FREEDOM

I had lost my blogging motivation for quite some time, but today I realized how sad I will be that I haven't kept it up. So... in the past almost 5 months, this is what we have been up to:

Colin completed his 2nd last semester of grad school - HALLELUJA! Because he had finished his studio classes in the fall, I didn't believe he would be AS busy as he was - but he was VERY busy. Not as many all nighters or super late nights fortunately, but there were some late nights and very early mornings. He runs on little sleep and it's funny because I feel tired a LOT and sometimes complain I need more sleep. Funny how bodies handle that sort of thing. We both kind of made a slight life style change and healthy eating and exercise is a major priority in our home. It's been fun to learn and try different recipes.

I've been working at Fort Douglas since January and it's been a decent job. I really like my co-workers and I enjoy the work that I do - just kind of sucks that it's not a permanent job. It's government contracted work so it goes for the fiscal year and then the contract is up for rebidding, so we shall see what my situation is come fall. It's slow season right now so we go on a lot of walks and Fort Douglas is SO beautiful with so much history. I love history. Not that anyone may care, but I help soldiers in the Army apply for tuition assistance from the Government and make sure they have the proper documentation they need so that I can submit them for approval. It's actually pretty fulfilling to help these soldiers get the help they need for school when they are making sacrifices for our country. I'm also still TA'ing for a professor at UVU - brings in a little extra income each semester.

Now that Colin is done school for the summer and just working full time, we are having a lot of fun together! During the week we both work out and Colin plays basketball a few times, for a while we watched the last few seasons of Prison Break. We became HOOKED! Just finished it last night and I am sad. We have had some BBQ's with friends. On the weekends we relax a bit - saturday's we've been getting up and working out and cleaning all morning, then we go explore the city or go on hikes for the afternoon. It's been a blast! I think this saturday we are going to hike Donut Falls - never done it before! We are loving the nice weather and spending our time outdoors. We've made some new friends with 2 couples in our complex and have had some fun with them.

We are still teaching sunday school to the 12-13 year olds and really enjoy our time with them. They are smart and just really good kids too! We are lucky. Lastly, in July we will be going to Anchorage, Alaska for 10 days to spend time with Colin's older sister Erica and her family. We are WAY too excited. We will be doing some really cool things and will certainly blog and post pictures from it. I only get a week off of work so that is what we decided to do for our vacation. Before we have kids and while we have the means to do so we made a decision to travel as much as we can before it becomes too hard and expensive.

That about sums up our current life! We are happy and well.