THE most exciting/scary/exhausting week ever...

This last week was the first week of the semester. Along with the some of the really cool classes we get to take it was the first week of being in clinic as the actual clinicians, needless to say everyone;including myself, was a nervous wreck! I lucked out a little bit because I only had to see one of my three clients due to cancellations, but I'm sure I'm in for a big surprise this week. I was absolutely exhausted last week with all of my classes and only seeing one client two days, but this week I'm going to start seeing all three clients twice a week, so I'm pretty sure I'm going to be passing out from exhaustion earlier than usual. Luckily Matt has been awesome and extremely supportive, and lucky for me we were able to have a three day weekend together! We had our usual saturday night date and just stayed in the other days and vegged out with our seinfeld pals:) what a life huh? I'm so happy! I feel like although grad school is ridiculously difficult and stressful I'm thoroughly enjoying the experience. By that I mean that when I'm in clinic or at work I LOVE what I'm doing and am so grateful that I picked this career. I can't wait to be done with school I know it will go by so much faster than I'm expecting it to. Other than that nothing else is really going on, Matt and I have been working at my dad's business whenever we get a chance so it's been nice getting involved and watching my dad do what he loves! By the way for those of you who don't know my dad owns his own cabinet shop in Draper so if anyone is interested in any type of cabinets or wood work let me know! Sorry I had to add a little shamless plug there:) I feel like every day is just so jam packed with things to do (and if you don't believe me take a look at my planner lol!), but I really like it...weird. Well i'm off to cross more things off my to do list, wish me luck for the crazy week ahead chao!

Merry New Year!

Well from reading all of your blogs and receiveing all of the awesome christmas cards this year we're glad to hear that you all had a great holdiay season and an awesome 2009! I honestly cannot believe how fast this year has gone by! Matt and I have had a great year and can't wait for 2010. I don't know why but for some reason I feel like alot of great things are going to happen this year, and I guess I just like to be optimistic:) We had a great holiday season and were lucky to have my brother-in-law spencer who is in the army now,stay with us for a couple weeks. We had a lot of fun snowboarding, playing games, watching movies and seeing family. I'm so grateful for family and the time we were able to spend together this christmas and new year:) Thanks for reading all of our silly stuff that happened in 2009 and I hope to have some great stuff to post about this new year! We wish you all a happy and healthy 2010:)

Love,

The Crows.

It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

Not that I don't absolutely LOVE christmas, snow, gifts & family but the MAIN reason of why I'm lovin' life right now has to do with a little thing called the end of the semester!!! I had my last final today and I am SOOOOO ready to enjoy the Christmas break! I can't wait to sleep in, go to sleep late, do laundry, dust, vacuum everyday and most importantly SNOWBOARD!!! I seriously can't wait to do things that I choose to do:) woot!

"All Apologies..."

As I walked out of my test today; happy as a clam that it was finally over, I realized that I have so much to be grateful for and that I am a big time complainer. Complaining is such a waste of time. Everytime I have a huge test, project, paper to do on top of all of my wife-ly duties I complain and have everyone walking on pins and needles around me until it's done. Which is such a shame because I ALWAYS survive and conquer whatever obstacle I feel is so overwhelming at the time. And all of that complaining and being stressed ends up being all for nothing. I also know that I have used my blogging as a platform for my whining many a time and I will NO LONGER do so. So here I am declaring that I am grateful for all I have and for the experiences I have come across and will come across in the future. I know that my life wouldn't be the same without them, so why go through life dreading them? Once again sorry for whining and here's to the end(or a decrease anyway) in complaining!

95%

I got a 95% on my articulation and phonology exam woohoo!!!! I think I'm starting to get used to this school thing...

update

So it's 3:30 in the a.m.! Matt's schedule has been changing quite a bit the past few months and now he works mon-thursday 6pm-2am and Saturday 3am-9am. Today was his first 3-9 shift and now I can't go back to sleep. I should be looking up research studies for two research papers I have due in the next couple weeks.....but blogging just seems to hold priority to graduate school at the moment haha:)

Can you believe October is over!?!? crazy I know. We had a fabulous Halloween. We dressed up in our "Where's Waldo?" attire and took lilly and my nephews to do some trick-or-treating. They were so cute! I'll post pictures soon(matt used my camera and now i can't find it...)Afterwards we watched scary movies and went to a midinght performance of "Frankenstein" at the Provo Stage Theatre. I had already seen it before with some co-wokers because one of the teachers I work with was a cast member and after all of the praises I had sung Matt had to see it. He loved it. It was SO GOOD. The acting was AMAZING. The music was perfect. Over all the show was "deliciously scary"(as my good friend anne of green gables would say:) ) There were murders, gun shots and ear piercing screams(way to go Nancy) it was fabulous and the perfect way to top off our Halloween night.

As far as school is concerned things are great. I've gotten 3 of my 4 tests back and am begining to feel more confident in myself. I did great on two tests and not so hot on the other. In my program you have to get an 80% on an exam or you have to remediate it. And even if you retake the test you keep the grade from the first test. terrible tight? AND THEN if you get below a B, you have to retake the class or drop from the program. Do you see the kind of stress I'm dealing with here?! So you can see how I was freaking out when two questions kept me away from passing with the required percent on one of my tests. So I had to retake it to prove to my professor that I'm REALLY not that incompetent lol. I took the test on thursday and I feel really good about it. there's no way I'm getting below a 95%-90% on that sucker(even though it won't change my grade)! Now I'm just waiting to get my Articulation and Phonolgy test back on tuesday:)

Clinic is AMAZING. I have a fun client and a fabulous mentoring clinician. I don't know what I would do if I wasn't working with such a great 2nd year student! Even though I've been working with kids for two years now it's still seems so new to me. It's just such a different experience working in a clinic and a little scary to be doing therapy in a room knowing that your supervisor and the parentals are listening and watching throught the 2-way mirror, but I really love it, it is a wonderful experience. I just can't believe that I've survived this long. Everytime I walk out of a clinic session or finish taking a test I think. I did it? I really did it! And I feel so blessed because I know that my success is not due to just me. I have such a great support system in my husband, family and even in other students that help me a great deal. AND I am so grateful for an eternal perspective to keep me sane and focused on those things which are truly important.

Okay this has turned into a REALLY long post and there were so many other things I wanted to document: Lilly/ER, pics, regina, snow, gutiars for sell etc ....I'll save them for next time!


Cheers!

Long time no blog.

October has been somewhat of a bitter sweet month for me. Bitter because I've had 4 eaxams and numerous extremely involved assignments that have left me with absolutley no time or freedom to do the things I want to do, or to even BE myself. I feel so terrible because I feel like I've been so ornery and stressed this month, but too many things;that are better left unmentioned, have gone awry. I'm so grateful for matt though because I'm absolutely certain that it is becuase of him and ONLY him that I have survived this month. On the other hand some wonderful things have happened this month. I will share in picures...



My best friend Bizzie married her beau on the 15th

My family got a new puppy. Meet Gypsy:)

Killer learned to LOVE his kennel and stopped biting as much!










and okay, okay. I guess I found time to carve some pumpkins with matt and my little brother...

AND BEST OF ALL TODAY I HAD MY LAST TEST BEFORE FINALS! WAHOOOO!!!

Now I can focus on our Halloween costumes. We decided we wanted to do choose a them that Killer could be a part of so we decided on...

Matt=Waldo
I= Wenda

Brother Eldy=Odlaw

Killer=Woof

And so far all I've made is Matt's shirt...so I'm gonna get to it. Happy Halloween everyone and I better see lots of pics posted from the special night!