Jonathan and I got back home Sunday night about 8:30 or so from our trip to Memphis, TN. We had a great time! We left Thursday morning and drove the 7 hours to Memphis and stayed through Sunday morning. We got to spend some time at Graceland seeing everything Elvis and then headed over to Sun Studios where Elvis was made famous…along with some other known guys like Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash. We went to the Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and also toured the Gibson factory and saw how they make guitars. We found a few geocaches while we were there and had some AWESOME BBQ at Corky’s. Over all it was a great trip and time to get away from the hussel and bussel of work and school. You can look at some of the pictures o on our flickr pages.

I just took a midterm today in my adult critical care class and lets just say I could have done better. Whoever thought you could work full time, go to school full time, have a decent relationship and spend enough time with your spouse, maintain somewhat of a social life and still maintain a decent GPA is CRAZY! I mean I’m only trying to graduate Summa Cum Laude–if I get all A’s this semester I might be able to do it…if not, I’ll just have to settle with Magna Cum Laude ;( . So I either ignore my husband and have no social life (which i’m kinda ok with the no social life) and do well in school which would help me if I ever want to pursue a masters. Or just ignore school and just get by–which is totally not me. I can’t do it all!

Since I work monday through friday and typically am too tired to do anything on the weeknights, I’m left with doing stuff on the weekends, and lets face it, the weekends are too busy for that too. With the women’s group that meets at our house, other events that we have at our house (dinner, etc), and other things going on I have no time! I would be completely fine with doing absolutely nothing on the weekends except for going to church on Sunday morning. In fact I would be completely content with only doing things with Jonathan during the week and weekend, nothing more. But unfortunately Jonathan is a social butterfly and if I don’t want to hold him back from doing stuff. I just wish school were over and I could go back to just work and life!

Why is it that when we go back to work on Monday morning, we’re as tired, if not more tired, than we were when we left work on Friday? I think it’s because we do too much in a weekend that we don’t really rest…..we just need a 3 day weekend–one day to recover from the weekend before we go back to work…now there’s an idea! Let’s see if we can adopt that one.

This was a busy weekend. Friday night –well we didn’t do much because I was still under the weather but we rented a movie and then around 10:30 pm Jonathan took off for the Encounter mens 9 event–so I went to sleep 😉 Saturday I pretty much just ran errands and cleaned the house to get ready for the women’s group that was meeting there yesterday. Then Sunday we went to church and then kicked Jonathan out of the house (on his birthday) so the women’s group could meet there for the first time. We had a good turn out-about 21 women came! After they all left, we cleaned up a bit and then headed to Mesquite for a Birthday dinner with his family and my parents. He’s 29 now–and no, Jonathan, that’s not old! Happy Birthday!!

This past Thursday was Valentine’s day as most of you are aware. I have never particularly loved Valentine’s day, it’s too commercial now days. I don’t want someone (AKA the hubs) to feel pressure to get a gift, b/c then it’s just given with a “have to do” attitude. I also don’t think we need one day out of the year to celebrate your love for your significant other, that should be happening all year round. I would prefer to be surprised with flowers or a nice dinner at a small hole in the wall restaurant on a day that’s not valentine’s day–just a regular day. We were talking the other day at dinner about this and decided that we are starting a new tradition…we’ll we’re actually stealing this from someone else (Brandi’s blog). So what we’re going to do from now on is just go eat somewhere, or at home…nothing fancy smancy and then go to Target. We will have $20 to spend on the other person in 20 minutes. You never know what you’ll end up with at Target….it could be 20 bags of skittles or 2 T-shirts or socks…who knows, that’s what makes it fun….and it’s Target so who wouldn’t like it. The pressure is just narrowed down to 20 minutes instead of like 2 weeks of thinking of what to do and what to get them blah blah blah. Don’t get me wrong I do love flowers and receiving flowers is awesome….but I can get those any day of the year 😉 hint hint!!
All in all, this valentine’s day was great–we went to eat some dinner and then came home and spent the evening with each other – and that’s all that matters.