A Quick Update..more to come

There are no pictures, but I just wanted to write a few things down so my yearbook/blog book for this year includes majority of our life.

Dawson is on a potty training roller coaster. That's the best way I can describe it... I guess I could also say he just wants to do what he wants. He will go four days-no accidents-excited about stickers and getting a bike...then it's back to diapers for a couple of days..then back to big boys...then diapers. Get the picture? He has had a couple accidents, and I have always made sure to not make a big deal, explain that he needs to try to make it to the toilet, and never get angry. I don't want to traumatize him with this whole thing. He is the one that freaks out the most. He screams and says, "YUCKIES! MOM! AAAAHHH!" It's so sad. He just feels terrible. When he has had an accident with poop he always resorts back to diapers. (this has happened like 3 times, that's it. I think that's pretty good) Yesterday, he realized he was pooping, screamed and I told him to go finish on the toilet. He did and came back and put some new big boys on! So I think we progressing since he didn't resort back to diapers. He totally gets the whole thing, but I'm just going to let him keep deciding.

We basically lost Dawson at Denny's and had no idea! We have been pretty freaked out by this experience. We went to Denny's to eat. We got up to go pay and I headed to the lady's room. Dawson followed me in and before I went in I said to J.D. "I'm going to the restroom." He didn't hear me...even though I thought he did. J.D. paid and went to the truck. I thought he was out waiting for me, so when Dawson wanted to leave the restroom .. I said, "Okay" thinking J.D. was right outside. I came out of the restroom, and went to the truck. J.D. was outside with Dawson, but some lady brought Dawson out to J.D.! It was so scary! We both didn't really know what to think. I'm so grateful that somebody was willing to help Dawson find his parents, but what if it wasn't a nice person and they took him...?? So many thoughts...but I'm glad he was found. :-)

I have 10 days left in my first semester at SUU. It's been... a nightmare! Not the classes, but just SUU in general. The financial aid office, the registrar's office (which is worked out now), and a HORRIBLE adviser who refuses to let me graduate with the degree I want to graduate in. Sounds ridiculous, and it is! However, that's all I'm going to say because I really just want to graduate happily. I think once I get things worked out with a different adviser I will appreciate graduating more. I just want to remember to advise anyone I know to try not to transfer, finish with one school,...and between J.D. and I- not SUU. I don't mean to offend anyone who's gone or is going to SUU, but just with our personal experience (not just mine) we really just want to be done with them. Our favorite place we've gone to school was UVU! Best college/university in the state... seriously! And we've have classes from USU, Snow, SLCC, Uof U, UVU, Weber, and now SUU. Sad...we've actually only attended, combining J.D. and mine, Uof U, USU, UVU, and SUU... Amazing uh?

Our roles have completely changed here for us. Now that J.D. is done with his degree, he's just working. Since I'm going to school, I've completely slacked off on household duties. So, J.D. comes home every night, cleans the house and watches Dawson while I study. I try to get what I can done during the day, but it's nearly impossible. When school starts I will be gone a lot in the mornings and evenings whiles J.D. gets to do everything I used to. ... haha- we actually try to do things together for the most part and I love it. The stress levels for both of us have really gone down. We always try to do a 20 minute clean up every night-which gets our house pretty darn clean since it's so small. It's just nice to share roles instead of relying on one another for certain things. I think that's some really good advice for our future children. :-)

J.D. turns 26 in a couple of day... we really are getting so old, I feel like. All of the exciting ages have passed...we can rent cars, legally drink (but we don't) car insurance has gone down, we are legally adults, we can rent motel rooms, own time shares,....i can't think of much else. I guess the only thing left is turning 65 to get senior citizen rates...lol! Dawson is 2 so we have to pay for a plane ticket for him, but we still have a month in a half left to get him in the movies for free! lol!