Long Time, No Write!

Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted what's going on! Things have gotten super crazy with school (where I'm at right now) and will continue to be crazy for the next, oh, 3 years. At least they eased us into it. As much as being in anatomy lab at least 10 hours a week can be a way of easing you in, it's still jumping in feet first!

A lot of things have happened since I last wrote. Steve and I moved into a new townhome that is much closer to my school. I now have a 10 minute commute versus a 30-60 minute commute. This means I can sleep in until the grand hour of 7am! We both really enjoy the new place, especially since we have a little patio and a little deck. They are extremely little, but we've never had either in our married life.

In addition to the move, we got a dog! I have been wanting a dog ever since we got married, but the timing just hasn't been right or we weren't allowed to have a pet where we were living. I always teased Steve that once we moved to a new place that allowed pets, we were going to get one RIGHT away. I was teasing, but it actually happened! We adopted a 3 year old Golden Retriever whose name is Stout. We didn't name him and chose to keep the name his previous owners gave him, since he knew that name so well. Also, he is quite stout. He weighs in at 108.5 lbs right now, although we are working pretty hard at getting that extra love off of him. He's sweet as can be, although stubborn at times. It sounds like his previous owners gave him up because of a history of seizures, which they originally told the rescue we got Stout from he had only had 2 in his life, but were possibly lying about. We knew he had seizures before we adopted him and are fine with it. He has had one with us, but was fine a few minutes afterwards and ready to keep going.

I'd appreciate the prayers that I'd end the semester strong!

Busy Busy bee

This last weekend was probably the last free weekend of the semester. Five weeks in and five weeks to go, but no more fun time. Steve moved us in to our new townhome on Thursday while I stayed at school, spending time in my anatomy lab and studying. It was great to have help from some of our friends and truly made me sad to be living away from where I know most of our neighbors. It was also very odd to sleep somewhere else on our bed. It was also odd to wake up to what sounded like little dogs running in the ceiling. Turns out our new complex has a "squirrel problem", meaning that one of our neighbors likes to feed the squirrels peanuts, causing the squirrels to run and jump in delight on our roof. As long as they aren't IN the roof, all's well.

I'll post pictures of our new place as soon as I figure out how to post pictures on this. :) I can't deprive the world of seeing our bathrooms; you'll see once the pictures are up!

On Friday, Steve and I were lucky enough to be able to get up pretty early, eat breakfast at our favorite bagel shop, and join the rest of Colorado in driving up I-70 into the mountains to go camping. Seriously, it took us 2.5 hours when it normally takes 1. We car camped off this little backroad right next to a little stream. It was wonderfully relaxing and much needed time away from school, even for only a night. The next morning we went hiking, which was also much needed. Sadly, I had to study for the rest of the holiday while Steve hung out with some of our friends.

I can't figure out if the next couple weeks are truly going to be as horrible as I'm anticipating or if I've just built it up in my mind as such. 3 tests, a few quizzes, a few papers, a project all due in the next 4 weeks. Goodness!