Woohoo! I'm Here

I have a confession. Maybe a few actually. Let's start with the most recent one. I initially got onto my blog to update my current life...I am aware it had been well over a month since I wrote anything! So the previous post was a response to Karli's post, because I didn't want to leave a long comment.

Whew, so let's get started. Life right now is going really good. And super busy. I am currently in class, and counting down the hours. I have 3 classes next week, finals the next week, and then I'm done with this semester! It's exciting but at the same time I start spring and summer term on April 28, one day after my birthday :( Lame! Speaking of my birthday, my parents will be in Hawaii on it. They aren't even inviting me. Rude right? So they'll be gone, and on top of that my boyfriend will be working too! Yep, I just said boyfriend. Isn't that weird? I'm still trying to adjust. Ok so here's the update:

His name is Mike. Michael DiFiore, he's Italian. He's from Maine. He's 23 and served a mission in California. He got home the exact same day that my best friend left (kind of ironic). He's going to BYU majoring in Mechanical Engineering, cause he wants to build airplanes (I told him that's cool, but I would never want to do that!) We met in our ward at Raintree in Provo. That's the basic info, if you want the whole thing, here's the story:

I met a girl named Danielle Cookson over the summer, and she's from Maine. We became good friends and I even took her to the cabin one time with a group of friends. Anyway, she said she knew a few guys moving into Raintree from Maine and she'd set us up. Well, it never happened, but I always knew who he was cause we're in the same ward. Anyway, in Novemberish we started being friends by haning out a bit. It was only a few times, but we had fun. He first asked me out in December but I had plans. So I thought that was the end. Anyway, in January we started hanging out a lot, and went on our first date Jan. 30 (which I asked him to a roommate group date), and he had previously asked me out for Jan. 31, so our first and second dates were back to back. Since then we've gone on a date almost every weekend, and we've been 'official' since March 6th (I think). And I'm having so much fun!! :)

~ash~

p.s. The above picture is from one of our first dates, rock night themed :)

Every Other Time...

Oh Karli Bug, I absolutely loved the list :) It's really funny how true all of that is...Karli's singing does help me wake up in the morning, I absolutely love it! Well those were only a few of the things, I will list a few more (similarities and differences):

1) First of all I think it's apparent but if not, let me tell all of you that Karli writes really well. Her writing just flows and is easy to read. She's always had that strength and I'm so jealous! Especially when it comes to writing papers.

2) We both got our first kiss within a month of each other last summer :)

3) We also both dated the boys we kissed, and they were our first 'official' boyfriends.

4) Both of those boys are now engaged and getting married to girls in our ward within the next couple months.

5) We both really like to have fun! Although Karli isn't super coordinated (refer to previous post) we party way too much and have enjoyed college life like crazy!

6) There are 5 kids in each of our families.

7) We both really really like back tickles.

8) Karli has only ever had one job, and she's been there for almost 3 years. Although I stick with jobs for awhile, I have been working since I was 16 and I've had 5 jobs.

9) I'm from Salt Lake and learned to drive on busy roads with lots of congestion. Karli is from an itsy bitsy town called Salina, which has only one traffic light (it's a blinking 4-way stop). Needless to say, if our destination involves going outside of Orem or Provo I typically am voted to drive :)

10) We both have really good noses. That's right, we could smell a rotten onion from a mile away. Don't even try to throw away rotten milk in our garbage can. We will retaliate.

11) We both play the piano and have since we were young.

12) In high school I was a choir nerd and Karli was a band geek.

13) We will graduate next April. Watch out for an announcement everyone.

14) Finding guys to date is hard. Often we like the same guy. No joke. It gets frustrating, and most of the time one of us either says "no I don't really like him" or we don't say anything at all and go with the flow. It's worked out so far!

15) We both loath writing lesson plans.

16) We are really excited to live nextdoor to each other in the future, be married to cousins (or brothers/best friends), and be mom's :)

I am positive I could think of more things. Karli nailed a few really good ones. Living with Karli has been a great experience! Not only do we love each other and have become so much closer, but we both agree it's a great learning experience! For the rest of our lives we will be surrounded by different personalities. We have learned how to be ourselves around each other and put complete trust in someone outside of our immediate family :) Well there's my little spill about rooming with your cousin, I am a BIG fan! Love you Karli Bug!

~ash~

Same but so different

So yesterday morning (and today) as I was attempting to coax Ashlee out of bed I was reminded of when my friend Jordan asked me, "Are you and Ashlee as similar as you appear?" Me and Ash have lots of things in common but we also have lots of differences. Here is a little insight into our lives to see some of our alikes and differences :) (some are not really differences, but they are kind of fun insights).

1- I make Ashlee sleep on the top bunk. I cannot jump up there. It is slightly humorous to watch me try though. So Ashlee has consented to take the top bunk. Because of this I accept the role as the light turner offer, heater turner downer, and sometimes a drink fetcher for her.

2- Ashlee is not a morning person, and I am not a night person. I am often pulling Ashlee out of bed in the morning and she is often pulling me off the couch and to bed at night. Our first semester of college we had Accounting at 8:00 together. This was when we first really realized this difference. Often I sing to her until she is so annoyed that she gets out of bed. It works quite nicely.

3- It's often humorous when we're getting ready in the morning and Ash is straightening her really curly hair and I'm curling my very straight hair.

4- Ash is majoring in Special Ed and I'm majoring in Elementary Ed. It's kind of fun to talk about school stuff together sometimes.

5- I think Ash is a lot more coordinated than me. As hard as she has tried, she cannot teach me how to do a cartwheel, and cannot convince me that dancing is fun.

6- We both like to dance and sing in our room. We always create a summer playlist, and we still can name the songs that were on our first one.

7- Every semester after finals are over we go to Panda Express to celebrate. Now that I go to UVU we have to compromise on the date a little bit because we don't get done on the same day anymore.

8- We both like going home a lot.

These are just a few that I thought of off the top of my head. Any other ideas Ash?

Change

Today as I sat the third grade classroom, after having received some news about my cohort for next year, I realized that I do not like CHANGE!

When I pulled out my phone to use the timer on it to time so students on their times tables I saw that I had a message from Lindsay in my cohort. She told me that we needed to sign up for a different cohort. I was instantly upset. I didn't want to change! I love my cohort. We have grown really close this year--we spend everyday together plus a lot of time out of class. We were already so sad because we were losing some of the girls in our cohort because they were accepted for the internship. Now because our cohort is going to be "dissolved" we are scattered among three other cohorts. As I've thought about this today, I started to realize how much is changing. I'm changing wards and apartment complexes for the first time in three years. That is a huge change, and I 'm really nervous about it. I'm graduating in a year and that is going to bring changes... one of which is that I just won't be a student anymore. I'm not sure what to think about that. I've always had this plan that I was going to graduate from high school and go to college. Now I'm almost to the "after college" stage. SCARY!

I guess change is good, because it keeps our lives moving and keeps me on my toes. But I still have decided that change does not go on my top 10 favorite things list.

~Karli~