Guess whose back, back again.

I am back!!!!!!!!!!

I am glad to see that my poor, neglected blog is still here and hasn't decided to pack it's bags and look for another blogger that would treat it better. Tear. I apologize to my readers, you who are out there I hope, for my absence. I could come up with a thousand excuses but we'll just leave it at the fact that life is crazy.

When I last posted it was summer and I was finishing summer classes. Insert a flood of memories coming back to me at once. Boy was that fun. I say that sarcastically but there is some truth to it. While I was pretty much spending most of my time in school, I did get to have some fun on vacation and enjoy time with family and friends.

I guess now is the time for a recap on the last 5 MONTHS that I was gone. Tear.
I'm actually going to go through my pictures and add in highlights based on the months my pictures were taken.

Well August was not that eventful. Just busy finishing my last few weeks of summer classes ( I finished with 3 As and 1 B btw) and starting my senior year in college! So that was exciting.

September was one of the best months for my family. Why? Because we welcomed a new addition to our family. My sister in law gave birth to a happy and healthy baby boy on September 15th. I just love him so much! He is so precious. Something else exciting happened in September that I can't quite tell yet, but soon. Oh yeah and remember when I mentioned that we closed on our land. I wish you could have seen how overgrown everything was. We spent most of our summer trying to clear brush and get the land leveled. It was a nightmare. So much sweat, and tears, have been put into that land. Well we ended up having most of the brush and trees cleared out by a family friend. What took us like 4 hours to do, he ended up doing it in 10 minutes. Got to love bulldozers.

Baby Joshua's first day on this world. (9-15-2015)

Our visit with him a few days after he was born (9-19-2015)

So here are a few before pictures of the bottom part of our land.
"Pre-bulldozer "

After bulldozer. It looks so nice!

October, November, December, because nothing really happened in those three months that requires a whole paragraph. These past three months have really just been trying to finish the semester and getting ready for the holidays. I had to pass my state exams in order to be allowed to student teach in the spring so there was a lot of time trying to study and get ready for that. And in case you didn't read that right, I did say student teaching. This is the moment you stop and say a little prayer for me ;) I have heard some of the best, and worst, stories about student teaching. I am nervous and anxious but honestly so excited. This is a really big step towards graduation and the start of my educational career. I could jump up and down right now but I just ate too much candy so I wont. And also I spent a lot of time with James and family and friends. The holidays were special this year because we got to spend time with Joshua. I loved every minute of getting to snuggle with my sweet nephew. It was also special because James had Christmas off so we got to spend our 6th Christmas together :) He usually works on the Holidays so it was nice having him off.

October visit with Baby J (10-10-15)
I just love baby hands. 

Our baby, Bear, and his first visit to the land.
 He loves hanging out with his daddy. 

Christmas morning 2015. He was wide awake in his pack-n-play staring at the Christmas tree.
So precious

Look how big he is. Aunt Kristy said stop growing.

Side note- For anyone wondering, my lovely boyfriend still has not popped the question. But I'm hoping for NYE. A girl can wish right.

So there is a short recap of what I've been up to. I'm hoping to keep up regularly now so I wont have to spend so much time catching you up. I'll probably try to make that a new years resolution but then again I am starting student teaching so who knows. Ha.

Until next time,
Kristy

Credit Scores and GPA's

So I haven't gone off the deep end, yet, I promise. I'm still here.. but I do feel like jumping off the deep end just so I can escape from summer classes. Even though I only have 2 weeks left! I can see that light at the end of the tunnel. I've been a little MIA this summer. Sorry. I've been buried under tons of homework. I took a science methods class, a math concepts class, and a literature class this summer, which is an insane amount of work. Any kind of method/concepts class for education majors means a lot of work and a lot of presentations aka "teaching". Those classes are rough during a regular semester so just imagine taking them in the summer. *Shudder* Anyway, that is almost over meaning I got 4 classes out of the way and I am 7 classes closer to graduating :)

But besides school, life has been full of change. J just bought 5 acres of land that over looks a lake. So while he was closing I was there holding his hand, trying to calm his nerves. He was pretty nervous about one his first "big boy" purchase. Which is totally understandable. We plan on building a house so we're still trying to wrap our minds around that! We've been talking about this moment in our lives for so long. November marks our 5th year anniversary and by that time next year we will hopefully be married and celebrating in our new house! NEW HOUSE! I can't wait to say that. So while in the mean time, he's working on putting a ring on it ;)  Another change coming soon, is a little bundle of joy added to the family. My brother and sister-in-law will be expecting their first born this September. I can't wait for sweet cuddles with my baby nephew.

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer. I know it's tempting to start counting the days back to school, but don't do it. I dare you not to look at that calendar. Ha, yeah right. Who am I kidding? 30 more days people!
Love,
Kristy