St. George

So I decided Sundays are great for updating the Blog. We will see how long this lasts. haha. I went to St. George last week to do hearing screenings for the World Senior Olympics. It was actually a lot of fun. It wasn't as busy as we were hoping, but we still had a great time and got some good experience. Now I have no anxiety about performing hearing screenings haha. All of the people who came in had to make the same jokes too. Us: Are you here for the hearing screening? Them: What? or...I can't hear my wife, does that mean I have a hearing loss? It was great. I bonded with all of my classmates too, so now I have lots more friends. I didn't take my camera so I didn't take any pictures, but the other students took some pretty great ones. We had more down time than work time it seemed. I also got to see my family while I was down there. I spent all night Tuesday with just my dad as everyone else was gone at the mutual activity. Then Wednesday, I watched my sister's cross country race, grabbed dinner, and drove down to Vegas with my mom and sister. My sister flew out to North Carolina for UEA weekend to stay with some friends. LUCKY! The drive was a lot longer than I thought it would be lol. Then my mom took me out to lunch on Thursday, so that was fun. Then we got home around 10Thursday night. I was super excited to see Jeff and Brookie again. Especially Brook! (sshhh) :) Jeff said he didn't even notice I was gone...how sad is that? haha. Midterms are this week. I am pretty stressed about that. There is so much to do! I better stop thinking about it since this is my day off! And now poor Brookie has an ear infection. I had a feeling it was coming because she has been sick for so long. But just as her sinus infection was going away, she got an ear infection. I have a feeling she is getting more teeth as well. She keeps chewing on her sippy cup and putting it in this one spot. I am scared to stick my fingers in there tho because she is a biter! But she is happy though it all. I just love her. Jeff starts his block classes this week, so hopefully he can handle being a little busier while being a stay at home dad. :) What a trooper!

Updated pictures

On the run!


Love the smile


Blanket goes wherever Brookie goes


What a princess


Auntie Rachel (my sister)

Long Lost McCleve's

I don't know if anyone will even bother reading this after so long! I started grad school at BYU a little over a month ago. Life has not been the same since. Jeff sort of lost his job and decided to go back to school as well. It has been quite the experience for him. He is having to relearn how to study and do pretty much everything related to school. Luckily, he started with a light load. I have been super super busy trying to keep up with everything in my program. I'm taking 5 classes and working with 2 clients. I aslo TA for someone, and spend about 10 hours every other week grading quizzes. My spare time is getting smaller as the weeks progress and midterms come closer. I am going down to St. George this week with my classmates to do hearing screenings for the World Senior Olympics. I am excited and nervous. And Jeff will be all by himself with Brookie for 3 days.
He has been an amazing support since I started school. He takes care of everything at home, so I don't have to worry about it. He stays home with Brook a lot. She has been going to daycare a few days a week. We are in the process of looking for someone new because this first lady has not been what we expected. She presented herself very well and had an impressive "resume," but almost every time Jeff went to pick up Brook, she was in a crib while this lady was on Facebook, and the other kids were not being supervised. We started to think that this was happening too often, and we were getting the impression that Brook was spending a lot of time in a crib. I really hope we can find someone fast. Jeff has a light load this week, but he starts his block classes next week.
Life sure is crazy these days. I'm just so glad Jeff has been able to be home with her more the past few weeks. She has bonded with him so much, and it's adorable to see. It makes me a little jealous b/c that used to be me, but I have to get through school! I really do enjoy it. I am learning so much. I just hate missing so much of what is going on with little Brookie. She is gorwing up so fast! She is already climbing like a monkey. We can't stop her no matter what we do. She is getting so tall that we can't keep hardly anything out of her way. She is full of energy! And I swear she gets bigger and cuter everyday.
So there you have it. As a result, I have become an even worse blogger than before! I will try to update at least once a month.