ABC'S of 2011

A~ Aunt Stephanie ( in October I became a Aunt)

B~ Bridal Shower & Bachelorette Party

C~ Carving Pickman pumpkins

D~Double Feature (While on our honeymoon we watched two movies back to back. Kung fu Panda 2 and Bridesmaids)

E~

F~

G~ Great Grandpa Frank passed away a week before our wedding

H~ Hot Air Balloons (Mom, dad and I got up early one day and we spent all day looking at hot air balloons)

I~

J~ June 20 my Sister in law got married.

K~ Keepsake By Stephanie (I started my own photography Business)

L~

M~ Mrs. Stephanie Archer ( I finally married my best friend

N~

O~

P~ Penguin and Pancakes (For our first Christmas I got tickets to a event at the zoo at the ended I got a chance to pet a penguin)

Q~

R~River Adams ( my niece) October 18

S~St. Louis ( we went their for our honeymoon)

T~Turtle park (Park in St. Louis with these big Turtles)

U~

V~

W~

X~

Y~

Z~Zune HD (my zune broke so I ended up getting a new one)

ABC of 2010

A

Birthday (Travis and I celebrated our 21st bdays)

Carving pumpkins (Turtle and a penguin)

Decorating our apartment for the holidays

Engagement pictures

First apartment(July 29, 2010

Guacamole ( is the name of one of the trolley from Ollie the trolley)

Hand Fasting (pagan wedding I had the pleasure over the summer to take pictures of this couple renewing their vows)

I

Joe & Cassandra wedding June 25,2010

K

L

MaKinley Crystal Koedam December 6, 2010 (my Best friends Second Baby)

N

Orpheum (where My mom and I got to see Mama Mia and Beauty and the Best)

Pot hole( I hit a major pot whole and dent my ream pretty bad)

Q

Road trip (we took a 30 min road trip to this place called Bob's Bar yummy hand burgers)

Sophira Renee Munsen December 4, 2010 ( My cousin Holly first baby)

Tunes (Travis made me a stuff animal for valiantness day this year)

Union pacific (Omaha and Council bluffs had rail road)

V

Wedding Dress(I picked out my wedding dress back in Febuary)

X

Yikes (we had five bats in our apartment)

Z

Take another picture with your click, click, click, click camera...

Starting February 1st I started a picture a day for a whole year. I am keeping them all on shutter cal. I am going to try to post everyday and I will put the link up. As you can tell I am keeping my challenge with the music tittles. Some of my pictures for one a day is my assignments for my photograph. I will write to you later.

Peanut AkA: Stephanie

Link to one a day: http://shuttercal.com/calendar/ilovetra15/

ABC of 2009

I don't have all of them filled in but when I get one I will post it.

Anniversary 50th Uncle Don and Aunt Shirley

Baby (Taevyn Jean Koedam~Travis and Kayla Koedam)

Car named Emzie

Driver's liences

Engagement to Travis

F

G

Heart engagement ring

Ice cream (Ben and Jerry's Ice cream Shop)

Julia Childs (I am in loved with this women)

Kotter ( i got the first season of welcome back, Kotter on dvd)

L

M

Northwest Iowa community college

Owl City( LOVE THAT BAND)

Publication (Iowa Book)

Q

R

St. Louis and got to see penguins up close :)

Tires I had to get all new tires on my car

U

Visit from all m cousin on my mom side

W

X-Ray ( I got my second x-ray in my life)

Yes word I told Travis After he proposed

Zune 120GB

P.S. My blog is decatied to my 21st birthday. Check out the music. I think I did pretty good with them.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes time may change me but I can't change time!

Hello world!!!!!!!!!! It been awhile. For some reasons David Bowie song Changes came through my head. And it gave me a Idea I am going to challenge my self every time I post the title it has to be a song. So, their is a lot of changes happening. Travis and I moved up to our wedding date to May of 2011. We don't know the date yet since we will graduate in that month from college. WOW! Time flies, summer is almost over. I have a lot to do in the next week and a half. August 15 I move to my new dorm room at NCC. I know I didn't post on this. But I am changing college's and I am going to NorthWest Iowa Community College. For photography, in April after we got engaged we went up to NorthWest to visit and to see if I should go to this school. The minute we went to see their photography program I knew this was me. So I finished everything I need to do to get accepted and Finlay June 6th I found out that I got accepted. BIG SMILE!! So that is a big change.

