A Year of Changes

I finally have some free time again! 2011 has been super crazy so far. I'll try and hit the highlights. :)

I survived my first year of college classes, and managed to pull out only one B. Damn Economics beat me. I found out that as long as I did well on my AP Calc exam (which I think I did), I will have enough credits to be considered a Sophomore at Clemson University. Oh yeah, and I picked a college. I'm headed to Clemson University in the fall! I added a countdown at the bottom of my blog page. :) I truly fell in love when I visited. It's a huge university, but it's not in the middle of a huge area. To be honest, it's out in the middle of no where, just like my hometown. But it still has all the opportunities, people, and activities of a large school. As I've heard it described several times, Clemson is like one big happy family. I'm so excited to become a member of that family. :)

I graduated high school! Woot woot. :) And although it wasn't official right away, I found out a few weeks ago, that I'm officially the Salutatorian of my high school class. They had to wait until my college grades were in to make it final. And I was lucky enough to have EVERYONE at my graduation. And by everyone, I mean everyone! My grandparents, almost all my aunts and uncles. A good majority of my cousins. And the best part, Aaron, my sister and her family, and my brother and sister in law were all about to come home for it!

Aaron graduated Power School!! I'm so incredibly proud of him. It really is such a huge accomplishment. :) And I had a wonderful trip out to Charleston for his graduation. He got to come home for 2 WEEKS afterwards for a lil R&R before he had to head back and start the dreaded prototype. On that leave, he PROPOSED! :) And I said yes. :) We don't have a date yet, or even a time frame. A lot is going to depend on deployment schedules. I mean, after all, it is important that the groom makes it to his wedding. :) Meanwhile, he's in about... week 8? of prototype. This is his first week of on-crew which means rotating shift work. It's going to be extremely interesting trying to combine our schedules in a way that we can talk a  least a lil each day... I have a feeling my sleep schedule is going to be extremely screwed up. :/ Oh, the things I do for love. :)

And to wrap things up, I'll touch on the beginning of  my summer. My sister and her family were here for 2 weeks. Even though I was only able to spend a week of it with them, I'm so thankful for the time I got to spend with her and the lil rascals. :) They sure keep me busy running around and lil Lafe definitely makes sure that I don't get to sleep in on any one day. :) After a week with the family and finishing up finals at Wright State, I took a road trip to Clemson for orientation. It was hot, and tiring (verrrry tiring), but I had a lot of fun! I met a lot of new people... I only wish I would have gotten those people's last names so I could actually look them up on Facebook. :/  And I am officially registered for Fall semester. :) I am so so soooo excited to move down there, if I haven't already made that point clear! ;)
After Orientation I drove four hours over to Charleston to spend the rest of the week with my wonderful fiance. :) I spent the day hanging out with other awesome Navy girls like Emily A., Callie, Amy, and my cousin's fiancee Erika, and I was lucky enough to spend the evenings with Aaron. It was truly one of the best weeks of my life. And I can't wait to finish my degree and actually move in with Aaron. :)

I'm going to try so hard to start writing regularly again... hopefully I'm more successful in keeping up with my blog writing than I am with my working out and scrapbooking. :)