I'm almost a Marriage and Family Therapist!

so as of today i'm one day and 2 test away from becoming an marriage and Family therapist!!!!!

wow i never thought this day would come well especially in the last 3 weeks its been really hard and i've learned so much and had to hear so much constructive criticism but it was all worth it because i've almost accomplished it my graduate degree something that 10 percent of our population gets a year!

It was like yesterday it hit me! i kinda got a little emotional because its all the blood sweat and tears i put into something and finally i get to accomplish my dream! To help families going through pain! To help them change the story they now live and together paint a beautiful family of what they want to become! Looking back on it i can't tell you how excited i am to go and fulfill the purpose God intended for me! This month alone i got to touch so many middle schoolers lives that were going through some serious things that i can't say for confidentiality purposes and the change and impact that God used me to touch their hearts was incredible! Through that experience i am a changed person a marriage and family therapist almost that want to impact lives and save lives! i cannot express how happy i am :) i will miss all the people God has put in my life at Nova and who have helped me grow into the therapist i've become...but i am so glad to start the journey God has paved for me to help others! I can't wait to see what he's got waiting for me :) Thank you Lord for all you provided for me to attended Nova! Get an awesome education! And make me a better therapist! Thank you for allowing me to impact middle schoolers and elementary aged children that needed to be heard! Thank You Lord for my collegues and what amazing therapist they have become along the way with me...thank you for what i learned from them and thank you for the witness i have become to them and showed your light! i love you God! I am so thankful you have paved this way for my to help others who are emotionally hurting! AMEN!

Gift Revolution Road Trip

I'm soooooo excited and inspired and can't wait to start my gift revolutions! But i'm even more excited about the roadtrip although i can't go this week :( i'm following online and you guys should too check this video out!!! 25 days to inspire the world!!! Are you ready??? i know i am!!!

Snowy Selecky September 1992 - November 2008

Today has been kind of a sad day for me. My doggie that i had for almost 18 years passed away. I know you may think i'm crazy but he's been around for so long he really has become part of our family and brought us so much joy throughout almost my whole lifetime!

I'll never forget it i got snowy for my 7th birthday. I had been wanting a dog and my parents had been trying to put it off but my pleads for a dog kept getting bigger and bigger and more annoying finally they thought they would be tricky and get me a fake toy maltese that walked like a regular dog but the only difference it was fake. I was 7 and not dumb and i quickly realized their tricky plan and finally they gave in and decided to take me dog shopping. So that night we went to the mall (this is when dog kennels were in the mall) and looked around right away my mom saw these two white adorable puppies that resembled a cotton ball. We asked if we could go in the play room with them and we did. This was my first meeting with snowy. He was energetic, hyper and so adorable! He was so loveable that night we walked out with him in our arms and our lives were never the same after that. I will never forget how small he was...he barely fit in the palm of my daddys hand. It was like he was a little toy. Snowy was a maltese that was filled with lots of energy and had quite a little character. I rem. we decided on the name snowy because he had the most unique way he slept in a little ball like a snowball. Snowy like i said was quite a character he made us laugh with some of the crazy little things he did.

Years went by and i dressed him up in my cabbage patch clothes, he picked my clothes for school the sign was he would sniff the one i would wear lol, he ran away on few occasions under my grandparents watch, he survived hurricanes, attended all my middle school and high school parties at home, kept me company when i was bored and brought so much joy to my life. My parents always joked and said snowy was my little brother but i actually think it was true since i was an only child...whenever i was upset it was his playfulness that would make me forget about it...whenever i was lonely it was his company that made me smile...whenever i was bored he would provide hours of entertainment...he was my tv buddy (he loved cartoons!) He was a wonderful dog. I remember the day i left for college i was so sad because i thought i would never see him again but little did i know he would last 5 more years after that! When all my friends would ask what i missed about home i would say family of course but then i would say snowy...lol We say he was like a cat he had 50 lives...whenever we thought it was the end he kept coming back...he did this funny little trick where at home he would pretend to be really sick and then when we would rush him to the vet he was fine the vet would say he was in the best condition ever! lol Although i miss him entirely and wish that i could hear his little feet walk on the wood floors in my house i know it was best he gave us 18 years of our lives (almost half my life so far!) He was a wonderful pet and a great member of the family i will miss him but it was worth all the 18 yrs he spent in the selecky family! It's funny how animals can be so much apart of our lives u think their just an animal but you get so attached sometimes. I love you snowy :)

