Christmas was wonderful! 

We (Karsen and I) woke up around 8, Jan watched him so that I could shower and get ready for the day. 

Matt and I had been in the kitchen late on Christmas Eve. I made the potato salad and dressing and he made the pecan and cherry pies. yum. 

I made it to bed around 2 on Christmas Eve. So back to Christmas. After I was ready to go I got back into the kitchen. Then my parents came over and we opened presents. Matt and I got a Wii. It is soooooo much fun. We all got lots of other presents and it was nice. Karsen got more toys than any sweet boy needs. There are many still in the packages. 

I had my mother help me out in the kitchen. I needed to make a lot of stuff. I started with the homemade mac and cheese. It was good at Thanksgiving, but AMAZING at Christmas. It was all gone before 6 that evening and it was a 13 x 9 pan. I also made a broccoli rice casserole, it didn't turn out well, but thats ok. I warmed up the ham and turkey, dressing, and rolls. So we had ham and turkey, mac and cheese, broccoli rice casserole, potato salad, dressing, deviled eggs, and rolls. I made everything from scratch, except for the ham and turkey and the rolls. 

It was a wonderful  meal. And a wonderful day with my family!! I really enjoyed myself. The next day I went shopping with my parents, Joe, and Tanya. Matt and I ran some errands and then he came home and installed Jan's new garage door opener. Then Matt and I went on a date. It was nice to have some alone time with my baby. I love that man so much. I have spent today playing on the Wii, taking care of the boy, and then getting myself ready for the day. Matt and I are going to run some more errands and stuff later today. 

I am so blessed. I love my family so much. 

Hello!

I have been waiting to post this blog for about a week, after I took my last final last week. I knew all of my grades except for that one. I left the final feeling confident that I had done well and was finished with college. As I awaited the posting of my grades I began to doubt my success, my professor had mentioned that a lot of people had written the term paper incorrectly, yada yada yada. I began to worry that I was one of those people and that I would not be done with college because of Human Genetics. He posted the exams scores and I got about the average. Now I was just worrying about my final grade. 

I had been anxiously awaiting the posting of my grades. I logged on after I had fed Karsen lunch and was just playing on the internet. The Genetics grade was posted. I PASSED! I got a B-, which is much better than I had expected to get, sadly. I am officially done with college! The last 4 1/2 years of my life have finally come to an end. I will get my degree mailed to me in a few weeks, my $30,000 piece of paper. 

Yay!

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and best wishes from my family to yours!

I feel another kind of accomplishment. Not everyone has a college degree. Not everyone has a healthy baby boy. I am 22 years old and have both. I am so incredibly blessed. I have a sweet, healthy baby boy, a wonderful man by my side, the best family any one could ever ask for, and now on my list of accomplishments, I have a college degree. I just can't believe that its true, I am a college graduate. And I am a mommy!!!! Two great accomplishments. 

I had a few minutes before class and I figured I would write a post. Today has been a good day thus far. It is the final day of class for my college career. I have one final today and the other 5 are spread out over the next 2 weeks. It feels so good to know that this chapter of the book of my life is finally coming to a close. It has been one of the greatest chapters in my life. I have come a lot farther and grown up a lot more than I ever imagined. At the same time, I do not feel ready to have "adulthood" thrust upon me. 

I would also like to say that my mom does not have a brain tumor and is going to undergo some tests on Monday to determine where these headaches are coming from. I wish there was something  I could do for my mommy, alas, there is not. I sit here waiting for my final polisci lecture to begin and hopefully end rather quickly and am so pleased with where life has taken me. I feel like taking a moment to reflect.  4 1/2 years ago I started my college career at Texas Tech and I still consider myself a Red Raider. I loved that school so much and it is where I met the love of my life and we became parents to the most wonderful boy in the world. Now I live in Houston and am receiving my degree from UofH, definitely not my school of choice, but a degree is a degree. 

Enough feeling nostalgic. I read something on a message board today that made me laugh and I called Matt to share. After the debacle that is the tie breaker in the big 12 (football) and the whining of Mack Brown (UT) to get his team ranked above Tech, someone hired a plane to fly a banner that is oh so appropriate. It read, "Hey Mack, Quit Whining, You Knew the Rules". I had a nice laugh with that. 

Go Tech!