School's Out for Summer!!!....Well, Kinda!

Hurray! Adam and I both finished our Spring semester classes last week and it feels great! We have spent the last week not using our brains, for the most part, and catching up on things around the house! Adam will have a couple of classes this Summer, but I will not have any. I will only be working part-time and Adam is working on finding a part-time thing, as well. Other than that, we'll enjoy each others company and hopefully spend lots of time outside with Harley! We have a few fun trips planned this Summer, as well. We leave for Colorado next Thursday to visit friends in Denver for five days, a weekend stay near Duluth for Grandma's Half Marathon June 19th, a trip to the Boundary Waters the week after July 4th and then up to Orr, MN with my family for a week leaving on our first anniversary, July 24th! We are super excited for this fun filled summer and we hope that the time only creeps by!

Envirosaxs

I first bought one of these bags at Patina and then I ordered the set on Amazon...they are AWESOME! I've always had good intentions of using reusable bags because we accumulate so many plastic bags, but I would forget them in the car. These babies fit right in your purse, super light weight and can hold up to 40 lbs! LOVE THEM!

http://www.amazon.com/Envirosax-Boheme-Pouch-Black-size/dp/B002OKEQCW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=apparel&qid=1270215441&sr=8-2

Harley's 1st Birthday!!

Harley's birthday was March 7th! He turned one year old with his own birthday cake and frosty paws ice cream for dogs! He's grown into such a big boy and is so sweet! He still has a lot of puppy energy, but listens well for the most part and always has to be where we are. He is very loyal and gets along great with his buddies, Brownie and Dwight! He loves the dog park, car rides, playing catch in the back yard and going for walks. If you ask him if he'd like to do any of these things, his ears perk right up!

Grandma's Half Marathon

Another thing Adam and I have devoted our time to is training for a half marathon! That's 13.1 miles of running!!! We got drawn out of the lottery for Grandma's Half Marathon in Duluth on Saturday, June 19th. We officially started our training schedule this week. I am using the Hal Higdon's schedule and Adam is doing the Cross Fit Endurance routine. Two totally different methods of training, but it works for us! Adam is a natural runner, so this will be cake for him, but I am endurance challenged.....we'll see how this goes!

http://www.grandmasmarathon.com/races/gb_half_marathon.php

http://www.crossfitendurance.com/

http://www.halhigdon.com/halfmarathon/novice.htm

New Addition!

If you did not know already, we have a new addition to our family! I would like to introduce, Dwight! He is now six months old and we adopted him from an adoption agency in Minneapolis. He is the sweetest thing and is a huge cuddle bug! He knows his name, has tons of energy, cuddles a lot with Harley, gets chased a lot by Harley and loves to talk to us! We just got him declawed last week, so he's been a bit more quite the past few days. I'll post some pictures of him so you can see how cute he is :)

Back to Blogging! School Has Taken Over Our Lives!

Sorry, I've been MIA with the blog for a while! We have had little to no free time around here! Adam is in class 2-3 days per week and works in the Veterans Center for work study, as well. He has been doing very well in school and just recently passed his first fire certification test. In the next couple months, he will take his EMT certification test. He also has applied at a few fire departments. We'll cross our fingers!

I work 25 hours a week (looking to work even less in the future) at the dental office and have class 3 nights a week at St. Kate's in Minneapolis and clinicals at a nursing home every other weekend. Two of those weekdays, class goes until 10pm, so that really runs me down! Right now, I am on spring break, hence the free time to post this! Classes have been going great! I got an A in my first class and we now started our next class of the semester. This one will be more intense because it focuses on full assessments of individuals. Our clinicals this semester are at a nursing home, but the remaining semesters will be at a hospital. Really looking forward to that transition!!! Nursing homes are somewhat uncomfortable for me, but it's a good learning experience!

I have to say that Adam has been awesome and great support with my new schedule! He helps a lot with cleaning, cooking and laundry. Not to mention the much needed back rubs due to my permanently knotted up back and shoulders! I will owe him hugely someday when this craziness is over! We are just really looking forward to the Summer...no class....very little working...and a lot of us time and relaxation!

Christmas with Harley...

Naughty!