My break has been very nice. I've been able to rest my brain, re-focus and establish goals for myself this year and develop a plan on incorporating them into my busy semester. All that's left is to take down the Christmas decor. (I'm so not looking forward to this...I love having the Christmas tree lights on at night...but it is time.)
As I sit here and blog, I realized that this is the first weekend all break that Luke and I have been able to truly relax. Our break has been full of traveling and visiting. While it has all been fun and worth it, it's very nice to finally take a weekend for ourselves and not feel like we're rushing around to go somewhere. The sun is shining, I'm sipping on some homemade Chi-Tea and loving life at this very moment!One of the projects we have been working on this week, (I mean, Luke has been working on) has been the installation of a new fish tank. Our friend Derek gave Luke a 40gallon fish tank, all the plants, filter, and lamp for FREE! Luke has been wanting to develop a hobby in fish "tanking" for quite some time now and this was the perfect starter kit! We just had to buy the sand, heater and goldfish. (The goldfish/feeder fish need to be in the tank for about 2 weeks before we get nicer fish for the tank - they help set up the environment in the tank.) So we have been learning all sorts of new things about freshwater fish and how to set up a pleasant ecosystem for them. I was a little hesitant at first, but I'm coming around and actually finding myself enjoying the sound of the tank and watching the fish; very de-stressing!
The second project/new event for the Butters' household has been that we joined a gym down the road from where we live. "Santa",aka Mom and Dad (Bregg), provided us with our appication/sign up fee for Christmas and thought this would be a healthy and beneficial use of the money. I'm really excited about this and know this is going to help me achieve my goal in running this year (1/2 marathon in the fall). It also gives us more, healthy, options of doing things together between the classes, basketball and volleyball courts.
Another piece of big news - Luke has officially sent in his second application to University of Findlay. (Which means he basically made it to Round Deuce!) In case I forgot to mention this previously, or you forgot, Luke was contacted by the president of the PA program at UofF and was asked for a second supplemental applicaiton. The next step would be the interview process. Please keep Luke in your prayers as we await this decision. He is still waiting to hear from Western Michigan as well; we don't expect to hear from them until March-April.
So, like I mentioned earlier, our break as been great; relaxing and productive. I'm looking forward to classes next semester, but I also know that it will require a lot of work (just as last semester did). I will be taking 18 credits this semester and Luke will be enrolled at KVCC taking Physics1 and Sociology.
Spring Semester 2011 - here we come!
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