And the calling goes to...

Another busy week has come and gone, full of fun surprises and yet more stress to come with everyday work and school. It all started on Sunday when the member of our bishopric called Peter in to meet with him, which could only mean two things- either he did something so bad in the past however-many weeks we've been there or he's getting a calling. Seeing as we don't really know anyone in the ward just yet and with us being too busy to actually do anything wrong, I figured that it was probably the latter. Being the supportive wife that I am, I went with him to church about a half hour early (that and he took the car and I really didn't want to walk to church). When a counselor finally opened up his door, I was surprised that he not only invited Peter into his office, but me as well. We both walked in and sat down to the first thing that came out of the counselor's mouth, "Well, I'm sure you guys have probably figured why we called you here." We both nodded and Peter, joking around, said, "If it's not a nursery calling, we won't take it."

The counselor went silent and looked at me. "Actually we really wanted to call you guys to be our nursery leaders."

Peter and I both cheered and gave each other high fives and instantly accepted it. We had our first lesson that very day and we were very excited to meet the little ones that we would be teaching. The first kid showed up and, like we thought, started crying when his mom left. I instantly picked him up and started rocking him back and forth and within five minutes he was calm, the same thing happened with kid #2. Kid #3 walked around with an "it's all good" face on and she gave us no grief at all. All the other kids started coming in and we had a great time calming them down and trying to entertain them so they didn't think about how their mom's left them in a room with two strange people. At one point, one of the girls wouldn't stop giving me the look of death as we were having singing time and Peter couldn't stop laughing about while I was trying not to notice.
We were only in there for an hour but it was great and we can't wait to get to know our kids more. Hopefully that girl will stop giving me that look but I would say that's unlikely.

One week later...

This week has been INSANE! Let me tell you!
It started off with classes being ridiculous! All the teachers must have gotten the memo that I'm close to finishing school because they decided to drop all these assignments and tests on me. So I wasn't the most relaxed this week which led to me getting an incredibly bad cold. So poor Peter had to deal with not only me bawling my eyes out cause of school, but hearing gross sniffles and Flem-contained cough along with my crying for the whole week. Bless his heart! On top of all of that, our toilet overflowed so the first few days of our week, there was water everywhere! And Peter had to deal with that too because I was too nervous about school!!! I'm so grateful for his patience and his willingness to help me in anyway he can. Don't know why he picked me but I'm sure glad he did!
Now that this week is over, school is not being so overwhelming, the bathroom floor is dry, and my cold is slowly going away, I'm hoping that I can be able relax a little more and not be so overwhelmed with everything from now on.
I got today off of work, which was really strange. I never get Saturday's off of work. And let me tell you, it was SO NICE to just be able to sleep in and to not have to be able to worry about anything. Peter had to work so I just hung out at the apartment and went around town with my good friend Kylie until he was done.
There ya have it! I would go into details about the week but I don't want to bore you any more than I have with this post. Hopefully my next post won't be so "woe-is-me" or anything like that.

Until then!

Thank Goodness It's Friday!!!

So one really rare thing happened today...Peter and I both had the day off! Well kind of...

I had classes all day today. And it RAINED!!! I loved it!!! I don't know if any of you guys know this but I LOVE RAIN! I love the dark clouds, I love getting caught in it, I love the smell of it, I love the sound of it, I just love everything about rain! Peter on the other hand wasn't too happy with it. Said it reminded him of his mission where it rained all the time. But I didn't let it put a damper on my rain loving spirit. After classes, Peter went to work for a couple hours at his part time job at Farmer's Insurance. After that, Peter and I went to walk to a local farmer's market. The whole farmer's market took over about about half of the Taco Bell parking lot but it was still fun to walk around and see all the fun things that people put together. This includes an all girl band of three middle aged women singing old songs that we forgot existed while asking for donations so they could make an album, a man named Fritz selling his bratwurst from his homeland in Germany, and a Latino woman asking us to sign a petition asking the Chamber of Commerce to stop referring to Independence Day as "Whoopee Day" (yes, we did sign it...)
After walking around the farmer's market 3 or 4 times, we decided to walk to Walgreen's to see if maybe they had a good movie in their Red-box for us to watch. But of course we should have realized that it was the first Friday night in a college town so of course all of the good movies were going to be out while the only movies left were a bunch of low budget films that no one has ever heard of.
We were getting tired and didn't want to walk anymore so we went back to our car and drove to Wal-Mart were we both decided that we wanted Apple Cider and Hot Chocolate to have for the night, the only problem was we didn't have any mugs...so we went shopping for mugs and I must say that it felt a lot like shopping for clothes, "Babe, which mug would look good with me holding it?" "Which one looks like it could be my mug?" After we picked our soul mugs, we went home to have our cider and to enjoy some wholesome shows consisting "Parks and Recreation" and the classic "Mr. Bean".
So all in all I would say that our day off was pretty successful. Who says married people are boring?

Man oh man!

So school has finally started and I'm personally surprised at how busy it's been keeping me. It hasn't even been a week yet! Work has been the same minus a few hours (now that I started school I'm only working part time) but I can't complain. At least I have a job right? My bed and I have slowly been growing distant due to homework and our meals have consisted of cereal and some Halloween candy Peter picked up at Wal-Mart. I'm praying we don't die by Thanksgiving due to malnutrition hahaha! Oh and did I mention that I've killed about 50,000,000 spiders since I've been here? Okay, more like 5...and they aren't the cute little tiny ones that you find every once in a while. These things are HUGE! We've set up some traps but they still like to come out and laugh at us, that is until I stomp on them 20 times...suckers...
Other than that, things have been great! Despite being incredibly busy, Peter and I still find time to sit and relax and realize how lucky we are to have each other. Only been married one and half months and we still get butterflies:) but don't tell the spiders!

Finally! Wedding Pictures!

I have been waiting forever for my wedding pictures to come! Every once in a while I would get four or five from my mom via email (that was all she could send me at a time), but it wasn't enough for me. I had to have more! Finally my parents came to visit me and brought me a disc full of wedding pictures! Obviously this isn't all of them but they look great!

First Post!

Finally we have a blog! Peter's sister, Lori, convinced us to start one and so we decided to enter the wonderful world of Bloggers. It's kind of sad though that we have finally started a blog and we have nothing of real interest to write on our first post. Oh well! We hope we get more readers and we hope to keep this updated as much as possible. We both work a lot and now that school is just around the corner, we don't know that much will be posted right away. But you never know! We might have a few minutes here and there to let everyone know what's going on in our lives.

Until then!