A Big Week

This past week has been a very eventful one for our family. First off I want to Congratulate my brother Christian who graduated from BYU. Good work little brother! I am very proud of him, he has worked hard at school and his on-campus job, got good grades and has now moved on to an exciting career in Seattle with Microsoft. So we are going to have to save our pennies to go and visit him sometime. My parents and little sister went out for his graduation and are now helping him move into his new place in Bellevue. I am looking forward to hearing how it all went.

Back on the homefront here in Greensboro Bevan quit his job at UPS so that he could focus on his graduate studies which he started this past week. He has worked like a dog for the past three years at a 30-plus hour a week job being a supervisor at UPS as well as being a full time student and a full time husband/father as well (There seriosuly are not enough hours in a day!). Since he has been working the midnight shift for the past several years our family is under going quite a schedhule change. I know that Liam loves having a dad around to help put him to bed...as well as a Dad who wakes up in the morning at the same time that he does. Since having a Dad who is gone all night is all Liam has ever known in his three years of existence he has been in heaven, especially since he is such a Daddy's boy. It makes me really glad that they are having more time togethor.

This whole change has been fabulous for me as well, last weekend all four of us were playing in the living room and having a fun/silly time and I though to myself..."This must be what life is like for normal people. They have time to talk to each other and can enjoy each others company occasionally because nobody has to rush out the door by 9:30 p.m." This past summer has been particularily taxing because although Bevan was not in summer classes he was working during the day at one job and during the night at his other, it was a split schedhule of about 65 hours a week, sleep was very sparse for poor Bevan. So this sudden change has been quite a luxury for us. I have to pinch myself every night when I realize that I don't have to cook dinner, do the dishes, give the boys a bath, read them stories, fold the laundry etc..all by myself. I have realized it is really nice to have a husband around! I think though that Bevan has discovered that I have become quite a bed hog over the past three years...since its just been me every night apparently I have taken to sleeping on a diagonal and using up the whole bed. It's a bad habit I am going to have to break.

Bevan seems to be really excited about all of his master's courses, he is taking a mix of accounting and MBA courses. There has also been some official schmoozing taking place at socials etc. put on by different accounting firms for the students, they are trying to woo them into internships apparently. Bevan got taken out to a neat restaurant downtwon yesterday that I have been wanting to go to for sometime, so I was pretty excited to hear what it was like as well as jealous since he wasn't able to bring a date! There is a big "Meet the Firms" event on Campus on Monday night that is going to be a big deal for him. I forgot to take his suit to the dry cleaners this weekend so I hope that I can find somebody with a one day service. Anyhow, he will have to let you know more himself what he has been up to schoolwise.

I had my first teacher workday on Wednesday morning. It went pretty well, I got to meet all the other teachers and started to set up the classroom I wil be working in. I will be with the 12-18 month old children on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. After we got the room done there was a lovely little luncheon put on by the program directors. I think I am going to like getting out of the house a couple mornings a week and being around other adults consistenly. Not to mention the BIG bonus of not having to factor preschool tuition into our budget. The boys are very active with Asher starting to demonstrate that he has just as much capability as his older brother. He is all over the place, he crawls around really fast and wants to be into every thing Liam is into...which of course perturbs Liam just a bit. Liam is all about the Hummer Happy Meal toys at McDonald's right now (If my 16 year old self knew that I would ever take my children there she would have been apalled).

Anyhow, all in all its been a full week. And I am sure life is only going to get busier as fall progresses and school gets into full swing. I am excited for it though. I have never been a summer person, it always seemed to me that life was on hold until September when everything would come back to life again with the new school year. And this year all four of us are heading back as a family in one capacity or another (Bevan at Grad school, me working at the preschool, Liam and Asher attending preschool), it is good times.