on princess week! :)

Mad World

Um, okay..
do you guys watch the Glee Project? The producers made the show in search of finding the new Glee cast member. This weeks episode was by far my fav! Every week they get a topic to work on... this weeks was Vulnerability. Each week they also make a music video, this week.. was  a JAM! Seriously you MUST watch!  The show comes on Sunday nights on Oxygen, I just watch it mondays on hulu ha! No worries its just like any other show in that at the end someone goes home.
Here is this weeks video...
The assignment was to walk around in what is basically the "times square" of Los Angeles wearing a sign that has something written on it that makes them feel vulnerable. Watch til the end... You wont regret it!

good fiance award.

So, Jon Jon is obviously more romantic than i am as you can tell by our story if you read it... if not go find it!  I decided that since he was feeling a little neglected with the start of grad school i'd sneak into his apartment a couple weeks ago and have him supper cooked for when he got home.  Just to show him I appreciate him and everything he does. he had to work late that night so it worked out perfectly!  I went to the store got the Spaghetti ingredients then the magic happened! Our original plan was to go to eat somewhere so i figured he would come to his apt first then id walk over (we live in the same apt complex) that is not the case. He text me and said he was at my door so i had to make up a story... i told him my stomach hurt to go to his apt and id be over in a little bit. So that is what he did. He opened the door and saw me and the food... mainly the food.... :) and got so excited! His face was seriously priceless! It really was hard for him to control himself.

I like to be humble and give myself the good fiance award... luckily he does too! The award part not the humble part. :)

Here is the sauce, we used wheat noodles but we were too excited to eat so this is the only picture i managed to get. #delicious Jon Jon said it was some of the best spaghetti he has had! 

after looking at this picture I realized it doesn't look like the most amazing thing in the world... but puh-lease it tasted a jam! 

grown up stuff.

Last week, Jon Jon and I went to my new place of living for grad school...
No worries, I got a lot done like...
1. Signed my lease ( does this make me grown?)
2. Got my student i.d.

3. Got some Yogurtland... only the best frozen yogurt place in ALL the world.. seriously.

4. Got some running shoes for half marathon training.

No worries though.. they gave me this puppy

just in case you are wondering there is another on the other ankle to match.

also... just finished my first ever graduate school test... EEPPSSS 

you should know, i have AWFUL test anxiety.

HACKED!!!

Shan is prob gonna be mad, but since I know her password, I decided to do a guest blog without her knowledge (i will prob never know the password again after this, but oh well....). Anyways, roughly a month ago we got engaged and I know that I am the one who is receiving the true blessing! I thought I would just take a chance to tell you guys just a little bit of why I LOVE this woman. I love Shannon because she is a Christ follower and lover first! Sometimes she doesn't see it, but I can see it shine through in every little thing she does, the way she handles situations, her faith is so strong even against things that might frustrate her, she always has a gentle spirit, kind to all people (even those who want a double quarter pounder, inside joke, sorry if you don't get it). It's incredible just to be around her everyday she brings a smile to my face always, the way she laughs at my jokes even when they are ultra cheesy and calls me out on telling stories 8 billion times (remember that time...in dallas...she knows the rest, I wouldn't let her forget). Her eyes tell more about her than she realizes, in them I can see the love that she has for her friends, the compassion and passion she has for speaking out against injustice and the love she has for her family. To be honest I've told her this multiple times, that she is BETTER than the girl of my dreams 1) because she's real 2) because things that I never thought I would need or didn't even think about are present in her, she is truly the one that I believe God has created to make me a better me. One of the other things I love about Shan is that she shares me and wants me to be involved in her life, I've met so many really cool people and some that are just okay (jenn, jk you guys are awesome!) that have really accepted me and loved me for who I was. Just so ya'll know it is an honor to be a part of your lives and to see the faith present in your families that I hope to have if God sees fit in our future family!

Lastly I love Shannon, because she is Shannon. From the moment we started exchanging text messages and started hanging out I knew that she is the one that I loved, and God just took His time molding us and making us into the people we needed to be before He brought us together. Everyone knows that we are both a little unique from our talents and skills and just overall awkwardness and her awesomeness and the families that we come from but all these things make us into the people that we are and the people that God needs us to be to further His plan.

It is truly my absolute joy and honor to be your fiance Shannon Marie, I love you always! I feel bad for all the other boyfriends that they don't have THIS honor (that means you nathan).