Catching you up...

December? Really? That was my last blog post? Sorry guys! It's been CRAAAAZY around here! So, what's been going on? LOTS!

I started another semester at school. After this one, I've only got three more to go! Can you believe that?!? School is going great, but I've been busy busy. I've been hanging out more with some of the girls from my classes. Joy and Carissa are the two that I've developed quite a friendship with and I'm so blessed. They are both great Christian women who inspire me to be a better student and better friend. Joy is a couple of years older than me and she's married to her hubby, Billy. They've been married for 12 years! So sweet! Joy's sarcasm rivals mine, so look out!! And Carissa, well she's a young'un. She's only 22, so she's got her whole life ahead of her. :-) She is actually graduating this semester, and I'll miss her in classes, but I'm glad that we've all gotten so close this year. It's made school that much more enjoyable. We'll keep in touch after she's gone. We have a standing Girl's Night that we will definitely have to keep up.

I'm going to Oregon for a week this summer. It's for school, but it'll also be a nice little mini-vacation. We're going to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR during the first week of June. I'm really excited and blessed to be able to go. My favorite professor at school is the one who's leading this excursion, so it'll be that much more enjoyable. I just can't believe that it's already this close!! Pray for me when we leave. I don't enjoy flying. AT ALL! I'm actually terrified, if you didn't know this about me already. So it'll be difficult. And I'll be by myself (sans family) on the plane, so I'll be extra nervous. So, keep fingers crossed and utter more prayers for me on May 31st when we leave and June 6th when we head back.

Alex is starting t-ball again this summer. He's already had his first practice, which I had to miss because I got sick...again! He's really excited and so are we. We're on a different team this year, but I think it'll be good. He's still going to wear number 1, but this year his team is the Tigers. Orange and black! He's so excited. He's also doing extremely well in school. Like he wouldn't. :-) But he did have trouble one day, leaving the class without permission. That's automatic "move your clip to red" time. He has since been grounded from the video games for an entire month. It's been torture for him, but he's gotta learn. We've had no more instances since then, so I think he got the picture.

Reesey. Yeah. Well. She's been a bit of a handful. If you don't know this already, she's been a terror. She's Bernice re-incarnated, so I've been told. Bernice would be my great-grandma Bernice Bailey. My parents always told me that I had hints of her in my personality, but my dad finally admitted that Reesey is Bernice. This can be a good thing and a bad thing. Reesey is sweet and loving, just like Grandma Bernice. But she's also the most stubborn thing in the entire world, also just like Grandma Bernice. I love her dearly, but I can't take much more of her little "diva" attitude. It got so bad that I had actually threatened to take everything out of her room. And when I say "everything" I mean EVERYTHING! And I did it. She pushed me too far and I took every dang thing out of her room. The only thing in there was her bed, blanket, and pillow. She didn't even have Bunny (her buddy since the day she was born). And that night, Daddy had the kids by himself, and she pushed him too far, so he took her bed away. She only had the mattress, pillow and blanket. She has since started to earn things back, one at a time. I think she finally got the hint that she does not rule this house and she doesn't decide who does what, when things get done, and who is in trouble. She's not the parent, however much she wishes she was. Battle one: Score Momma.

I got Bronchitis...again. I got sick in January, right before school started. And I thought that would be my illness for the year. Apparently not. I got bronchitis again this past week, which was supposed to be my Spring Break. Yeah, fun. I'm just now beginning to feel like a human again.

My best friend, Meg is pregnant! She's been wanting this forever! They weren't sure if they'd be able to have a baby, since she has endometriosis (sp?) and pregnancy is always difficult with that. She's amazing and she and Andrew are going to be fabulous parents! I'm so excited for her to experience what I've been lucky enough to experience myself. Motherhood is a blessing and pregnancy is a joy, even when it doesn't seem like it. Love you, Meggles!!

So, that's what's been going on in our world these past few months. I'll do better about keeping this more up to date. Sorry for it being so late this time around. Promise, it won't happen again.