School

School has been done and over with for about a month and a half. It was an interesting semester for me being pregnant and all. Pregnancy brain is REAL!! I had to study so much harder than usual only to achieve results that were slightly below what I normally achieved. I was oober forgetful and spent a lot of time at the library going over and over and over information for tests. In mind I kept thinking "this is easy and I should be able to remember this," only to forget it minutes later. I'm convinced that only with the help of my Heavenly Father was I able to pull out another 4.0 semester. I was getting pretty worried that it wasn't going to be possible and that I was going to end up with a B in one or two of my classes. Once grades were turned in I was very pleasantly surprised to see all four classes were A's. I was also able to receive my certificate of advanced achievement from Institute. I feel pretty accomplished.

Spring 2012 semester was Daniel's last. He was, and is, so very glad to be done with school. Graduation was great. Daniel's family came over from Lyman to watch him graduate. Commencement wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The worst part was waiting while all the graduates names were read. The speaker was entertaining and kept it fairly short and sweet. Daniel got a Bachelors Degree in Mathematics. He's one smart cookie :)

The internship that Daniel fell into in Fall 2011 turned into a full time job and career come January 2012. With that being said he was one busy man once again. Full-time student and full-time at the office. His job title is a data analyst. Now that he's graduated he has begun taking and studying for his actuary nine exams. Its recommended that before taking each exam you should study for 300 hours! Ridiculous....And he thought he was getting away from "school." Nope. More studying for him over the next several years. An actuary is basically an insurance mathematician. He'll be getting paid to tell Mountain West Farm Bureau what their rates should be. He's loving his job! Oh yeah and since this job opportunity has come along it looks like we will be living in Laramie for at least the next ten years. Never would I have thought this would be the case once we had both graduated.

A week or so after finals I was notified of where I would be doing my student teaching next spring. I'll be student teaching in Cheyenne at Central High School. i wasn't very excited at first because my first choice was to be placed here in Laramie since our son would only be seven months old. Commuting back and forth is going to be interesting depending on what winter is like this year. luckily we have several people in Cheyenne that have already offered to let me stay with them in case the roads over the summit close. I've e-mailed my mentor teacher and she seems very nice and likable. I hope that semester flies by so that I can get graduated and start being a stay at home mom for my little man.

This next school year is gonna be a rough one for me being away from our little one.

Valentines Day, My Birthday, and the Brown & Gold Ball

These dates were obviously months ago, but I'm finally getting around to posting about them.

Valentines Day was a fun day, as it always is, with Daniel. He never ceases to be able to surprise me with the gifts that he gets me. This year he got a canvas made with one of our wedding pictures on it. It's beautiful and was pretty thoughtful on his part. It's the only picture from our wedding that we have printed and is now on display. As of right now I'm not really sure what I got Daniel for the occasion...oops! We also got to enjoy dinner and a movie together.

My birthday rolled around in March and once again Daniel was full of surprises. He kept asking what I wanted for my birthday, but the only answers I could come up with involved getting things for the baby. Man, oh man, I had baby on the brain. I just wanted to go out and get everything for our little man.I could've cared less if I had gotten anything for myself.  He told me that wouldn't do and that it had to be something for me. I couldn't think of anything I needed so I wasn't even able to give him a direction to work toward. I had no clue what I was going to be getting. We went to dinner and got breakfast at Village Inn. YUM! (I love breakfast any time of day!) He ended up getting me two photo sessions with a local photographer (also one of our friends, and Daniels boss's wife)...one for maternity pictures and the other for newborn photos. She does great work and I was oh so every excited. It was such a thoughtful gift. On top of that he had also bought me a camcorder, telling me that I'd need it once the baby got here. Fun times :)

The Brown & Gold Ball is always a fun event to attend.I had told Daniel that maybe we shouldn't go this year because I was pretty sure that I didn't have a formal gown that would fit my very pregnant belly. Even with that said he came home with tickets and the stressing began. What the heck was I supposed to wear?! The dress code is formal and I was confident that none of my dresses would make the cut. I began looking through my closet once again and decided that I should just try on this pink dress that I had worn to one of my high school proms. I was fully prepared to be depressed by not being able to fit into anything. Much to my surprise....it was stretchy! It fit over my belly and I now had something to wear. Whew....that was close! I certainly wasn't going to go buy something new and looking more casual than formal would've been the only other option.


The Ball is a great time to get out for a fancy evening without the fancy cost. A three course meal, guest speaker, and a night of dancing is sure to be a hit. We enjoyed every minute and I even got Daniel to get out on the dance floor for longer than 5 seconds. Dinner was fantabulous and the company was even better.

(Please excuse the sideways pictures, I don't want to reload them lol)