HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

We had some of our friends over last night to carve pumpkins. It was a lot of fun. Luke disapeared for a while and I just thought he was being antisocial as usual, so I went looking for him and found him on the computer downloading a texas longhorns symbol to carve on his pumpkin. He is so obsessed! I must admit that was pretty creative though. I carved the one to the right of Luke's cow all by myself. I think I was scaring everyone with my giant knife trying to break into the dang thing. I must admit I am quite proud of my mad skills :)



Luke, Ashlee Elster holding her baby Irelyn, Jeff, Gina, and Gina's little sister Tori. Gina and I work at the hospital together and Ashlee is married to Luke's good friend Rob who was home sleeping so he could go to work at 11. We also had lots of fun eating candy (my contribution) and Ashlee's yummy pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. thanks Ash!

Cute little madi (Ashlee's daughter). She wasn't too excited about the pumpkins, but she had fun chasing our pets around.

Crazy weekend weather

It started snowing yesteray afternoon! I checked the weather though and it is supposed to warm back up to 75 by Saturday so that makes it a little more enjoyable! I don't think I could handle it if winter was going to start now.

This is what it looked like this morning.

Finally...some new furniture

We have only been married for 5 years now and we finally decided (well I did) that it is time to break down and buy some furniture. Don't get me wrong, the hand-me-downs are much appreciated, but you can only handle them for so long right? Luke and I have been sharing my old dresser that I got when I was 14. We were long overdue. I'm also really excited to have a footboard now so when Luke kicks the comforter off in the middle of the night and I wake up at 2 a.m. cold, I don't have to go searching for it anymore. Very exciting. Ha ha. It's just nice to have matching. new furniture in at least one room of our house. Next room in line, the family room.

Enjoying the fall

I was informed that I needed to post something, and yes I agree since it has been almost a month since my last post. What can I say. My life has been pretty boring this past month. So I decided to post our little pumpkins growing in our backyard to our surprise. Aren't they cute? This fall has been quite nice in Cedar, however I think it is starting to get cold. I had to turn the heat on this weekend :( well i guess i didn't have to, but it sure felt nice :) the high on saturday was in the 50's! i felt so bad for all the marathon runners that day when i woke up. I'm hoping that it was just a cold front and we will get to enjoy fall a little more before the freezing comes!

Nursing school dropout

So..... I decided not to go back to school after all. After that first day back I had a really bad day and was feeling stressed and overwhelmed about my life. My dad called later that evening and we had a good chat about life and he told me that he has learned that we can't control everything in life. It was then that I realized school was something in my life that I could control and eliminate if it would make my life easier. So...after sleeping on it and praying about it, I felt like not going to school was the right thing to do. So I withdrew from fall semester, called and told them I wouldn't be needing my scholarship after all and that was that. I know that any extra stress could prevent me from getting pregnant and that is not something I want to do right now. Starting a family is more important to me than getting another degree that I don't even really need right now. Just thought I would clear that up since my last post was about going back to school. I didn't want to mislead any of you to thinking that I was being scholarly anymore. ha ha. Although I have been reading a lot. I'm almost done with Eclipse. Only 3 more chapters to go! I've been pretty worthless the past couple of days because the book has gotten really good towards the end!

Back to the grind

I'm starting fall semester this week at SUU. Not looking forward to it too much. I'm taking 12 credits. Luckily the program is set up so I can still work full-time. I have to go all day on tuesdays (8-5), and then I will have one class that is online. Hopefully it won't be too bad. That is what I have heard from previous students. It will still probably keep me busier than I would like anyways. I'm not too motivated to get it done other than the fact that I should before we have kids and while my work will pay for it, just in case I might need it in the future. So if you don't see me posting much. That is why! Farewell summer! This last month I have had off of school has been very nice. I can already feel the fall air moving in. I'm not looking forward to the cold already. I love summertime!

The newest addition to the family

Luke's sister Marsha had her baby 2 weeks ago. Her name is Cassidy. Not sure if I spelled that right. She is a cutie pie! And our first niece! Congrats Ben and Marsh! She is adorable!



Cassidy with her cheesy uncle Luke!