Yeah...I know, I haven't posted anything in nearly a year.  I finally feel like doing it again.  ...but, different. 

Here's the deal.  I want to start posting on Xanga again, but I don't really want to associate it with my old xanga account.  That sounds weird, I know, but I have my reasons.  For those of you still on Xanga that are my friends now, comment me here and I will send you a message with my new account name so we can still keep in touch.  Thanks, and see ya on there!

Things have been so hectic lately, that Chris and I have hardly gotten any good time to spend just with each other.  I was almost feeling like an old married couple.

He's so busy with work, classes, and his practicum, and I am working full-time, doing almost all the household chores and bill-paying/budgeting.  When we're both actually home and not having to work on things, it seems like Amber and her friends are always here.  Now, I love my sister-in-law to death, and her friends are fun, but lately it's almost felt like we've gained three children, suddenly.  Not that they're kids, but, we have rowdy things in the house all the time, extra mouths to feed, and Chris is constantly going, "Amber, stop, we don't want anyone getting hurt" or "Amber, c'mon, you'll break the couch."

Chris had to have a talk with her the other day about expecting us to provide food for not only her, but her friends as well.  We are doing much better off financially but, we're about to invest in a new TV, Christmas is coming up, and we're finally building up a savings plan.  Paying for all this extra stuff is kind of throwing those plans off.  Not to mention the fact that their constant freeloading is just not right,especially when they can afford their own food, and the fact that they have meal plans.  After he talked to her she felt sorry, and gave us some money to cover the food from this last week.  I honestly don't think she knew it was a burden to us.  So, that problem was solved, I hope.

However there was still the problem of not having any time with each other, because she and her friends are -always- over whenever we aren't at work (sometimes even when we are), so Chris, in this same talk, told her that we were having a Date Night last night, so she should make other plans with James and Michanne.  I think we will have to have these date nights every couple of weeks or so, because it was just so nice.

It wasn't anything exciting, we just had a nice dinner, watched Iron Man, and just cuddled up and talked for a loong time.  It has been so long since we've just talked for awhile.  And at the end of the night, we prayed together.  This is something we used to do every night before we went to sleep when we were first married, but that routine kind of stopped when things got busy, and now Chris goes to sleep hours after me because our sleep schedules are so different (I usually work mornings, he usually works evenings).  I didn't realize how much we had been missing it.  Praying together was the one time in the day that we made sure to focus on our relationship together being about God first.

To those of you getting married, make sure to stay connected to God in your relationship, and don't lose that.  And don't ever let your marriage slip into routine, it's surprising how easily that can happen.    

After lunch today, Chris and Ryu donned their black hoodies to attend their very first photoshoot together.  It was a shoddy operation with a cheap background near the highway, causing Ryu to frantically look off to his side almost constantly while cars shot by, but, we got pictures and chocolate, and he got mice outta the deal, so I'd say it was worth it.




Yeah, Walgreen's had a "Pet Photo Shoot" day for charity, so I took our kitty, and entered him into the pet/owner look-a-like contest.  I dun think we won though.  >.>
It was fun.

Yesterday was Swedish Meatball, which was funness as always.  Unfortunately, Maggie and I loafed around talking until like 2:30 in the morning about the good old days, Miku Miku's dancing, and my obscenely-hilarious-break-up-letter-with-Shroom-post.  So, we all spent anime-watchings just trying not to collapse, and about half of us did.  It was still funs though. 
Shroom, we all decided that it is imperitive that you visit us, mayhaps for the Steampunk Masquerade?  Or any freetime really, come come!  We've decided to make a nice little surprise for you if you do.

To those of you not Shroom, umm, go away.  Well I guess you can stay and look at the fluffy thing pictures.