I got tagged

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!
Ok here it goes. Sorry it is going to end here...because i have no friends at least blogging ones.


THREE THINGS ABOUT YOU!!!

Three Names you go by:
1. Nichole
2. Nic, Cole, Ni-cho-le
3. Mrs. Schrock (this makes me feel old maybe i should try Ms.)
(or if J is around i loose all my identity and we (Adrian and I ) are known as the Schrock's)

Three of Your Everyday Essentials
1. my nalgene bottle filled with water
2. email (I have to check it daily or I feel like I missed something or someone)
3. a conversation with my husband. This is difficult during busy season. He is an accountant.


Three Things You Are Wearing Right Now
1. My wedding rings
2. a cowboy hat (it is spirit week at school)
3. Underwear (This is important. Two kids just started a conversation in school about whether or not people are wearing underwear and what kind. Come on!!! You remember the boxer/brief conversations. Don't tell me you didn't do it. Everyone's done it to kill time at sometime).

Three of Your Favorite Songs
1. Carrie Underwood- Jesus Take the wheel
2. Lenard Skynard - Sweet Home alabama
3. Rascal Flatts - The day before you.
(also anything by Third Day, Jeremy Camp, or many others the list is endless. )

Two Truths and a Lie (in any order)
1. I've thrown eggs at a cop car
2. I've skinny dipped in a lake.
3. I've stole road construction signs and put them in my friends front yard.

Three of Your Favorite Hobbies
1. Photography and Scrapbooking
2. Home decorating and remodeling. I don't think it is really a hobby but I love doing it. I am going to be so excited whenit is all done. But bored too. I won't have any rooms left to decorate.
3. Playing the guitar

Three Things You want to do really badly right now
1. play with my puppy
2. Take a nap
3. get my kids to understand reducing fractions in math class. They just don't get it.

Three Places You want to go
1. AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA, and NEW ZEALAND
2. I'd like to travel through Europe...with a group of friends and stay at those places...what are they called. They are really cheap and dirty i have heard. They are in London for sure. The girl in what girl wants stayed at one. HOSTLES......I was thinging Brothel and new I wasn't right. Come on they sound similar.
3. Netherlands, Sweeden and Norway to see my family heritage and hike the fiords. They are beautiful.

Three Things You Want to Do Before You Die
1. Get my masters degree
2. Have two kids (my dream has always been twin boys...but more and more I am wishing for a girl. That might make it easier, Twins aren't really common in my family)
3. Leave the country....I have never needed a passport for my travels....I really want those stamps in it.

Three people I would like to see take this quiz
All the people that I know blog have already been tagged










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Keep my job or get a new one?

Lately I have been struggling with weather to get a new job. I love the job I do. I just don't think i have the opportunity to do enough. It is so hard after I just got done with a job where there were aspects that I didn't like, to have one that I really enjoy all aspects of. The biggest reason would be MONEY. isn't it always. The thing i struggle with is what is God telling me to do. Lately I have felt like i have been more in his word and less in tune to his voice. I don't know if it is because he is saying the opposite decision that I have been looking for or if I just can't hear him clearly. Then yesterday I went on a blog that I frequently look at and I read a thing about accepting help. I started to think about how this new job came about and it was really a friend suggesting that I would be good at this job. He even checked to see if the company had recieved my resume and how long it would be before I heard whether or not I got an interview. So was this an answer, and I am not accepting the help. Then another friend of mine emailed me a position at Goshen High School. A dream job. But I am not qualified according to Indiana rules. But I could attain qualification and would be willing to if I recieved the position. So what do I do? Who has any ideas? Right now it is in God's hands....I truely believe that. my prayer is that God presents me with only one job possibility and that is the job that I have and keep. God knows what is best for me and my family and I know that he gives me nothing we can't handle. Sometimes I just get in to big of a hurry to fix things. Not necessarily to do it my way but I don't like to see people I love unhappy or suffering. I think you can all relate to that. Sorry this is such a downer. It is simply a struggle right now that I needed some advice on.

an ovarian hysterectomy.....

Adrian and I have been married for 6 months which also makes Macy 5 months old as well. I have no idea what that will be in dog years. Like 3 years old human maybe. She is so stinkin adorable. Yesterday however she spent the day at the vet. She has a bacteria and yeast infection in her ears. Poor thing itches them ferociously it is hard to watch....and when you know how bad an ear infection hurts...you really don't want to stop her either. She now has antibiotics twice a day and had a shot yesterday to reduce her fever. I know she is not a human....but it is scary how similar they are. The vet said this is pretty normal for labs during teething.
At the vet yesterday they also scheduled her for an OVARIAN HYSTERECTOMY....now what ever happened to spaying. Tell me that doesn't sound like she is human. HEHE:)

On Monday night Adrian and I celebrated our 6 month anniversary by me cooking some italian chicken and veggies and Adrian bringing me home flowers. He is so sweet sometimes. I can't wait to see what the rest of the year brings us. So far we have continued to grow together, learned so hard life lessons and just grew more in love with each other each day. It was so sweet of him to come home on Monday at a normal time so we could hang out. Granted we hung out and watched a movie and both fell asleep by about 7:30. We are either really old or extremely exhausted. I loved our evening. Just to have him around that evening was gift enough for me.

