Home!

So as many of you know, I flew home to surprise my family over the weekend :) It was a very short trip, but so worth it! And I know you're wondering now... how in the world did she make that happen? No, I did not just buy myself a ticket home. That's a little bit out of my monthly budget :)

My aunt Teresa is a new flight attendant and gets a certain number of free flying privledges each year. She had texted me the weekend before and asked if I'd like to fly home for a weekend. Obviously I said YES!! We anxiously watched the "loads" over the next week because I would be flying standby and could only go if there were enough seats. There were plenty of open seats on the "to seattle" flight but only 10-12 on the return. And if I didn't make the return on Sunday I'd be in big trouble. I can't miss any of my monday classes, and I had an exam this morning that I could not miss. Thankfully, it all looked good friday morning so off to the airport I went!

The Piehler's picked me up from the airport and took me to Suzy and Steve's house since I knew my family wasn't home. (Although I had told them I wanted to "skype" at some point friday night haha) Suzy knew I was coming, steve didn't... and his face was so great!! They took me back to my house where we waited for mom and spence to come home. I ended up just calling her and listened to her talk about her day etc. while I just tried not to burst out laughing :) I finally heard the garage door and after a few minutes of anxious waiting, I decided to just walk into the garage. I will never forget the looks on their faces!!!

We had a great day Saturday. We went up to the bellevue club to work out, had lunch at a yummy restaurant in bellevue (520 bar and grill, highly suggest it), spent some time down at the landing (bought some mittens and gloves to take back to school with me! Course, now it's like 70 degrees again), and finished out the evening making cake pops and a yummy ravioli dinner! Suzy and steve joined us for dinner and cake pops and we watched golf all night long :) It had been wayyyyy too long since I'd watched tv of any kind, let alone golf! I loved it!

Then up early and back to the airport sunday! It was a great weekend and I was so blessed to be able to spend some time with the fam! Thanks Teresa!!

This week is busy as well... I just finished my spanish literature exam. It went really well! The rest of today is dedicated to calc... that exam is tomorrow night. Then I'll have a spanish composition to prepare for, for friday and that 20 page paper due next tuesday. BUT THEN I'LL BE BACK HOME!!!

Looking forward to seeing all my friends next week :) NEXT WEEK! YAY!!