“live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” – matt cameron

i can’t believe it’s already mid-march!
i’m in denial, actually.
buuut i guess now would be the proper time for our quarterly updates.

tayte
he is still the forever-a-student breadwinner. he is trying to figure out his lab situation, but he rocks his classes without blinking an eye. his hair is in the awkward can’t-quite-put-it-behind-his-ears-and-is-always-in-his-eyes phase. he also can’t handle the fly-aways. in a severely flabbergasted state, he turned to me and said “i think i should just go get it cut.” like the supporting wife i am, i reminded him of my insane ability to convince anyone to do anything (i never ditched a college class alone). i asked which side of the issue he was leaning towards (pro-choice or pro-length)…and we still have a man-bun-in-the-works situation over here. (yes, you read that correctly. i convinced him to keep growing it out. i don’t know why i did that. i hadn’t had my breakfast yet) but long hair or not, he’s still pretty good lookin!

louisa
you know that should-be adage “you buy your children toys and they play with the boxes?” yeah well…story of our lives. sometimes i’m afraid people will show up unannounced and think that we are the laziest, sloppiest people ever because there’s trash on the floor. i swear it’s just for the kitty. she loves plastic grocery sacks and paper bags and bread ties and boxes and 2-liter soda bottles… (i mean, we do clean it up. we just throw our garbage on the floor first and let her play with it, then it goes in the garbage can) we’ve also recently discovered her mean streak, but i still think she’s the cutest “little” (the vet told me she’s fat) thing.

tens
i was recently called to be the YW president in our branch. it’s been a crazy few weeks, especially since it feels like it’s been a lot longer than that. people keep telling me that i’m doing a great job, so i must be good at pretending! my testimony has grown so much as i’ve seen the Lord’s hand in things that i’ve done or said as part of this calling. it is so true that He qualifies those He calls! i also have begun reading again. i reread all the harry potter books because i’d never read the seventh, and i wanted to do it right. turns out i had never read the sixth either. i set a new years resolution to read more and even printed out a book list to give me ideas. i guess i thought that i had to do it all within the first month or so, because i feel like i’ve been frantically reading through books. but it’s been awesome. i love reading and the library is my enabler.

over all, nothing has really changed. tayte and i still like each other, and The Entitled One still loves her cat tower and tolerates us. i love my little family.


oh and if you’re wondering if we do march madness…ha. do we. we each have 3 brackets (serious, based on mascot, based on colors/logo). we only really care about the “serious” bracket, but we still count the others. and last we updated, we were tied. (spoiler alert: tayte had michigan state going all the way. silly tayte)