Mini Vacation

The last two days have been so great! Let me just start off by saying that Leslie had a rough week last week. It started with a 6 am appointment in Alexandria (which is an hour away from Natchitoches) on Wednesday, and a trip to LSU that afternoon with the baseball team and back late that night. Then back to Alexandria at 8am the next morning. That afternoon they were leaving for San Antonio for the weekend, so when he got home he had just enough time to shower, eat lunch, and pack before getting back on the bus, and when he got home the power was out. Nevertheless, he made it to campus in time to get on the bus and head to San Antonio where they had baseball games Friday, Saturday and Sunday and ate Luby's FIVE times in one weekend. All this time only getting a tiny bit grumpy from the lack of sleep. I felt like I didn't see him all week! In the meantime, I enjoyed my class all day on Friday, my parents came to see me on their way home from Florida Friday night, and we had a baby shower on Saturday for three girls in my Sunday School class!

This is not the point of my post, but since I didn't include it in my last post, here are some cute pictures of our shower decorations!

On Tuesday the rain started and didn't stop! Leslie and I came home to eat some lunch and he found out that he didn't have to work any more for the rest of the day! That was a huge treat! So we relaxed and watched a bunch of SVU and were super lazy until our landlord called and told us we were under a tornado watch. We got in the closet and did some laundry and worked on our Bible studies and played some scrabble. THEN we found out that campus would be closed on Wednesday! We got to sleep in on Wednesday and be lazy some more and eat lunch together before he went to work and I went to volunteer. My night class was canceled, so my group got out of providing dinner for the class for the evening, and Leslie and I had a little date night and went to Hana. It was only a day and a half, but it was so nice just to relax and hang out together :). Here are some pictures from our crazy rain!



Usually a dock- all you could see were the benches!



On campus- none of this is usually water!

Two posts in one week! Maybe I really will start posting more often this time :)

Lately...

Oh my. I can’t believe I’ve waited this long to write a blog, but looks like I have again! Leslie keeps reminding me that I have a blog, but it apparently hasn’t been helping.

Leslie and I have both been SUPER busy this semester. Leslie’s been working with the baseball team, finishing up his thesis, teaching three classes, and working on his internship. Just thinking about his schedule lately makes me tired! The baseball team plays on either Tuesday or Wednesday (or occasionally both) and then every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and they practice every other day of the week. The first time I had to stay home alone when he was out of town I freaked out and couldn’t sleep, but thankfully I’ve gotten over that now.

This semester I have two classes that I go to every week, one “hybrid” class that I went to some Fridays from 9-4 in addition to the online part, and one class that is completely online. I’m also working on my research proposal this semester, and it’s just now getting stressful. Everyone was trying to be nice to make everything due before Spring Break, but it’s making the few weeks before very crazy! My work schedule is the same this semester, and thankfully they’re very flexible as always! I’m going with several classmates and the internship counseling students to teach a suicide prevention curriculum that we wrote at the end of March, and I’m really excited about it!

Aside from school and work, Leslie and I are both in men’s/women’s bible studies that we’re really enjoying. I’m in a Beth Moore study on James that I’m loving! We’re so blessed to have such a wonderful church family! Leslie and I started the process of becoming sponsors for someone at the girls’ home before Christmas, and we finally got assigned to someone at the end of January! She is 17 and a junior in high school. She calls us to talk during the week, comes to church with us on Sunday in the morning and evening, and we tutor her on Monday nights! Now that we’ve gotten to know her a little bit better we’re also able to take her out to do things. Last week we took her to see The Lorax and next weekend if the weather is nice I’m planning to take her to one of the NSU baseball games. We’re really enjoying our time with her and we’re so glad that we decided to become sponsors J

Since Nanny J requested I post about Valentine’s Day, I will include that we had a great first V-Day as a married couple. I got home from work before Leslie did and he had left me pretty flowers hidden around the house with notes that I had to find. When he got home from work we skipped out on our usual eating in and watching sci-fi movie Valentine’s tradition and went out for a yummy steak.

My parents and Leslie’s parents have gotten to visit us since last time I posted! We had lots of fun visiting, watching baseball, eating good food, and shopping!

I feel sure there’s a lot I’ve forgotten, but that’s just going to have to be good enough for now! I’m loving the warm weather and hope it’s here to stay!