The Hole

Ki and I are now proud owners of... a giant hole in the dirt!  Hooray!  :)  I know you are all dying to see pictures of our hole, so today we drove up to Cedar Hills to document it.  Okay, okay... so mostly we were excited to see it, but we documented it nonetheless.

Our Hole :)

There it is folks.  In all its dirt and glory.  The actual residence in which we will be living one day won't be complete until approximately February 8, 2012.

Also worth updating you on is the fact that Ki has an ulcer :(  He has been feeling sick for a long time (months!), and finally went to the doctor last week.  They did an endoscopy and found the ulcer this week.  No bueno.  I had started getting impatient with his constant complaints of feeling yucky, and then when he ended up having an ulcer I felt really bad.  Note to self:  make your husband go to the doctor much sooner next time!  He is on medication to get his body to produce less acid for at least the next 6 months.  I guess excess acid was the reason that he is not only a daily tums popper, but is also the reason his ulcer formed.

I finished my last day of school EVER (most likely ever) this week.  Hallelujah!  Everyone keeps telling me I will miss it in a couple months (probably true) but for now I am looking forward to being done.  This week I just have 4 finals to take and 1 paper to write and then I am officially a free woman

Today while my husband forbade me from being in the same vicinity of the house as him (he was
wrapping Christmas presents) I found the pictures from our Linx Cruise that were lost.  So I figure I will post a few on our lovely blog.  That is all folks!  Good luck with finals, work, last minute Christmas shopping ( I have yet to do mine... ) and whatever else is on your to-do lists.

forgive my hair.  I had been watching Ki play shuffle board all day

Ki and me in Mexico

Lunch in Mexico with friends!  L to R:  Mike, Ki, me, Lindy, Jerrica, & James

 

 

Ki and me in front of our cruise ship.  This port smelled like poop.  seriously.

Formal dinner

Ki and Jake - finally the shuffle board champions this year

Weekend Stress Assignment

How I have felt this past week :)

For my MCOM 320 class, we were assigned to find someone more stressed then ourselves and do something nice for them this weekend.  My first instinct was to think that nobody could possibly be as stressed as I felt at the moment we were given this assignment (self-centered?  yeah.  I will have to repent for that thought)    On deeper thought, I realized that every college student goes through the same slew of stressful projects, papers, and finals, all mixed in with church and work responsibilities - which immediately brought on a feeling of guilt.  Then I thought about how stressful it would be to be a provider for a family and lose your job, or to have medical expenses you couldn't afford etc and I felt ashamed for feeling bad for myself.  One day I will be a more perfect person.  But for now I will just do my best and every now and then be pushed again in the right direction with assignments like these, and touching church lessons. :)

For this assignment I thought of two easy targets.  I currently have a brother and a sister enduring the last couple weeks of school, and figured one of them HAD to be more stressed then me.  Then when I told my mom about the assignment, she showed me a text she had received from my sister a few days previous about her terrible day, and I knew my sister was a deserving candidate.

There are few things better then a back massage when you are feeling tense so I decided that would be my gift to the chosen stressed soul.  Since my sister Kristin was coming to my parents for dinner I figured I would take the time to do it after dinner and games.  It made me feel nice to forget about how I felt and remember to think of others, and to give my sister a back massage.  It is silly that I needed reminding, but I am grateful for the reminder nonetheless.  Thanks, MCOM.  Although I will forever loathe you for constantly stretching me to do things I feel uncomfortable with, I will be the first to admit you've been good for me in a lot of ways.  I won't get a good grade in the class, but I still feel like I've learned a thing or two.  Which I suppose is the whole point of being a student.