::Update::

The first week of school is over! There always seems to be an incredibly high amount of bumps and curves in that first week- I won't bore you with the long list, but I will bore you by going in to detail about just one of the more illogical ones. In my case, as a post-baccalaureate student, I wasn't allowed to add classes before the first day of school, and when I tried adding them after the first day, I apparently was also not allowed to add classes after the first day...so as a warning to anyone who is planning on being a post-bac student, you're not allowed to actually take the classes, basically you're just required to pay BYU money and then go home and do anything else besides going to school. Man I wish someone had clarified that to me before I decided that I wanted to continue my education.

Okay, so after many phone calls and meetings with heads of things, turns out I really am allowed to take classes. What a surprise. I'm so grateful that I get to have this opportunity to continue learning, but do universities and colleges really need to make it this difficult for young poor kids to get a higher education? We ARE paying (rediculously large amounts of money) for this right?

Okay, I'll step off my soap box and actually give and short update on us. Brady is taking a LOT of classes and is still a TA for Dr. Karren. He has some really tough classes and a full schedule, plus he has to teach class here and there. He's working really hard and I'm proud of him for taking this semester on and diving in head first. I haven't heard him complain at all about how busy and hard this is going to be. We're both excited because the end of his undergrad is getting closer and closer. (he plans to take to the MCAT in the spring and apply to med school immediately after)

I'm taking 3 classes, and I got a new job! I'm working for Linx satellite (who sells Dish Network) basically keeping track of all the paperwork and making sure it gets faxed into Dish on time, so that Linx doesn't get charged fees. I'm so grateful to already have a job again, and I'm really enjoying my classes.

We have been really blessed with how things things have worked out for us after I lost my job. I know this sounds so cliche, but it truly happened that everytime we were getting to the point that we'd have to be scraping pennies we receive acts of kindness that were set in motion before anyone even knew i had lost my job. A card with money would make it to our door, food would be given to us, and another grant or loan would finally come through, making it possible for us to buy books, pay tuition, pay rent, and pay all our bills (since it happens to be the beginning of the month)! Thank you for all for just being nice people, and doing nice things for us just because :) You don't know how much we appreciate it!