The Beginning

Hey!!

Whew, my first blog. How exciting! I never thought I would do this only because I dont like talking about myself! BUT I dont think that's what a blog is. I believe a Blog is sharing everyday situations, problems, stories, moments, memories and most importantly sharing feelings to anyone who wants to read about them. It makes me a little nervous because maybe my blogs wont spark interest to some... thats  okay! I dont expect everyone to be like OH YEAH... this is awesome to read. So I decided that out of all of this:

 I hope to vent and release any stress by writing these blogs and if at any point during this adventure someone likes what I write or share comments with me, that would be awesome!

I want to summarize my life in a very short paragraph to update you... to how I got... where I am today. (i hope that makes sense) I am engaged to my high school sweetheart Ty Taylor-we started dating our sophomore year in high school. (mishawaka high school) we both went to IUSB-both went for 3 yrs there. Ty transferred to Ball State University and graduated w/ geological sciences. (GO TY!) and I intended to take a semester off. When I did this, I had to pay back my student loan for that semester before I could go back. This kind of thing ruined me, because I really wanted to graduate college and I was already on the slow track to graduating. SO I did pay back my student loan... it did take a year and a half but I did it making min. wage! What next? I was determined to go back to school. BUT the big question was WHERE ?!

Ty proposed to me on Christmas morning 2008 (WHOA WHO!) and it was the happiest moment of my life! We didnt have a date set for a really long time because our future was so unpredictable. Ty was waiting to hear from graduate schools. Ty got an email from CLEMSON (on april 1-go figure lol), accepting him into not only grad school, but he received a teaching assistantship! (school pays him-he teaches geology labs) When not getting a lot of answers from other schools he decided on CLEMSON! SO... my next move?

I applied to Clemson and was accepted on May 14th! One of my greatest accomplishments! (getting into Clemson is a whole story itself-but maybe brought up in a future blog!)

SO here we are today. Ty and I live in Central, (which is like 2 mins away from Clemson) South Carolina.
It has been 3 weeks since we both started school...its challenging! All of this is new to us and I think we are adapting well.

Finally, we got to set a date for our wedding. January 1, 2011 (1/1/11) I think its the coolest date ever! haha :)

now that I said all that... I can begin this thing called "blogging"

xoxo Alicia