Here is another tomorrow I will be taking my drivers test up at Logan. And tomorrow night I might be a car owner. So who knows what tomorrow will bring for me. I just can't believe their is a lot of changes. It insane. But I will adjust like I always do. So I will talk to you later world and goodnight to everyone.

Love
Stephanie aka peanut

P.S. Happy Birthday Mom you are the best and I am blessed to have you as my mom. I hope you had a good day. I love you. So Happy Birthday to you. From your peanut.

Five years togeher

I am so happy!!!!!.    So yesterday Travis and I celebrated our five year annivarsy of being together.  Can you belive, because I can't.  So we where going to go have a picnik but it rained so we had it in dorms with rose petals everywhere in my room.  After that we went to palmares cany company.  And we bought a lot of candy.  Which we really should of gotten.  So we went back to my dorm.  Which we just hang out and fell a sleep.  I woke up it was six a clock and he said the sweetest thing "hi bright smiles."  He so sweet I love hearing that.  After that we went to thing to remeber to get his presant.  I got him a pocket wacth.  I will post more on that later.  So we left and we had to wait today to pick it up.  We went to Olive Garden for dinner.  Which was really yummy.  Then we went came back here and he walked my up to my place and then he went down to the car to get my presant...........

I am getting married

Travis asked my to marry him And of course I said yes.  So I didn't know that he was going to ask me yesterday.  I knew he was going to ask me someday but I figured it was a long time from now.   He came back up with my present.  It was a big huge box's.  Everyday since April 1st he has given me a post card.  I already got one that day so I didn't think anything about it.  In this big box he borough in their was a post card.  On the front of the post card had a penguin jumping of the cliff.  On this post card it said  "Hey you, Happy Anniversary Bright smiles.  I hope its going great.  I talked to your parents last night, and they want to have a talk with you tonight.  Baby, will you be like the penguin on this card, and take the plunge with me?"  Then he pushed me back a little but.  I still didn't understand and took the ring box out of his back pocket and kneeled down on the ground and Said "will you Stephanie will you be like this penguin on the postcard and take the plunge with me Stephanie Nicole Springer will you marry me?"  Of course I said yes I was screaming it and crying.  I was so happy.  I finally calmed down enough to call my parents.  We know the date we want and that is April 14, 2012.  But we just don't know if we graduate on time.  If we do graduate on time that is the date.  We also decide on our wedding colors Black, Red, and Silver.  And It is going to be at my church in Pisgah.  I want to have a night wedding.  I want the Church to be let up in candle lights or twinkle lights.  

I am venting

I am in love with the Vermont white Cheddar Wheat thins.  They are my new favorite ting.  I went to walmart tonight and we went to the cracker isle and I was looking for them.  I found them, what they only have the Wisconsin coldy they sold out of the Vermont one.  They had nine boxes of the Wisconsin colby.  Ok, I will try them maybe I will like them.  I have only had one cracker and I can see why their is still a lot on the self.  So know I am sad because I really like the Vermont ones.  I mean I really like them.  They are my new favorite thing to have.  Well, I had to vent.  I will talk to you later.  

Love

Peanut

Twilight

I want you to know what time it is.  It is 9:36 and I am awake. I didn't get to sleep until 2:30 ish. Because I was watching Twilight.  First off I want to Wal-Mart you can't trow a party.  Although I got my dvd right away I got before the clock hit 12:02.  That how fast it was and I was like 20Th in line.  But it was fast.  We stand ed in a line for a hour.  I guess line end by the toy section.  They had a little both area was where all the purses and belt are, that was all for twilight you couldn't go look and see.  You had to stand in line for a hour.  I want to also say I am not a huge crazy fun of twilight. But I do like read and watch the it.  I was scared that later in the day be will be buy it like crazy and I couldn't get a copy of it and I didn't pre order it.  So we went at midnight.   

Happy St. Patrick's Day

I got new cloths

I went shoping and I some new shirts on clearnce and I really like that them.  So tellme what you think.

