Life may be crazy

Don't you love waiting games? Not knowing where your going to be in a year? Its sooo exciting right? ... Right.. I'm ready to know where we will be living more permanently. I'm tired :(.

On that note Kyle and I were looking at houses today... for fun of course! Kyle's comment on one house:
"I don't like the way this house looks."
"Why? Is it too new?"
"No it looks angry." hehehehe

After seeing another house I said:
"oh look its so wittle! I just wanna pinch its chubby cheeks!"
"oh I thought you were looking at a baby"
"a baby house!"

and on that note here is a picture of coach in our current back yard:

p.s. the bus is our land lords. He lives in it on the weekends in the summers when he's in the Wisconsin Dells. He is the engineer for the Ducks :)

Neglect

Yes, Sorry, Its been a while. I didn't mean to neglect this blog!

Money is still scary. But life will get better. God will take care of us!

Wedding season is starting to fill up! I have a very long wedding season this year! March-October! Right now all weddings are very spread out, which is nice, but filling in the gaps would be even nicer!

O.K. now for the conversation of the night.

Today is a bad day for this conversation, because the Broncos tanked it. However, Tim Tebow is pretty awesome. I had my thing for Suh until he started kicking people but now I have moved over to the light side. :). I have a little star crush on Timmy Tebow. We were talking earlier tonight how women run out of eggs and it was quite a conversation.

So I'm sitting watching the final seconds of the awful Broncos game hoping that Tebow can pull of a miracle (even though its obvious that not even a miracle can save this game) when I say:

"Kyle, would it be cool if our first two children were with your sperm and then Tebow donated his sperm for our third baby?"

Sorry Tebow, I know its super creepy. Just don't take it that way.

Husband says, "well what if I don't want your eggs?"

"I never said ANYTHING about not wanting your sperm!"

"Well then maybe I will use eggs that I like instead of yours"

"Oh and so your saying you have someone in mind?"

"Well, no."

"'That's what I thought! You never tell me your super star crushes"

"Mia Hamm, Mia Hamm's eggs"

"Really? An athlete? That's what you find important in an egg donor? I guess I'm screwed then."

"Well with you I already have pretty! So I don't need a supermodel or anything. I need athletic"

"Nice Kyle. Nice cover."

Now I had Kyle check over this post to make sure I got it all right and its cool with him that I show the whole world this conversation and all he says at the end is:

"hmmm now I might be second guessing Mia Hamm"

Happy Saturday!

xoxo
-Jenni

Who has a soul?

First a little convo between hubby and me

I was changing into jammies and I went up to Kyle in the office and said
"I really like how low these bottoms sit on the front, I need a bikini like this"
Hubby "O.K."
me "gah! I wish I lived with a girl!!!"
Hubby "Well I'm sorry that I don't have a pair for you to borrow!"

haha like thats what I was looking for :) men :)

I do love him

Anywho, I am still on my search for a millionaire donor who wants to give me an "after graduating" scholarship. Does anyone out there do those? Like, because you are such a good person we are going to give you a scholarship that pays for your student loan payments for 10 years. or even one year really.  For you millionaire, there is a donate button at the way way way bottom of this blog. Please don't be shy.

My FB status today was:

"oh student loans.. if I file bankruptcy will you go away and stop haunting me? jk, but seriously... I want my soul back"

In all seriousness it was an actual thought that crossed my mind today. However people made it resoundingly clear that filing for bankruptcy does not make student loans go away. Someone did bring up that if you die they go away, BUT someone has to file something in order for them to actually go away if you do die.

So this is depressing, no? I will have more cheerfulness to add in the next post I'm sure, but tonight I feel like being a drag. I'm surprised I havent fallen headfirst into the depths of depression because of these loans.

A lot

A lot has happened since the last time I posted. For one thing, I live 20 hours north of where I used to!


Kyle is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coordinator at Woodbury High School, and that is a part time job. He also interns at the University of Minnesota and works in an as needed position at Larson Sports Medicine.

