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.

Evan's birthday weekend

Last weekend was so busy! Saturday (19th) was Evan's birthday. Nicole was having a surprise 30th birthday party for Ron at the lake, so we went there during the day. It couldn't have been a nicer day to be at the lake, especially considering it was middle of September! It was gorgeous. Evan and I hung out there for a while and then we had to go to Bill and Daleann's house. They were having a party for Raeleen who just graduated bootcamp for the airforce and is getting sent to Korea!

Ron's Cake

Evan and his birthday shirt :)

The birthday boys

Nicole, Ron, and Lexi

Sunday, we had Evan's birthday party. Evan really enjoyed the cake, as you'll see in the pics/video. He got a kids tool set from Bill that he absolutely loves, and a ball pit from my brother!

Evan's cake

Evan and Grandpa

An attempt at a family picture (Evan wouldn't cooperate)

Evan's ball pit

things seem to be looking up..

Things with Bill and I are kind of wierd right now. Past couple days have been good but I sometimes feel like I'm walking on eggshells, therefore, waiting for the next fight. Hopefully I am wrong and things will turn out okay.

Evan is getting bigger by the minute. He's saying lots of new words and you can carry on simple conversations with him. It's absolutely amazing! His birthday is Saturday- Terrible Two's (which I think hit a long time ago). We're having a birthday party him at the park Sunday with lots of "cars" stuff. Bill's family and Travis are coming up so that should be good since Evan and I haven't seen them in a while.

School is going good also. I'm auditing Nursing I even though I already passed it, because I didn't do that well in it before and I couldn't get into Nursing II again until January. Doing much better in it this time and learning things I didn't pick up on before.

So all in all things seem to be looking up! Let's just hope it stays that way..

stressed

Things have been so up and down with Bill and I lately. To be honest I have no clue what is going to happen with us, or even what I want to happen. We both do things that we know will make the other mad and therefore, we're fighting all the time. I feel bad for Evan, he's the one that is suffering. Saturday night we got into a fight and Evan woke up.. Bill ended up getting mad and leaving. The next day when Bill came home, Evan just stood there looking back and forth to see if we were going to fight again. It broke my heart. So now I really don't know what to do. Part of me thinks that we've done too much to ever make it work and the other part of me wants nothing more than to try to make it work. So I'm torn, stay and try to make it work or end it?