Tonight...for now...mostly just pics! Nick has an early mornin tomorrow! BIG INTERVIEW! Pray for him!

BRANDI AND GRIFFIN ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)


This is us with our Tennis buddies! Good way to end a very long day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VERY LONG DAY!
Nick has a HUGE interview that we are going to Sac for tomorrow! He has had a lot on his plate and very little time to study...But he took a brake to hit some balls with our friends and TRY to relax before tomorrow. Please Pray that he will be able to think striate and just feel good about doing his best is what I ask. I want him to walk out of there knowing that if it doesn't work out, it was not meant to be, and in Gods plan right now and NOT about him. Thanks guys! I know he'll do great! Just pray for him though, he gets overwhelmed with stuff like this and having had midterms and papers to do ALSO the last few days...well...you understand! Just keep my amazing husband in your prayers tomorrow THANK YOU and LORD BLESS YOU! =)

I FOUND MY FAVORITE STORE IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!!!

Yes...Just the other day I found out that the sort of store that I could only dream up...EXISTS!!!
I can hardly believe that I have suffered never having found this love of my life!!!
I am not one who likes shopping....I AM ONE who LOVES Interior Decorating/Designing Mags and has a bad fetish (or so my Husband says) with anything that has to do with organizing!! (This does not mean that I have figured out HOW to be good at being organized...Only that anything that does organize is AMAZINGLY WONDERFUL to me, and I want to try it! I love it! I could look at that kind of stuff ALL DAY ANY TIME!!! You name it....no matter where it is... in the house or garage, the bedroom or kitchen, garden or crafts, office or bathroom...If it is organizing stuff......I AM SOOO THERE! I can't get enough of it!
Going to this store was like walking into my Favorite Decor Magazine or Book!!! I wanted to just stay in each room for hours to take in EVERY detail!!!
I LOVE THIS PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are probably wondering where I am talking about....IF NOT...YOU ARE NOT A NICE FRIEND TO HAVE NOT TOLD ME OF THIS BEAUTIFUL PLACE!!!!!
IKEA is the name and AWE +SOME is what that means!
Jen and I went looking for stuff for the studio...
I have to admit, because I am a sore thumb about shopping... I was not at all thrilled that Jen wanted to go someplace for 3 or 4 HOURS!!! I thought...OH my GOSH! One place..why on earth do we need that kind of time..... well folks I will tell you why, as I have now discoverd it....YOU COULD LIVE THERE! THAT"S WHY! I am sure that I did not see close to it all and we were there that whole time! Then we had to leave...(with me looking out the window and saying good bye...no...LITERALLY!) We had our photography Seminar to go to...Which was amazing too! Oh and Analene I got to see Katie there!!! We sat next to one another! She is as pretty as she ever was and it was CRAZY to see her there!!! Especially because I can not even remember the last time that I saw Katie it was so long ago! She I am sure would want me to say HI to you sis...so, HI!
Well..The seminar did not get over until at least 11pm....so I did not get to bed until almost 2am...then back up early (for me anyway OK NICK!!!! lol ) =) for work at my other job, that is probably my second favorite store.
I am sore from doing a Step and Sculpt class at the gym on MONDAY!!!! What an out of shape girl I am! Any way...OUCH...It hurts to breath and to move my legs!!! Soooo Silly! My back will not allow me to sit here and fill you ladies in any longer....so for now...That's about it. I love you guys! =)

Not a lot of time, but here's a "hey" Heres what's up with me! =)

