Updates

My hope that my life would slow down after Jonas and Tiffany's wedding has been squashed by weekends scheduled to the max and weekdays that also seem to fill themselves with things to do. I've been traveling to my mom and dad's about every other week since August. We went up for my mom's birthday in mid-August, were back the first weekend of September for my cousin's wedding, I was just up again this weekend for the bi-annual Allen ladies luncheon, and we plan on returning the weekend of the 3rd for the Alzheimer's Walk and Josh's birthday. The weekends in between have been filled with catching up on chores, laundry, and grocery shopping. There has been little time for the relaxing, do-nothing all day kind of weekend I've been craving since May.

I started playing Fall Softball last week, and I'm proud to report that the Bad News Bears are 2-0! This is already an improvement over our spring/summer season. We seem to have a pretty good team, I just hope that everyone is able to play each week. We're already threatened by injuries and people who can't commit to playing every week. It really doesn't matter if we win or lose though, since I really just enjoy playing. I like being part of a team again and getting a little exercise. I also enjoy meeting new people. Megan, our team captain, had a birthday/USC party that Justin and I attended, and it was so much fun to be around other couples and meeting new people. I think we need more of that.

This Sunday will be the first time Justin and I will be leading the youth small groups at church. Every other Sunday, the youth group breaks into small groups to discuss and delve into issues that the kids want to address. It's split up between gender and age. Justin is leading the 9th and 10th grade guys with a man from church named Scott. I am leading the 9th and 10th grade girls with a woman named Laney. I only met her briefly at the first meeting, but she is twenty-something and a relatively newlywed like myself. I think she and I will have a lot in common and I think we'll do a great job our group. It would also be nice if she and I were able to strike up a frienship.

Our church is looking to start a young couple's group, and I hope it gets off the ground. I'd love to meet other couples to hang out with. Don't get me wrong, we like the friends that we have, I'm just always open to expand our circle. It would also be nice to meet couples without kids. Even though Justin and I plan to be a couple with kids eventually, right now we are childless and it would be nice to have friends who were also in that position.

It'd also be nice to have friends who were in the same boat as far as trying to get pregnant. My friends that have kids now all seem to have gotten pregnant on accident, so they just don't understand the way I feel or what I'm going through. I have a couple friends from high school that I talk to on facebook about trying and my lack of success, but that can only go so far.

Despite being busy, things are going well right now. The creazyness and hectic pace lead to some pretty fun stuff. I'm excited for Fall to start in full swing and go on into the winter. I hope the fun activities continue, but maybe they could leave a few days in there when I can do nothing :)