So, I'm sittitng here at the computer, trying to stay awake as long as I can - which, if any of you know me very well, you know that I'm a morning person, NOT a night owl. Well, then - you might ask - "why are you trying to stay up so late??" Well - I start my first string of night shifts (tthat is 7pm to 7am) for my new job. I've only worked two night shifts in my life and I'm not a fan. I'm terrible at trying to stay awake at night - so I'm trying to stay awake as long as possible tonight so that I can sleep most of hte day tomorrow. Hopefully by then I will be ready to work all night long. So after three nights of that I have EIGHT days off!! That, my friends, is the best things about working 3 days (or nights) a week. And so since I have 8 days off, I'm flying home for a few days to see my family and get some of the wedding stuff squared away!!! My mom has been doing alot of it since I moved - which has been a lifesaver!! Aren't moms the greatest!

SO just an update on how Josh and I are - we are doing good. We both had the weekend off so we decided to go hiking yesterday. But it was quite HOT and miserable out. We went with another couple that we know and we had alot of fun. Josh and Nate got off the trail (of course, boys do that, right!) and told us they would meet back up with us. So Megan and I kept hiking and occasionally we would yell at them and follow their voices to where we thought htey were coming from. Well, we thought we were getting farther away, but they kept telling us to follow the trail. So we kept going. Well after a while we felt something fall from a tree and Megan was like, "what in the world", but we were in the woods, so we just kept walking, then it happened again, and again and it was fishing bobbers - or whatever you call them!:) and next hting we know, we hear laughing. We look up and there are Nate annd Josh up in the top of this HUGE tall pine tree!!! It was quite funny however watching them try to get down. Funny - and scary - when it comes to stuff like that, I'm such a mom - I kept telling them to be careful. So that was the fun for that day.

Oh, but before that - we had our first real purhase as a couple!! We are the proud owners of a washer and dryer! So you know you're getting old when you get excited about a washer and dryer - but you just can't imagine the difference it makes to have one in your apartment!!! Just wait, your time will come when you will understand. Lets just hope that the next thing we buy is something fun tthough (Josh wants to get kyakks???)

Mr. Carroll (or Coach Carroll as he preferrs to be called) has startedd his job and is enjoying it - he finally has students at the end of this week. He had open house tonight. I went up to his classroom one day last week to help him get it ready for students - he had a lot of work to do!!! I think he's made progress though! Josh also starts seminary this week. We are really excited about it and I know that God is going to challenge us a great deal, as he already has begun to do here in our lives. Please continue to pray for us as we decide on joining a church. It is probably one of the most important decisions we can make right now and we just want tot be where God wants us.

So I hope you are all doing well. Email us anytime and let us know how you are doing! God bless

Stephanie