I am going to have a new family member.....

Bud is Engaged.... I still can't believe that he asked Laura to marry him. He has always talked about just living with my parents forever and not wanting to get married until he was 40. I am so excited for him and Laura. He and I had made a scrapbook and at the end of it he proposed. Bud had asked Cort to take a picture of him and send it to him to add as the first person to say congrats. Cort's pic was amazing. He also colored a congrats picture and sent it with the picture so both the pic and the artwork made it into the scrapbook. She along with everyone else was very surprised. They will probably be getting married sometime in the spring. I am not sure of an exact time frame. I am sooooo proud of him and I feel honored to be his big sister.

Cort is doing great. He has had the best and worst week yet. He and his companion teach seminary to students on Wednesdays. One of the two girls they teach was killed in a roll over. He and his companion have been dealing with her passing. On a lighter note Cort and his companion were cleaning their car out and Cort ran into the bathroom to grab the Windex that is under the bathroom sink. When Cort opened the cupboard door there was an animal in the cabinet. He ran out to get his companion to come in and see what he found. The companion opened the cabinet door and told Cort it was a possum. His companion grabbed the broom and tried to push it back through the hole where it crawled through. (the hole is for the plumbing/pipe) Well they could not get it to go back out so they called their landlord who came over with a gun and shot it. Are you kidding me? I can picture Cort freaking out. Both my brothers are terrified of spiders let alone a nice surprise next to the Windex.

Take out and cleaning....

There is a new Olive Garden in town and Caleb and I might be considered to join the frequent eaters take out group. We can call in an order and pick it up in 15-20 mins. Life just got a whole lot easier for a girl who does not cook. The individual proportions are the big enough for a family of five. A little bit of my heart belongs to the new Olive Garden....oh the bread sticks....

Am I the only person who has a lot of free time (now that I am not in school) that seems to want to do nothing but sit on the couch? I know that there are things that need to be done around the house. I need to get my rear in gear and be more productive around the house. Being that it is only Caleb and I living in our home it should not get too out of control...but then I look around and have to re-evaluate. I tend to ask myself that if someone dropped in would I be ok inviting them into our home? Overall I would consider our home clean...maybe just not to my own standards. By no means would our home be condemned by the health department...I am just not sure If I would do so much black furniture in our next home.