And Another Semester Begins

Well, we're home again (I mean Boise home). Today was our first day of classes for our new semester. I only had two today, but Drew had four. It's been an interesting adventure trying to figure out how to get to campus with only one car. Almost none of our classes are at the same time, so we both will be spending a lot of time on campus. Although I didn't like this idea at first, I realized that it will allow me a lot of time to finish my homework, which means I will be able to just relax when we finally do get home.

Christmas break was wonderful. We got to see both our families, which was nice. We were very lucky, our break was a WHOLE month. Poor Hilary only got about two weeks, which is sad because we would have loved to see her more. We also missed Heather, Jon, and Asher, though we were lucky enough to see them for a couple of hours one night. It was weird not having them there, but I completely understand the splitting time between the families. It is a hard thing to juggle two families, but we love them both so much.

The start of this semester marks something else exciting. In February Drew and I will celebrate our six month anniversary. It's amazing how fast time has flown by, but I've loved every minute of it. Also new this semester is the fact that I will finally be starting my education classes. I'm so excited because it means that I am starting to get closer to the goal. It also means that I will be taking classes in the subject I am completely interested in. Drew has also started a lot of his upper level classes. If everything works out according to plan he will have his degree by the end of the next school year! We are both so excited and can't wait for what's ahead this semester.

Debate..

Drew and I finally went to our first debate tournament together. The tournament was at Lewis and Clark University in Portland, Oregon. The best way I can describe it would be to call it a learning experience. Drew and his partner Jordan did amazing. They made it into the bracket for quarter final rounds. They were the only team to make it past the preliminary rounds. I am so proud of them. Drew also won first place with his informative speech. He is doing amazing in debate and speech, I am so proud of him.

My original partner this weekend couldn't actually make it, so the coach put me with Randi. We were both told this as we got on the bus to head to Portland. Needless to say, we were both a little shocked. We had never even spoken to each other. Randi hadn't even expected to debate that weekend! As we got to know each other it was great, I was excited to be with a partner who wanted to have fun more than anything else. She wasn't so worried about us not winning, and just wanted to learn and enjoy debate. I am so happy now that I had the chance to debate with her, she made this weekend lots of fun. And we even were relatively successful. We were only about four or five speaker points away from breaking into the octa finals round. We won exactly half our rounds, and considering I haven't done debate in a few years and this is Randi's first time ever doing debate, I wouldn't say it was too bad.

We left for the tournament on Thursday and didn't get back to Boise until Monday. It was a really long weekend! When we finally got into town it was amazing to be able to go back to our own apartment. Drew and I were talking last night (when we got home) about how this apartment really has become our home now. We love it and I think that the reason we have made it a home is because so much love is in that house. Especially when we're there together. It's an amazing feeling to have somewhere you can be and feel safe and loved.

Anyway, things are still going great and I can't wait for the beginning of November when we get to go to Idaho Falls to see family and friends. My parents and two sisters are thinking about coming up this weekend. I really hope they do, I would love to see all of them! It's amazing how much you can actually miss your family! I can't wait to see everyone, hopefully it is really soon...

Here's to a great start.

Okay, this is my first post on my brand-new blog! Yeah for me! When I told Drew, my husby (that's my new word for husband, because only old people have husbands), that I was going to start this blog he just rolled his eyes at me. It's become the sign of, "you can do it if you want, but I still think you're crazy." It's okay though, I like being crazy. Anyway, I guess I should give a little information about us (and for those of you who know us, just ignore this part).

Drew and I have been married only a month, and yes, it is the best thing ever! We are both going to school at Boise State University and love it, even though sometimes we wish it was over with. Drew is the most amazing thing ever, and I don't even have to ask him to do the dishes. Yep, you heard me right, he's a man that does the dishes without making me nag! If everything goes according to plan (which it probably won't) Drew will graduate in two years and hopefully get a job somewhere (he wants to be a teacher). I will hopefully graduate in three and I also want to be a teacher.

We love being married and being together. I guess this blog is dedicated to what I call the "misadventures", which for me means the things that happen in life that you don't really plan on. So, here is our blog... We hope you enjoy.

P.S. Heather, I finally did it. Thanks for the push!