5 YEARS AND COUNTING...

March 8th marked five years since Brian and I met. It has been a crazy and adventurous journey, and I wouldn't change a thing. I love you, babe!!!

I haven't blogged since October...when I was six weeks pregnant. Well, today I am 26 weeks pregnant...it is crazy how fast time has been flying. Here are the updates of what we have all been up to since then...

OCTOBER: We found out that we were pregnant...yay!

NOVEMBER: I made my first Thanksgiving Dinner all by myself.

DECEMBER: Christmas was awesome!

JANUARY: Brian was laid off...not so awesome.

FEBRUARY: I was hospitalized for kidney stones...really not awesome.

MARCH: I started feeling much better...yay! I hit the halfway mark to my AA degree.

THE FUTURE:

APRIL: We will hit our three year marriage anniversary.

MAY: I will start my 8 week break from school to focus on having a baby.

JUNE: We will be moving and adding a new little person to our family.

JULY: I turn 24...Brian turns 25...and I will hopefully go to a mariners game for my birthday. Fingers are offically crossed.

Beyond that the only major things that are happening are that Emma will be turning 5 next December...and I will be graduating with an AA in psychology in March of 2011. This is going to be one crazy busy year...but I look forward to every minute of it.

Facebook Addict

I haven't visited this blog in a long time. My lovely sister-in-law Diane introduced me to Facebook, and I am a total addict now. I will leave some updates for anyone who is interested.

First, Brian and I are halfway to our AA degree's, YAY! I had a streak of A's and A-'s, but sadly I broke that streak with my last block, I recieved my first B+. I was not very happy, but I am doing really well in the classes I am taking now. Hopefully I will be able to bring my GPA back up.

Secondly, we are expecting a baby in June. We have been on the fence for over two years deciding whether or not we wanted another baby. Then we saw Emma with her little cousins Gannon and Kyla. She is so gentle and helpful with them. We know that she is going to make a great big sister. I am only 6 weeks pregnant and I feel so tired and hungry all the time. I fear that by the end of this pregnancy, astronauts will be able to see me from space.

Also, we will be moving next summer. Our apartment only allows one child per family. Plus, we are really starting to outgrow this darn place, and what I would give to have a washer and dryer...aaahhh....and a yard for the kiddos to play in...that would be great. So we are pinching and saving our pennies, and hopefully we will have enough saved by next summer to move into somewhere nice.

Emma is in preschool again this year, and she is doing great! Her speach has progressed amazingly. Emma's teachers are awesome. Last week, I went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch with her class. It was lots of fun. Next week, her class is going to dress up and go trick-or-treating around the psychology building. It should be fun. Emma is going to be a bumble bee for halloween. She is very excited.

That is pretty much everything that has been going on recently...wishing everyone the happiest of holidays...just in case I don't write before then.

Hooray!

We survived our first block of classes! Hooray! We turned our finals in yesterday, and today we have already started our next block of classes. We should have our grades by next week. I am so excited...these classes flew by! This block wont be too exciting...I am taking a critical thinking class and an essay class. BLAH BLAH! However, in our third block I will have my first psychology class, WOO HOO! We have been super busy with school, church, friends, and Emma. But somehow, we have managed to accomplish so much, and still have lots of fun.

Sidenote: SUPER excited for the 22nd!

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BUSY!

Wow, I haven't posted anything on here for awhile. I am a facebook addict now.

An update:

Brian has a sucky new schedule, because one of his employees quit, he now works 6 days a week. :( We hardly see each other, but we are actually closer than ever. The separation forces us to miss each other, and we don't take our time together for granted.

Recently, nights have been spent reading, researching & writing papers; while eating pizza or some other form of unhealthy, easy to make food. We truly feel like we are in college now. We are on our 5th week and only have 9 weeks total in the classes. We are halfway done with our first block of classes.

Emma's speech is progressing amazingly! She is putting 2-3 word sentences together. She has done so well since starting her preschool classes in December. Everyday that goes by she says something new. She is in the stage of mimicking EVERYTHING you say, so we really watch what we say around her!

We have been so incredibly busy, but this is a good busy. We are not stressed, or unhappy, or grumpy. Time is flying by, but we are still accomplishing so much! I think that we have never been happier. Also, we have made lots of new friends, and despite our busy lives, we have had an amazing social life these past couple months.

EXCITING NEWS

So Brian and I FINALLY took the plunge...into college that is. We are enrolled, have our classes scheduled, and we officially start on the 6th. I am going for my bachelors in psychology and masters in counseling. Brian is going for his bachelors in computer network administrating. We are both very nervous, but also very excited. We are going to do school online at the University of Pheonix (it is accredited and actually one of the top online schools).

Everything is done, financing, scheduling, EVERYTHING. Wow, I am so excited. Just think, in 4 years we will be completely different people. We will have financial security and have careers that we are happy to go to everyday. HOORAY!