Let The Education Begin and Life

Today is a great day. I am starting school today and I am nervous, and excited at the same time. I am going for my bachelors in Psychology. Its going to be a great experience and I hope to have nothing but success through out school. I should be done in the next 18 to 20 months maybe quicker if I double up on classes. The great thing is tuition is paid by loans, and grants so no out of pocket for us upfront. I do get tuition reimbursement $5250.00 per year so that will help us out allot as well.

Its no secret that I am not a fan of the Mini Van! Jr keeps calling me the Mini Van Man! A couple of weeks ago my friend Nate rode with us home from church and he was amazed of all the room it has. They are thinking about getting one now too. He said that he would love to have a mini van. Nate and Emily are having their 2nd child and are excited about their new addition coming next month. He said that it might be just what they do because this would give them more room. Nate said, Man I am jealous, I said well join the others. Not only do we have family jealous of our Mini Van but we also have friends jealous too.. HAHAH J/K. But Nate did like the ride as he rode all the way in the very back. He was such a nice guy and let Tracy ride up front.

Work has been a wild ride with all this training stuff going on. Training graduation is Friday and we do not even have the schedules that we will be working yet. I am hoping for something good as Tracy and I are working to cut out daycare expenses or even just cut the expense lower if we can work different shifts. I surely hope it works out in our favor. There is a co-worker who may swap shifts with me if I get a shift she wants, She has the one I want. 4 On 3 Off. It would give Sun-Tues off and it will have me working nights which would pay a little more.

I just got done being sick which I don't get very often. Jr was sick and my brother too, All this past weekend. Glad I am better now. Ok I have talked enough. Hope all is well in everyones world.

Moving To New Apartment And Other Stuff

So we are moving to a much more efficient apartment in our complex that should help put some savings away for when we buy a house next year. Dont know where we will buy but I do know that I am thankful for the equity program that we have. We are not just throwing away our money living here. They give us 15% but not more then 3% of the value of the house toward a down payment or upgrades and furnishings when we move out and buy a house.

So staying in this place is helping build for a down payment. I just wish we would have been in a equity apartment all these years. Imagine what kind of down payment we would have by now. Also this means that Jr and Ashlyn will be sharing a room. We have decided to just let Jr keep his bed in his room and we will put Ashlyn in our room.

We have decided to use Ashlyn bedroom set in our Master room and put the other furniture in our storage until we get into a place that Ashlyn has her own room. Now we just have to find stuff to match the bedroom set to put on the walls. I want it to look professional, like they seem to be able to do on the home make over shows.

I have been in this training program the last few weeks with T-Mobile. I like it, maybe I will be more excited once training is over and I am not stuck in a classroom week after week.

Jr is almost done with school. Wednesday is his last day. He is excited. He is going to start swimming lessons soon. We had his last Pac meeting this last week and he cooked(well I cooked) Wieners and Burgers on a make shift grill. It was a clever idea by the leaders.. You know the big tin things you put the turkey in.. Well get one of those and put the grill rack over it. (Don't forget to put the charcoal in first) This worked well. Easy clean up and we all had fun. Well I hope that everyone is doing well. I will try and read over everyone's blogs soon.