Finally an Update

It's been 5 months since my last post. I can't believe how fast the time has gone. Our baby boy is going to be 6 months a week from today. What a little sweetheart he is. We love being mommy and daddy to our little angel. He is such a good boy and growing up so fast. He already has a tooth coming in on the bottom, and the one right next to it is coming too. He seriously is the most handsome little guy I've ever seen. His big blue eyes and sweet little smile just make me melt. He has recently started sleeping the whole night, in the last two weeks. Before that he would go to bed at around 8pm them wake up at 4:30am and have a bottle. He now goes to bed at 8pm and gets up around 6am so say bye to mommy, then back to bed for a while. He still takes two or three naps a day, which allows mommy and daddy, whoever is with him to do homework and clean up the house. We really are lucky to have such a good boy.
Other news since the last post...we bought a house in July. It is so nice putting money towards a mortgage instead of someone else. It's perfect for us and we're so excited to do a bunch of little projects in it to make it even better for us. The best part for us, is we now have a back yard where Rosten and his sisters and brothers (whenever they come) have a place to play.
Ryan has plans with my brother and dad to close in the garage and make a little workshop in there. He is so excited. We're also going to redo the basement. It's not completely finished now, so we're going to add another bathroom and bedroom and close in the laundy room. It's so much fun to look forward to these things we can do together. We'll probably start next spring or summer, as we'll need to save for a while to get it done. I think before we do anything in the basement, we're going to put carpet in ours and Rosten's room and maybe the living room. We now have hardwood floor in those rooms, and I don't like it because I want Rosten to be able to crawl. We'll see...
I'm in my second to last semester of college. I'm so excited to finally graduate. I right now am going to school two days a week, with online class. Next semester I only have my internship. I'm a little nervous about it because I won't be working at all. I'm doing the internship full-time so I can be done in May and graduate. I'm so excited!!! Ryan and my dad both said I need to walk at graduation, so I will be walking. My dad says it's a huge accomplishment I need to celebrate, and Ryan said Rosten needs to see his parents do important things like that, so it is something he'll know is important. As much as I want to do in the future, all of my kids may see me graduate at one time or another.
Ryan was accepted at Weber State University here in Ogden. We are so proud of him. He is such an amazing daddy and hubby for Rosten and I. So far they have accepted all of his credits from his associates degree in England, and we're waiting to see if they'll accept them as actual criminal justice credits. If they do accept them as criminal justice credits, he should only have a few years left until he will graduate. He wants to work for the secret service, so whatever it takes for him to get in there we will do. I am so proud of how hard he is working and doing his school work. He spends all morning taking care of Rosten while I'm at work, and does homework at the same time, then he switches me and I take Rosten and he goes to work all afternoon and night. What a hard working man. It has definitely been a challenge for us to not see each other very often because we have chosen not to have Rosten go to a babysitter (except for a few hours on Mondays and Tuesdays when I'm in class), but it's very worth it to know that he is being taken care of by his parents who love him and would do anything to protect him. Needless to say, the few hours or days we get to spend together as a family here and there are precious!

Other news in the Wood family, we got a dog!!! For those of you who know me at all, know that is totally out of character for me. I don't do animals or animal waste! But we love our doggy. His name is Wally and he's a cocker spaniel. Rosten is getting to the point now where he just sits and watches him and laughs. It's pretty dang cute. Wally has been such a good dog. We got him when he was only 11 weeks old, so he is still just a puppy. He's growing like crazy though. Last week, we decided to cute his hair, and now he looks little again. It's a lot of fun to have him, but a lot of hard work. Our biggest reason for getting him was we wanted Rosten to grow up with a dog. After we got him we thought we should have started out with a fish or something, but we wouldn't change him now for anything.
Our little dumbo

Rosten and his amazing daddy
Blast from the past.....I'm working hard to get back to this size again. I'll keep everyone posted. So far, I've lost 15 pounds. Only another 25 to go. I guess being happily married and having a baby really does ruin your body. Wish me luck because the training has begun.