And it begins.. :)

It is officially summer and has been for the past week! YAY!

Our trip to NC was AMAZING! We just love Rob and Kirstin and are really looking forward to Rob marrying us in a year and like 15 days! And their children are AMAZING. They are a wonderful family and great examples that we will have in our life FOREVER.

Seth left for Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, and Estonia yesterday. He got to call a little while ago and let me know that he's ok and having fun! I know I'm so blessed to get to talk to him and see him as much as I do. But every now and then I have to take a deep breath and admit to myself that being in a long distance relationship is hard. We're 3/4 of the way through West Point and then we'll get between 1-2 years together and then he'll be deployed. It's never comforting when people say "Oh I know someone who hasn't seen their husband/boyfriend/fiance in 6 months." We're heading there. We'll do our time. It's funny to me how some people think it's comforting to name something worse. Being away from someone you love for 2 days is hard (in some degree) to everyone who loves someone. We're blessed right now that we see each other every month and we know that we'll be able to handle it when we can't talk to each other for weeks or see each other for many months. I'm not complaining. I just have to take a deep breath and give us some credit sometime. The past three years have not been a walk in the park. For the first year we saw each other about every 3 months and I'm so thankful that it is more often now. I'm so proud of Seth for choosing West Point. I know that we've learned a lot from going through this and we're far more in love than we were in the beginning.

My Spanish class started on Monday. It's a two week course that is every day for 3 hours. I like it a lot so far. It is so much less stressful than semester classes. Yesterday we learned terms to use for the circulatory system and the importance of spirituality in lives of many Latinos and today we'll learn about the respiratory system and more general concepts about the Latino patient. I like this class because we're learning vocabulary; but more importantly we're learning about the culture.

On the agenda for today: 1) Write a paper about El Pollo Regio, a restaurant we went to for a field trip. 2) Order Senior I books off of half.com. 3) Plan a presentation for a career day at my high school that is on Friday. 4) Class.