This semester has seriously been the craziest time in our young married lives. Lets just outline a few of the major happenings that we have experienced in our semester. In the beginning of the semester our great friend Derek Johns passes away in a tragic car accident. Shortly after two employees from my work quit leaving us short handed and everyone doing 12 hour shifts and long weeks at work, Jared has 16 credits and is doing 10 hours a week of tutoring then studying night and day making it really hard to see each other (especially with my extra long work schedule). Then we hear that Jared's father is heading into the E.R. with several intestinal problems having to undergo surgery, in the mean time Jared has been accused of cheating and is being threatened from the teacher of flunking him out of the course (which would set us back an entire year in our schooling, luckily she saw the honesty and purity of Jared's integrity and its been settled). Then my uncle has had a tumor in his brain that hemorrhaged sending him into a coma, a week later Jared's dad is back in the hospital with more stomach problems and two days later my uncle has passed away.
Can you say WOW! I sure can... but let me say that each of these happenings of the semester we have learned from and sure do count our blessings. My testimony of our Heavenly Fathers plan has been strengthened. He has a plan for each one of his children, and no one is taken from this earth before their time. I am so grateful for the knowledge that we have of the gospel and the life hereafter. I am grateful for priesthood blessings that heal and give hope to those suffering and their family members. We feel truly blessed from the Lord for being alive, being together and having these experiences to learn from.
On a lighter note the semester is almost over and the end is near, my dearest Jared has been cramming for finals and I have been helping where I can. Here are a few of the happenings in the past few weeks.
Jared got his first pedicure ( treated by Mom- Thanks mom!) He was skeptical at first but as you can tell sitting in a massage chair and having his feet massaged, he loved it!
We had Easter Sunday dinner at our place,and once again I got too excited about decorating the table but we had our good friends the Quintons come over and eat with us and it was a blast, we played Cranium after we ate and we had a hoot playing.
Here is Jared at his best studying and dressing up for presentations for class. Isn't he a cutie?
My old roommate Rachelle is getting married this weekend! YAY!! I got her these awesome nasty 70's style granny panties which she has so fashionably placed on her steering wheel. ;)
And after one year of looking and searching for a bed spread that wasn't too "flowery" or "Boyish" we scored on this awesome arrangement! Sage green with brown and can we just say that we LOVE IT!!!! We love making the bed every morning just to look at it!
And here are the Quintons playing our favorite game with us Settlers of Catan. We are both too poor to buy the expansions so we combine our boards together to make it bigger and it sure is fun!
Well Jared is off to Washington next week for his spring break to shadow some dentists and oral surgeons while I get to stay home and work... poopie... its gonna be a long week. But good news Thursday evening all my old roommates get in town and we are getting ready for Rachelles wedding! YAY!!!
Living away from family has really made me miss family, I am glad that Jared gets to see his family next week. Really family is the most important thing in life and that is something we have definitely come to realize this semester, without the support and love of family there is no purpose to life. We are so thankful for the amazing family members that we have. We Love You!
