Glorious Graduation

Luke is 2 months old! I can't believe how fast time flies. Whoa. We sure do love him. He is smiling more and more and everyday there are a few more hairs on the top of his head. We learn new things everyday and definitely after we spend some time with my mom. I will ask her questions about things that have been happening and how I don't really know what to do about something and she always has this simple and obvious answer. Her knowledge is without end. I am lucky to have her for help.

And I am graduating! Officially on April 24th from BYU. What happy news. I even shared it today in Relief Society for the Good News moment. It was glorious. Today was our first day back to church if you can believe it. Two whole months of inactivity. I can't tell you how happy I am to be back again. The nurses and doctors always told us that the famous RSV sickness would be pretty heavily spread around until mid-April and that it would be safe to stay away from church and large crowds. And since we always do what the doctors tell us to...It was good though to fell ready for it. Luke has kind of made a schedule for the mornings and so we were pretty sure that we would know what to expect during the hours of church (11-2). He slept all through Sacrament Meeting, I nursed him in the car for Sunday School and he slept all through Relief Society like a good little bug. And then I discovered the secret nursing mothers room in the women's bathroom. Do I need to specify that it is in the women's bathroom? Anyway, it was like stumbling on happiness! To know that there is a cute little room hidden away that will allow me to nurse Luke while at church. Glorious. Overall it was a great experience. I was a little worried about little kids coming up and grabbing at him but there weren't too many of those. There were many squeals from older women in regards to his cuteness. How can we blame them? I am the lucky one that gets to hang out with him all day.

Wasn't I talking about graduation? Hmmm....can you tell that I love talking about him?

So I am graduating and my family is coming down, which I am extremely excited for. Since they moved from California to Idaho we have seen them at least once a month, or it seems like that anyway. I love it. If they still lived 9 hours away instead of 3, they wouldn't be able to see Luke nearly as much and the same for us seeing them. I very much enjoy it. My sister and I also happen to be in the same college, Family, Home, and Social Sciences and therefore our Convocation Ceremony is together in the Marriott Center. How fun! So our family only needs to go to one Ceremony, thank goodness. It sure is a good feeling to be done with school. But I will miss the opportunities to learn part. Homework not so much, but I do love to learn and read and I will have to make more of an effort on my own to set goals for myself in regards to continue furthering my education. But it does feel good to read a book with no connection to school now without feeling guilty about not doing homework. I started the Twilight series finally and so far so good.

Dave and I are also pretty seriously looking to move somewhere else. I honestly feel like we are being taken advantage of here at Remington Apartments and I hate the feeling. We have found an open basement apartment in our ward where, believe it or not, the landlords are going to give us a special discount on the rent because they have wanted to do something nice for the Shumway family for years. Wow, did I marry into the right family or what? So, in a couple weeks, after the current tenants leave, we are going to go over and check the place out. We definitely like basement apartments better than regular ones and I am hoping and praying that things work out for us.

I am excited to say that I am going to restart Personal Progress. I did receive my Young Womanhood Recognition Award in High School but I think it would be so fun to do it again. My mom is the Young Women's President in their ward and she is urging the girls and their mothers to do Personal Progress together. So, my mom and I are doing the same thing. All of the goals and exercises in the book are things that I want in my life anyway and with being able to set goals and have someone to report to (my mom), I will be better able to accomplish the things that I want to. I want to do better on my scripture reading and personal prayers and I think that this will definitely help me.

I also want to say that I miss my girls at work. I want to come visit so badly but I heard that with the end of the semester and finals going on, that a few have come down with some sicknesses and that it is better to keep baby Luke away for now. I sure did love my job. I LOVE my job as a mother but I sure did have fun working with those girls.

Well, I promise to be a better blogger. I have found this to be more fun than I thought and each time that I want to post but find that I am unable to it is a say day. So hopefully I will do much better from now on.

Here are some pictures of our cute little bug! And my niece Keeli and nephew Tel from our Easter trip up to Idaho. Enjoy!