Just a few pics

Pretty Lilly

A visit with my Nanny


Long-arm self shot

Lilly's first soccer practice

My sweet sweet Kenneth, getting so big.

Too much studying makes my brain mushy

I am only a month into this semester's classes. I was looking forward to my Anatomy and Physiology so much, but not so much looking forward to my Statistics. Well the order of those two has really turned around and bitten me in the butt. I had no idea that so much info could be shoved into 6 hours per week. After pages and pages of notes and lecture I go to the lab the next class. Lab should be easier right?! Well I thought it would be, but oh no. I've been up to my Zygomatic bone in work.(That's one of the 200 lovely terms that we have to memorize by next class.) Exam 1 is coming up and I am dreading it so so much. I have to keep getting A's in my classes. I don't want anything else. I wonder if I will get what I want with it. Probably not.
So tomorrow starts a long weekend for the kids. Chris will get home from yet another trip tomorrow too. So we will start our weekend of fun. Well I guess they will. I need to spend 2 days of the 3 day weekend in the library.
And speaking of Chris and his traveling. It's pretty sad when I forget where he is. Since he started September he has been in Indiana, Michigan, Colorado, and now Oklahoma. Next week it is Kansas and somewhere else I don't remember. He is certainly racking up some serious frequent flier miles and points for hotels. Maybe I'll get to take a vacation when it's all over.

The newest Smith

This is Hank. He is the newest Smith, and by newest I mean since February. He is the sweetest big 'ole goof ball ever! I love this dang dog, and all of his slobbers and hair (geeze the hair is INSANE). He is super protective of the kids. He knows his kids, and he will follow them wherever they go. He loves them as much as they love him. We got him from the Human Society here in Memphis, and I can't believe that we got so lucky to find him. He completes our family.

It's been a year?!

Wow, time sure flies when you're having fun doesn't it? I can't believe that we have been living in Tennesse for over a year now. Chris is about halfway through shore duty. Kenneth is a first grader. Adrianna started middle school. Lilly is a whopping 4 years old and in preschool, and me, well I've started school myself. I'm in my second semester of college and loving it. At 26, I'm starting school a little late in the game, but oh well. It is what it is. I've had 8 years at home taking care of one kid or another, and now I'm doing what I should have done a long time ago. It's tough going most of the time. Even with me only taking a couple classes per semester I am beyond busy! Who knew 3 kids, a husband that travels all the dang time, 2 soccer players, a cub scout, and a girl scout who is also in band could take up so much of someones time?! And then throw into that mix about 20 hours of school and school work. Whew, makes me tired just thinking about it. But we are chugging right along. I'm sure that whoever was reading isn't anymore, but that's okay. Here we are alive and well.