So I had a Bridal Fair
(this is for you Diane! Short though because I have to scram out of town here pretty quick for that seminar...love you girl)
Jen and I had a Bridal fair to do in Red Bluff on Sunday...ALL DAY... It was a rough day that seemed to stay rough (aside from our work, that all went well) It actually was all ME and became pretty funny for us girls to laugh about...
I lost my vita water in a mean way if you can guess what I mean.... right as we were going to get on the road...I was great, then turned pale and went for the door... I was no longer ok lets just say.. We were still very close to my house and so I told Jen "TAKE ME HOME TO GET TONIC WATER IT IS THE ONLY WAY I AM GOING TO BE OK!" She did and I went home and ....OF COURSE the trusty Tonic water that we always keep on hand...NOT THERE...ALL OUT!
Jen took me to the store so I could run in for some Tonic water...the only thing EVER that can keep you from throwing up pretty much no matter what from my experience. If you ever have an unsettled stomach it works like NOTHING ELSE!
ANY WAY... I get in the car and open one of the bottles I got...IT GOES ALL OVER ME, UP MY SLEEVES AND ALL OVER MY SIDE OF THE CAR! Jen was so cool about it! But I just looked at her like "JEN!....WHAT NEXT!!!! GOOD GRIEF!"
We laughed about it once I could and then I will skip ALL the things that day and get to the biggest one...we got to the fair grounds where our show was at....Jen still needed to pick out a shirt...So we got all set up and ready to go and headed for the COLD bathroom...
There was a spot for dressing/showering (STILL SO FAIR GROUND COZY) well....Jen and I were deciding what she should wear when a GUSH...(AND FOLKS...I mean a GUSH) of wind blew in one of the long windows over my head...KNOCKING IT OUT!!!!!!!! It swung down held on by one hinge and missed my head by almost nothing! EVERYONE was a little shook up and Thankfully all I got was a very wet foot from the splash of dirty water that flew in with the busted out window! A few of us ladies seeing this as the massive hazard that it was...and finding no one to take care of it that worked there...took packing tape and made sure that scary ugly window would not go anywhere....or we hoped... Jen and I laugh now, but it really is amazing that it missed me...had I gotten up a moment to soon or later, that sharp ugly metal windows edge along with more force then I have seen in a while..would have surely taken ME OUT! lol
goodness..THANK YOU LORD!
Well, pretty much the whole day in one way or another was like that for me...
I got through the show and was able to eat something even though I was feeling sick again....
Jen and I are headed down to Sac here shortly for a lighting seminar....so that should be good...another long day, but good I hope. And so far so good today with ME...LOL
we did take pictures for the person putting on the event/show...but those are still on our pro cameras at the moment. I only took one or two quick pics with my pocket one, that were for no particular reason, but I will put one or two on here any way...I don't think that the pics show the booth, only one or two things IN it, to remind myself of how I set up the lighting I think? Any way..sorry..maybe some better ones for ya next time...I was not even thinking about putting them on anything...lol

Sooo, I get in the car and
I felt weird all day

the last two days readers digest version... (aka...a quick sum of the last two days)

To the left Nick is reading with Elly and the right, is the boys, ummm, being boys! =)
We went to
Char and Hannah's and had a blast reading/playing with Judah and Elly! We had an amazing night of sharing with Char and Hannah and even got to visit with Jon too! =)
Below and to the right is Judah, thinking "Auntie Molly is silly!" I am pretty sure...lol LOL! Just look at his face! lol...Judah is so much fun! We were smelling the flowers on the table here I think, but Judah acted like I was the only one in this picture! Thanks Judah! lol Man I love this little man! sooooooo MUCH! (DO not miss Elly's cutest smile EVER either!)



CHARLIE HANNAH ELLY JUDAH!!! WE ADORE YOU! Thank you for a night to remember always, and we so look forward to getting together more often! Hannah and I are going to start making bread together! CRAZY huh! ME! lol Can't wait!
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Next was Feb 23erd! Melissa's Birthday!!! Yeah sis!
She is our beautiful sister who has been going through a lot of big, challenging and awesome changes! Way to go Melissa! We couldn't be more proud of her....
We had SUCH a WONDERFUL FAMILY NIGHT OUT ON THE TOWN FOR HER BIRTHDAY!
We started the night good and hungry...(for Nick and I) it was the first time eating at 5th Street stake house! It was sooo GOOD! wow! =)
To the right...
dun dun
TA DAAAAAAAH.......
The HIGHTOWER LADIES!!!!
We ended the night laughing all of us together in the car and being super silly! I think Melissa and Nick and I maybe Mom too, sand bingo was his name OH! ? LOL It was so nice being with the family and seeing Melissa smile again! Dad and Nick both got filet mignon...I had some Chicken dish that I can't pronounce and Melissa got some sort of prawns dish thinger...and Mom...hmmm...I don't really remember...same as Nick I think and Dad I guess...lol =)
We laughed and talked and enjoyed one another! =) HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELISSA! We LOVE YOU SIS!!!!!


Melissa would KILL ME, if she saw these picture on here!!! lol We were havin fun being the silly sisters for Nicks picture!

Hmmmm...

