I'm a Total Twi-hard.

First of all, let me just say that it is insane that it is already July 1st. I can't believe it. Summer loves to pass me by quickly…it's as if Summer hates me and knows it's my favorite season. Summer is such a jerk.

Ok, enough of that.

Yesterday was the official Eclipse premiere date and of course I have had my tickets for almost 2 months. ;) That's because I am Twihard. Heard of it? That's what you call diehard Twilight fans. I think my girlfriends would agree that I am one of these…….

Here are some awesome pictures of our fun night.

Did I mention we saw ALL 3 movies in a row? Twilight at 7:15, New Moon at 9:30, & Eclipse at midnight. Oh yeah!

Starting off the night with a picture of me & our tickets before I left!

Check out my neat shirt - my mom got it for just $1 at a Wal-Mart in Cali!

I stole the next couple of picture from Kristen - this is my side of the table at Snuffer's. I look a little funny here, but it's still cute! Me, Lauren, Jen, & Kristen!

Our group minus a few! This is right before we got to go in and be seated! It was rush to find 11 seats together! We got 9 in a row and 2 in the row in front of us! Pretty good!

Lauren, my empty seat, Laura, Rachel, & Ansley before the 1st movie started!

Ginni, Jenna, Alycia, & Kristen - this is right before one of the girls working at the theater told me to put my camera in my car - which I did not do! That's why I'm not in one of the group pictures :( We had to sneak shots here and there!

Me being silly before the movie - they asked us trivia questions for prizes ;)

Me with the twins - Kristen on the left, Alycia on the right! :)

We had a great time!!

Eddddwwwaaarrrrrdddd!

So, a month ago tonight I went to the midnight showing of New Moon! I got Laura & I tickets to the 9pm showing of Twilight showing in Rockwall followed by the New Moon showing at 12:02am! We got to the theater at about 7:45pm and stayed until New Moon was over around 2:30am! That’s almost 7 hours! AND I went to work the next day, mind you! I felt wired all day instead of sleepy. It was odd.

Anyway, for Twilight I wore my black Edward shirt and then for New Moon I put my white Jacob shirt on over it! Haha! I’m pretty sure I was the only one in our theater with 2 shirts to wear. I also got Laura one of the Jacob ones. The movies and the shirt were her birthday present, but I don’t think she liked it as much as I would have, haha. She and I agree that I am the biggest Twilight Saga fan that we both know. :)

Anyway, here are a few pictures of our late night out!

This first one is of us before Twilight at 9 (notice the black Edward shirt)!

Here we are after Twilight waiting for New Moon to come on! When it finally did people cheered :) Notice the change of shirt :) Haha!

This is after the movie – they had a bunch of cut outs and t-shirts to buy! I settled for a picture with the life-sized Edward! :) Don’t worry, Casey isn’t a bit jealous of cardboard. ;)

Have a great weekend everybody! I am officially on Christmas break for 2 weeks! I so deserve it after this past week of putting up with those crazy 6th grade rug rats! :) I love ‘em, but I need a BREAK! :)

Playing Catch Up!

Well, I have a LOT of catching up to do and I think the best way to explain what has been going on in my life lately is to show you through picture form. Sooo, I am just going to post some pictures with captions and catch you all up the best way I know how! After all, I am a camera queen. Enjoy! :)

Back in late January, Laura, Casey, and I went to see Twilight. Casey obviously didn't care too much, so we didn't care to include him in the picture :)

Here we are, best friends since 1st or 2nd grade--still an ongoing debate :)

Also, in January, is a very important birthday boy! My wonderful husband Casey! He turned 26 this year, and I have to add that he is 3 years and 3 months older than me...don't want people thinkin' I'm an old person, too! :)

The night of Casey's birthday was the first night of cLife's dNow (disciple now). Our theme this year was Celebrity. Here is a cool picture from that first night. Look closely and you'll see the CELEBRITY letters.

Another special birthday is in February! The day after Vday my mom had her bday! I won't say how old, but I will say she is getting close to the big 5-0! Ha ha. She's not there just yet though :)

Casey & I gave her some red kitchen canisters like mine that she envied and a cool basket for her living room that she wanted.

