THIS:Erick's tiny 1 month old neice had a health scare this weekend, it appears to be resolved and she gets to go home from the hospital tonight. Thank the heavens above for prayers answered!! I am sooo sososo grateful for her recovered health and for a healthy baby and husband and family. Nothing brings that gratitude home quite as affectively as a visit to the hospital.
THAT: I got into the College of Education at ISU. Whew! I'm super duper excited about that. This semester is drawing to a fevered pitch! It has been so awesome!! I have thus far survived 18 credit hours, 12 tests, 3 papers and countless hours of instruction, and I have loved almost every minute of it - I didn't love the minutes that came after midnight, but I lived to tell about it! It has been a very faith promoting experience both literally - after reading Dante's
Inferno I am extremely grateful for the truth and hope of the gospel - and figuratively with the confirmation that I'm in the right place doing the right things at the right time.
It has been a challenge trying to juggle all of my priorities - the least of which is school - and although E would never tell you so, he has born much of the burden of housework and cooking and diaper changes, and getting up with Noah in the night. I trully could not do this without his unfailing support and words of encouragement.
The most important thing I've learned this semester is that Heavenly Father definitely loves me and has blessed me with the best husband and most delicious baby I could ever have asked for if I had been smart enough to know what to ask for in the first place.
THE OTHER:I got a ticket for speeding in a school zone today. Merry Christmas to me! I think I will fold it into the shape of a watch, wrap it, and put it under the tree to myself. humbug.
Earlier this month I was diagnosed with
bi-polar disorder. For me, this diagnosis is a blessing and a curse. It explains a lot. There is a lot of comfort and hope in finally having a frame of reference for things in my past that were difficult to live through and to understand, but it means that I will probably never will be "out of the woods" and that goes for my ever-loving husband. We both have a lot of hope that with the extensive testing I went through to get the diagnosis, and the treatment I am getting, I will be able to manage this disorder a lot better going forward.
We get to visit my parents and see some of my brothers and their delightful families for Christmas!! That is the happy thought that will be getting me through my upcoming finals...
I think that's plenty of personal information to satisfy the blogosphere for one day, don't you?!
(this picture is one I found on the internet, not one I made.)
almost been a year...
birthday
he's growing up
so fast
where did it go?
in a few more years...
one day soon...
We went to a straw maze in Rexburg with E's family. Noah thought it was sooo funny that mommy was chasing him around!
Do you think you could resist this face??
We got Noah all dressed in his first suit for his little cousin Makinley's blessing. Look out ladies!!
"Mom, i think you need to aim a little more to the left..."
This is the face Noah makes when he's surprised. Sometimes a whistle comes out. It makes us laugh!! It took a long time to finally capture this face!!
This is Noah with cousin Jacksen. Noah likes mouths so much, he just couldn't resist. Jacksen is a very good sport! These guys had a lot of fun together!
We get comments on Noah's pretty eyes all the time. He is just delicious!! 
a glimpse of future simmons girls??
my knight and my dragon!
we had a lot of fun for Noah's first halloween!
