Life is good :)

Bill and I are getting along much better, and have been for a couple months now. Which is absolutely wonderful! It's nice to want to go home after work instead of going out, which is how I used to feel. So we decided to plan a vacation for just the two of us. We had been talking about going on vacation for about a year but just never set anything up. We ended up booking a cruise to the bahamas for April! So I'm pretty excited about that. I've never really gone on vacation, and Bill and I have never gone on vacation together so it should be a good time.

Other than that, Bill is gone this week in Colorado. His boss knows a guy that owns a catering business there, so he wanted to send Bill down to get some more experience. He says that he really likes it there, and that it's really pretty. He then comes home for a week- but won't be around much because it's opening week for the season at the restaurant he works at. (Which really sucks because that's the week I'm off school). Then he goes to Las Vegas with some people from work for a food conference! So, Evan and I really won't be seeing much of Bill over the next couple weeks. Sucks for us, but happy that he's getting new experiences that he would have never gotten at his old job!

Also, I'm back in school. It's going good so far! The test that I failed last year that ultimately kicked me out of the program is at the end of March so we'll see how that goes!

Condoms

The other day Evan and I went to Walmart to pick up some things and as I'm looking at hand soap I have my back turned to Evan. Bad idea, because when I turn around he's grabbing condoms and pregnancy tests by the handful and throwing them in the cart. I bust up laughing trying to put this stuff back on the shelf and then we're off. Of all the things he could have grabbed.. condoms and pregnancy tests?? It was pretty funny!

Eagles vs Broncos (12-27-09)

Travis is just as big an Eagles fan as his dad so this year for his big present we bought three tickets to an Eagles game and took Travis along. Bill wrapped Trav's ticket in an envelope and then in two other boxes, wrapping each part. So Christmas night Travis starts opening presents and gets stupid little things like long underwear, handwarmers, gloves, etc. The whole time he's looking at us like what is going on?? Then he sees a big gift sitting behind the tree with his name on it. He unwraps the first box, second box, and then pulls out an envelope still wondering what is going on...

When he opened the envelope I'm not really sure that he knew exactly what it was. I don't know if he's ever seen a ticket to an NFL game. So he stands there looking at it and Bill asks "what's today's date?... Dec 25... what's the date on that ticket?... dec 27.... so does that mean we're going to the Eagles vs Broncos game this Sunday??? ...OMG!" He was soo excited!

The game was awesome! Although the car ride (approx 5 hrs) wasn't so much fun. Nothing exciting happened... car didn't break down, although we thought it might not start after the game, just really long drive!

The game was being advertised as Brian Dawkins return to Philly, which was really cool because Dawkins played for the Eagles for the past 13 yrs and a lot of people were pretty upset when he was traded. Eagles fans are known for being a pretty rough crowd so we really didn't know what to expect when Dawkins came out onto the field. Come to find out, there were more Dawkins jerseys (both eagles and broncos) than any other jersey that day. Start of the game, the entire first string Broncos defense gets booed as they're announced then last person to come out is Dawkins and he gets standing ovation- it was really nice to see that the city that often boos their own quarterback gave him standing O because he was an awesome player and he didn't want to be traded.

Eagles started out winning 27-6 then played awful after the half. Broncos ended up tieing the game at 27 and somehow the Eagles managed to pull one out by kicking a field goal in the last few secs of the game.

More Christmas..

Evan's sit-n-spin

"vroom vroom like poppas" -Evan

Trav's ticket to the Eagles vs Broncos and Eagles comic

Christmas 2009

Although I ended up completely broke and my house a complete disaster, Christmas was wonderful! This was the first year that Evan was really into it and kind of knew what was going on. Seeing him opening presents and actually being excited about it was really awesome. We also got to have Travis this year on Christmas which was really nice. He was able to come to dinner at my parents house and then come home to open presents with Evan.

Travis and Evan

My sister Missy and my brother's girlfriend Kori

Evan and my dad

Evan and my nephew Cameron

Alyssa's visit

I hadn't seen Alyssa (roommate from Lycoming) since her babyshower, when Evan was only a couple months old. The biggest reason for this was that she lived in New Mexico which is about a gazilion miles away. So since she was coming home to DuBois we agreed that we really needed to meet up at some point. So Alyssa and her two beautiful girls made the drive to New York to stay the night... supposed to be two nights but the stupid snow ruined that! lol.. the night that she was here we did absolutely nothing but it was definitely nice to meet her little girls and of course to see her again! Hopefully, it won't be so long in between visits next time!

pics from halloween and penn state

Bad blogger..

So while Alyssa was here she reminded me how bad a blogger I am! lol. So here's my update from Halloween til today :)....



For Halloween Evan was an Eagles football player. It was really cute except that he wouldn't wear his shoulder pads. I didn't really get to see him because I was at work. So I only saw what was left of his costume when I got to my parents house to pick him up.



Beginning of November Jerri (a girl I work with) and I went to a Penn State game. It was a lot of fun. We had seats in the alumni section which was kinda cool listening to them tell stories of when they went to school there. Penn State started the game out losing 10-0 but had tied it by the end of the first half. Penn State ended up winning the game 30-something to 21.



Thanksgiving was nice. Bill had to work, so it kinda sucked that he was unable to be there but it was still nice to see the rest of my family. However, after big family dinners I am always happy to go home to quietness!



After Thanksgiving I only had 2 wks left of school. The end of the semester is never any fun. However, this one wasn't too bad since I was auditing. The nursing class that I was in didn't have any big end of semester papers or anything like that, just the final.... which I wasn't even too worried about because I only needed 44 pts out of 120 on the test to pass the class. You may be thinking.. why are you only worried about getting the bare minimum and just passing the class? well that's because a "C+" is passing in nursing which is a 75% instead of 65% like most classes. And no a 75% is not a great grade but these classes are so incredibly hard that people just hope for the bare minimum and that they just get to go on to the next semester! Hard to explain, but really the program that I am in has a 50% drop-out rate because it is so difficult (hence why I went from dean's list to failing last year..). BUT if you can make it through their 4 semester program 98% pass the RN licensing exam on their first try. Pretty impressive! Anyways, I kicked butt on my final- 100 pts out of 120. Ended up with a "B". So now no school until Jan 25!! :)

In the midst of the end of the semester, Alyssa and her two gorgeous little girls came to visit for a night. They weren't here long and we didn't even do anything but it was definitely nice to see an old friend and to meet her little girls! Hopefully, we will get to see them again before too long! :)

"Eww mommy"

Since we had a really nice night wednesday I decided that Evan and I would sit outside on the sidewalk and carve our pumpkin. So I cut the top off and reach inside and pull out seeds and all the slimey stuff and tell Evan to touch it. Being a boy I figured he would love it. WRONG! He looks at me and says "eww mommy, thats ca-ca." So needless to say mommy did all the pumpkin carving because Evan thought it was gross..

Bradley Farms

Last week Bill, Evan, and I went to Bradley Farms to pick out a pumpkin. When we got there there wasn't very many pumpkins left but there was some cute stuff for Evan to check out. It was also nice because being during the day in the middle of the week there wasn't anyone else there so Evan could run around with much worry.