An overdue post (Warning: Kind of Long)

It is hard to keep you all to date on the going ons of our lives, when we no longer have internet, but I will do my best to fill you in.

The beginning of May brought the end of the semester. It was nice to have another semester over and done with. Joe worked really hard all semester long and was ready for summer. One of his professors made the comment that he could tell when James was born, because January Joe was alert and sitting up straight and then February hit and Joe started falling asleep in class. lol

Here is how the month of may has been:

On May 2nd, we blessed James. I'm so grateful to have little James in my life and hope that I can be a good mother too him. I'm also grateful for a husband who holds the priesthood and was able to give James a wonderful blessing.

After church, we had a luncheon with our families at my sister's house. The weather wasn't being very nice to me, so we had to have it indoors instead of in a park. I was so nice to be able to spend time with the family. It doesn't happen very often. Our friend Karl and his wife even came down from Logan and we enjoyed having them there too.

Pictures of James in his blessing outfit that my mom made:

May 3rd-6th was finals, so Joe studied and wrote final paper and I worked. Not much else went on just that I remember feeling extremely busy and stressed.

May 7th was Graduation day. We attended the whole graduation from start to finish. It was long, but fun to celebrate the almost end of Bachelor's degree. Though technically Joe won't have his till December, they put him in this years graduation just in case we are not around next year for the graduation. I'm so proud of all the hard work he has done the past couple of years and can't wait to see what the next few years will bring.

Here is a picture from the graduation:

May 8th, my little man turn 3 months old. He just keeps getting bigger and bigger. He loves to smile and suck on his hand/thumb/arm.

Back tracking a bit we took him to the zoo the last week of April and he was totally captivated by giraffes and monkeys.

Staring at the monkeys

Staring at the giraffes

Well, and then the worst of all Joe has been camping for class for most of May. He will be back on June 1st hopfully. Then it is offically summer playing time for us. Kind of, got to work and stuff.

There you have it. A short review of our month.

Complaining....

I feel like complaining today. Why? Because I am at work and today just isn't any old day. It is Joe's birthday and Mother's day. I should be home with my guys. Though I was scheduled to work today to begin with and a very nice co-worker traded shifts with me so I would only be working 5 hours instead of 8. Alas, it has not turned out that way. I got a call saying that 2 people have called in sick so I have to work the 8 hour shift 2-10 with out a 4-9 person. So forgive me, if you come across me today and I'm not as happy as I should be. Maybe tomorrow will be a better day. Maybe......


P.S. My poll is wrong. It should say University of Iowa instead of Iowa State University and University of Pennsylvania instead of Pennsylvania State University.

New Poll

A couple posts ago, I wrote about the possible places we'll end up for grad school. I've added a poll to the right of my blog to see where you all think we'll end up.

Happy Voting!