A Season of Giving!

This time of year is my favorite. Not only do we get to enjoy amazing food, but we get to enjoy some fun times with family and friends. I love getting the decorations out and decorating for Christmas and seeing everyone elses decorations as well. Brad and I enjoy all the fun things you can do during this season like sledding, snowboarding, and ice skating. The only thing about this season that i am not a huge fan of is the cold weather. I love the snow at first, but then when its been around for a while and gets slushy and the salt used to melt the ice leaves a salt line at the bottom of your jeans.....it just gets annoying. But i wouldn't want to be anywhere where I couldn't see God's beauty during all of the four seasons.
This year Brad and I are thankful for so many things. We are so thankful to have such amazing families who care so much for us, who would drop anything for us. We are also thankful to have a warm home and everything inside of it. We are so blessed with what we have, we don't realize it sometimes. We are extremely thankful for the friendship and relationship that we have with each other, and pray that we are reflecting God's image with everything that we do. We give HIM the glory for everything we have!
To update everyone on what we have been doing.........
Well Brad is still coaching his wrestling team and loves it, and so do I...lol. Brad tends to correct me when I don't use the proper 'wrestling' language. For instance they are "meets" not "games". He is teaching me what the different moves are called and how it is scored. I don't know much about wrestling now, but i am sure I will be a good wrestling coach's wife by the end. My favorite part of it all is watching those little kids try their hardest and when one of them pins the other and looks at the crowd for their parents and gives them a thumbs up with a big grin just melts my heart. He coaches a group that ranges from 1st graders to 6th graders. The little one's are just so adorable! Well besides coaching and working on small projects in the house, Brad is busy working. He is doing so well with this new job, he learns more everyday and I love the stories he tells me when he comes home. Or when he calls me during the day and is so excited to tell me something that happened or what he did, I love him so much! He is such a hard working individual and I am so thankful for everything that he does for us.
Whats going on with me.......well I am busy with school, school, and more school. I am so glad that this is my last year. I am almost done with my first full semester and could not be happier. Another positive to this time of the year.....less school and more family time. The week after Thanksgiving is my last clinical rotation for this semester. I have another big test coming up the week after thanksgiving so I am busy studying for that, I have a paper I need to write but its only about five pages that is due the first week of december, and another paper about 8 pages long on the second week of december. The papers shouldn't be to bad to write cause they aren't to long, but this test is one I need to do well on. So until summer my life consists of studying. I am also working at the hospital still, I really enjoy it and am hoping that when I graduate I can easily get a job there or somewhere else (as long as we don't move away from the area). The only thing about working in the hospital is that you are around so many people who are sick and that can take a toll on you. I have been sick more times this year than I have in such a long time. I am trying to get over a terrible cough right now, but doesn't seem to be breaking up. I am hoping I will feel better in time to enjoy my time with family on Thanksgiving and the day after for black friday. Last year I didn't have black friday off so I am so excited to be out there hours before the sun rises to get some good deals.

Well I better end there as I need to get started on some studying. I love having this entire week of school off, I can actually get some things done. I would love to put some christmas decorations up, but I should wait til Thanksgiving is over......we will see if I can wait. My only concern about the decorations: hopeing Bentley will stay out of them this year, no eating ornaments. Well hope you all give thanks for everything you have and enjoy your time with your family during this holiday season.

Happy Thanksgiving!