Christmas Slide show!

Happy New Year!

Hello all! Sorry that it has been a few months since I have blogged. We've been busy...school, work, the holidays and trying to keep up with a crawling soon to be 9 month old!

My first semester of vet school ended with 4 finals; anatomy id (of the cat, dog and pig), biochemistry, anatomy written test and physiology. I ended up with an A, B+, B, and a C for my 4 classes. Pretty good for taking 18 credit hours and being a full time momma. Next semester I have large animal anatomy (equine, bovine, ovine & caprine-horse, cow, sheep & goat), physiology, immunology, neurobiology, foundations, & pathology...22 credit hours. I guess I'll be even busier. I may also be taking a shelter medicine course that meets once a week during lunch.

Jim is busy at work and he's been working part time at a nursing home in David City. Our house projects have started...a new garage door & opener, installing electricity to the garage, and we just added a new stove for the kitchen. Next on the project list is adding more insulation in the attic and new cabinets to the kitchen. Eventually we will be remodeling the upstairs bathroom and the basement living room area.

I am enjoying my break from school to spend time with Anderson. He is growing up quickly. One day he was stationary and the next day he was crawling. Now I can't turn my back for a minute before he's crawled into the kitchen to play in the cat's drinking fountain. He's saying mama, dada and nana...and some other noises that I can only imagine what they mean. But its his own little language. When we say mama to him he always replies by saying dada. He thinks its funny and so does daddy.

We had a wonderful Christmas. The weekend before Christmas we ventured to Kimball to spend with the Barretts, Birners, Beckers and Grandma Morgan. Anderson had the biggest present "tower" and he seemed to enjoy ripping the paper. He also had fun playing with his cousins and loved Grandma & Papa's train that went around the Christmas tree. Christmas eve we went to my Aunt Cyndi & Uncle Jack's for the Galusha celebration. Anderson finally met his 2nd cousin, Jake, the Colorado state football star. Anderson must have been on Santa's nice list because our Christmas tree had lots of gifts for the boy. Included was a tickle me Elmo, a rocking cow (instead of a horse), a racetrack with cars and some books. Grandma & Grandpa Galusha hosted breakfast on Christmas day and we opened presents with them & Uncle Frank. We finished our Christmas on Wednesday at Grammy & Grampy Jackson's apartment.

The holiday season was a good one, spending quality time together as a family and seeing other family and friends. We are very blessed. We hope to see Stacey and Phil in the next month or so.

School starts back up on Jan 14th. In the meantime, I will enjoy spending time with Anderson and Jim. I hope to read a few books for pleasure before my studying begins again.

We hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday and hope that you have a happy new year!!!