Floyd Monument

The twelve years that I have leaved in Iowa I have never gone and seen this monument.  I lived a hour away from it for almost eleven years.  For Almost two years now I lived five minutes away from it.  I always tell Travis I want to go see it when we pass by it from the interstate.  He says yeah theirs nothing much to see.  He got a GPS system two weeks ago and we been testing it out on town take to place we now how to go.  We found out we where going to these places wrong.  We went to Wal-Mart in Singinghills last Thursday and it took us right on Floyd Ave.  Right where the exit is.   Then today we went that way to Wal-Mart he said do you want to stop.  Of course I said yes and I even had my Camera.  I hope you enjoy the photos.  Love you all.  

Love

Peanut

New Style

I HAVE BANGS!!  I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing I havn't decided.  Travis likes it but I think he is just saying that.  Well tell me what you think.  I love you all.  Talk to you later

Love

Stephanie aka peanut

ABC's 2008

Last Friday Travis mom came to visit and she gave me a good idea. She is making a year 2008 scrapbook for her Niece and Nephew. She had them wright down what their ABC's and what letter it stand for in 2008. So I though I would do that and this is what I came up with so far. I have five yet to go.

All that jazz(my mom and me went to Chicago)

Beijing
Chill (my penguin)
Ds (my Nintendo system)
Edward Cullen (I fell in love with the Twilight series)
Five Cakes (my roommates and two of our friends made five cakes)
Guitar hero (Travis and I got hooked on it)
Hersheys (We went to the Hershey factor)
Ice cream (we went to DQ a lot in the summer)
John Lennon( I got hooked on to Beatles music)
Kayla and Travis Wedding
Little Sioux Tornado(Boy Scout Ranch)
Mall of America (First time I have ever been to the Mall of America
New York( I got to go to New York, New York This summer with my Boy Friends Family)
O
P
Quillo (I got a music blanket for Christmas, I love it. It is a blanket that turns in to a blanket)
Raviolis( Travis cooked raviolis from scratch)
Statue of Liberty(it was so cool)
Tiger Umbrella(Travis and me went to the zoo for his birthday and it was raining. So we got a umbrella)
U
Voting (my first time to vote)
W-alle (my favorite movie)
X

zune shut down ( December 31 all first generation zunes shut down they wouldn't turn on)

Deck the door with boughs of holly

Sunday afternoon Travis, Jackie and Me spent decorating Jackie's and I door.  We had a door decorating contest on Monday.  Well Wednesday we Finlay found out that WE WON.  Jackie and I each got a $25 dollar gift certified for best buy.  WoOt WoOt!  I door was awesome.   I hope you enjoy.  Love you guys

Love

Stephanie

New Me!!!

On Tuesday the 19Th I was really busy.  I woke up got ready.  Then I had to do my math homework for Friday.  Travis got of at work at nine, then we head off to Wal-Mart.  We got our hair cuts.  Then we went to get food for dinner and then I picked up "The Sisterhood of the Travailing pants.  Then we went to HuHots, yummy yummy.  We tried something new they had for desserts.  S'mores, they bring this Stone plate with Hersey's chocolate, marshmallows and Graham crackers.  With a small iron cup for the fire.  You got it we got to roast our marshmallows.  After that we went to Best Buy to get drum..... roll..... Wall-E.  Then Around five cooked dinner had a indoor picnic while watching Wall-e.  Well I got to go pack.  I love you all.

Love

Stephanie

Stephanie Springer Reporting for Western Iowa Tech Weather!!

My roommate Jackie and I have been talking at 11:13 we went our separate ways, she was going to bed and I was going to finish watching a movie with Travis.  Twenty minutes later I hear my name, I asked Travis if he heard it and he said no.  Then I heard Stephanie go look out youwindow.  So I did and it took me awhile to figure it out that that that it was......................SNOW!!!  You got it our first snow fall.  YAY!  After I yelled snow Jackie did her grumbling and saying that she hopes it stops.  I came in my room and took the screen off my window and open my window, took take pictures.  My boyfriend didn't think it was a smart idea.  So he was holding on to my pants loop.  So hear are the pictures I took.  They are dark, and I am sorry.  I hope you enjoy them.  I am going to go finish that movie and say goodbye to Travis.  Bye Bye.  

P.S. Chill is a sleep right know but I know in the morning she is going to be THRILLED!!!!!!!!!!!!

So keep a eye out on hers.

Breaking in the new kitchen!!!

