I Love My Family! :)

Don't have time to blog long. But I had to post a few pics of my short trip to Abilene to see little Ava and the fam! My sister, aunt, and Mom (who I hadn't seen since Christmas!) all drove to Abilene and I met them there for a short little 2 day trip! We pretty much just hung around in PJ's and talked, which was GREAT! We missed Jamie & didn't feel the group was complete without her. It was so fun to watch Linds be a Mom! She is a natural. So calm and makes it look easy!! Enjoy the pics of little Ava. I know I took a lot but I couldn't get enough!!

COMPS!!!!!!!!!!

I passed COMPS!! This is a delayed post b/c I had to re-take one that I didn't pass, but as of today I have officially passed ALL 10 of them! I will be graduating in May for sure now!! What a relief!! I mean you can't even imagine!! I have been worried about these tests for 5 yrs!! Thank you Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great day!

Wonderful day! Got up and went to our fav Lubbock breakfast spot, The Slide Breakfast House, for some yummy sweet potato pancakes and omelets and then headed home for a wonderful relaxing day. However, I am embarrassed to admit that we accidentally SLEPT through church! That is super depressing to me b/c I LOVE Sunday mornings. The problem was that we slept through the 8:30am service & our church is in between buildings right now and have been so crowded at 10:00 and 11:30 they have had to turn ppl away. They have asked the members to go on Saturday night or at 8:30 on Sunday's to assure space for new people that may have never been to church. But we couldn't go Saturday and didn't know if we should take up a spot in the late ones today....so we went out to breakfast instead.

Besides that I worked on some school stuff and Lance applied for jobs and then we collectively pulled our culinary skills to create a super delicious vegetable stew for dinner. It definitely hit the spot since it had been chiiiiiily today!

Speaking of looking for jobs...it's kinda tough! I know we will both get jobs and be where we are supposed to be but it is a big giant question mark right now. Lance has applied with lots of colleges around the country (e.g., Florida, Auburn, Colorado State, Rice etc.). He has also applied with the corporate office with the YMCA in Houston and the Rockets. We have NO idea where we will end up and it is kinda scary/exciting thinking about where we will be this time next year! I guess only time will tell.

Ok I am sleepy and think I am going to hang out with the hubby.

Adios.

I don't like you.

I have been in the house all day working on school stuff and was getting a little stir crazy. So, I decided I would get up, stretch my legs, and feed the fish. I never feed the fish, clean the tank, or even really acknowledge the thing. That is all Lance. But since I was in the mood to do something else for a bit (as is evidenced by this little post), I though I would feed the fish. I shook in some food and he didn't seem to notice so I put my finger in the water to get his attention. HE ATTACKED ME! He shot up from the bottom of his bowl and tried to bite me with his little mouth! Not that I could even feel it, but I don't like him. He stares at me when I am cooking and just really kinda freaks me out. Ok that's all, I am going to go for a little jog. I need to get some fresh air and don't wanna be in the house with the evil fish! :)

Dear God, please find us jobs some place warm.....

It has been WIIINTER here lately. It hit us really hard Thursday morning in the form is freezing rain, and I do mean freezing rain. It took some very careful walking to get down the steps in our apartment that morning b/c not only were the steps frozen, so where the hand rails. Scary!! About midway through the morning I was sitting at my therapy table playing domino's with some ladies and I looked outside and saw the biggest snowflakes I have ever seen and in less than an hour all you could see was white! So pretty!!

However, at 12:00 as I was driving home (school got cancelled!) it was quite different! If you don't know I have a little Volkswagen Beetle and a drift blew up behind my car that was taller than me and I was stuck! I finally got a guy with a shovel to help me carve out a driving path and then was able to get the remaining snow/ice out from behind my car with my coffee cup from that morning! Amusing I must say but VERY cold!!

This was my front porch when I got home. We live on the second floor! Crazy right!?
Some more pretty snow outside the apartment. This was nothing compared to the next morning!

and some more.

This was my car window the next day as I got in to have lunch with a friend!

Taryn to the rescue after lunch!! I was so glad she had a scraper b/c I had kind of a long drive to a hair apt!

I have seen the terrible side of snow though! Now that it is starting to warm up the snow is all melting and GIANT icicles are falling everywhere at my apartment. Like no exaggeration, they could hurt you! And it is slush everywhere and my feet have been wet for days! Yucky!! How can something so pretty turn into something so nasty in just a few days??

God, if you are preparing me for life up north please reconsider! Thank you! :)

Perfect baby girl!! :)

The highlight of this week has of course been the arrival of Miss Ava Reese Campbell!!! Can you believe how absolutely adorable and chubby this little baby girl is!? I was able to drive down to Abilene and spend a few hours with little Ava and the family and it was SOOO worth the drive. She is perfect, cuddly, makes the cutest little sounds, and has the best chubbiest cheeks I have ever seen on a baby (probably b/c she was almost 9 lbs!). Lindsey & Jason seem to be doing great as well and are already such great parents!!

(In case you don't know Ava is my cousin Lindsey's baby)

Cooking......

I have a request for all of my blog readers....male or female, but I am guessing the responses will be mainly female. :) But I was on the phone with my mom the other day telling her how I cook the same things over and over. I actually got a cookbook from my aunt as a wedding gift and it's full of family recipes. However, I ONLY cook from it and think I need to branch out. However, cooking kinda overwhelms me and I get nervous trying new things.

SO if you have the time and would like to post your "easy, do it all the time recipie" I would LOVE it!!

Thanks in advance!!