Ode to High School & life

Last night I was lying awake in bed at 3am because Logan was tossing and turning (he was fighting off his fever which seems to have gone away by this morning), and I was thinking that I have been graduated from high school 8 years this coming spring. It got me to wondering if someone is actually going to plan a 10-year for our grade. By all means I do NOT want to be involved in it - unless someone asked me to bring food for a meal or something lol but I would absoluetly love to see where everyone is and what everyone looks like 10 years later! It's partially selfish because frankly I want to show off what I've become as well! lol.. married, kid(s), healthier body, etc.

As I lay in bed I got to thinking more about my life and decided that my life can fairly easily to this point to be broken up into different phases. Childhood (phase 1), school age/ high school (phase 2), single life (phase 3), dating life (phase 4), married/family life (phase 5).

I've blogged about this stuff before but as I consider homeschooling Logan I constantly am thinking back to my school experience. Elementary was ok - I was extremely shy, and extremely uncomfortable most of the time - the shyness really aided that. I'm not sure that I would say that it really was beneficial to me or not - being home may have actually helped me more than the actual public system. Junior high was hell. Yup, I gained a crazy amount of weight, lost all my friends to them venturing down different directions, and suffered every amount of emotional pain possible! High school was when I found a huge transition in my and my peers lives - meaning people were starting to grow up a little. I was ever so lucky to meet my bestest friends Jade, Delaney & Tina! If it weren't for them I am not sure what I would have done! 

Phase 2 - Ode to my friends: We had SO much fun together! We went to my church's dances once a month, once I was driving we would regularly go to Edmonton (Rock&Rides! and of course shopping), we just would hang out at usually my home or Jade/Delaney's home, we did the online thing together, and since Jade at the time was dating long distance a guy in Florida, we would entertain ourselves with making home videos to send to 'our boys' down there! (lol Jade - "this is a ga-zee-bo, can you say ga-zee-bo?"). We truly had a great time! We didn't fight, we didn't hold grudges, we had fun, we were all just best friends! I could blog and blog and blog and blog about the good times and inside jokes we share. These people I met and spent time with in highschool were a huge building block in helping me become who I am today.

    

     (Tina, Delaney, Me, Jade)

                                     

Phase 3 - well after high school we all went our seperate ways. I'm sad to say we didn't really keep in touch for a few years. Jade and I have since talked about this and really it comes down to I was indugling in my church life and my friends were experimenting where they wanted their lives to go. So I continued on with where I was going. I full-throttle went into the single's ward and dated, partied, did the school thing, and just enjoyed the single life!

(me and Niki)

Phase 4 - I met Michael :) Best May 11th of my life hehe. Dating/engagement is a completly different ball park then single life. It was also extremely fun and entertaining and enjoyable.

Dating: we took a camping trip to Thunder in the Valley

Yup, he proposed in a snow bank!

Time & All Eternity

Phase 5 - currently in. AMAZING!

My family

One of my most prized blessings in life

As much as I have stated how much fun and wonderful the different phases are, I would never want to lose any of them. Each phase I have felt like I know everything (and of course in the moment I did right? lol), but wow the learning experiences we are faced with are phenominal. When I look at people in their different phases of life I always think that despite how wonderful they were, I would never want to go back because the more we grow the more we learn. I know that means 'aging' but frankly in the last 8 years specifically, the aging process hasn't really been that terrible! And I look at my own mother and she seems excited about life even still - grandbabies, watching her children succeed in various activites, etc. So that gives me hope. As my 10-year mark from graduation high school comes closer I look forward to it because it allows me to look at my life and truly see how happy I am/have been, and how lucky I am with all I have been blessed with.