Major Changes

Hi everyone,

It has been way too long since I have posted on my blog. There are quite a few changes that will change my life soon. On April 17th, Josh proposed to me! I said yes of course! We were at Mall of America where we had our first date. We went out to eat at Ruby Tuesday's and his aunt Martha and Sylvia joined us. After dinner, he got on one knee and proposed! After that, we went to see the movie "The Longest Ride." Great movie, but I might be a bit basis considering we saw that the day we got engaged! (Also that night my dear friend who was pregnant left a very excited voicemail on my phone! She sounded as if she was trying to go into labor how excited she was!) Of course once everyone knew we were engaged we got a lot of people telling us "it's about time!"

After that, we started planning our wedding. We will be getting married in June of 2016! A good friend of mine took our engagement pictures. This one is one of my favorite pictures so I have to share it on here. :)

While planning a wedding, I am also on my last semester at Crown! This semester has been crazy busy! The classes I am taking are Romans, OT Poetical Lit, Zoology, and I am also doing an accounting internship. While doing this, I am also a teacher assistant and working my other job. (I have cut back on my hours at my regular job due to how busy this semester is.) This December I will graduate from Crown! 

Hopefully after graduating I will be finding a full-time job hopefully in the biology field. Then come next year I will be married and moving out. It's hard to believe how time flies and how many things in my life are going to be changing so soon. Hopefully, I'll be able to write more on here and catch you up on everything. 

Catching you up part 2

Hi again!
So for once I actually finished everything that is due today yesterday....this feels weird, so anyway I have time before my next class to sit down and write. So where was I......Oh yeah Josh got his GED. He also recently finish his Culinary Art training at Job Corps!! I'm very proud of him! He stuck to it even though he was getting discourage at times! He's hoping to start college this fall!!

For Christmas my family went to visit extended family in Texas. It was nice and warm!! I got to wear shorts on Christmas day!! But I still missed a white Christmas. It was great to see my cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents.

After Christmas I worked the rest of Christmas break, so nothing new really happened in that time. Then in January I started my second semester as a Junior! Oh my goodness!!! I can't believe that I'm a junior....I just got out of high school. It's kind of scary and yet very exciting! It means I'm almost done with my undergrad college career! I'll still have 4 more years of college but that will be grad school! Right now I'm taking chem 2 (I highly recommend taking chem 1 and then taking chem 2 instead of waiting two years unlike me! XP), genetics (Awesome class probably my favorite!), nutrition (this class is too easy for me right now because of my chem and bio background), Christian Doctrine, and spread sheets (thankfully this is only a 5 week class!).

Let's see what else is new with me? Nothing really.....soon Josh and I will be celebrating 4 years together, but that won't be until February. Hard to image that we've been dating that long. Oh I know, I have axolotls as pets!!! I'll dedicate a whole post to that later. ;) Oh Josh is graduating from Job Corps!! I wish I could go to his graduation but it's scheduled the same time as chem 2. :(

BIG NEWS!!! My friend is getting married!!! I can't believe it!! I wish the happy couple the best!! I'll be going to their wedding too! She deserves the best! This is the time for engagements let me tell you, I keep hearing so and so are engaged all the time! But then of course it is "get the ring before spring."  Plus everyone is teasing me that Josh and I should get engaged, since we've been dating almost 4 years. I keep telling them we're not ready yet!! First off, I want to finish one college degree before I even consider marriage. Second, both of us are not ready yet, we're still kids. Third, Josh is just now getting on his two feet experiencing what it's like to be on your own. Anyway, I'll get off my rant. I should probably do something more productive, so may the odds forever be in your favor!
~Sandy

Continuing from where I left off

Wow...It has been a long time since I've posted on my blog, makes me feel sad since I love writing on here. :( Let's see, my last post was about graduation. There have been so many things that have happened since then. After graduation my family and I went to visit extended family in Texas. It was nice to see my wonderful cousins, aunt, uncle, and grandparents. Texas, was well hot like usual, so I stayed in the air condition places since I do not like hot weather. Anyway, I believe it was a week after we got back home, that my grandma called. She told my dad that my Uncle-Grandpa had pasted away.

I hadn't even known that Uncle-Grandpa was sick. I knew he wasn't the healthiest person in the world, but when I last saw him he seemed fine. I believe my whole family was shocked to hear the news, but we were thankful that we saw him before he pasted away. Sadly, we could not go to his funeral. He was a very interesting man, I wished I had gotten to know him better. But then isn't that always true of when someone you love passes away? Don't you always wish that you had seen and/or known the person better? Wish you had spent more time together?

That was about it for the summer. I worked my summer away after coming home from Texas. Before I knew it, summer was gone. Then came Fall Semester of '12. I took bio 1, macroeconomics, cultural anthropology, gospel of John and spiritual leadership and development or SLD for short. All my classes went well, I got good grade like usual. I am so thankful that macroeconomics is the last economics class I will ever have to take!! Although, I did learn a lot in that class and now I understand more about politics. I might post my paper on if we should have another stimulus package, if I do I'll do that later. Cultural Anthropology was also a lot of fun, eating different foods, getting married (long story that has now come to the point where I have a family at crown....it's too confusing to write) and listening to Wycliffe translators tell us about their experience! SLD was a great eye opener about leadership, and how we define leadership is messed up.

During all my business with school, my poor boyfriend Josh had to hear about. Josh got his GED in September!! I am so proud of him!!!  I need to start heading out, so I will have to continue this post later, might as well end on a happy note right?
May the odds forever be in your favor!
~Sandy

Valedictorian Speech/Graduation! :)

Hi everyone!
I promised to upload my valedictorian speech and graduation pictures so here they are! :)

 Valedictorian Speech



 If you couldn't hear me or did not know what I said here is the speech.

Here is a video that was shown at commencement. :) 

Here are pictures commencement and my graduation party.

Senior Prom (sadly my last one)

Hi everyone,
Here is the prom pictures I promised to post! Hope you enjoy them! :)

Update/My Senoir Year

Hi everyone,
Well I haven't kept up this blog that well again. Sorry! Let's I have a lot to tell you. My last semester of high school went pretty well I got almost all A's. My Senior prom was both good and sad, as that was my last prom. Now what am I going to do over spring break?? I LOVED making my prom dress during spring break. =/  (I'll put up pictures and a video of prom later.) I graduated from high school as valedictorian, so I gave a speech - I'll up load the speech video sometime soon. Graduating from high school felt amazing!!!

Now on to college...maybe six years. I'm back at Crown! I'm happy to be back, seeing all my wonderful friends. In fact as I write this I'm with my friend and listening to her laugh at the website she's on. (It's better than listening to her do her Chemistry homework!! Especially, when she thinks I'm listening to her and I'm like "wait are you talking to me?") I love my classes, and of course I have wonderful professors/doctors. :) I'm hoping to graduate in about 2ish years with my Biology Major, business administration minor, and chemistry minor. I'll be one busy student! The only thing I can complain about is my backpack is KILLING  me. It gets so heavy since I have all these big text books for my classes.

On the side note, I'm glad someone is actually viewing this blog. I've noticed I get a lot of viewers from other countries, and only a few from people in the U.S. I'll try my best to keep up with this blog, but I'm not sure how well I will be able to since my classes are keeping me busy! Oh well better to be busy than to be bored, right? Well I hope everything is going well for everyone who reads this! And may the odds always be in your favor!
~Sandy

Junior Prom Photo Video

Hey everyone, I finally had the time to sit down and take the pictures from my Junior prom to make my usual video!! So here it is! I hope you enjoy it! =D
May the odds be forever in your favor!
~Sandy