Those Five Rings

I adore the Olympics. I think it is a wonderful show of sportsmanship and competitive edge.I also love cheering for my country and hoping they do their best and to cheer for the underdogs that have never won and seeing history take place. I love gymnastics, speed skating, ice skating, bob sledding, swimming, synchronized swimming, anything with horses (which is never on tv!), the one where you ski and shoot, diving, archery and so many more that I can't remember. I think that they are a fabulous way of looking back and thinking what was happening four years ago in your life or two if you like to think of the Olympics as every two years and it doesn't matter if it is winter or summer, which I do.

Four years ago I was getting ready to go to my freshman year of college and was super nervous! I also got to welcome my sweet niece Annika into the world whose due date was the day of the opening ceremony 8-8-8 but was early, silly girl missing an awesome birthday! I'm glad that I've made it through college and had nothing to be nervous about.  Two years ago I was "talking to" (my mom HATES that term) a super wonderful man who is now my fiancé. I remember watching the winter Olympics with Tyler and using that as an excuse to hang out with him and get to know him better and I'm so glad I did.

On my own little sportiness, I earned my regular dog day's shirt and will earn my Saturday dog day's shirt in the morning!  This past week I was in Bartlesville, where I got to see Tyler play 14 straight innings of baseball, such a hard worker, and participate in a Great Expectations (GE) training. GE was wonderful! I met many great people/teachers and learned so many different techniques that I can't wait to use in my own classroom! Also I would like to brag on Tyler and mention he won the male intern of the year for his site for the camp he did. I also was excited to see friends that I haven't seen all summer and be able to catch up with them.

One last thing currently I'm doing a face mask called the burning mask, which I think works really well and is fun to use because you smell like an apple pie for thirty minutes and you also look like you would scare small children which isn't as fun. 

Proof  I look scary

Confession time, I am watching the opening ceremonies and they are being dvred for my mom and sisters and I have probably rewinded it 25,930,093 times so I could hear every little thing they say and not miss anything. Also I have now had this mask on for 50 minutes and I'm only suppose to have it on for 30. Whoops.

Win me a medal folks!
Ps.My dear friend Emily started Med School last week and got her white coat today! I'm so stinking proud of her! :)

Where do I start?

Since I lasted posted I have gone to two all-stars games, a total of four baseball games plus a celebrity softball game (including the all-star games), got ENGAGED and spent a wonderful week with my new fiancé and signed my teaching contract.

The weekend after my last post Tyler called me and came up unexpectedly and so I surprised him with tickets to a Royals game which he loved because he had never been to a Royals game. We saw the Royals play the Cardinals and of course they lost. Before the game they had a special celebrity softball game in the Little K which was fun and crazy, it was the most ridiculous game I've ever seen.

The next week I went to Oklahoma and spent the weekend with Tyler and we went to Texas League All Star game at the Tulsa Drillers stadium and got to see their Home Run Derby before the game for free and Tyler caught two of the balls! One for me and one for him. I saw him catch the second one and it was an awesome sight. The game was a lot of fun and it is cool to see players at double A level knowing one day they may be in the pros. The other highlight of the weekend as seeing my friend, Ivy, and spending 12 hours with her after not seeing her since graduation!

The next time I saw Tyler was when he came up for the Fourth of July, two days after I got back from Oklahoma. We spent time with my mom, the L's(Laura and Lynne), Sarah, and Tori on the 4th and had a lot of fun and enjoyed the fireworks. On Thursday we ran errands, Tyler played video games with my nephew, Ben, and I made dinner. He also got a call from his parents informing us that his dad got us tickets to the MLB All Star game in KC. Then on Friday we were supposed to go to Kauffman stadium, where the Royals play, for a tour with my family, but they had to cancel because MLB took over the stadium for the All-Star game.  So, we played catch in my backyard instead. 


That's when the magic began. We were playing catch in my backyard and my mom and sisters were watching and taking pictures of us in our new matching American league jerseys that Tyler bought for us as a surprise. Or so I thought, sneaky people. He asked me if I could pitch a perfect game and the first time I said no. A little later he asked me again and I said I'll try and then he told me it was bottom of the 9th, there are two outs and I had 7 pitches to get this guy out and win. I threw a couple balls and he gave me a couple strikes and then I threw a strike and he came over to congratulate me and told me that when you play in your backyard, you always throw a perfect game. He asked me if I got the game ball and I said yes and he started to put the one we used in my glove and then started to pull something out of his pocket. I said what are you doing! Then he got down on one knee and I was looking at the ring and not him and I said "I like you!" Then he told me that he was up here (he wanted me to look at him and not the ring) and said that he loved me and would I marry him? And I said yes!

That night we went to the Legends with my mom and the L's and then went to a T-bones game which was a lot of fun. Saturday, we got up and went to Dog Day's Saturday Fun Run with Laura and Lynne and then came back and got ready to go to Fanfest because I could get in free since I was working it later that day and I had a free ticket he could use. I went to work the fielding practice and I met someone that knew my Uncle Byron who died a five years ago, so that was really cool. Tyler's parents and nephew drove up to give us the tickets to the game and they hung out with Tyler and I joined them after I got done and we continued to enjoy Fanfest and then they went back to Oklahoma. 

On Sunday we went to church and then to lunch with Jessica and her boys who adore Tyler, and I worked at Fanfest again. Monday, we went to Fanfest again because we had so much fun and after Fanfest we went to a free Little Big Town concert a few blocks away and of course they played the two songs I wanted to hear last. Tuesday, we went to the All-Star parade at the Plaza, where I got sunburned, and then we went to Kauffman to enjoy the game. It was the opportunity of a lifetime! I only wish that the American league would have scored! I wanted to see an extra inning game! Wednesday morning I went to fill out paperwork for the school district, sign my contract and get my badge! That afternoon I spent time with Tyler before he headed back to Oklahoma. 

This past week has been full of memories that I will always cherish and I am so glad I get to marry the love of my life and I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with him. I am really excited that he asked me to be his wife. I am so happy that I got to share this experience with all of you.