Catching up!!

Things have been very very crazy around here... midterms, birthday, church callings, work, and not much sleep. First off, I want to THANK EVERYONE for all the wonderful birthday wishes. I got so many phone calls, txts, and so many cards and birthday packages in the mail... it was so fun and very much appreciated. You would think that the older you get, the less excited one becomes about their birthday; however, this is not the case for me. I was so overly excited about my birthday this year and I'm not really sure why?? Maybe because it was a good excuse to get to go shopping? :) Of course Nick went WAY over the top and spoiled me rotten. I woke up to breakfast in bed :), and then when I went downstairs to go to school for the day, Nick had hung up "happy birthday" banners all over in the living room. The floor was also covered in balloons from mom's package. Nick had gotten up in the middle of the night to set all of that up for me. After I took my History midterm, Nick took me to lunch at Panda Express (my favorite Chinese place... I could probably eat there everyday). After lunch he took me SHOPPING!!!!!! The only time I really ever go shopping is when my friend Kate comes to town because it's NOT Nick's favorite thing to do. Thats how I know he loves me so much... he took me shopping! :) After shopping, he took me to City Center (if you aren't aware of what that is check it out here) I've been dying to go see all the Interior Design, so he took me to walk around and see it. After that he had arrangements for a limo to pick us up and take us to dinner. Dinner was amazingly good and after that FUN FILLED day, we were both so exhausted that we went straight home and to bed!! :) Thanks sweets for the great birthday!! You are the BEST!!! (sorry I forgot my camera that day...no pictures)

Midterms were this last week and it certainly was NOT a fun week. I had two juried presentations and three written tests. It was a long, stressful, sleepless week, but I'm pretty sure all the hard work paid off. Even though I haven't recieved any grades back, I feel pretty good about it all. Now I have Spring Break and have a whole week off school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm VERY VERY excited about this if you can't tell. This break is very much needed. I was asking Nick the other day if I'm crazy because I asked him this question... "If I just wanted to take a whole week and admit myself to the hospital to be fully hydrated with fluids from an IV and also get something that would allow me to sleep for a full week, am I crazy?"... he said I think you mean you need a vacation? "Ya I guess that's what you might call it!!" :) I'm also excited for Spring Break because it gives me a chance to catch up and also get ahead on a number of things, like....

1. Finish a surprise I've been working on for this little sweetheart....

2. Design and make 50+ Mother's Day cards for our Girls Camp fundrasier. (for those of you who didn't know, I've been called as Assistant Camp Director this summer for Girls Camp. It's already been a ton off work and huge learning experience) Yes I know, Mother's Day isn't until May, but I won't have time to even think about making that many cards after I start school again.

3. Get ahead in my online science class so I can focus on all my design classes the rest of semester.

4. Finish some projects around the house.

5. Start researching to get fun ideas for Nursery. I have been in Nursery as an assistant for about 7 months now. Last Sunday, there were some changes made and I was asked to now be the Nursery Leader for the 2-3 year olds. WOW... what a huge responsibilty. You may be thinking, really??... don't you just watch kids play all day... no, I have 25, 2-3 year olds that I have to plan a lesson, music time, snack time, and activity time for each and every week. Even a bigger job when you have one sweet little guy who has a huge problem with biting another child everytime you turn around... :( 5 kids were bit last week...ya, its a problem!

6. MOST IMPORTANTLY, spend time with Nick... sleeping in, eating, watching movies and relaxing!!!!!!

Sounds like I have one AMAZING Spring Break planned! :)

And for the MOST EXCITING & BEST NEWS EVER....................

Nick got a schedule change!!!! He is officially DONE WORKING GRAVEYEARD!!!! That may not seem like such a big deal to some, but to us it is TRULY A BLESSING!!! If any of you have worked graveyard before I'm sure you can totally relate. It has been MORE then hard on Nick and I'm so excited that he will finally have a normal and consistent sleeping schedule. Also, it will be amazing for him to feel good and not be tired all of the time. I will enjoy every night of having him sleeping next to me as this has been a trial for me for a very long time. Sleeping alone by yourself every night in a huge scary city is NOT very fun... but that also might be because I'm a wuss!! That's about all that has been going on with us latley, now we're all caught up!!