the past week was long.  so long, it was actually two weeks, back to back.  i had to work last weekend, then wasn't able to take my comp days off the last week due to a drill.  the drill was a two and a half day, multi agency what if exercise for a potential worst case scenario in the port.  all this while also trying to stay caught up with school and spending time with stephanie.  

i found out last week that my gpa for admission into the psychology honors society (psi chi) will only use the grades from the courses that i take at vanguard, which is awesome.  i should be able to get in with those guidelines.  

This past week

The past couple days have been pretty promising. 

-Two of Stephanie's friends from GA are coming to visit us in July.  One of them was able to make it last year.

-Stephanie's best friend from college and her husband got bumped from another flight so they got two free tickets and decided yesterday that they wanted to come to CA.

-Last night during class we got our fall course schedules.  I was expecting to have two electives and a core class.  My core class should have been during November.  But because I've already taken a couple of the classes that we are scheduled to take the fall semester, they put me with a different group, which caused me two take two core classes and an elective.  But now instead of taking a classes each month, I'll get to double up in October and take November off!  All that is to day, October will be a busy month with school but thankfully I'll have November and December with no classes to enjoy Willow...and our families which are planning on visiting.  

-I've also decided not to seek a second job anymore.  It wouldn't be worth my time for the small amount of money that would come in.  

***we have another willow appointment tomorrow where we are getting an ultrasound, too fun***

"the questions, the inspection, oh, the lovely thinking—the beautiful thinking."

this past week during my class, foundations of a christian life, which is an elective since i've already taken the class which the rest of my cohort are taking, we are talking about naturalist's perspective versus a christian's perspective in the question of sin.  we went to genesis, comparing man's life before and after the fall.  i hadn't been aware of the specific, descriptive comparison that is in the bible.  

this got me thinking about steinbeck's "east of eden."  this is one of my more favorite books.  in the end, steinbeck breaks down the point of the novel.  in looking for the bible verse that he quotes in the novel, i found the site that has a couple paragraphs from the book.  it's a inspiring little blurb if you have the time. steinbeck

It's to be a little girl!

well we found out that our little one is a little girl.

the nurse was pretty certain, as our the baby was "not shy."

  here she is, in her angel pose!

as we were watching, she lifted both

her hands and placed them at her cheek.

oooo, look at that foot!