Then, about 2 weekends later, Casey was asked to be the speaker at a disciple now in McAllen, TX. Here are some pictures from our trip!

Casey being silly in our room before speaking

The students worshiping!

Getting ready one night

Casey speaking on the first night. He did a great job!

One night in February we met Charlie and Ginni at Bowl-A-Rama in Rowlett for a couple of games! Charlie won the first one, and I won the second one. We went to Pancho & Lefty's afterward for dinner! Yummy! :)

Here's a picture of Team Coats as Casey likes to refer to us.

Here's one of Casey's famous curve balls, and don't forget that I took a bowling class at A&M!

Charlie throwing one of his many strikes! I had one of Ginni, but she erased it!

Our friends, Charlie & Ginni :)

Now, we're finally in March. The first weekend in March we went to our first wedding in cLife's new building. The reception looked awesome! Here's Casey and I...check out the decor behind us!

I want YOU to pray!

This weekend Casey and I are flying to McAllen, TX for Chris DuPree's Disciple Now. Chris DuPree was my asst. youth minister when I was in 11th and 12th grade. He was also Casey's boss when Casey was the asst. youth minister at Mimosa Lane and Chris was the head youth minister. Anyway, now Chris and his wife Kristy live in McAllen, and Chris is the youth minister at a church called Baptist Temple. Chris asked Casey to come to their disciple now and be the main speaker!!! Casey was honored of course, as this is his first time to be hired as an event speaker. We fly out tomorrow at 9am, and so I had to take a personal day off of work. I don't mind. I had a three day work week thanks to this and a staff development day on Monday! Woo hoo! We will get back on Sunday around 7:30pm.

I need to buy a book to read on our down time because I am sure I will have a lot since I am not the speaker :) I am thinking about The Shack or just a Francine Rivers' book that I already have, but haven't yet read (I have a couple of those). I really wish that I could read the Twilight sereies for the first time, but I just need to get over it. I just have to say to myself, "I have already read it. I can't go back in time. Get over it Lauren."

Speaking of....in a few minutes I am leaving to go see Twilight with Rachel at the dollar theater (I know some of you are actually laughing at me right now for being so obsessed). I am glad to be going with someone who cares because last time I felt like I couldn't like it because Laura and Casey kept snickering! Ha ha!

Here is a picture of my fantasy hero.

Anyway, back to this weekend...Casey has been working really hard on his 4 talks for this weekend. So, I ask two things of you. 1) pray that the kids are open and receptive to God working in there heart and 2) pray that Casey is in tune with what God wants to say through him.

Pray for this guy! He needs it! :)

I Still Loved It...

So, we saw Twilight last night. I went with my husband Casey and my best friend Laura. Laura has read Twilight and part of New Moon and Casey has not read any of them. Needless to say, Casey was a little bored.

Going into the movie, I had really low expectations. I knew that it was a low budget film, and I knew that movies are rarely anything like the book and never quite what you had imagined. Because of this, I liked the movie a lot.

Laura on the other hand said that she thought it was going to be really good because it was such a big deal. She did not know that it was low budget, and so she did not like it nearly as much. She thought it was awkward, cheesy, and said it didn't flow very well.

I do agree with the awkward cheesiness at times. When Edward picked Bella up and started running up the mountain and climbing the trees, I gotta tell you I laughed out loud pretty hard. There were a couple other parts portrayed that I thought were extremely funny after having read the book.

All that said, I still loved it, and I think I am going to go see it again (maybe even by myself so I can really enjoy it, haha)! I also can't wait for the next movie to come out in 11 months! Woo hoo!

Yay for Twilight!


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Mine & Casey's next free night is Friday, February 6th. We are booked solid for the next two weeks. It is practically insane. And it is all disciple now's fault. Don't get me wrong, we both love disciple now, but it takes up our life for a while. For the past 4 or 5 Saturdays (Casey's one day off) Casey has been working for several hours calling kids for Dnow. I wish I could help more with Dnow, but to be honest, it takes all of me to stay afloat as a first year teacher. I had no idea how exhausted I would be after work. I don't even do any work at home. I just try to get as much done at school until I am mentally exhausted and full and then I go home. I feel like a bum at home because I just feel like crashing. I don't feel sleepy, just mentally tired. Kiddos take a lot out of you...they don't even realize that following the rules would help me tremendously. I feel bad for the teachers I had in middle school. Bless their hearts.