Well...we had a nice dinner with friends Nate and Diane last night, Diane cooked a wonderful dinner! We had a long day today... We were both tired, but could not resist one of our favorite things to do now...play Tennis with Griff and Brandi...sooo.....of course we did...we played again even though it was cold and my back was screaming...still is actually...but it was soo much fun! It always is! Brandi has an awesome serve that I am trying to figure out...Griffin is so fast...actually BOTH our guys are sooo fast! and low, right over the net! Brandi and I were saying tonight how we have to step it up a notch or else they are going to out rank us...the good thing is that we can always brake up into teams , either us girls playing and the guys...or guy gal against guy gal...either way we all have a lot of fun and play until our legs start to give out. My back is insane right now though and so I am still poppin the Advil hopin it might help a bit.... oh well...
Tomorrow is going to be AWESOME...Nick and I are off to visit with my insanely cool Brother and his family after work and school... We probably will not get out to their place as early as we would like...but we can hardly wait to see them! I am sure that both the kids have grown MORE since the last time. Hannah always cooks amazing and healthy too! Char is about the best Brother any person could hope or wish to have! I am really excited about tomorrow...it will help us get through the long day! Maybe I can grab some pics while we are there to make tomorrows blog a little more fun then this one! lol =)
Hey I am working on it ok! lol Thanks for readin any way! =)
All our Love! Brandi, Griffin and Nick in my amazingly bleary pictures! =)

Last Night! =)

To the Right....
BRANDI!

The Left...
NICK!

Well last night Nick and I and our friends Brandi and Griffin played Tennis until after 10pm!!! We had a blast. We all seem to have laughed our stomachs tired by the end of the night! I had played with Nick yesterday Morning because he did not have work that morning...THEN when Nick went to school my friend Diane and I had a walk planned for the day... We met up and walked AT LEAST 5 miles! We were beat when we got back to
our cars, but had a great time. By the time we were done it was time to pick Nick back up from school...Nick worked on homework and made us dinner...I had planned to clean house but was sooo tired from my walk! I think I got SOME done... WELL.... then Nick and Griff and Brandi all really wanted to play that night...I did too....but MAN! Soooo... we did...and I was beyond wiped out and sore! It was a little painful on my back but not half as bad as I expected it would be (more then normal anyway). We had a good time, but we all pushed ourselves I think...because we have all heard that the nice weather is supposed to be no more for a while and we wanted to get out while we could! We were ALL soo tired, but we played or at least over 2 hours I think maybe a lot more actually???
Nick and my little crappy camera was mean and didn't want to take ANY clear pics no matter what I did...but here are a couple any way.... (I wish my HUGE camera was easy to pull out of no where like our little crappy tempered one...lol....but it is SOOO NOT!) And for takin a quick shot for my blogging...the little THING of a camera will just have to do! =) Thanks Nick for getting us a little travel camera any way...even though neither of us would choose this one again, if we could...lol
Directly below is.......... GRIFF!







Brandi Brought her A game! I was REALLY impressed!
Griffin was FAST!!!! And has a super cool new racket!
Nick is a great teacher, with a stubborn wife! Who is
really VERY GOOD!
I had a blast with these super awesome people! Griffin said I did "SAVAGE" !! I will take that! Sounds like I can actually play ok! Thanks Griff!!! lol =)

My Today =)

Well.... =)
I have just gotten back from a nice long at "least" 5 mile walk with my new pal Diane! I am sooo proud of us! =)
It was a great walk..I had an awesome time talking with Diane and enjoying the day.I am sure we will feel it the next couple days (which is really lame I know!) but hey! WE DID it, and I am proud and I am sure we will keep it up. Which excites me very much!
Nick is cooking for me right now! How cool is that! We got to see more of each other today, and that was great! I had so many things I was going to blog about, and I can not not not think or gather my thoughts right now...so I think I will give it a go later....
Guess until then... Hope "you're?" havin a great day! lol
Does Blogging ever feel more normal? I can not get the flow of it yet...lol
I totally should have grabbed a picture with Diane, so that I am not just posting a random picture from whenever...next time I guess...I love how my Sis, puts pics from their day or week up regularly, I love SEEING not JUST reading about her days! Your my Blogging hero Sis! lol =)


LOOK HERE! A PICTURE FROM TODAY! lol
.................................................dundundunDUN...... Here is our Dinner...ALL NICK! Well done baby! It tasted super good too!!! The Asparagus was my FAVORITE! He did them soooo GOOD!!!! =) HEY! look at THAT!....A PICTURE FROM TODAY!!! lol Better already! lol =)

LOVE....Happy Valntines Day! =)

I woke up to beautiful petals all over our bed...followed them to a wonderful love note and bottle of wine. My husband is so good to me! I couldn't believe it! Thank you my sweet Man!