Best Trunk

well bloggers i have not posted in a very very very long time...and way to much has happened like my birthday, my getting a wii, my crazy internship, evan's birthday, my moms birthday, evan getting an iphone, clone wars coming to cartoon network, jessika getting married and many many many more things...and although i would love to cover them all in detail some things are to far away to relive again for the most part i decided since i never post anymore that i would use those things i mentioned to post everyday! So you have something intersting to read so todays blog post is about Halloween Hope Night...i'm going to be a little boastful right now so please excuse me...but i would like to mention that the best trunk at halloween hope night according to Holly Farver was my trunk!!! (and i got a cool prize for it!) yay i was excited and shocked but i did work hard with my team members to put it together. My trunk transformed itself for that night into whoville! Colorful and fun i enjoyed seeing the expression on the kids faces when they saw candy come out of hortons trunk! I also would like to be extra boastful at this moment and say that i drew everything by hand free draw except Horton (which was done by the lovely Rebecca and Amelia) i was impressed by my mad skills! But with all joking aside i had a wonderful night with the kids...it makes me think how blessed we are to have the health we have and also how something so small made a lifetime difference in those kids lives! I love it! At this moment i would like to personally thank Rebecca and Amelia for their hard work and creative assests to whoville we wouldn't of done it without you guys...ur awesome!!! Stay tuned for more blogpost guys

heres some upcoming post to look forward too...

-Evan's Birthday

-Nova Stuff

-Elevate

-Who i will vote for in 2012

-Rock band 2

Future Mrs. Garcia :)

On August 16, 2008 the most wonderful thing happened to me....i became engaged to Evan Garcia the most wonderful man in the universe! I must tell you even writing this i become taken back by what such a big blessing God has given me...sometimes it feels like i'm dreaming but than i rem. what a wonderful God i serve and am just taken back by the blessings he gives us!

I can't even explain how happy and excited i am because Evan Garcia is all i have ever wanted and more in the man i married. I rem. High school still when i would drive to school and pray for the man i would marry i prayed God would protect him and grow him into my wonderful husband...its so crazy that 7 yrs later he did...and evan fits everything on my list! Their is just something about finding the one...its like you know he's the one...that i want to talk to when i had a bad day at work...or enjoy a cup of coffee at starbucks talking about life....or when i find out something interesting he's the first one i want to share it with...or he's the one i want to be the father of my kids....he's the one i want to wake up to every morning...i want to enjoy every new moment with him....to me he is my prince charming the man of my dreams and their is no one more perfect for me. Its like my match in a puzzle piece! Isn't God so amazing that he knows who is the best match for our needs and who we are!? God has given me the top of the line i think he's sweet, caring, intelligient and a man after Gods heart and very handsome too! :) So as i sit here and write this i'm over taken with emotions because i have found the man i'm going to do life with and i can't be happier...i let God write my love story and he painted a beautiful masterpiece! It was just last year that i was single with not a marriage in site....i had just learned to become content in my singleness and just fall madly in love with Jesus! Than one of my bestest friends Marcy Ribiero asked me to do a video shoot for the childrens minstry...i was hesitated and complained the whole day about having to go....but i went and you would never guess who i met that day....Evan Garcia my future husband! I rem. thinking man he's cute....but i forgot about it and months later gained the courage to go to elevate myself...where we grew as friends...lol i rem. the first time he talked to me i called Moni and was like omg he talked to me! It wasn't until passion that i knew this was someone worth dating...that he was special :) i will never forget it....we sat next to each other and talked about the things and careers we loved he was so eager to hear me talk about therapy it was amazing that he could enjoy the passion i had to help others he just listened and just really cared it made my heart melt...just a few weeks later we dated and i was as happy as can be! Because i was right he is special and wonderful and the bestest man in the world! And i get him as a husband! Thank you God for Evan Garcia! He is just simply awesome! and i cannnot wait till May! i can't wait to start a new life together and grow old together while watching many star wars movies! lol i can see it now....our house will be like movie central since thats all we ever do...haha

