This past month has been a crazy one with Christmas, work, finishing the semester and family coming into town I felt that I did not have all the time in the world to get everything done but I did some how. This month Remington turned the big 1/2 birthday! It is so sad that this time is going to fast but it is fun to see how the new things he is always learning. He is so close to crawling each day, some days he will move one hand forward and others he will just arm crawl or do the worm every where he goes. Not only is he close to crawling but his first tooth is coming in nice and sharp. I am always checking his mouth looking at it each day just watching its progress little by little coming in and touching it. Remington also is close to sleeping through the night. He only wakes up to get a diaper change but soon that will change as I will go out and buy those overnight super absorbent cloth diaper inserts so that he will be set all night long. Remington is not only doing those things but he really enjoys laughing and holding the bottle all by himself, I think he would feed himself if I would let him but I know he isnt ready for that just yet. Most days he loves to just lay on the ground and hang out all by himself but lately he has become more clingy which is weird for Dan and I because he typically is just a chill baby and wants to hang out. My in-laws came to town this Christmas and Remington made out like a bandit from them which was really nice. He got lots of new books, a couple of toys, and some fun shirts/onesies/pajamas from my siblings.
Dan finished his first semester of grad school with flying colors! He did such a great job with school this past semester that I do not know how he does it! I mean he has me, Remington, Lexy, homework, and test all at the same time and still manages to do well. This year for Christmas I got Dan a straight edge kit to practice with since his brother got him a sharp one and he is so excited to try it out that he will shave his massive beard!!! Wait what you said he is going to shave his beard??? You heard right he is willing to shave his beard just to use his straight edge.... It will be a sad day when that beard is gone.
Me, well I have finished my first entire semester of online school and it was a lot more work than I thought it would be but at the same time what else did I expect. I was just always doing tons of homework and my test/quizes were always either piling up in one class or another which was kind of hard to deal with because either they all had things due the same day or they would not open up until later in the week when I would want to get ahead start on all the school work. I finally have had a vacation from work due to school being out there is no work which is nice but kinda of not nice at the same time. Next semester will be my last one for my associates degree which has taken me years to get done but I am so happy it is finally within arms reach. It always seems that once I start school something happens and I stop going again. This past semester almost had me stop again. I have one semester left and one of my required classes I need to graduate is a math class and they offer it online for my school but through another program which I am not apart of so for over a month I had been calling all sorts of people to get them to let me take it online due to living out of state. I did not care what I had to do but I would do it. I would get a lot of people saying they could help me but then weeks later stating that they could not help like they thought they could. But the light finally opened up when I got a hold of a man who said he would make sure to help me as much as he could.He put me in contact with all the right people to were I am now enrolled in that math class through another school but he did make sure it would transfer over when I was done. I was so excited, months of hard work is finally paying off and all I have to do is pass this math class and I will feel somewhat accomplished until I get my Bachelor's degree in a couple of years. This past semester doing a full course load, working part time, and being a mom I still somehow managed to take 14 credit hours online and pass all my class 2-A's 1-B and 1-Passing grade (don't ask it was chemistry).
Lexy, she has had it really rough lately. This past year some of my readers may know that she had a fox tail get stuck in her mouth earlier this year and it got infected and now she has bladder stones. For a good while she was even peeing blood and you could tell she was not feeling well because she would barley run up the stairs. It was sad to see her like that but we have been giving her medicine and now she eats a special food and is doing a lot better. Lexy also recently turned 6 years old and she is the best dog I have ever known. She loves to snuggle all day and night. She truly is the best dog a girl could ever ask for.
Last but not least, my newest Pintrest meal/recipe that I have tried and loved was Texas Roadhouse Rolls. It was a copy cat recipe that I found and I personally would say it came really close. We had the LDS missionaries over for Christmas dinner and I made them for dinner and one of the Elders probably ate like 5 and I had made 24. This recipe also came with their copycat honey butter recipe which we are still using. It is so good and so fatty so you have been warned!!! cincyshopper.com/copycat-texas-roadhouse-rolls-cinnamon-honey-butter-recipe/ (copy and paste the link, sorry the links will not work on my blog)
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