Sometimes you just have to dress up your giraffe in cowboy boots!

What happens when you take 4 teachers and 6 High School leaders and take them to Kentucky for Leadership Summit...I'm so glad you asked (well maybe you didn't but since you're still reading I feel like that qualifies as you asking)!

Well for starters we had a great time! And I think I got the best ab workout I've had in FOREVER!

 It is so funny because I don't feel that old even though I complain about feeling old all the time but there is something about being around these crazy bunch of people that reminds me about how to be carefree again and how much fun life is supposed to be!  I think that sometimes we get so caught up in what we are supposed to do that we forget that sometimes you just have to ask people, "What are the odds you'll wear a diaper on your head?" or do the Wobble like it's your job, or do the best interpretive dance to Wrecking Ball in the world...ever...seriously Lauren you are my hero after that display of awesomeness!

I think as I grow older (yes I just got done saying how awesome it was to feel young again) I feel like I feel like I'm being pushed in a thousand directions and sometimes I forget what it's like to have a sleep over and talk to my friends until midnight because lets be honest...if I stayed up until midnight every night talking to my friends I would be less than pleasant in the mornings at work.  I feel like especially with people we call our friends at work it is so easy to forget them after 3 o'clock everyday and I am so glad that this weekend allowed me to grow my actual friendship with Sarah, Lori and Kathy.  It was almost like we were in high school again all in our bunk-beds talking about our lives, our problems and our victories.  

We talked about our sense of community this weekend as a Young Life Leadership team and I can honestly say this was something that helped us and I am so thankful that my schedule allowed me to be there.  Being an adult can suck sometimes and it is nice to have friends like them and even friends like the high school leaders that are as crazy as we are.  I was definitely something my soul needed this weekend!

What I think was even more crazy what all of this craziness happened in about a 24 hour time span. Talk about a whirl-wind experience!  The awesome thing about it for someone like me who always have a to-do list that is normally bigger than me (which is saying something seeing as I am 6 feet tall) is that I still had plenty of time to do things that I needed to get done!

First and this was important...

That's right friends...the wonderful K-Craig and Sarah taught me how to make a bracelet!  I don't even care if it's not fancy or perfect because I finally made one!

Last post I introduced you to the head of my creative team Luke...well another amazing member of my team is my AMAZING roommate Michelle!  Why is she amazing you ask...(again by continuing to read you are asking by default)

• First and foremost she agreed to live in a house with me
• and she is as crazy as I am

This is the amazing dinner I came home to yesterday! 

Fun fact of the day...White Cheddar Cheez-Its in Chili is AMAZING!

Her official title other than my roommate is the head of my proof-reading department...I really should have her read this before I post but I won't and most likely she will be sitting on the couch with me tonight telling me what I messed up so I don't look like a complete fool and this is why she is my favorite because we will both be laughing trying to figure out what I was trying to say!

Also she is my favorite because after decorating our house last night (see my Instagram: amkocher for video) we did this to our "third roommate" GiGi!

Have a great day!

With Love, Always!

Alex

The Project...a journey...a new adventure

So I have been trying to find my thing lately, you know what I am talking about...right?  A thing I can put my creative energy into when I am bored, something fun, something that is exciting and new and most of all not expensive.  (I'm not entirely sure why but creativity is usually expensive...see my credit card statements since high school and college they can prove this statement as fact!)  

So the other day one of my fabulous co-workers walks into my office as I am counting ceiling tiles. (Yes...counting ceiling tiles...oh so very bored.) And suggests that I take up knitting or something.  But then we both realize that stuff like that is expensive and hard to learn unless you know someone who can do it because learning from a book is so difficult (trust me I've tried...and failed...a lot!) Then another co-worker chimes in about me making those friendship bracelets that so many people make which is a great idea but I can't make those either and still haven't learned despite that fact that literally everyone around me can and does make them all the time!

So that was that...I was just going to count ceiling tiles and read blogs and news and whatever else I do during the day (after I am caught up on work) and leave it at that.  That was until the very next day when the wonderful two office aides came in and told me that they absolutely loved reading all about Sarah on her blog (http://livesoverlap.blogspot.com/) and they really thought I should do the same!  Well girls you are an inspiration and this is my attempt...my new adventure and hopefully a way to prevent myself from having to count ceiling tiles during the day!

So after talking to the head of my creative team, the wonderful and amazing Luke we decided that I should do this for real and that it would be fun.

Yes...Luke has an official title in my life...he gets a salary of absolutely nothing but he is one of the most creative, crazy, wild, hilarious, amazing people I know.  Regardless most creative decisions in my life get bounced off him because he is awesome so the name of this blog...With Love, Always Alex was created with his help.  

I am excited about this new project and can't wait to see what happens next!