Work, school, and....

Well both Craig and I graduated this year. Craig will actually be done with his second bachelors degree which is in chemistry, in August. He had to take the second half of Spanish this summer. (Which he hates) He is working in a Chemistry lab on campus this summer and for the next two years he will be working on his masters degree in science education. Half of his classes will be in Education and the other half will be in Chemistry. He also works for the local newspaper and fills machines and has a driving paper route that he will continue to do.
As for me I am enjoying my free time. I still work for the school district as a bus aide. School will be done June 3. Then I plan to help with summer school. I also work for the city as a scorekeeper for city league softball at night. I really enjoy it except that it gets cold at night. But it is nice because Craig plays so I get to watch him and get paid for it! I plan to work for the school district through December.
We are also moving to an apartment in August. Craig's sister and her family moved back for Graduate school and are going to be living in the house. For now we are all living together till we are able to move out.
And now for the the big news! We are going to have a baby!!!! I am 11 weeks along and my due date is Dec. 15. We are very excited and nervous for whats to come!

Graduation and my coat

It's official, I am a graduate! It is crazy to be done. I am not quite sure what to do with myself. My parents and sister and her kids were able to come down and spend the weekend with us. It was great. We had fun.
For my last sewing class (Fiber Arts) we have to make a coat, using at least four different tech. that we had learned in class. For my coat I did twin needle, beading, machine embroidery, and painted my lining. I was very excited how good my coat turned out. I looked forward to wearing it. It will be on display at the American Heritage Center all summer. We had to name our coat and I named mine My Happy Ending.





This is my lining that I painted.

Spring Break

It has been awhile since I have posted anything. Well not much has been going on beside school and this past week has been our spring break. It has been super nice not having school or work! We really didn't do too much over the break. At the beginning of the week we went to Salt Lake to stay with Craig's brother and his family. His sister from Houston was there and so was Craig's other brother who lives in Mtn. View. We stayed there friday night and hung out Sat. till 4 and then headed to Mtn. View for my friend's wedding. It was great seeing all my friends from high school. My parents and my sister come home from Vegas on Sunday night and we hung out with them. We came home on Monday, it was a quick trip but really fun.
Today I was able to see my sister in law, Erica and my niece Alayna! She is so cute!

Here is our nephew Camden, We don't get to see him much so he took awhile to get use to us.


This is our other nephew Blake, he is from Houston and loves the snow, that is one reason why they came up, so he could take skiing lessons. The girl is Aubrianna, Camden's sister.

Cute Alayna!

25 random things

So I did this thing on facebook and thought it would be fun to post on my blog.

25 random things
1. I love to sew, crochet and be crafty.
2. I will graduate this may and I am super excited.
3. I am excited to go to South Africa.
4. I hate when food on my plate touches other food. I also have to eat all of one kind of food at a time and work around the plate.
5. I kicked Craig to the curb 3 times before we got married.
6. I am thankful for Craig. He always makes me laugh, and I love him so much!
7. Juno is one of my favorite movies.
8. I have never broken a bone.
9. I have been a bus aide for Albany county school for the past 4 years.
10. I hated baseball growing up, I would hate it when my dad would always.
watch it, and then I married Craig and he loves it. Well he has got me hooked now (I think that's because the Rookies made that run to the World Series) I really like going to the rookies games.
11. I really love to read, I have to say that Harry Potter is one of my favorite series also I really enjoyed the Twilight series.
12. My birthday is Sept. 11 and I will always remember my 15th birthday like it was yesterday.
13. I love to buy clothes but my real weaknesses are shoes and earrings.
14. The Little Mermaid is my all time favorite Disney movie.
15. I love to play Tripoley( thank you Randy and Ashley Luck).
16. I am addicted to blogging!
18. When I was a junior in high school my parents took me and my friend Savannah to Hawaii! To this day my brother Phillip is still upset about it.
19. I look forward to having a family.
20. I am hooked on That 70's Show. It cracks me up.
21. One thing that drives me crazy is when you go to check out at the self checkout and the person in front of you is trying to check out produce!
22. I love popcorn, especially pour over cheddar.
23. Dr. Pepper is my favorite pop.
24. When I was in first grade I had to go to speech therapy because I could not pronounce my r's.
25. I could live off cold cereal.

Christmas, Nativity set, and Noah's Ark!

Our Christmas was great! Craig and I spent Christmas in Laramie. It was just us two but we had fun! We really didn't know what we wanted for Christmas so we bought ourselves a ipod touch. We got a few movies and games and that was it. It was very nice. We went up to Riverton and Worland the 28th. We were able to see the new baby Paxton! He is a cutie! Then we went up to Worland and stayed with Kyla and Kelly till Tuesday. We had fun with them. Ashlyn and Jace were sick but we still had fun with them. Then Tuesday we headed to Mtn. View for friends reception. Then came home Wednesday! It was a quick trip but we had fun! For New Years we played games with my brother Phillip and the Lucks. We had so much fun ringing in the New Year.
So Craig parents sent us a Nativity Set from South Africa on Nov.4 and I have been waiting for it to come. I was hoping it would be here for Christmas but it didn't show up. After 2 months of waiting it showed up today! I am so happy. They also sent a Noah's ark set, it is so cool.
Here is Paxton!


Here is Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus


Here are the Shepards and sheep


Here are the Wisemen and Angel


Here is the Noah's Ark set

Stockings

Here are our stockings that I finally got done!

Candy Cane Cookies

Here was our attempt at the famous Markum family candy cane cookies! Plus pictures of some decorations.

This is the dough before we rolled it out.


Here they are before we put them into the oven.


Finished product


Our Christmas tree!