First of all, my apologies for practically LYING on my last post. I said I would update on Saturday. It's now Wednesday, and I failed to do so. Lame me.
Anyway, the last time I posted was a month ago, before school even started. In fact, I believe it was registration week when I posted. A lot has happened since then. Stroll with me loved ones, if you will, down this last month's Memory Lane.
Let's see. First of all, school has begun! Which of course is the whole reason we moved to Okie in the first place. We were so super excited that it was finally here! The way the school is set up is that we have four 8-week terms, each having six classes. This week is our fourth week of school, and it's already midterms! (Which I wish was why I didn't get my blog post written over the weekend, but it wasn't. Let's be real: I was lazy.) Anyway, we love our classes so much. Like, LOVE them! This term we're taking Christ the Healer, Blood Covenant, Faith I, Understanding Grace, Critical Thinking/Giving & Receiving, and Financial Management. Our favorite courses are definitely Christ the Healer and Blood Covenant, but all of the classes are awesome, and we're learning so much from each one. For time's sake, I won't go into the course description of each one, but if you want to know any more about what each class is all about, comment or email me and I'll gladly tell you. Basically, it's a lot of Jesus, a lot of Bible, and a lot of AWESOME.
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| Here we are getting ready for our first day of our first year at Rhema! |
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| First day!!! |
Our campus also has a rec center with a concession stand. We stopped there for lunch during the week of registration and ate some Philly cheesesteak sandwiches and some truly awesome fries! So here's Brent eating that... ;)
Every Friday is Rhema Spirit Day, so we get to wear jeans and "Rhema gear" to class!
As most of you know, I'm also going to night school at Southwestern Christian University working towards my bachelors degree in Human & Family Services. Almost a decade of me being in school, and I'll FINALLY have something to show for it, haha! I'll have my official degree in January 2014, though I won't be walking until May of that year. In case I haven't mentioned it before, the way the SCU courses are set up is one class at a time, one night a week for five weeks each, all year long. It's pretty intense! I got an A in my first course (Academic Research Writing) and this week is the last week of Educational Philosophies course. (Hopefully I get an A in this one too! I'm close...) Next course I'll be taking will be Cultural Diversity, and after that I'm only going to be in actual
program courses, like counseling, addiction studies, societal issues and procedures, etc. A real-life career guys...I'm almost there! ;)
Brent's also planning on going to SCU in the spring, and plans on working towards a business degree, so he's excited about that. He loves his job and the people he works with. He such an awesome banker! Poor guy though: with full-time work and full-time school, he's going from 6am-9pm almost every day! But he really enjoys and appreciates his days off now more than he ever did before, and I am so thankful for him working so hard while I'm finishing my degree. He is the best husband and friend a girl could have, and I love him so much! We also celebrated our ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!! But I'll write a separate post about that. :)
We've met some really awesome people, and have hung out with some great couples! It's nice to be forming some new relationships with new people and finding our place here in Tulsa. We are, however, looking forward to coming home for a week for Christmas and spending time with our Idaho friends and family!
Our upstairs neighbors moved out last week, and were so nice - they gave us their table and chairs!
Since school started, I haven't been on the best "try new recipes" schedule, haha! But that will change, believe me! (No more Hot Pockets for a while...) I will say, I had a very successful track record for pumpkin chocolate chip cookies two weeks in a row! Seriously, I baked THREE 2.5 dozen batches in two weeks! One was for Brent's job's bake sale, and the other we took over the two times we hung out with our new peeps. I must say, they were quite delicious!
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| Pumpkin CCCs!!! |
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| I also made this....stuff....in the crock pot. It was just cream cheese, chicken, corn, black beans, and rotel for 6 hours in the crock pot. We ate it in tortillas, though it would have also worked with rice too! It was really good and lasted us a week! |
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| Also, remember when I tried to make my own potato chips and they just ended up being thinly sliced potatoes? Well this time I made actually crispy potato thins!! Though it was totally by accident, and I have no idea how to duplicate it...but they were great! Also....chicken, green beans, and cinnamon applesauce. ;) |
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| I also made some banana bread! It was pretty good, but I should have used more banana. Next time! |
As I said, I'll be posting a 1st anniversary post tonight (this time I really will, I promise), but church starts in like, 20 minutes, and even though it's right across the street, I need to like...put actual clothes on and warm me up some coffee for the journey. So to tide you over until the anniversary post is up, here's a little something for you.
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| First, if you don't already know, pumpkin spice lattes are now at Starbucks...which means it's officially fall. |
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| Second, a bird decorated the hood of our car quite creatively. |
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| And finally, yes. That is exactly what you think it is. I found this little beauty (thankfully, already dead) on our back patio while I was talking to Courtney on the phone. HOORAY! |
