Of Endings and New Beginnings :o)

It's been a while. I've been busy with school, church, and so on. But the semester is FINALLY over!!! I was stressed out a bit about one of my classes, but it seems that I pulled out an A after all! I'm SO grateful, pleased, relieved, and a little shell shocked by it all, to tell the truth. But, that's one more semester under my belt and now I'm technically a college sophomore! Yay me! :oD
I'm also VERY glad to report that Paul has finally finished up with school as well...after many years, a very long break, and then many more years! He put in a lot of time and effort to get his capstone project completed and it was a job well done, I think. YAY for Paul!!! :oD
I just spent this past weekend, along with my sister, nephew and husband, helping my brother and his wife with a big move. Sadly, we only put it into storage for now and will have to go back next month to help them get it into their new house. On the upside I finally got to watch Avatar on Saturday night on my brothers big flat screen TV with monster surround sound before finishing up the packing and moving of everything on Sunday. Sunday was a VERY long day, ending with 5 hours at the storage place getting everything situated into the units. :oP Paul and I decided it would be better to stay the night instead of trying to drive the 5+ hours it would take to get back. (I had to assert myself a bit on that one, but really, it WAS the most sensible thing to do.)
SO...here we are.
We've already been able to eat veggies from our garden, which I was unable to really help to plant because of school. :oP I'll get my turn to help, though. We still have more we want to plant. The semester is over, but I still can't get over the feeling that I should be doing homework. Rieka has only 12 days left of school, but one final project left to still finish up. Leila and I enjoyed some time in the yard and pool together this morning.
Summer is here. :o)

Of Irony, Gratitude, and Unexpected Things

It's been quite a week for our family. When you stick two families together in a small space you're bound to have times when people lash out. I think it's inevitable. But you get over it, move on, and love each other still. You know that you have to stick together. Things happen and you have to lean on each other.
When my phone went crazy on Thursday morning I was a little concerned about why people seemed so determined to get in touch with me. I was in class and they all knew it. When the message came that Lorinda had been taken to the ER from work I didn't know what to expect. We all felt a myriad of emotions that day. Things are fine now, though, but I think that we all have a renewed sense of love and appreciation.
That whole crazy experience aside, I'm grateful for so many things. I'm grateful that I got to see my brother and sister-in-law this week and that they were here when the whole emergency situation happened. I'm glad that I've been able to get some of my work done for a big school project coming due soon. I'm glad that I was able to renew my temple recommend. I'm grateful for a Sunday that ran pretty smoothly at church, even though the primary natives were a bit restless and we were short a few presidency memebers and teachers. Ah, c'est la vie!
So here we are. It's a new year, two months down and so much has already happened. Can't help but wonder what other unexpected things are in store for us in the months to come.

What's new?

It's nothing new that I haven't updated in a VERY long while. So, that acknowledgement aside, I can try to sum up the past several months in a nutshell. Really, only one word is needed: SCHOOL. Yup. That's what takes up our time. We stay busy with work and school. Not much else happens. Really. So that's all for now, because I have homework to do. ;o)