Internships....

The last two days i have actually gotten out of my bed on my lovely summer vacation and spent them at internship training. I must say it was a little overwhelming at first since the only thing i've done since school got out in july was surf the internet and watch tv and play rockband at amys house and well spend time with evan...it could be quite a shock getting two days worth of info thrown at you but i must say i am totally excited! see i learned a few things at my training that i didn't even know about. So let me tell you guys what i will be doing this year to change lives (yay i'm so excited!) The program i am working for is called SUPERB u may think its a dumb name for an in school theuraptic program but its not because it has a cool acryomn! Students Uniting with Parents and Educators Resolving Bullying is a program sponsored by a state senator to stop the movement of volience and bullying in schools in florida. I know your probally thinking but duh thats a part of growing up there are bullies and victims they just have to get over it....Well let throw some stats at you! Did you know that 2/3 of all school shootings are teenagers that have been made fun of seeking revenge! 85 percent of kids participate in bullying in schools! about 50 percent of kids skip school in fear of going because of getting picked on! I know i was as shocked as you when i heard these stats and the stories of kids commiting suicide as a result of a joke inolving a child...or of kids feeling depressed and hopeless as a result of not fitting in...(wow we as humans can be so crude sometimes) Anyways kids and teenagers have quite a challenge in schools with this and so knowing this SUPERB wants to change what has become socially okay and help children get along with each other no matter social class, religion,popularity, or being different. So what i will be doing as an intern is so exciting i will be changing kids lives! i mean hearing some of the stories of kids that lives have been saved as a result of this program just made me so excited to get right in! My responsiblities include running anger mangement groups, individual counseling with kids,peers, and family members, and doing classroom sessions (which i think is fun) where i take over a class for an hour and just have straight up fun with the kids! Its cool because i'm not going to be there teacher or authority figure i'm going to become someone they can trust...someone safe...who can have fun and undersatnd how they feel! I'm so pumped because I LOVE STUDENTS! and so this is like my dream job! So i must say these last 2 days of training were awesome and i am so excited to see how God uses me to impact these kids lives! I also learned a way to stop a bully if your getting picked on which i know some have this problem so i will share...lol

DEFEND!

D-Distract the bully (omg look at that pink poodle!)

E- Emapthy (awww look at how sad he is why do you keep picking on them?)

F- Funny be Funny! (Oh so you say my laugh calls dolphins...well its funny you say that because the other day i laughed and like 3 dolphins showed up at my house!)

E- can't rem. what this one was...lol

N- Say NO! (in a strong voice!)

D- Disappear (no not like houdini...but just leave to the bathroom and don't come back!)

Don't let bullies win! :)

brain swirl....

Alright guys it's time for one of those crazy post where i share a bunch of random, random and very random thoughts! Sorry i only have 5 today...my mind is on vaction from thinking...i'm on summer break remember?!?!

1. My Boyriend has the best smile in the world :)



2. Jeeps are the coolest when there are no tops or doors on them!






3. Clone Wars comes out Aug. 16th! Get your tickets now!






4. Evan's Dog name should be changed to Blizzard the Wizard! (pretty cute pjs yvette!)






5. Rain Rain go away! Keep raining and Miami Lakes will be under water soon!