Happy Valentines DAY!
May the Lord BLESS you no matter where you are at in life.
KNOW YOUR LOVED!
Gods love is sooo GREAT... It is through my husband that He shows ME the most...But if you are not in this place in your life, know that the God who gave me a husband that I think the WORLD of, if the same GOD that LONGS TO HOLD YOU CLOSE and bless you RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE AT!!! =)
Trust that Truth! God is faithful, He is LOVE, the true word. His love is without condition and PERFECT! His LOVE is there FOR YOU!
You were the JOY set before HIM when he lade down His LIFE for YOU!
Praise Him and give Him the glory and HONOR DUE to HIS Powerful name!!!!!
Be still and KNOW He is GOD! Laugh with him today. Know that His arms are the very place your heart can find hope, peace and TRUE LOVE! May the Lord BLESS YOU this day, when people show their love in so many ways around us... May we KNOW that HIS LOVE IS the first and real deal. HE IS LOVE!
Have a blessed day and let no other signs of affection around you today, take the joy of KNOWING GOD ADORES AND L O V E S YOU away from you!
YOU ARE LOVED BY THE ONE WHO IS LOVE!

SO MUCH FUN!!!

So, My sweet husband has bought us some rackets and some tennis balls and took me to the park to play the other night and try them out. He has decided that since we seem to think that it is a lot of fun (in spite not knowing any rules or how to play) we are going to take a class this April! I am so looking forward to that!
Well, tonight our friends Griff and Brandi went out with us to play...we just got back home and it is 10:30 we had SOOO much fun! I have not laughed that HARD in soo long! My goodness! I totally nailed Brandi on accident when I was trying to hit Nick a hard one! I felt soo bad! But Brandi, she shook it off like nothing! She is a tough one!
I have had a lot of new things going on. God is opening and closing a lot of chapters in my life AND Nick and my life. It is exciting and adventurous and we are eager to see what plans God has for us as this new year goes on.
Nick and I are LOVING our new church SOOOOO MUCH! We both look forward to Sundays. Already I am seeing so much growth and new friendships and it is so beautiful how God chooses to draw us close both to one another and to Himself. What a marvelous God We serve!!!!
I wish I took some pics from tonight to put on here...I am to tired to explain, but we really had soo much fun. I have been having some bad days with my back and even sitting here is really a challenge, yet we went for it tonight anyway and the Lord was sooo awesome to let me play and enjoy myself! I took a lot of Advil but it was not seeming to work and I wondered if I would be able to play much...I was so blessed...it just felt like a gift to be able to. To forget the stresses of the day and how long it had been and to laugh with friends super HARD! =) Thank you Lord!
tomorrow will be a big day, and so I think I will not try to hard to be creative or write much more then, just that...what we did tonight, because it was so much fun! =) Hope you all had a wonderful day! Sounds like my little loves, nieces and nephews were AWESOME! and I We are soooooo PROUD of them for how WELL they listened to momma today! Way to go little loves!!!
uncle Nick and I love you soooo SOOOO soooo SUPER much! Oh and we wanted to know if you guys could update the pictures on our fridge! We would love to see what knew things you are learning and see what new shapes and things you are creatively drawing!!! Miss you all! Love you Much Much MUCH!

GRRRRRRRRRRR!

FROG SAYING HI! lol
....Well, I was very upset today...I found some songs by Kerk Franklin that I love on U tube and must not have saved it right...I got it on my site and was very happy to listen to it...well, I got home later today and found that it had changed to another thing, that was perfectly horrible against my God! I am so sorry if anyone played it! I think I have changed what I need to, so that this does not happen again...however I will be keeping a close eye on it! Be warned everyone, be very careful and double check if you put anything off U tube on your blog that you have the settings right? We shall see...please let me know if you see anything other then kirk franklin for now, I want to see if I fixed the problem. Thanks guys! Again...I am so sorry

