3 DAY WEEKEND!

I figured since it's a 3 day weekend, there's no excuse for me not to update my blog! So we've been home from vacation for awhile, obviously. We started back to school on Monday--made it through the first week! I started working my new on-campus job. I work the front desk at the Academic Advising Center (9th Street Hall for those of you from EIU!) I really like working there, unfortunately I don't get a lot of hours because it's a work study job. We also had our Bash Week events for Campus House this past week which is always tiring--but we had a blast.

In other, less happy news, I found out the other day I won't be able to student teach in the Spring like we had been planning on. Turns out I missed the student teaching meeting I was supposed to go to LAST fall (even though last fall I wasn't even IN the education program...). There was a little miscommunication between my advisor and I, so now I can't student teach until next Fall (2009). This means a variety of things for us.

1) I have to take 2 random classes in the Spring to keep insurance and still be able to use Health Services on campus

2) I find out my placement probably before Brent knows where he'll be working in the fall...so I'm not sure where we'll end up

3) The good news out of all this, is that while I'm student teaching Brent will have a full-time accounting job so while I won't be able to work at least he will.

As discouraging as all this is (I'll end up in college for 6.5 YEARS), I really feel at peace with all of it. I know God knows what is going on and He's got our lives in his hands and that's comforting. So with lots of prayers, we're just trying to figure out where God wants us in the Fall. It's a little scary but exciting at the same time...at least we get to experience it together, married, which sure beats not being married!!

Now here are some pictures from vacation and the time since then.

I went from blonde to brunette...

On the giant slide at a Bash Week event!

Getting Ready for Vaca

Today has been full of packing and getting ready for a busy week. Tonight we're heading to Champaign to meet our friends Matt and Shannon for dinner at the delicious Chevy's, then we're staying at Brent's mom's because we're getting up bright and early tomorrow morning to head to King's Island with Rhonda, Britany and Jim for a day full of rollar coasters! Then Sunday we're heading over to my parent's to get ready to go to the Ozarks with them on Monday. We'll be there until Friday. I'm soooo ready to be there and start relaxing. Pray for cool weather at night thought because Brent and I will be roughing it in our tent :) If you've never been to the ozarks, I highly recommend it...it's a great time!!
I'll post pictures next weekend :)

Avery Elizabeth

As promised, I brought my camera today while babysitting to get some shots of Avery because I won't be seeing her for about 2 weeks due to vacations :( Anyway, she cooperated very well with the camera, as she loved staring at it. Here are a couple cute shots of her :)
There's no denying she's a little cutie!! I can't complain about this job :)

Tennis not-so-pros...

For a wedding gift, Brent and I received tennis rackets and balls which we had registered for. Neither of us were big tennis players, but we thought it would be a fun, FREE activity we could do while here in Charleston. Well, we found out pretty quick we're both awful and spend the majority of the time chasing after the ball. But it's fun to get outside and sweat and feel like you're working out a little. Maybe next time we go out we shouldn't do it on a day with a heat advisory :/

Here are some non-action shots, Brent wasn't too up for me stopping to take pictures while on the court...he's never really up for me taking pictures, period :(

Also, tomorrow I'm going to take the camera when I go babysit to get some shots of cute little Avery so you can all see how much fun she is :)
Unfortunately, Blogger isn't letting me upload my tennis pictures, so you'll have to just check them out on Facebook. Sorry.

Happenings...

Sorry for not posting in so long...I guess nothing exciting has been happening with us!

Here are a couple updates:

1) Brent finished his summer classes last week, yay!

2) I'm loving babysitting for this new family. Baby Avery is a doll :)

3) We leave for vacation in the Ozarks with my parents in a week

4) On our way back from the Ozarks we're going to get to stop in St. Louis to see my neice natalie and nephew nolan and our friends Mallory and Matt's new house in Edwardsville!

5) Plans are still coming together for our January cruise...only 5 months!

6) We were in Champaign last night and did some shopping. I got a new purse at Target and a cute shirt on sale at Forever 21 for $3.99! I LOVE sales!

That's about it. Unfortunately we haven't had anything to really take pictures of lately, so I don't have any new pictures to post. I'll leave you with some from the Ozarks last summer...