Hey Everyone!

This'll be short cuz i have to get to work (at David's Bridal), but to let ya'll know, i moved out of my house last week. Yeah, it's not somthing i would have thought i would do, but i did. So right now i am staying with Ryan's sister and her family, Shannon, Steve, Samantha (4 years old) and Joey (1 and a half), and soon to be new baby boy Michael (any time now).  I will be staying here until the end of the semester (yay JCCC, lol), and then getting an apartment, whhoo right? lol, but the thing is i am now trying to find a roomie, so if anyone is interested in moving into an apartment in let me know, because i really hope to find someone soon! Just a quick update though! Let me know how you all are doing, I hope everyone at KU is having a blast, and all you JCCC people, let me know if you are looking to move! Talk to you all later! Byebye.

Hey Hey! I hope everyone had a good Easter Holiday! So, Spring Show was last night... Man, that was so much fun, sad, and really hard at the same time. All of the dances felt great and all the ones i was able to watch were awesome ( i was so proud of Bridget). Steph and my duet felt pretty good, i coulda done better, but hey, i gave it my all. Thank you to everyone who came, your support was appreciated, we even sold out, so people stood in the back to watch... that was pretty neat to me. I think the hardest part of thr night was watching the Senior Slide Show... i cried so hard, and then Lauren Albright signed while Mary Jo Duggan sang "I will remember you"... then i cried even more. It made me think about (okay well i have had this on my mind since dress rehersals started) how strange it is going to be not dancing anymore. True i am sure i'll shake my groove thang (yah yah) lol, once in a while, but just not the way i feel when i dance with a team. It's like a whole 5 years all of a sudden gone, in one night. On Saturday night i felt the high of dancing with fifty other girls, then just me and Stephanie Le, and being on top of the world, and then having the realization that "oh my gosh" it's done. So this morning at church the guest speaker was talking about change and how God always has plans and knows what he's doing, and i think i needed that reminder. Because next year i am going to have to work my tush off to save money so i can really move out and start my life. I was having this conversation with my dad on Sat. afternoon, right after the 3rd time i had cried that day about no more dancing, growing up, responsibility, etc... he asked me why i wanted to move out. well, basically because my family can drive me nuts, i am sure everyone else out there at this point can feel my pain here. then after family, because i don't want to still live at home and obeying the same rules, and subjected to the same yelling, as when my sisters are seniors- they need to be the "big girls" that year, 'cuz i know Liz will move out even if Bridget doesn't. And then finally while most everyone i know is going away (at least to a dorm), i want to feel that same independance... to experiance life on my own a bit before i am completely severed financially from my family. Does anybody else feel the same way, or am i nuts? i hope i am not crazy, but if i am, at least i do know that something will come along and make me feel as good about myself as dance... hehe, i know what it is. God, and Ryan. I would just like to say without these men in my life... my life would me crazy ( fo sho).

~Monica

PS~ so excited for prom!!!

Well! I am proud to say that i am very excited for prom! Ryan and i got his tux today for it, so i am excited. well everyone i had a great weekend and i hope you all did too. Everone let me know what your plans for prom are too. Oh! Ryan and I went and tried out College Church of the Nazarene- i liked it except i like the music at my church better (more contemperary), but the sermon was fantastic. I have just gotten to the point where i don't want to go to the highschool group at my church, but i get lost at the seromons at "big church", so thats why Ryan and i decided to go to church with his family, and we both liked it for the most part. It's wierd sometimes God just speaks to your heart and tells you it's time to move on to something new, even though something like changing churches is scary (for me at least, i have gone to my church for 7 years- since we moved here, its the first church i went to after we converted, so its like a home base for me, and my family will still continue going there)- it's almost like finding a bit of independance and forging out a major part of the family Ryan and i will have one day. Hmm... a good thought for me. Well everyone, i hope you have a good night, take care!

~Monica

Hey Everybody!

I hope everyone had a good day. Not feeling to well today, my tummy hurts, so i went ahead and had my mom call me out so i could come home. Watched TLC 'til i had to go pick up my sisters-i just feel yucky. But! I have Masterworks Concert tonight and i am actually really excited for it, if ou arent coming to see it, you should! It's at North @ 7:30. Be there! I met Bridget's new "guy" last night at home. Very adorible Bridget, I approve. Although i must tell everyone that Ryan is thrilled at the prospect of torturing Bridget and Andrew like she did to us, beware Bridget Marie! Awell, it's cute that one of my baby sisters is dating a boy now. It's scary though 'cuz i started dating Ryan right before Homecoming during my sophomore year. Hmmm... anything else interesting? Not too much. I just don't feel real good so i guess Masterworks might not be so much fun to sing at, but hey... too bad for me! Have a great night all!

~Monica