Well this morning started out well. Jen and I had a meeting with a potential bride, who happily and easily booked our best package. We are now OVER booked (meaning not just Saturdays) in the month of June. =) Hmm.. I was very proud of myself today... I woke up with a horrid Migraine and it lasted until what felt like a bottle of Advil later and a whole day of no help from the Advil...until tonight...the cool part is, IN SPITE of this...AND my husband NOT being home until later tonight, I WENT to the gym! You might think big deal....BUT IT WAS! I am very out of shape...I did a kick boxing class and found out very quickly that I am not in the shape I was a few years ago, when I did a lot of kick boxing and LOVED it at the college.... I was sooo beat and soooo much more sweaty then I have ever been...EVER! It was sooo funny looking the instructor in the eyes in the HUGE mirrors in front of us, as I tried to keep up...both of us laughed a couple times... I don't believe as some girls in the class do, in pretending to punch the air...for a good work out, the trick is punching the air or whatever you may be, but the hard one being the air...lol....as though it was something and having enough control and force to work a number of the right muscles....lol.... well, I have a LOT of catching up to do...Jen ended up being at the class too...we started laughing at the same time, when we were doing TONS of squats and kicks...we both thought at probably the same time even...."this is Familiar! Weddings???...then Jen said, every time she squatted, she thought....WEDDINGS THIS SEASON!!!!...WEDDINGS THIS SEASON!!!...ECT ECT again and again! lol Sorry if you don't get it...it is just that feeling those exact muscles was a total reminder how much we sooo DO THAT when we are photographing all day...Jen made it positive (as I will try harder to do IN THIS way next time) and thought of how we need to get those muscles worked now, so we don't have BURNING thighs and whatnot for days, after our first wedding for this new year...lol
Let's see, so Nick came striate over when he could...and it ended up being after my hour of intense concentration and PAIN! lol... I was walking out to my car or walking Jen to hers I guess...when Nick pulled up.. I was sooo sweaty and my hear was damp and my face was bright red...maybe that is why Nick understood! lol I offered to watch him work out...I guess that didn't sound like as much fun to Nick, but him leaving me, to go work out later, did not sound good to me at all...so we just called it a night.....and went home, Me AND HIM happy to just relax!
Nick and I are working a lot right now, on praying TOGETHER everyday....So we read together and then we prayed together and now, as I write this, my husband who can fall asleep faster then anyone I know....grrrr.....IS FAST ASLEEP right "snoring" lol =) Next to me!
he he
well..Lord bless you , I am off to lay here and TRY to get some sleep! (I do not easily fall asleep, no matter HOW tired! =) Of course! ) He gets up at 5am though so I have no room to complain...He needs it! I could never ever do that, even if I COULD get to sleep! =)
That is My hard working MAN!!!! =) Bigger smile then you can do with your keyboard! =)

Long days

Well, today was a very long day, but that seems to be the norm with Nick working extra hard LONG hours and me staying pretty busy as well. It is hard to find time for one another that is not about something else. I am trying to learn not to place all my days burdens or "things" I feel the need to explode and talk about just because I need to talk, right at Nicks feet when he gets home from an extremely LONG, hard working day... I don't know how he does it and yet I want him to be my hero at the end of MY LONG day too! My sweet husband, he is patient, but when it comes to waiting for him to take a safe breath at home I am not. Tonight, my goal is to figure out a couple things that I can do or think of to help me remember when I eagerly await him at the door, that he NEEDS time at home TOO, like I DO.
Any way...
I worked a rather uneventful day today, felt achy and needed to go to the grocery store anyway...the LAST thing I wanted to do...
I want to think more joyfully, and I am working on it...
Today as I got into the beater car that I had (because on Nicks commute to Red Bluff days he takes our nice car)..well, I was thinking about an old man and his wife that I chatted with in the grocery store...I could hear them pleasantly acknowledging what a nice young woman I was on my way out...as I walked to our beater car, I thought, what would they think if they saw me getting into this car, would they assume I had little, or was a "poor" girl... then I thought, what would I say if that were the case...it was then (in my strange always wondering and running mind), that I realized that I would say..."No Sr. You are mistaken, I am the richest young woman that there is, you just have not met my husband, to know it." My mind kept on as it often does when I day dream with out even knowing it...onto, how cool it was that I could say that and say it in my heart not just for show...like I sometimes feel the car can be (in the bad way)...I worry about a client not taking me seriously if they saw me driving it...I have even worried about whether the people at the video store saw what I drove up in..(what would they think of me? would they think less?)..ect... It is funny how things can take us over, even make us forget WHY WE ARE SOOO RICH! In Christ I am so fully rich, He gave me my husband, and although we have much to learn about serving one another and showing how much we care in daily (even busy day ways)...My husband is still even more then ever, the greatest gift I have ever known. God is sooo good JUST simply for giving me my HUSBAND! Not to MENTION so many other daily things that He graciously provides for us.

I needed more pics on my blogg....I LOVE pictures and need them all over!!! =)

Blogging here I come

Goodness...I have known I should start blogging for a while now...but I never would have guessed that my sister would be the one to get me going and re-interested! lol

Well, here I go... =)

WOW! lol

THIS has got to be one of our LEAST attractive pictures...but I love it anyway! lol Don't kill me sis! lol