Long Past

I am just finally posting my Christmas pictures so I can remember what a fantastic holiday it was. We got to sleep in until after 7am this Christmas--what a blessing! Mark wanted to wake the kids up earlier than that because he was so excited. The girls were very excited about their gifts and so was Spence. I was excited about them too especially because I was on a pretty strict budget this Christmas and used a lot of price matching and coupons this year. I even had Mark take time off work to stand in line at Toys R us for Avery's bike. I was all about saving money this year and it was nice--for once--not to have gone overboard. We had the most lovely day ever. It was peaceful and quiet just being in our home with no where to be. We all fell back asleep and had a late lunch. It was sad to see Christmas end but I am one of those people who likes to have closure to my holiday. I can't stand to leave all the decorations up for very long and I have too turn off the Christmas music. Mark calls me "Scrooge" but I'm just ready to move on. Am I the only person like this?
Pre Christmas mess


Thanks Grandma and Grandad for the barbies and Toy Story blanket



My sister made these cutest ever cupcakes--the girls love, love, love them!

What's the deal?

Some of you may be wondering what the heck is going on here. I hardly ever post anymore and my blog is getting way boring. But never fear. I will try harder. Here is a little update. Mark and I got the bright idea to start school in December. We have a community college right around the corner from us and the tuition is DIRT cheap if you live in the district. Mark has been itching to get a different job for a little while now and I have dreams of someday becoming a labor and delivery nurse. Over Christmas we took what they call a "minimester class". Basically we crammed a semesters worth of work into 4 weeks. Fortunately, it was a communication class and we both got an A in the class. This semester we decided to take on Human Anatomy and Physiology and we both have to retake Intro to Psychology. They are both online classes but they consume a lot of our extra time these days. I am thinking I'll take a break this summer. My brain feels like it's going to explode and the semester just started. Mark has high hopes of taking two more classes this summer--I'm so proud of him.

On another note, my husband finally completed our shower. It is beautiful.

He also put in a pull down ladder in our garage to make an attic for extra storage. We were running out of space so it is nice to have such a huge, accessible storage area.