So here is my faculty shot when I started coaching again in 2007. So young, so naive, and so optimistic!! Lots has changed in 2 years! I graduated (in liberal arts, of all the useful and productive majors available)...that's FYI for Aimee! I got married...again. This time, I am soooooo much happier! My husband GETS me! and that is a challenge for some men. No names mentioned! Also I have a new job in the athletic department of my now Alma Mater, Southern Virginia University. I am the WOMAN. I mean I have an official title, but basically I do all the things that men can't do. Make photocopies, send faxes, figure out invoicing, etc. But I actually love it because of all the POWER I have now. Nothing gets done without just a little help from me. For some reason that makes me feel needed and as a mom, being needed is pretty much what makes us tick. Not that anyone ever admits that...sorry.
So here is a picture of me now that I am happily working and married. Frankly I think the before was a little better, but this is what reaching your goals looks like. I forget why I was in such a hurry!!! Anyway, I really am excited to have a little vacation tomorrow. We are having a Cosgriff family reunion. Just the parents and my siblings and their families. We are going to stay in a big old cabin in Gatlinburg Tennessee. I am really looking forward to some peaceful relaxation. I really do intend on taking lots of pictures. That is never my strong suit, but I am DETERMINED to create some tangible memories this time!! We leave in the morning!!

summer blah blah blah

I am really annoyed. I agreed that Ellie could go to her Dad's for the summer since he moved out West and BOY do I regret it now! Not just for the typical "I miss her" reason although...I MISS HER!! But also because she won't even CALL me!! And of course his voicemailbox is full and so I can't even leave messages! I asked for his address and he won't even give me that. It's so obnoxious!
anyway, I have decided that I don't like the summer-time. Here's why:
1. I am always worried that I am going to have to put on a swimming suit and I will be too pale and fat.
2. I have no students around to get my mind off my own problems and I miss them!!
3. I have too many plans and not enough time or money to do any of them!
4. Work is boring in the summer and I don't feel productive enough.
5. Did I mention Ellie is gone?

So anyway, that's my whine session! yay!

This past weekend my sister Sam, Paul, and I went to a little party with an old high school friend. We hadn't seen this guy in 14 years!! He's been pretty far away. It was weird though. I didn't have anything in common with him anymore and he had all these other buddies there who wanted to drink and jam by the fire. Not our thing. I don't do either.
It was kinda disappointing.
On the other hand, Paul's friend Joey came along with his wife, Tyla and his parents and we had a lot of fun even though I had to work and didn't get to play with them as much. It was the third weekend in a row we got to see the Waxters (Joey's parents) and that made it that much more fun!!

Pretty soon our family is growing...woah woah woah...I am not pregnant or anything! But Paul's brother, Matthew is coming to live with us now that he is home from his mission. This will be interesting. Maybe he and Sam will help each other to be more social...or maybe they will at least have each other to be antisocial with!! ha ha ha!!

I am excited because this weekend we are going to D.C. and staying with Holly and Ben Burningham...They are SOOOO much fun! and we get to hang out with Derek and Cheryl Maggard a little bit while we are up there. We are going to the temple and to a Nationals game and we're going to watch the fireworks from the Mall!! Woo-hoo! Friday cannot get here soon enough!