christmas time!

this is kim. not chris. even though the end of this blog is going to say it was posted by him, do not be fooled! he is not as funny and clever as i am, so i'm assuming you wouldn't have been confused anyways...

so...turns out I LOVE CHRISTMAS. every since we went on a walk through our ghetto neighborhood and someone had put up halloween lights, i've got the bug. it's finally cold here (well, at least for the day), and i've loved getting out my old coats. and drinking hot cocoa. and shopping! oh...i'm having so much fun buying presents for everyone. since chris and i are going to be away from our home over the holidays, we are going to have our own christmas here the weekend before. we are going to eat bad food, wear our pajamas, and watch christmas movies. i'm very excited. i've been working on stocking stuffers for his family and i love them. chris has been very gracious and allowed me to buy and buy and buy. (within reason...i have SOME control). all in all, i've been having so much fun and am very much looking forward to my first christmas as a wife.

enough of the mushiness, on to real life. school is coming to a close, for the semester at least, and chris and i are both looking forward to having some time to breathe. we talk a lot about how nice it will be when we don't have anything other than work going on. (and honestly, that happened this summer...and we were sooooooooooooooo bored.) marriage has gotten progressively better. our first few months were hard to get used to. i always say that chris was not someone that i would have chosen to be a roommate in the first place, so it's a little hard to get used to the way someone else lives...for THE REST OF YOUR LIVES. we have also started to train for a 5k, which, so far, we've had a good experience with. i think at the least, it helps us to have more of a schedule. i also got a new job which has made me feel a lot better about life. i get out much, much earlier and have three less kids. i think that explains enough. i am getting very ready to have a different job, which i most likely will attempt to do once i am finished with school in august.

anyways, that's a little update for all of you reader(s). sorry that we are fairly awful at updating. if it makes you feel better, we are also fairly awful at cleaning as well.