Photo Booth Friday--October 19

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Photo Booth Friday

October 19

TODAY WE HAVE: 

My sweet cousin Genevieve!

Here are a couple of cool things about Gen: 

Cool Thing #1: Gen makes the BEST cookies EVER....seriously legit. Could eat em all day everyday best part is she shares.

Cool Thing #2: This picture was not taken at the wedding. This is a pre-wedding picture from when she came out to help us out. Thank you for all your help making our dream come true Gen, we CANNOT wait to return the favor to you someday.

Cool Thing #3: This girl is not only cute, but she is beautiful, and lovely, and FUNNY, and sweet, AND has one of the biggest hearts on the planet, and she shows it to EVERYONE she meets. One of the things that I love the most about this girl is that she can make you laugh one second and the very next second she just melts you to a pile of mush because she has such a beautiful kind soul. Gen- I hope that you recognize all of these things about yourself---when times are tough remember that all of this is WHO YOU ARE deep down inside. You truly are a gem!

Cool Thing #4: She is my god-sista....Holla

Cool Thing #5: Remember all those nice things I said above well she really is all those things BUT she also grew up with 4 older brothers (who are EQUALLY as wonderful) but man are they tough....Don't mess with this girl she can certainly put your sorry ass in place ;) 

And thats it!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!

One reason I love my job...

So today we started talking about depression

simple day really 

The students had to do a little background reading and answer SIMPLE questions

on what depression is 

how it can be treated

yada yada yada. 

SOOOOO

The students were working and I was doing my millionth lap around the class to check in with kids and monitor progress and then....

I saw them 

A group of chatty boys

 whacking each other 

with their pencils. 

Sooooo 

I swiftly made my way over and said

"Does the article say that using your pencil as a weapon has anything to do with depression? I must have missed that in the article"

To which they replied

the classic

"____ started it first" and "It wasn't me"

classic. 

SOOO I replied

"Alright, I want to see what you have gotten done"

To which they replied..

"We are ALL done Mrs. Whipple" 

And then I found this on their paper...

to which they replied

"Get it? Mrs. Whipple 7 kids don't get depressed"

Which indicated that they did NOTHING but think of really sarcastic answers to really bad questions.

SOOOOO

I gave them my stern your in trouble face

and then I

took the paper so I could "keep it as evidence"

Because God knows I couldn't whip out my phone and take a picture right then and there! That TOTALLY had to wait till later.

CAUSE lets just be honest

THAT IS FUNNY and sortof CLEVER! 

In other news....

I am back to my more natural hair color now

which I can't really remember what that looks like but I think I am close

 see?...dark

Got me my first deer with my vehicle the other night

No car trauma...

Just emotional trauma

I cried big blubbery tears

You would think that I would be used to hitting things with my vehicle by now..

~nope~

still gets me 

EVERYTIME!

I just made a joke 

about something not funny

shame on me. 

Justin and I have really grown together as a couple over these past few months 

for example 

we had a conversation that went a little like this...

Justin: "I think that I am officially a coffee drinker"

(this is after almost six years of persistently denying coffee) 

Carrie: Ohh really?

Justin: Well, I've been taking a mug with me to work everyday, and yesterday I didn't have my mug. I actually got in my truck and drove to McDonald's to buy a cup of coffee

~and I was all like~

Carrie: (crying) "this is the happiest day of my life"

Because lets face it that is AWESOME!

And last but certainly 

NOT LEAST!

 I kept hearing everyone talk about this

Starbucks pumpkin spice latte

and I couldn't understand what all the buzz was about

until I tried it

It blew my mind. 

It was like pumpkin pie (good)

and latte (awesome)

all mixed together as one

AMAZING

Photo Booth Friday---October 5

Photo Booth Friday---October 5- from last week when I didn't post

When I first started this post I was going to dedicate it to my big brother Adam...thinking that it was his Birthday and how cool is it that Photo Booth Friday falls on his birthday?

But then I realized three things:

1. Adam did not get in the photo booth......LAME

2. Adam's birthday in November 5 not October 5. Eric's birthday is on October 26. And it took me as long as it did to type this to figure that whole thing out...

3. Eric's birthday falls on a Photo Booth Friday which is awesome except he didn't get in the photo booth either.....LAME

oey 

Anyways...today 

Photo Booth Friday today is all about....

 My handsome Hubby and his best friend Chris Weber...

 Here are a few cool things about Chris Weber and my Husband together....

Cool thing #1: They have been great friends since they were little. And if Justin tells a story about growing up more often than not Chris Weber is involved. 

Cool thing #2: One time they found a body together....I'm not joking. Its the story that Justin told me on our second date which for whatever reason did not scare me away. But they did, they found the body while fishing in a creek by their houses. The story behind it is really sad and that is not the point of photo booth Friday but what I can say is that they did help close a door for a family that was anguishing for years and years

Cool thing #3: These two built what Justin calls the "Love shack" when they were like 12. Which was a legit small house at the bottom of his parent's hill. They found old barn wood, telephone poles, anything you could think of to put it together.  They even installed a wood stove. It's still standing 15 years later.

Cool thing #4: They have kept in touch for so many years despite being hundreds and hundreds of miles away. I feel like when they talk and are together it is like they haven't skipped a beat. Justin is lucky to have a friend like Chris- and now so am I.