Meet Tommas

Garrick and I joined the Big Brother Big Sister Program right after we got married and waited to be matched with someone for months. Finally, last week we were assigned and met our little brother! This is Tommas, he is 6 years old, is very smart and has tons of energy. Last weekend we hiked the Y together, all he talked about when we met him was hiking so for our first activity we took him and he loved it! We are so excited to get to know him better and try to be his role models. 

                                                            

My Mom

My mom is simply incredible. She is my cheerleader, my comforter, my role model, my best friend. She has been there for me always; through every bad day and every new experience. She is beautiful, kind, smart, caring, and strong. She is everything I hope to become someday. Happy birthday mom! I love you to the moon and back!

Back to School

Man oh man, what a crazy couple weeks it has been! One word to sum up the last two weeks, school. It's funny that whenever you're in school you just want to be out but when you're out of school you want to be in it. I guess it's just one of those things that we can never fully appreciate while it's here. But between Garrick and I's schedule we have been going going going. Thank goodness for the weekends otherwise I don't know how we'd make it through! Of course the weekends have been full of homework and tend to fly by way too quickly.

Garrick is in his sophomore year studying Biology and he has his plate full this semester. He is on the go from 8am until 11pm. His schedule consists of classes, work, study groups, frequent visits to the chem labs, volunteering, and lots of studying, that's just during the week! His weekends are full of homework, new church calling and his marine responsibilities. And he does all of this while balancing his needy, high maintenance wife! But as busy and stressed as he is, he is loving how much he is learning and gets more excited everyday about his future in medicine. He works so hard and is so dedicated in everthing he is involved with.

I am in my junior year studying Health Promotion, I decided to take a little more heavy workload so I'm balancing high credit hours and my new office manager responsibilities at work. I knew that Garrick was going to be busy with homework this semester so I knew I would need to keep myself busy. The high credits didn't scare me, but now that I'm trying to keep each class straight and find the time to complete my never-ending amounts of homework, it's been a bit of a struggle to find my groove, my routine. I think my long days are bad, 8am-7pm but then I look at Garrick's and I don't know how he does it!

I'm just grateful that we're married now so we at least get to have a little pillow talk each night, even if that's all we get some days, it is wonderful and keeps me going. These past few weeks have made me realize just how good we had it all summer, and the memories we made will get me through the school year.

                                                             

Cruisin

On Land

On Sea

Garrick and I were fortunate to be able to go on one last vacation right before school started. We considered it a second honeymoon and our first real vacation. We went on a 4 night 5 day cruise to Ensenada, Mexico and Catalina with our good friends Race and Aly. We were basically taken care of for a week and it was wonderful. Lots of eating, sleeping, hot-tubbing, game playing, show watching and more eating were done over those four days. Between the room service and formal dinners, we felt pretty high class. Now we're home and back to the ole grind of work and getting ready for the school year to start. 

Happy Birthday!

  Words cannot describe how much I love this kid. It's been 4 months since we were sealed together forever and each day I feel like the luckiest girl alive. He is my best friend, my partner in crime, my mac to my cheese, my knight in shining armor, the man of my dreams. I love you more and more each day. 

Happy 24th Gar-bear!

                                                            

The Great Outdoors

Garrick and I have had the best time playing outside, he has turned me into a lover of the outdoors. These are just a few of the great camping trips that we've had this summer. 

                                                                

Summer Time

The other night Garrick and I were talking about how much fun we've been having and how we couldn't have asked for a better summer. Seriously  it has been the best! Pretty soon we'll be consumed with homework, midterms and endless studying. So we are glad we both decided to make this summer one where we do whatever we want. I'm so incredibly happy we have been able to spend so much time together and are fully enjoying our worry free summer.