P.S. Happy B-day

I also want to say happy birthday to my aunt, Lea, even though she won't read this. she is the youngest of my grandparent's eleven children and she is 40 today-woohoo! She won't mind my saying her age, she proudly admits it. Beside, she totally doesn't look it and she has a two-year-old daughter so she doesn't act it, either.

Road Trip!

I am so excited! I took tomorrow( Friday) off, so i will be cleaning and packing, and then around noon my husband and I are leaving, with two other couples, on an exciting road trip to South Carolina. One of my husband's childhood friends lives up there so we are going to visit him and his wife. Also, there is this simulation machine of a video game my husband and his brother like to play so we're going to try that out. This started as an idea that my husband, his twin brother and a friend of their's thought would be fun and somehow the wives got involved so we will all have fun together! I love road trips so I'll be happy no matter what we do!

Cemetery Walk

This past weekend I went to Normal( my hometown) for the Evergreen Cemetery's " Voices of the Past" cemetery walk, wich is an annual mother-daughter event for my mom and I. I know it sounds a little creepy, but it's really fun and it's something I've been looking foreward to all year. I'm totally in to history and this is like history come alive. The "Voices of the Past" players and the McLean County Historical Society come together and do research on early members of the town who are buried in the cemetery and then the actors dress up in period atire, stand next to or near that person's grave, and gives a perfomans as if they were that person. This year was pretty cool because all the people being portray had something to do with the local college, Illinois State University, because this year is its 150th anniversary. The day wasn't entirely spent lurking in a graveyard, though, we also shopped 'till we dropped! We went to the library's book sale and I got four books for $1.70! I also got some cute Autumn and Holloween stuff for our apartment. It was so much fun to be home and hang out with my family and do special stuff with my mom. It was fun but hard becuase we hadn't seen my family in a while and the visit just wasn't long enough. Back in Indy and getting ready for work this morning I felt so homesick, more than I have for a long time, or maybe ever, since we got married. *sigh*

The light at the end of the tunnle

I am so very happy that the weekend is coming around again. Things have been a little crazy at work. First a little background: I work in what is known as the older infant room and, being that the ratio is four infants to one teacher and we have anywhere from five to eight babies in our room on any given day, there are two teachers in the room-me and another woman who was the head teacher. Well, for a while now my co-worker has been talking about either quiting or cutting down to three days a week. Haha, guess what. last Friday she left on her lunch break and never came back or even answered her phone. They called her emergency contact person and ,thankfully, she's ok, but she's not coming back. So, it's been just me in the room with four infants and all I can say is, I really hope I don't have quadruplets!

Embarking on our second year

Last Sunday was our first wedding anniversary so year two has officially begun! Some things I have learned in our first year are:

1. When he does something that I think is wierd or irritating; instead of getting mad, I should just think about what he just did and see what I can learn from him. After all, as my partner in marriage, my weaknesses are often his strengths and visa-versa.
2. Specific to our marriage, I have learned that my husband just wants me to listen when he tells me about a problem he is having. At first, I would try to calm his fears or share a similar experiance that I had in an effort to help him feel he was not alone but that just made him feel I wasn't really listening, so now I just listen and maybe ask there's anything I can do to help.

On a more superficial yet very exciting note, we begin our second year with pictures! My parents came for our anniversary weekend and gave us our wedding album as our gift. It is so amazing! It's got a mat-finish, black leather binding and the photographs are actually printed on the paper in a collage-type layout. For those of you who don't know, my dad is a professional photographer and he took all our wedding pictures( well, except for the ones he was in, of course) and designed our album, which is why it is such an amazing and meaningful gift.

Life is crazy...and wonderful

Wow, life has been a constant state of change lately! It all started when Chris got a full-time job and, as a result, could no longer take me to work. So last week I walked to work for three days. The walk took me about an hour and the temperatures were in the 90's but I actually enjoyed it because it gave me a lot of time to think and pray before work, not to mention the great exercize! Well, my bosses were worried about me walking alone in the heat so they changed my schedual from 10-6 to 7-5 so that Chris could take me since he doesn't go in 'till 8. The problem with that was that I couldn't leave 'till 6 anyway so I ended up being at work for 11 hours with 2 hour breaks( that part was nice)! Um, yeah, so that routine wasn't really working for us so last Saterday we bought a second car. That's right, I have a car! It's a white '93 Honda Civic, we bought it for $1,400 and it only takes about $20 to fill it up. How sweet is that? Now I'm back to my old schedual and we are just trying to adjust. oh, also, we were asked to join our church's teen ministry, which is exciting but also a little stressfull. My parents are coming to visit this weekend and I am so excited, I really miss them. However, the absolute most wonderful thing that I am looking forward to is our one year anniversary!!! This sunday, August 19th, is our first wedding anniversay. We check into our suite at Sybaris around 6 and we both got Monday off so we can spend extra time together and have a relaxing and romantic couple of days. It just seems unreal to me that we have been married a year already!

It's my birthday!

Today is my 22nd birthday! It's been a fun day. After work I got dressed-up and went to this cute restaraunt for " half-price martini Thursday." My friend, Shari, says that 22 is the new 21 and I think she's right because I didn't have any achohol on my 21st birthday but I did this year(it took me like two hours to drink my one martini, though, so I wouldn't say I went crazy)! My husband gave me a really nice card and a Sybaris Send-a-hint saying wouldn't it be nice to go there for our anniversary.