Ohhhh CC!

This week all the Covenant College students are heading back up the mountain for another year of school. And I am jealous! I've been following facebook and reading everyone's happy comments about being back and seeing people and the nostalgia is hitting me hard! OH if I could just rewind a few years and enjoy that time all over again! College is so wonderful and carefree... no real life 8-5 jobs, no house payments, no huge responsibilities, and you can even skip class if you want to sleep in! Sure, you have the papers and the homework and the occasional huge, overwhelming projects, but that's all part of experience and most of the time you pretty much live a carefree life. THINK about it: you can plan your day so that you don't have to wake up until 11 or 12! You have someone else making all your meals. You live with your best friends. There's always something fun going on. You feel independent but you don't have the whole weight of full responsibility on you yet. Oh man, college was good.
Here are a few pics to illustrate my college experience:

Well, we did party some...

And we played some...

We goofed around a lot...

Oh yeah, and we studied...

But we had to take breaks so we wouldn't shoot ourselves...

We ate a lot...

So then we worked out a lot...

But over all, I made the best friends in the world...

And I finally graduated...

Go CC!!!!!!!!!!!!!

p.s.

Just in case you read this, that post was for you Mrs Bruns and I will put up pics soon!

Being Pregnant Motivates Me...

And I'm serious. There's nothing like knowing that a baby's on the way to get me off my rear and doing things to prepare. For instance, since I've been pregnant I've/we've painted two rooms, ripped up the carpet in our living room/dining room, cleaned out a huge closet full of technological stuff and pieces of paper from Cole's schooling (oh yeah, we had fun... not), cleaned the baby's room-to-be, rearranged and de-cluttered our room, and are in the process of putting down hardwood floors. After that I will actually get to decorating the baby's room. We've also started talking about making a will (weird!) and setting up a college fund for baby Nickell. Not to mention lots of serious talks about what kind of parents we want to be. Knowing that a little one will be here in five months really makes me think. Wow!

Soon to come: I'll put up the pictures of all our projects once we have the "after pics".

Oh beach...

So due to the lack of creative juices lately, I haven't posted anything in a while. I think two weeks of vacation zapped my energy and turned me into a slug :) You know how you always think that you'll get books read, letters written, and be all rejuvenated to come back to regular life? Yeah well, usually you end up sleeping in late, sitting around waiting for something to do, watching tv or movies, and generally not exerting much effort. So then you get back to the daily grind and you're completely exhausted with "doing nothing" and totally not ready to get up at 6:45 and work all day. Yeah, I want to go back to the beach...

The Sand Lobster!

Handstand competition

The Marshall/Johnson cousins minus 5

P.S. I can't make these pics larger without loosing the quality.