Along with having my own photography business. I am independently contracted through First Day Photo to take photos of newborns in hospitals. I also have a couple interviews lined up for some part time jobs on top of those two jobs. Its hard to think about getting another job because then I will be working 6-midnight most nights and Kyle and I will never see each other.

But with Kyle working 3 jobs he can't take on any more and we need to figure out how to be able to pay those lovely student loans! They really do make life depressing.

My goal/limit for weddings next summer is 15 weddings, I have booked two already! If there are more weddings scheduled for fall and winter that would be great too, but 15 is all I am committing myself to for May, June, July, August, and September.

Prayers are appreciated as the ever looming date of student loan payments closes in. Also, if you feel so inclined, donations are also accepted hahaha ..bahahhah.. but seriously, there is a link at the bottom of the blog. :P

Kyle and I have had a little fun though this summer. We were able to go to the Scholten Family Reunion, Kyle competed in a strong man competition, my sister Heidi and my nephew Elliott visited, and we have moved to Minneapolis!

Love you all so much!

-Jenni

There are monsters under the bed

Ever since I can remember I haven't been able to sleep with a limb of mine off of the surface of the bed.

 I am always scared that some type of green, scaly, warty hand is going to come up and grab me.

 But I was thinking the other night, so what if it did? Where is it going to take me? It doesn't have to be a scary bad awful place, it could be wonderful with rainbows and clouds and softness and happy times.

So I tried to reach my hand to the side of the bed then all of the sudden that happy cloud face changed...

I'm never testing that theory out again...

Austin Trip

To see pictures go here! http://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.536987536619.2030628.110800292&l=cca5e5ec00 





I’m riding in the car back from a short-lived vacation in the green, lush, hill country
of Texas as depression attempts to roll over me. The corners of the sky are turning
a dull red-brown as the wind kicks up the dust from this expansive wasteland. Dirt
glides across the road just like snow did in northern Iowa on some of the coldest
nights. We even have the pleasure of crossing paths with a couple of friendly
tumbleweeds.

I know what its like to live in a place that some outsiders hate. They don’t
understand how I could love small town life, how I could love being so far from the
city, or how I don’t get mani-pedi’s every few weeks. So I know my words sting,
West-Texan’s, and for this I apologize. It is different when you were raised here
among friends and family and this is all you know. God knows I think the rolling
hills of golden corn are one of the most beautiful things on earth. I was also raised
among green lush old trees and humidity; this is probably why brown, dry, and
geographically stunted is so difficult.

The flat brownness that is West Texas seems to attempt to squeeze the life out of
my soul. Especially when driving into it from Austin. If the land had a face, then in
San Antonio it would be grinning from ear to ear. But, sadly, as you travel northwest
the face slowly falls into boredom, then a deep grimace. Or maybe this is just my
face. Thankfully I have my husband next to me singing the new Ke$ha song, Blow,
from the point of view of a monkey. Nothing could ever be sad with this man around.
Even on this plateau of nothingness, I am happy.

We have experienced so many wonderful things during our time in Texas. We know
what it is to live on love and we are very good at getting creative to have fun. All of
our trips we have made while living here have had cheap if not free housing. We
have seen the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta, a lonely ranch in Oklahoma, plenty of
trips home, rugby games in many different cities, the Alamo in San Antonio, the
super cool building that looks like an owl in Austin, and so much more. Being 15
hours from home has been hard, but we have made it work, paid our dues, and now
we are moving closer.

Soon I will be sad to leave the flat land that is Lubbock. I will be leaving my job, my
friends, and my church. Luckily most of my friends are just here for school as well,
so I know we would have had to part ways eventually. One thing I have to admit is
that I am thrilled to be living in the North soon. I am full of joy to soon be so close to
my cousins Sarah and Dustin. I am excited to be able to enjoy all that is Minnesota
and to live so very close to my family and my beloved nephew.

The Green and Purple Grapes

This joke was told to me this weekend by my friend Paige. I thought I would share it with you through a comic strip that I drew. Enjoy!