SPRING BREAK!!!!!!

Well, last week was a hellish week. I got swamped with work, but I finished almost all of it (the important stuff anyways) and came out with relative success I think. But long story short, after lots of work and not much sleep (pulled another all-nighter) it is SPRING BREAK!!!!

I am just staying at home and I could not be happier. Although my road trip with my parents was a lot a fun last year, I just need a week to relax. And truly relax. No one else is around, which is sad in some ways, but in others, it's kind of great because it will keep me from busying my break away. I truly do not remember the last time that I really just got to relax for an extended period of time. It has been a LONGGGG time.

Spring Break, thus far, has been amazing. Friday, after Stacey came and helped me finish cleaning the room, I headed home where Stacey, Marissa, and Livia met me. We had a girls night and it was SO. Much. Fun. We spent a couple hours on my bed just talking/giggling/laughing/reading my 7th grade journal etc... It was wonderful. I laughed to the point that my abs started cramping. Then we were headed to go to eat when I got stopped by an intense MSU vs. Purdue basketball game. I had to go watch it upstairs with my mom because my friends were making fun of my intensity. After MSU sealed a victory, we went into East Lansing and got Chinese at 9 pm from this place with a pushy, but very generous Chinese woman. Then we went to Bubble Island only to find that it closed at 10. So we went to WalMart and managed to spend over an hour in the store, picking out ribbons and ice cream. How that takes over an hour, I'm not sure. But we made it so. We came to my house and ate cookies and cream and chocolate fudge brownie ice cream straight from the carton while we made some headbands (for our craft time that is a necessity for every gathering). I know have green, tye-dye, and a blue zebra headbands to put on my not-headband-friendly-shaped head. We watched (500) Days of Summer, but all of us but one (Mariss) fell asleep.

On Saturday, we were supposed to leave at 1, but we didn't end up waking up until 1, so we all rushed and got ready and left a half hour late but ended up only being 10 minutes late (I may or may not have broken the speed limit. A lot.) It was me and my girls, my sisters, my parents, my niece and nephew, and my brother-in-law. Stace and Marissa said that my competitiveness makes more sense in the context of my family. My niece's game was rather ridiculous. The girls they were playing were over-aggressive (throwing elbows, wrestling to the floor, blocking like football players to clear the way for fast breaks, etc) so all the Lehman women had a hard time keeping it under control. Kacie's team tied, but I would argue that they definitely would have won had the refs known how to blow their whistles. I know it's 5th grade girls basketball, but when three girls have to be taken out of the game because they're crying because they've gotten elbowed in the face (and no foul was called, mind you) Kelsey and Kris and Kathy and Karol get a little frustrated and let their mouths go a little too much, despite attempts at silencing with suckers and pen caps. I think my friends were entertained to find that I'm not the only one. That, and both Chuck and my dad kept composed just fine. "It's just a game" to them. I love my family. JD's team lost, but it was still fun to watch him. After the game, me and the girls drove to Meridian Mall, blasting and singing/dancing to music, ranging from Britney Spears to Ella Fitzgerald to Kei$ha to Regina Spektor, and then we ate some food, tried on some dresses, and were exactly the type of customers that store clerks hate: lookers but not buyers. Though I did buy a cute scarf. After Meridian, we headed to Bubble Island. They did not have any mochi ice cream. I was very sad. We headed back to my house and got a round of Euchre in (Liv and I sort of dominated) and then they all headed out. But seriously though. I forgot about how wonderful girls nights can be. Laughing. Singing loud in the car. Eating ice cream straight out of the carton (and demolishing at least two quarts, I might add). Talking about boys without actually being with any. Watching movies. Trying on dresses. Being girly. It was great. I love those girls. I just feel so comfortable with them! Great start to Spring Break for sure.

Since then, I have mostly been being lazy. I slept from 11:30ish until 12 today, and took two 2-hour naps today on top of that. There is some sleeping drug in my couch, I swear. But it feels WONDERFUL! I hung out with Kacie and JD a bit and went with Mom to drop them off. We anxiously watched the NCAA bracket announcements today, and MSU was the 5th to last team announced out of 68 teams. They got a 10 seed. Not horrible, but I'd be very surprised if they make it out of the first week of the tourney. Then my mom and I headed over to the church to sort through leftover bagels and sweets that Panera's gives to my church every week. So I got a bag full of bagels and cookies and scones from Panera for free :) Thank God for Lent. There were a LOT of sweets leftover...

Well now I am off to either watch a movie or go to bed. I haven't decided yet. But so far, Spring Break has been better than I could have imagined.

Photo Challenge
Day 09 - A picture of the person who has gotten you through the most



My mother is such an amazing woman. I hope to get as many of her characteristics as I can. She has gotten me through so much, even when I didn't want her to or didn't want to admit that she was right about things that I really didn't want her to be right about. Or even when I didn't realize I was in something to get through. She is such an amazing, strong, woman of God and I hope I can be even half as incredible as she is. Sounds super sappy, but there is not a person in the world I respect more than my mother. I am very thankful to God for that. She's a pretty incredible lady.