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Happy New Year!

Well, it's 2008...I can't believe it! Ryan and I graduated from high school 10 years ago. Let's take a look into the past:
10 years ago...
Gas was .99 a gallon
It was $5.50 to see a movie
Min. wage was $5.25
The avg. home price in Temecula, CA was $120,000
Pretty depressing, huh?

Ryan started back to school today. He has 4 classes this semester, but one is online. Of course all of his classes are at night so we're back to hardly seeing each other. We had a great Christmas break though and were able to visit lots of family in California and Utah. I am having fun at school trying to teach my kids about place value. It's so hard for me to teach things that are so simple to me! I just expect them to understand it. I wish I could get into their little heads sometimes and see how they are thinking about stuff. I have also been teaching them compound words which is pretty hilarious. Because of their first language being Spanish they were putting the words together backwards, like "cagebird", "housedog", etc. The best one was something out of a horror movie...They were suppose to match up "lady" and "bug" but put "buglady". Cute!

Catch up!

Well, in case you haven't noticed, Ryan and I haven't updated this thing in a while. Work, school, and holiday activities have kept us very busy. Ryan finished all his finals and projects for this semester successfully. This was his best semester so far at ASU for grades. And he past his National EMT practicals! So now he just has his written test to take and he'll be a certifed EMT! This is a huge accomplishment for him and I've never seen him study so hard for anything. Hopefully it will pay off with a fireman job sometime in the next year....we'll see. Ryan and I were both so sick this past weekend. All day Sunday we stayed in bed with fevers and aches. I, fortunately, was better by Monday. Ryan, however, got worse and worse. He finally went to the doctor on Tuesday and got some massive drugs. I didn't know that they even had medicine for the flu, but apparently they do. It's called Tamiflu and it seemed to work. He was so much better within 24 hours. I am just thankful that we had this before Christmas so we will be able to enjoy our holidays!

Final Crunch!

As finals draw closer Ryan has become an absolute hermit! I haven't seen much of him except when he comes out from the office to rummage through the fridge for food (which is quite often)!
We had a crazy Thanksgiving with the Moorefields at Mama Moorefield's house. There were 15+ people crammed into 2 tables...add 2 hyper little boys running around and some turkey and that sums it up! Ryan's sister and her husband flew out from San Diego and surprised everyone. That was a treat! It was good to see you Erica! Ryan braved Black Friday and got up at 5am to shop for my birthday and Christmas. He was gone for 3+ hours but made it back in one piece and with a lot of gifts. Good job hun!