Swine Flu?....

Okay. So....

There is a case of swine flu reported in our school system. Any child who fears for their safety may stay home without penalty this week and next week for finals. Until today I had never heard children jumping for joy saying "Yay swine flu!". Awkward?! Yes I think so. My only other question would be "am I a child that can fear for my safety?'....hahahhahahahah

My Papa and Jake's Birthdays

My 4th Graduation in 10 YEARS!!!!!!

I'm Ed-u-ma-cated!

Hello to all of you out in the Blog World. I am VERRRRY happy to tell you that I graduated Friday with my Masters Degree in Biology Education. It has been a very long and tedious road to say the least. Through all of the bumps and bruises, I have been confident that Heavenly Father would see me through them. Examples of those lovely bumps include: (1) having a gimp arm after the tornado (2) having class at 3:30 but being in school at EHS til 5:20 after the tornado (3) having another gimp arm the next Jan (3) them telling me that there was NO WAY for me to finish on time (4) the day before graduation telling me that I could not graduate b/c I had not taken some stupid test after they already gave me documentation in writing that I was done.... Yay for Troy University! *insert sarcasm here* But I am beyond proud that I am now more educated on paper and can earn more dough for our growing family. There are more degrees that exist over and above mine, however, it would take a miracle and a half for me to attempt to go back again.

Now graduation itsself was an interesting extravaganza for sure. There were a total of 678 graduates all total that walked. They lined us up by first= associates second= bachelors THENNNN masters. So roughly estimating I graduated 600th in that ginormous line of people. Had it not been for the fact that there were hall monitor-type people, it is incredibly feasible that I would have started blogging during the ceremony about how long it was. But seriously though I was impressed that it started at 10:30 and was over by 1:00. They pretty much told us to run across the stage. I have more pictures but these will have to suffice you for now.

My new playtoy

After finishing a rather rough and tedious week at Casa de' Krausz, I came home ready for a long nap. Much to my surprise, my new playtoy came in the mail and my husband had already opened it for me. What is it you say? Well to not keep you in too much suspense, I will tell you that it is (BY FAR) the neatest invention since the Ziploc bag. It's a Cricut! I must confess that I have had a sick addiction with these things for some time now. The commercials that come on at 3am are mighty convincing as to the awesome-ness of this little gadget. I have honestly found myself watching HSN on purpose just to see what other nifty things the little Cricut could do.

Last week I was talking with a colleaugue that has a scrapbooking business and I confessed my addiction. She assured me that it WAS in fact the neatest little machine and that she bought hers on Ebay for a mere $80. Hmmm. The Shopping Network says they are much more than that. I felt it was a challenge of sorts. Game on... So I created an account with Ebay and began my search. I would watch and watch to see what buyers were good and how people did their bidding (most of them dirty bidders I must say).

I randomly saw this one that said 'used' and the starting bid was a mere $39. I of course jumped in head first and honestly forgot about it. "No way this sucker will stay at that price, right?" Well much to my surprise, two days later I received an email telling me that I had one the dream of all dreams for less than $40 shipped. Thank you Heavenly Father.

I must admit though that I was leary about the 'used' part since there must ALWAYS be a catch. However I just opened the sucker up and she is brrrraaaannnnnddddd new. Could life on a Friday afternoon get much better? (I'm lame so don't laugh that a Cricut makes my week..) Now I am scattering around the house looking for scrapbook paper and testing it out. Once Jake gets home, the entire house will have nifty little notes saying "I love you" and "Cool" and "Inspiration" on them.

I think my weekend is set!