Last Semester of school!

So today starts the last semester of us at the University of Utah!!! We are thrilled that the tunnel has an end! We have been in school our whole married lives which although not that long, it has been a long enough to be in school. After Justin's graduation in May we will hopefully be making our way to Pittsburgh for mortuary school! We are beyond thrilled at starting what we consider graduate school, and then to be moving on with life. It will truly be a good day when school is all done! People always tell me to enjoy the journey, and I really feel that we are, but I am ready to enjoy a new journey! One in which we can go on vacations without guilt! lol.
Our plans for this year are to be frugal and survive! Money will be tight this year for us, but I think it will render some really wonderful experiences as a family! So far we have family movie nights and that has been a hit! This weeks viewing will be How to Train your Dragon, and possibly a Princess Movie. Lylia is wonderful as usual. Just busy playing, singing and talking. We've decided to teach Lylia a new Primary song each month and sing it each night before bed time. She is going faster at learning than we were expecting so we may have to change that to two or three songs. She is working on "Keeping the Commandments" & "Child's Prayer." She has under her belt, "I love to see the Temple" and "The Wise Man & Foolish Man" , "Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam", and well so many more. She just loves to sing!
I was going to take classes but decided that I am not doing school right now. It is just not a priority in my life right now. I'd rather focus on home life, and work and getting everything in place for an easy transition this summer. People have a tendency to make me feel guilty for not going to school, and I have decided that I don't care! You can feel the way you want about school, but that does not mean that I have to agree. Having a family and taking care of them has always been my highest priority and school just takes me away from them. Someday I think I will get some education in a field of study that I love just as much as Genealogy. And I look forward to opening that door when the time is right!
This is a new year, and I know that everyone is making new years resolutions, but I don't like that terminology. I'd rather say it is my time to recommit myself to being a better person. So my goals are to ensure my family is eating healthy and exercising our minds and bodies, really pondering and reading my scriptures. Fasting with a true purpose each time I fast, and to constantly pray. I also plan on spending really good quality time with Lylia and Justin. Will I be perfect, no, but I don't have those expectations. I just plan on doing the best that I can!
Our lives although not perfect and sometimes a bit overwhelming. I am so thankful today for my sweet heart Justin. I truly can't say enough how much I love him. He is my everything! Because of our love we have the sweetest little girl, and someday if it is God's will we can have more children, but rather than worrying about it, I am simply going to love and cherish what I do have.
I was remembering back almost 4 years ago, to when Justin came home from his mission to England! I had missed him so badly for 2 years, and felt like I had a hole in my heart. Everyday was a battle of trying to get something accomplished rather than wishing my life away, but when I saw Justin at the airport it was then that my greatest testimony of prayer came. I prayed for him everyday and ached to have him near, and Heavenly Father had blessed me with something so incredible after something so difficult. I truly can say that he is my soul mate. There is no one I'd rather hold hands with, laugh with and snuggle with. I love you Justin! Thank you for choosing me!