Ah-ha!

I made this family movie of 'greatest hits' for Doug to celebrate our 8th year anniversary on May 21st this year. I just (finally!) figured out how to save it as a readable file so I could upload it(and you would not believe all the things I tried in order to do so!). Cheers.

It Burns Us...!

I (Adrianna, Master(ess?) of this blog domain) started a new mid-year resolution as of July 1st. It is 3-fold:

1. Wake Up at a Decent Hour

2. Exercise

3. Have Personal Study Time

When we left managing apartments and moved into our own place, I had such good intentions about keeping an early wake time and I did really well... for about two weeks. The thing is, I has no accountability and soon I was sleeping in until 8:30, 9:30, sometimes 10 and staying up really late.

So, our friend Melanie agreed to let me walk the neighborhood with her at 6am 3 days a week. I must say it was quite a shock Monday morning to get up at 5:40am- 3 hours earlier than usual! Not only that, but to exert my poor body that hasn't seen regular exercise in over 10 years... (And, yes, it does cost me some pride to admit that in writing for all to see.) I think the looming 30's and increasing aches & creaks & wrinkles are scaring me into activity. That, and the baby flab that's hanging around... Needless to say, today I can barely walk. Everytime I move all I can think is: 'It burns us...!' Heaven help me keep my resolution!

I must say, though, the dawn of a Summer morning is something it's been a while since I've seen and makes me sorry for all the times I've missed it. And it was good to get so much done before 8am:

Walking for 40 min

Shower

Eat breakfast

Read Scriptures

Cut Doug's Hair

Get the Kids up and fed

It kind of made me feel like Supermom! Maybe I'll get addicted to the feeling of power. Hehe. ;)

Graduation

Doug has been done with his Bachelors degree since January except this one incomplete he had left for a class he took 1 1/2 years ago. He has dubbed it "the monkey on my back."

June 30th was the last day to turn in work for this class to get an official graduation of Spring '07. Doug emailed the final work to the professor at 2am on June 30th. Therefore, as of July 1st, Doug is officially graduated! A free man!

Sadly, it's been rather anti-climactic after the 8 years of our marriage that we have been pursuing this blasted degree! And now, on to the next thing: studying (cramming) like crazy for the GMAT with visions of BYU's Marriott School of Business for an MBA with a focus on HR/Organizational Behavior (what a mouthful). If all goes well, we are looking at being Utahans (or, the less politically correct, 'Utards') next Fall '08!

Pray for us... like crazy!