GO STEELERS!!!

Well Go Steeler!!! Yesterday was a lot of fun we hung out and watched the game a played some games. My arm kindof hurts today from three games of darts. It was worth it though. I haven't played darts since college. The food was piled high and so delicious too. a great set up for some really strange commercials and a great game.

Plus when we bet on Squares for the game. The Schrock's one two quarters. Yippie.

there are some pictures I will get them to you later.

Nic

Tour of the remodeling

Here goes my tour of of our home....including the renovations. We bought our house in May of 2005. We loved it when we moved in and we still do. We just had some unexpected glitches in our renovation schedule. We new in a few years that we would have to do a renovation on both bathrooms, we just never thought it would be in our first year. We will get to that later. When we first moved our stuff in it looked like the sun had thrown up in our house. There four shades of yellow in our house from the living room to the kitchen, dining hall, to the hallway to the bedroom. Oh how could i forget the bathroom. Just wait you will understand. The first room we tackled was our living room. the funny part about it is that four the first three months it had no furniture. So it was just an empty painted room. At least it no longer looked like baby diarrhea. Come on you can't tell me that those of you out there that have changed a nasty diaper have not seen that color before.



But this is what we have done to the room since we moved in. At the beginning it was just paint that made the change but one week before our big day...our furniture arrived and I was able to decorate. It was a great stress relief from the wedding. This I believe is my favorite room in our house... so far that is. I have some plans for the basement and if it turns out that could end up being my fav.



The next room was interesting. We tackled the dining. room and kitchen. I do need to inform you that under this lovely sponge painted wall is a couple layers of wallpaper. Come on...if you are ever renovating...do it the right way. We are all not on trading spaces and have a two day limit. That is the only reason anyone should paint over wall paper.
It took a week with three people working to get through the four layers. 6 if you count each color of paint as a separate layer. But after the week i decided to texture the walls and then color wash...it was a first for both things. But talk about fun. The texturing is a total aggression release. then the color wash is really a one person job to get it to look the same and you can't stop in the middle. It can be cool but not what you want. My musicians for the wedding stopped in in the middle of the wall. so i had to stop. I have a big vain of dark through the middle of the wall. But it has grown on me. it is just character right.


Well here is the first stage of our remodeling. The third room was done the two weeks before the wedding that will be the next stage with a big Thank you to my dad. He help out a lot on the next stage of renovation.

Who is out there?

So yesterday I had a revelation that there are many people out there that are looking at my blog that I don't know are even there. So I want a reality check. If you stop by even if it is just to look quickly. Post a comment. I want to see who is out there. Leave so encouraging or motivational words while you are there too.

Disturbed

Ok this happened a while ago but something happed yesterday that disturbs me and I need some advice. I have these two boys in my social studies class. We hit it off on day one because during the get to know you time I shared that I loved music from the seventies and eighties. I thought they were joking, but their knowlegde proved differently. Anyhoo....They throughout the first few months of this semester would randomly make comments to me such as:

Mrs Schrock: We decided we are going make a character of you on our Tony Hawk game.
Mrs Schrock: You look very nice today.
Mrs Schrock do you know who aerosmith is? OF COURSE!!! hello.
but the came the disturbing ones.

Mrs Schrock Gary and I decided yesterday that we are going to eat you....we have decided to become cannibles. Gary: "we did."

Then about two weeks ago...I was having a conversation and he mentioned his youth group. So I simply asked what church do you go to? HE responded the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. In my couple of years of youth ministry i had never heard that a church like this existed around here. I have relatives that are Morman, so i was interested in finding out if he was telling me the truth...(he tends to try and see how far he can go adn still have me believe him)....so I asked him what bible he reads....to name some of the books in it. I asked if he new where the tabernacle was located...and I asked him to share with me what he believes. HE really wasn't able to tell me anything that day. So I shared with my friend and the general ed teacher about the situation. I said I didn't really believe him but what if he was telling the truth. I was a little worried I had opened something up that would flash....parent/teacher conferences. Well Zach came back the next day with all this information....he even offered to bring in his bible. OH NO!!!! He new the things that i needed to prove he did go to the Morman church than I googled....Church of Jesus Christ of latter day Saints, elkhart IN.....yep you got it. there was church located right where he said he went. So it has been a couple of weeks since this conversation. But yesterday he brought up his youth group again.

This is where I need your help. I have always been the kind of person who doesn't push my faith on others...but i answer questions when asked based on my beliefs. He shared a story about tipping a girl over in her chair at youth group and how he got in trouble. Well my immediate response was that is not a very Christian thing to do? Ooops he is not a christian? Right now I am praying for him and his family. THis is one question that leads to a bigger question. Have any of you ever been taught or shown anything that helps with how to incorporate your faith into your everyday life. When I was a youth pastor my faith was my life and it was really easy. People sometimes assumed things about me that weren't true, but for the most part it was easy to incorporate my faith. But now I am working through how to do it in a new line of work. Share your thoughts. I don't want to expand...because I don't want to limit your comments.