| | Wow... It's been a long time since I posted anything.... Where to begin? Well, let's see. I think I'll break this up into section so I can keep up with what happened.
Thanksgiving was nice. We went to Austin and had Thanksgiving with Matt's parents and sister. It was very peaceful and relaxing. We visited the rest of the family for a little bit too. I had to get back to work so that wasn't too much fun, but it was nice to have the day off.
Christmas was wonderful. Matt and I drove out to Arizona to have Christmas with my family. We stopped through Austin on the way there and back and got to spend some time with his family as well. We went to the Grand Canyon and San Diego on the way to Arizona (We did make a quick stop in Arizona to drop some stuff off before heading to San Diego - didn't just skip the state all together.) We got to meet up with Jackie, Durward, Karen, Chad, and Oliver in San Diego. That was a lot of fun. Matt met my grandmother, aunt, and uncle. Mom, Dad, Robert, and Bekah all got to come to Arizona too. That was awesome having everyone together. I think we ended up driving 3500 miles when it was all said and done. It was a lot of time in the car, but it was fun.
New years was relaxing.
February 4 my license was approved!!!! I found a supervisor who is really nice, a youth director, and school counselor. It should be a good learning experience overall. I have been really looking for counseling jobs since I got the license. It has been a really annoying and stressful process. I was unable to talk to anyone about jobs. Everyone said that their information was online and if there wasn't anything there then I was out of luck. I was really starting to get worried that I wouldn't find a way to get my hours going. Last week though, I got an email from one of the ladies I had been emailing back and forth with (one of the VERY FEW who were actually responding and one who has been VERY helpful since last year) and she said that she may have a possible part-time opening in her private practice. I have an interview with her this morning so hopefully that will go well and I will have at least a part-time counseling job so I can start gaining my 3000 hours.
This weekend was a big weekend. My parents and Matt's parents met for the first time. My parents also met his sister Amanda (maybe not for the first time, but the first that any of them remember since it would have been a long time ago at a Parent's weekend event). They actually met at the shooting match that we (me, Matt, and my parents) were shooting in San Antonio. I think they all got along very well and enjoyed meeting one another.
Something else really big happened this weekend, but I will make you wait to figure out what it is (if you haven't already figured it out). Here is the story though: Thursday we both had off work so we went to College Station to get a burger from Chicken Oil. We also went to the George Bush Museum (FINALLY) that we have been trying to go to since we started dating over a year and a half ago. The museum was pretty cool. We will probably have to go back again when we have more time, but the 45 minutes we spent in there was not bad. We also took pictures of the GIANT Aggie ring that they put at the association of former students building. That thing is ridiculous, but cool at the same time. We were going to take pictures of the rest of campus, but we were running out of daylight and we needed to get back to Houston since I worked the next day. Friday we left for San Antonio around 10:30pm (we would have left sooner than that, but my parents had a flat so we took our time). We ended up getting there around 1:30 or so. Saturday we get up and get ready for the pistol match that we are all shooting (it was a lot of fun). Matt shot his first all steel pistol competition and did really well. He very much impressed his mom and sister who had no real idea of how well he can shoot. He impressed his dad too, but he already knew how good of a shot he is. He also beat me very cleanly on one of the stages. I was impressed with his shooting and his calmness under the pressure of shooting a man-on-man competition for the first time. Everyone did really well and had a lot of fun. (And we didn't get too sunburned either.) Matt's family went back to Austin after the main part of the competition was over (only thing left was the shootoff that we didn't even know about until later) So after the match was over we went to eat dinner with my parents and a couple of family friends that happened to live in the are (that I hadn't seen in at least 15 years- probably closer to 20). After a very long drive to find the restaurant we finally ate and then headed to Austin to stay with Amanda for the night. We ate breakfast with Amanda, then lunch with her and their parents then headed back to College Station to drop off a couple of shirts that were the wrong size (conveniently). After dropping off the shirts we went to take pictures of the rest of campus (that we didn't get on Thursday). Matt REALLY wanted to take pictures of the Academic building (which turns out is one of his favorite buildings on campus- who knew) so we headed that way. We took a quick stop at the H2O fountain and the learning statue and some random trees that I saw along the way that were budding and blooming. We stopped at Bolton Hall (the back side of it at least) and took some pictures of the columns along the stairs. I took a few pictures of the tree there and the bird that was trying to hide from my camera. After taking pictures there Matt took my hand, said "let's go" and we started walking. Conveniently, Bolton hall is right beside the Century tree and we started walking under the tree. After a few steps he said he needed to stop and clean his lens. (His lens was disgusting.) We stopped at the bench so he could set his bag down. He handed me his camera and opened his bag. I was paying attention to the bells that were ringing and the lack of people on campus since it was spring break and didn't notice what he was really doing (it was 6:00pm). He took his camera back and set it on the bench. He reached back in his bag and pulled out a ring box instead of his cleaning stuff. At this point I decided I should probably put down my gear too. He opened the box and kind of looked in it for a second. He smiled and asked if he had to get on his knee. I told him he didn't have to. He got on his knee and asked me to marry him. I said "yes" (of course). He said "good". He put the ring on my finger (fitting perfectly). Then he actually cleaned his lens. I was setting up my tripod when a few people came over and asked us to take a picture for them. So I left my camera there and took a few pictures for them then they left and we could take pictures of ourselves under the tree. I brought my tripod so we could take pictures somewhere- not knowing it would be there. After taking the pictures and putting the tripod away we decided to call our families from under the tree. We went to see a friend who lives in town for a few minutes then headed to Laynes to get some food and drove back to Houston. I was told later that he was planning on asking me on Thursday when we went to town, but the ring hadn't come in yet. He actually got a call from the jeweler while we were in College Station on Thursday exactly when I went into HEB to try to find something (very convenient timing if I do say so). He ended up going on Friday while I was at work (he had already taken the day off) to get it and had it hidden in his camera bag for 2 days.
Well, that's about the summary of the last 4 months of my life. I'll have to post again with what happens with this morning's interview.
And I guess this is how I'm going to have to put the pictures on here since it has obviously changed since the last time I put pictures on here... Photos Hopefully that will work. Or you may just have to copy and paste for it to work :/
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