Update

*Original post started in October 2010*

Wow, it's been awhile.  Things have been crazy and I haven't had time to even update my facebook status lately much less write a blog.  April to October is admittedly a long time but what can I say, when our life gets crazy the blog takes a back seat to my family :)  So...what's been happening in our lives?  We gave up our apartment in Idaho in May and decided to split our time during the summer between Jacob's mom and my parents.  We were waiting to here from the schools that Jacob applied to for transfer.  He ended up getting an internship in Tacoma with a law office and so we spend the bulk of the summer in WA.  I went down to CA about a week before he did and we celebrated my birthday, Korey's birthday, Tirzah's 1st birthday, and my sister's bridal shower all in the same 4 days.  That was a LOT of parties :)  I can't believe my baby girl is already a year old.  Wow!!  She is almost 15 months as I write this and she is so full of life.  She completely lights up my world and I can't imagine life without her.

So, after the CA trip we had a tough decision to make.  We had gotten rejections from all of the schools that Jacob had applied to except for the University of Washington.  We were really hoping for an acceptance there but we felt like we had to do the responsible thing so we moved back to Idaho and after 3 days in a hotel finally found an apartment.  We were really worried for awhile there but we ended up finding a place we fell in love with.  We decided to wait until the end of the week to move our stuff in because we were supposed to hear a final word from UW by Friday (school was supposed to start at Idaho on Monday).  In the car on Thursday (or Wednesday, can't remember) we decided that we were content to be in Idaho and we would be happy regardless of the outcome.  We got home and Jacob suddenly had the flu (like didn't even make it to the bathroom flu).  About 10 minutes later his phone rang.  It was the admissions guy from UW telling Jacob that he was in...wow!!!  So we packed up our house (thank goodness for not unpacking or even getting everything out of the storage unit) and went to the managers of our apartment the next morning to try to get out of our lease.  We were really worried that we would get stuck with the lease so we were hoping (and praying) that we would be able to get out of the lease even if we couldn't get any money back.  We had used all of our savings to get settled in Idaho so we were obviously hoping that we'd get some of our money back but we certainly weren't counting on it.  We ended up getting out of our lease and getting all but 4 days worth of rent of our money back...YAY!!!!  That was awesome!!  God is so good.

So we moved back to WA and...


...now it's March of 2011.  I put this post on hold and once again, life took over :)  Tirzah is now 19 months old and obsessed with letters, bows, and books (still).  Jacob finished his first quarter at UW and did really well (I'm so proud of him).  He has his first final of his second quarter on Monday so our house is very much a study zone right now.  He is lining up a summer job (not sure yet what the final decision will be on that...still praying and waiting) and he is over half way done with law school...WOO HOO!!!!  We have been living with his mom to help her out and it has been a blessed situation for all of us.  It's not always easy to live with people, especially in-laws, but I couldn't have asked for a better mother-in-law and it's been great to be able to help her out.  I got a job as a server at a local restaurant and it's been nice to have some extra money as well as a chance to get out of the house without a child in tow :)  Okay, I think that pretty much covers it right now as far as an update is concerned.  Here is an absolutely adorable picture (or two) of my fabulously cute daughter (no bias here) and a picture of Jacob and me at my first ever Seahawks game (what a blast!!).  More posts with more substance to come soon...life permitting :)