2014 is here!
I have been meaning to write a blog every Sunday but those have turned into days when Chip and I can chill and be happy just hanging at the house not being on social media or watching TV. Since school started it has been our day for us! We love it!
Christmas was great! Except I had strep. Blah blah blah, I ended up having strep through Christmas and then on to New Years also, so we brought in the New Year in bed, with soup and movies and two sickies (aren't I so nice, I passed on my ickyness to Chip, right after he got food poisoning). 2013 wasn't a bad year by any means but it wasn't anything remotely very exciting. I went to school literally all year, Spring, two summer sessions, and fall. It was only fitting to see the year out by getting sick haha
But the new year is here and we are rip rearin' to go!!!
We made a list of all the fun adventures we have planned and ready to go for the year. They aren't a bucket list, but more of an itinerary. I really feel like this year is the year of the Goutcher. We have lots of fun trips planned, lots of friends are getting married and having babies and we get to celebrate with them. We also graduate WNMU this year. I couldn't be happier!! I am literally already counting down the days. School isn't my thing so only having one year left is like dangling a Beggin' Strip in front of a dog.
We run our first half marathon this week!!
I am ready for it to be over, but I also can't believe how far I have come in such a short amount of time. If you had told me November 1st 2013 that I would run a half marathon I would have outright laughed at you, but now I KNOW that this is something I can do. Chip is pretty excited too, I think he is more amped than I am, running isn't necessarily my thing but putting this on a list as a task made it easier to accomplish for me. I live for lists.
I started a new job at the school. I am now in the Purchasing Department. I like it, its a lot of paper shuffling and organizing, I love organizing. the people are pretty nice and I am just really grateful that I was able to get a job. My previous department ran out of funding for my job the day after school got out. I was bummed but I was never worried, the Lord has always taken care of Chip and I and I knew something would work out one way or another.
We are looking seriously at Grad Schools now and will take a big trip to go visit + or - 10 grad schools in May. This will be a vacation/National Park/ Road Trip/College Trip for us. We will be gone probably about 3 weeks and we are stoked! This will be an awesome way for us to feel out the schools, the atmosphere of the programs we are looking at and the towns that we would potentially be moving to.
And for the fun part, a few fun things we have been up to since I blogged last...in no particular order. Also my blogger won't let me change the size of the pictures for some reason :( Sorry :(
Me and the newest nephew Baby J :)
I made this diaper bassinet with Chip's help for my friend Mal's baby shower, it was fun to make and it was a big hit!!
A very sick New Year's Eve.
I promised Chip I would try to not be a Grinch this year, so we ate made a ginger bread house!
When we went to ABQ before Christmas we were able to stop in and see Mal and Mitch and their pretty new house!
Mal and I at her baby shower, I can't wait to meet Grace!
Personally I like this picture better haha
Our 10 miler right before we got sick. It snowed, uphill, both ways. But actually that was the truth of it!
We attended a Zombie Wedding of Awesomeness.
Us with the crazy Payne kids, Marianne was asleep or cranky haha I can't remember, but she is there in spirit in the form of a magnet of her face :)
This little guy got lost, and then found his way home later that day last week. Dog gone it he is stinkin' cute, his 11th birthday was January 11th! :) My sweet boy Elmo.
First day of school!
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