Loving Life!!

Well, life is such a treat! I have an absolutely wonderful job teaching little third and fourth grade students! Although I love my job, I also love EVERYTHING else about my life too! Being done with my masters has been glorious! I have a husband who has blessed my life immensely. I have loving parents, a great family, adorably sweet nieces and the best friends a girl could ask for. I feel like a new woman this year!

Getting to workout everyday after work and get my workout on with a great community of peeps! To be honest, I love just hanging out at the gym and catching up with everyone! Talking Crossfit or life. You could say that I am addicted, obsessed or even a little neurotic about working out. Though I have found that it just makes me feel good. If you are a runner or have ever gotten a runner's high, then you know what I am talking about! Every single time I work out, I get that same endorphin rush and I just feel incredible! Even as I wipe myself up off the floor I know I have challenged myself, tested how much I can lift, how fast I can be, or just how hard I can push myself. It has taken almost all summer of working out to get back to this place that I used to be (long ago)! I have dealt with some injuries the past year, so I couldn't workout or had to baby my rib. Blah, Blah, Blah! What matters now is that I am back! And in full force! I feel great! Can't be contained! I know I still have a ways to go, but I am so much closer now to my goal, I can taste it!

I didn't want this whole post to go to "Crossfit," or working out! I am sure you get tired of hearing about it, but I didn't realize how my mental outlook had changed so much while being hurt. I am a positive person by nature, but life just didn't have the zest that it used to. I figured out the hard way that stress can do that to you. Especially over a long period of time, I just got their gradually so I didn't notice until I neck deep in quicksand! So to actually workout and "feel" good about it and everything else in my life, I feel like I got my zest back! Thank God teachers have summers off!

Finalmente!!

My life is finally changing the way I want it to! I no longer have as much stress in my life because I am done with my Masters of Education degree. It felt like I would never get there, but I have finally taken my last tests, turned in my last papers and now only have to order my transcripts for my pay raise for next year!! Thank you to friends and family who have supported me throughout this long (almost 2 years) journey. I would like to especially thank my husband, Conn who had to put up with my most stressed out moments! Also, the MC (Jen, Tiffany, Megan and Emilie) I would have never even gotten through the first online class if it wasn't for you four ladies (or pro-cert for that matter), and also for keeping me sane and trying to make this process as "fun" as possible! Thank you to my family for understanding the pressure and stress I was feeling and for celebrating with me when I was FINISHED. It meant a lot to me to have you there, when I didn't have to worry about anything else in life except enjoying your company! So finally, there you have it! The weight of the world has been lifted off my shoulders!

My Mom and Dad!


My wonderful husband!! I love you!


And finally, the culminating event of getting my masters! I got hooded! :)

So funny I had to put this on my blog!