Here is our schedule for this week:

Today-3 services at CLife (I only went to the 11 o'clock, but Casey went to all 3 like usual); Casey is decorating for Dnow starting as soon as the 4:3o service is over...I bet he gets home around 9.
Mondays-Casey is home for about one hour after work until he leaves for his youth CG in Forney. He gets home around 9:15 and we go to sleep at 1o:30
Tuesdays-We have our CG. We leave our house around 6:30 and get home about 9. I also have a two hour meeting after school once a month on Tuesday.
Wednesdays-Casey stays at church all day until after Momentum. He usually gets home around 9:30. I go to this sometimes.
Thursday-This Thursday we have our Dnow kickoff! We are having a Hypnotist come to the church-always really funny. (Thursdays are usually our first free night of the week, but not this time!) Casey will probably not get home until really late (maybe 1am) because they spend this night putting all the kids into houses for Dnow.
Friday-DNOW starts! Chaos begins :) Also, this is Casey's 26th birthday, but we won't be able to celebrate for about another week.
Saturday-DNOW all day
Sunday-last day of DNOW; 3 services; Super Bowl Sunday
Monday-youth CG in Forney again
Tuesday-our CG from 630-9
Wednesday-Momentum, Casey home around 9
Thursday-FIRST FREE NIGHT! OUT TO EAT WITH CASEY'S FAMILY FOR HIS BIRTHDAY!
Friday-SECOND FREE NIGHT! WOO HOO! I am taking Casey out for his birthday (it's a surprise where...he doesn't know and he won't read my blog til then cuz he's so busy! haha!:)

We love Disciple Now! It is super fun! It is also super tiring, and I can't wait for it to be over! :)

Twilight Tonight!

I'm seeing Twilight tonight and I am super excited! I am pretty sure I will reread the first book after this movie :)

I am trying not to get my hopes up because I know there is no way to make a movie anywhere as good as your imagination can make a book that you are reading. The characters won't be like I imagined, and I know that this was a low budget film and cannot possibly be as good as the book. Nevertheless, I am very excited to see it!

Meet the Cullens!

Emmett, Rosalie, Esme, Edward, Carlisle, Alice, and Jasper.

Alice, Emmett, Bella, Edward, Rosalie, and Jasper

TWILIGHT

New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn.

I love them all. I can't help it. I thought I would be an exception. What was I thinking? I was very wrong. Apparently, I am just like all the teenage girls out there. I am not past that. It does make me feel better to know that there are tons of grown women at my school that have read and are obsessed, too.

I started Twilight over the Christmas break, but only read about 40 pages because I was so busy. I had no idea what I was missing. I wasn't deep enough in the story yet, so I could still put it down.

Monday that I got back to school (January 5th), I started reading it again. I read like a madwoman those 5 nights after school until I finished on Friday (the 9th) afternoon. Then I read New Moon starting Friday (the 9th). I finished it on Sunday (11th) afternoon. I got Eclipse that same night and finished it on Wednesday (14th). I got Breaking Dawn on Wednesday night and finished it on Saturday (the 17th)--it was 800 pages, so that was quite the feat! I started reading Midnight Sun yesterday (the 18th) (it is the unofficial 5th book that is only online because it got leaked) and finished it today (19th).

Needless to say, my life has been full of nothing but Edward and Bella. Casey told me that he felt like he hadn't seen me in a while. I looked at him like he was crazy and said, "I have been sitting right next to you!" He replied by saying, "you're there, but you're not really IN THERE." I thought that was really funny.

It's not funny anymore. I told Casey that now that I am done reading I feel like my friends have died. Sometimes I feel like picking up one of the books and rereading just to know they are still there. But, because I am not a crazy person, I refuse to do that.

I think you all know that I am crazy though...based on this post.

I certainly feel crazy.