Bachelor Beckert

Graduation was awesome!!! I keep calling myself Bachelor Beckert. Karl hates it. Something about me not being single.....or a man. 

 Here are some pictures to prove that I made it...

 "Congratulations on participating in the commencement ceremony at Utah State University! Participation in ceremony does not guarantee graduation from the university." Awesome.

Graduation was filled of lots of good family time. My awesome in laws through me a BBQ beforehand complete with amazing burgers, sarah salad (courtesy of my mama), and sheet cake! I loved getting to see my family and even have my grandma & grandpa Hansen come up to celebrate. Shae and Jake stayed with us that night and we got to party hardy! I love my family. 


This whole day I couldn't believe I actually finished. I thought a lot about the people who helped me get here. My parents have always pushed me to do my best, not to mention I could not have survived college without their support. Karl supported me throughout all the craziness of taking on way too much. Man I'm so glad I married a patient guy! 


I have no idea what I'll be doing after this summer, but I'm excited for new opportunities to open up. 

I'm done!!!

Gradjeeatin'

That's right. I be gradjeeatin' this Saturday!!! 

I took my last final on Tuesday and that was that. Graduating from Utah State has a lot of mixed emotions for me. I have loved school. It's one thing I'm actually good at. I could be a professional student if the pay was better. So being done with school is actually kind of a scary thing for me. I have to figure out life. I have to get a job. When Karl goes back to school, I most likely won't be going back with him. It's weird.

But, I am excited to say that I survived college. I've learned so much and I love the major I picked. It's been a pretty awesome ride.

 I met Karl in math 1010. We got married the next fall and both had the worst semesters of our college careers (it got better:) College has been good to me. 

Now, I'll most likely have to dive into the real world, find myself a big girl job, and become Karl's sugar mama for the next little while. I am pretty excited to be at a point where I can start really helping him achieve his goals. We're dreamers. We have big plans that may never happen, but they keep us moving forward. 

Graduating has really filled my mind with lots of random thoughts about life and how just when I get comfortable, everything changes again. I'm starting to like change a lot more than I used to though. Change is good. 

For now, I'm soaking up the last little bit of this week of exciting changes.

Look out world! Here comes Mrs. Tara Julene Beckert with a head full of Bachelors degree knowledge in Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education.

Giddy up!

Love is when....

Love is when your best friend brings your lunch to work because he knows you will forget to feed yourself.

Thanks Karl.

You're my favorite:)

sooooo...............

I couldn't think of a clever post that these pics would actually work in, so I'm doing a random today. But seriously, all my posts are what the random. So I'm doing a normal post!

I could try not to laugh at my own jokes, but seriously I'm hilarious. New favorite joke:
What do you call a psychic midget that just escaped from prison?................................................. A small medium at large!!!

Amen!

We officially have t minus one week until finals week which doesn't really count because I'm done by Tuesday!!!

We officially have t minus three weeks until we are on the road to sweet and sunny Arizona!

Speaking of Arizona, every blogger that I like I find out lives in Arizona. I'm pretty much taking this as a sign!

Exhibit A: I believe in unicorns

Exhibit B: peace love lauren

Exhibit C: busy bee lauren

And the latest one.....

Exhibit D: Living with Fletch

I'm not really sure if they are from Arizona, but they got married in the Mesa temple so that automatically made me follow her blog!

I use exclamation points a lot when I write.

Some other excitingish things happening around here in the last few weeks:

Karl dislocated his shoulder -again- playing ward basketball. At least it wasn't just dropping a golf ball this time:) He got it back in and hopefully we can keep it that way.

My cousin Brynn is coming to visit me tomorrow! I haven't seen this girl in awhile so I'm pumped to catch up.

I have zero desire to finish homework right now. Man I think the end of the semester is gonna be a rough one.

PS22

I heard these kiddos sing today and am totally in love with their sound. Plus, there choir teacher is awesome! They all totally get into the music instead of having to stand stick straight without moving a muscle. Don't get me wrong Ms. M. As much fun as muscle cramps and fear of your choir reign of terror were in high school, this choir would have rocked to be in.