My room-mate Jackie

Vanessa and Katie

Brent and Jose

Jackie was beating up the Butter Fingers and brent was beening shake

Three weeks ago my current suite mate.  She is one of  my best friend.  She came up to my old suite to visit and eat cake.  Well I wasn't there so her and my old room-mates had fun without me.  As Jackie was leaving with Vanessa two guys stopped her and asked her what’s for desert.  So she gave them some.  Ever since we moved her Monday they had been bugging her.  We were talking to my old roommates which are right next door to Jackie and I.  Any ways, we where talking to them and they had their door open.  Well the two guys that got the cake stop by.  When they realize Jackie was their they kept  chanting  "cake cake cake.  Well Wednesday Jackie and I went to Wal-Mart to get the ingredients.  Jackie and me went to the school cafe, as we were trying to get in her car.  The two guys seen us and parked right behind her car and kept screaming cake.  And we were going to make one big one, two little ones and my heart shape pan for Travis.  Well Katie and Vanessa decided we need to make one more.  So we had a totally of five cakes.  So we cooked all of them we started and we didn't finish until eleven.   We had a lot of people be sides Brent and Jose (the two guys that teased Jackie.)  Our housing manger Steele and his brother even came up and had some.  It was a lot of fun and I hope you enjoy.

Love,                                                                                                                                      

Stephanie

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!

If you are reading this you may be thinking "OH MY GOSH."  It is OK, I deserve that.  So don't pass out yet until you finish reading this.    

For one I moved into the "New not done dorms” at Western Iowa Tech, on August 17th.  The 20Th I started my second year.  But in am still kind of a freshman.  Last year second semester I was sitting in Graphic Design listing to how you have to come out with this great advertisement ads etc.  It wasn't what i want to do.  I want to be a photographer and I was just not happy.  So I am taking my Generals to transfer to Morningside College in the fall of 2009.  Classes are going OK.  They are classes.  I am struggling in my German.  But I will get a hang of it soon.  I am taking two classes at school, German and Basic Math.  As of right know I am taking two classes online but tomorrow it going to be one.  For the last three weeks I been really struggling with this teacher and today it just got worse.  Their no way I can pass it know.  So it won’t hurt my GPA I am dropping it.  I don't want to because i am really not a quieter.  There are times I give up for a while but I get right back to it and get it right.  So I am not really happy about that. But oh well.  At least I am going to have more time to hang out with my friends.  I really couldn't do that before.  The class I drop was World Religion, Environmental Sciences is my other online class.  The new dorms are almost done.  We are moving Monday Night.  I guess I am on the third floor with Jackie.  I think, we really don't know.

On the same day that I moved to Western Iowa Tech, that night I had my first photography job.  A good friend of the family's had an open house, and I asked me to take pictures for her.  I am not really impressed with my work.  For my first job it wasn't to bad.  I know what I need to work on next time.  DeDe the lady i took the pictures for she seems to really enjoy them.  Speaking of jobs I have a job interview at 3:00 today for sears photo center.  I am so nervous.  

On Labor Day Travis and I went to Pameria Bread to get bread bowls.  And we went to Bacon Park for our picnic.  It was really windy and there was a bee.  After that we watched a movie and he went to his dorm to do homework.

September 17, my mom and me went to go see Chicago.  It was so awesome.  I think it was better then Rent.  Chicago was so funny.  I am glad my mom came with me and I am glad she enjoyed it.  The stage had a awesome setup.  The band was actually on stage.  It was really cool.  It was really really close to the movie.  

September 29, at 4:00 I moved into my new dorm room.  I really went for a upgrade.  I am in a RA suite.  No, I am not in a Ra suite.  I want to share a living area with her and this was the only why I could be.  We both have our own bathroom and bedrooms.  Every one has their own bed room but not their own bathroom.  I will get a video up of my room tomorrow.  

 Well, I hope you didn't pass out.  I will up load more now that I have time and desk.

Love

Stephanie

Sisterhood of the Traveling pants 2!

On Wednesday Mom and me went to go see Sisterhood of Traveling Pants 2 for her birthday. It was a really good movie. This one was better then the first one. You will lough and cry your bottom off. This movie is gear to teenagers and older. It is a great movie to see with your mom and your closes friends. It is about four close friends and they are all over the world doing their own things. They are all tyring to keep a friendship between all of the with this pear of magical pants that fit's all four of them. It a great movie. Go see it. Mom and me had fun.

Love

Stephanie