A Few Wedding Pics

VT Weather and School Update

So apparently we are taking a small break from winter, as everyday this week is supposed to get above freezing!!! No complaints here folks! It is snowing today though, so winter's still makings its appearance.
I'm thanking God after another one of His amazing feats of giving me the time I needed to get my schoolwork done before my deadline! I am a bit of a procrastinatory by heart, so He's very familiar with my frantic needs. ;) "Thanks Jesus!"

On other school news, with a little help from my advisor, and a lot of thinking from Adam and myself, we finally figured out I should be done with school in the spring of next year. Graduation is not until August, and its in Chicago. Haven't been there since I was a kid visiting Uncle Jerry and Aunt Diane. Maybe I'll actually get to go to raved "Connie's Pizza," that my parents have set on a pedestal. Supposedly I went there with them once, but since I was only a year old, I don't really remember. I will just be happy to be done with school. I had fleeting thoughts about going back to do something more, but I'm pretty sure that is going to stay just that for quite a while. My brain and out bank account demand it! I truly do have an amazing husband though! He is so good about letting me have the time I need to do school, helping out when I am overloaded, and putting up with our small funds as all of my get drained away to Kaplan. Someday I'll be done, and now I can say that someday will be next year! What a happy day that will be!

A Few Christmas Pics

These are some pictures from our Christmas. The tile in our kitchen is all finished, as is the hardwood in the living room. I'll take some better pictures of the house itself soon. Lots of hands and hard work went into our house to make it look the way it does!

Long Overdue!

Well all, so much for my grand desire to be better about this whole blogging thing! Looks like it has been a couple months since my last post! The recap is that Thanksgiving and Christmas both went well. Had the family over for both holidays, which was really wonderful. Our house has come together, and now feels like a wonderful home. We were able to have a beautiful Christmas tree in our kitchen (Adam didn't want it on the hard wood in the living room for fear that water might damage the new floor). The lights shone out through the window, hopefully delighting passers by. December also brought about the beginning of a youth group in our church. The starting of the youth Sabbath School class has now branched out into a youth group, and it is such a blessing, to the kids and to myself! The youth are such a great part of my heart, and it is wonderful to be able to work with them! Sadly, I am losing one of the members (Katy) to CVA this Sunday, but she will be back on breaks and for the summer. ;) I know God has great plans for our church in Bennington, and I believe that starting this youth group is one way in which He can reach out to our community. We created a motto which we need to put on a banner and put up in our room. I will write it out in a later post.

Other than that, one of the other highlights for Adam and I was having Joe and Megan stay with us for couple days during Christmas break. Adam had the week after Christmas off, so we were able to spend those days completely with them, which was great! Megan and I did a LOT of shopping, and Joe and Adam rode themselves out of style in snowmobiles (figure our speech). :) We joined them on the sleds Saturday, and finished up our last evening with them by having pizza, ice cream, and watching movies. :)

During almost the whole time they were here, we were having that grand snow storm the northeast was hit with over Christmas break. It lasted through the time they had to leave for Philadelphia. We tried to convince them to stay an extra day, but Megan had a full day of class on Monday, so she wanted to be there for them. So said our goodbyes, and prayed for them on their trip back. Turns out, Philly barely had a dusting of snow when they got back!

I think that is the gist of what has been going on the past couple months. :) I'll post some pictures a little later. :)