On a different note, school is over in officially two weeks. TWO WEEKS! I am pumped. Only three group projects, three tests, one paper, and one assignment, and end of year senior clinic wrap up until I am done with homework FOREVER! Most likely.

Every Thursday between work and class, Karl takes me to McDonald's for a treat. I love Thursday.

Thursday is also the day of our Psych party with some pretty awesome friends from our ward.

I go to Arizona in four weeks. YAY!

In four weeks, I get to go to my first every pro baseball game. Go Diamondbacks!

I need full time job. Working on that.

The sunshine felt marvelous yesterday. I hope it comes back soon.

I get to go party it up with my fam in the land of cornucopia (bountiful, a lot of) this Saturday!

Come on Friday!

Happiness List

1) Conference weekend! I needed that weekend full of food, family and uplifting words from the leaders of our church. Plus, no meetings for Karl! I got to be with him all day:) That makes me happier than anything.

2) Countdown to graduation has officially reached t minus four weeks!

3) Having a barbecue tonight to celebrate the super beautiful weather.

4) Karl's insurance job turned into an internship! That's pretty sweet:)

5) Being poor has a perk. Tax returns!!! Booya!

6) Going to Arizona right after I graduate! Can't wait to soak up some Arizona sun.

7) This picture:


8) Nobody played an April fools joke lying about me becoming an aunt!!! (Just kidding Nicolie. I'm glad it came true!)

9) Coming up with games for speech therapy. Seriously, communicative disorders rocks as a major. I get to play games with an awesome client twice a week.

10) Sending jokes to Oldungur G. He may not always find them funny, but man I sure get a kick out of 'em.

on my mind

We got to go celebrate a pretty fantasmagorical day with the Beckerts last week. Ms. Tori Elizabeth Beckert got married!!! Now she is Mrs. Tori Elizabeth Reeves! It was such a great day and I loved every minute of it, but I completely loved the temple. There is nothing quite so satisfying as seeing another family member you love make it to the temple. There was an incredible peaceful feeling there all day!



Every time I think of the temple lately, I think of my Anderson family motto: No Empty Chairs. My grandma and grandpa Anderson took advantage of every opportunity to share their testimonies of the gospel of Jesus Christ with us. Family was what mattered most to them and they always said how they want each of us to pattern our lives after the Savior so that when we make it home to Heaven, we get to see each member of our family present. Nobody is left behind, left out, or forgotten.

I love that promise of eternal family. I love that I have been able to start my own family and I love seeing my family grow and grow.

The temple truly is Heaven on Earth and I loved getting to watch my cute sister-in-law and now brother-in-law make promises to each other that will bless them forever.

On a different note.....

It's Spring Break! I'm pumped. I've got senioritis bad. I thought it was bad in high school, but this graduation craving is worse than my chocolate craving, which is surely saying something.

I'm excited that It's finally spring and next week Karl and I are heading down to the land of Bountiful, a cornucopia, a lot of to visit these two stinkers....

We are pretty excited. I never really thought about what it would be like to have all of my siblings grown up, married and scattered all over the place, but sometimes it's hard. I love their spouses super much and love that I get to be an aunt now (that totally rocks), but I do miss getting to hang out with my family on a Sunday, go on weekly walks with my mom, nurf gun wars and water fights, family dinner talks ( oh so many good ones), and lots of other things. Basically family I love your guts and we need to get together again reeeeaaaaallllyyyyy soon because Christmas feels like it was FOREVER ago and I haven't seen any of your faces since then and that frankly bites monkeys!!!

I'm sorry that whenever I blog I seem to rant about nothingness, but here be the thoughts running through my brain and sometimes, it's nice to just get write them out of there.

I'ma gonna keep enjoying this lovely spring day:)

P.S. to self. Sorry to anybody who may be mortified/offended/upset at this link, but I've been laughing out loud at work for the past half hour because of it and I had to share. I love Harry Potter, but this was a pretty funny interpretation:)