Cade & Melissa

is officially over! Yay! I only took two classes (four credits each) but they totally kicked my butt. Physiology was super fun and I loved it. I had a great teacher who is an ER physician at the hospital so he was able to share fun real life experiences during our lectures which made things so much more interesting. Anatomy on the other hand completely just sucked. I hate just flat memorizing things and I've never been super great at doing that either. The teacher for that class has some ego trip I think to see how many of his students he can trick on questions on the tests. He loves to ask the minute detail-type questions. Ugh! I'm already registered to take it again this summer.....don't want to by any means but I really want to get at least a B in that class and it sure didn't happen this semester.

Good things about this semester though included making a great new friend. Adrianna was in both my classes and we got to be good friends by the end of the semester. She's going into nursing too and we're taking another class together this fall. I'm pretty shy when it comes to meeting new people so I had a goal to make a new friend and I did. This semester went by surprisely fast though. I've learned so much at my job in the ICU and I still love working there. It was great to study a bit at work because I could see what I was studying in action. Like when we were studying the urinary system there happened to be several renal failure patients in the ICU so I could ask questions about the patients and watch their lab results and put it all together. Works out nicely.

Cade and I have still been trying to have a baby. In that aspect it's been a stressful semester. We've tried IUIs (intra-uterine insemenation) twice and just keep hoping that something eventually works. Some days get really frustrating and I don't handle it all very well, but other days seem better and I remind myself to keep hoping and praying. Cade is so supportive and understanding. Each time I have an emotional breakdown (there have been a few believe me) he just holds me and wipes away my tears and finds silly cute ways to cheer me up somehow. I'm not sure how he can make me laugh at moments when I feel so down, but he almost always manages it. I'm so grateful for him and all that he does for me.

So since we moved in to the trailer ct 3 years ago, we've been told that it would be closing down in July 2011. Then on this past Wednesday, we get a letter informing us that they will be shutting down large sections of it asap (meaning no later than this August). We just happen to be in one of those sections so we have to be out be August 1st. Luckily it's a great time of year to look for apartments so finding some to look at wasn't too hard. So we are selling our trailer to a guy who wants to open up his own trailer park in Cache Valley somewhere. But since there is now a plethera of trailers for sale, the price he's willing to pay for them has gone down immensely. Oh well, at least we get something out of it I guess. Plus the University is paying us $1000 for the hassle of us having to move out unexpectedly.

So we looked at a few different places that sounded appealing and narrowed it down to two as of yesterday. We had our first choice but the other was a very close second so we had decided that we'd only take the second if the first was rented to someone else. Then this morning we got a call from our first choice saying that he'd like us to come look at the lease agreement and he has told the other couple of people looking at it that it will probably be rented to us. So we take the deposit to him sometime this week and it's ours. It's right below campus and has two city bus stops about a half block away and both of them go to campus. 2 bedrooms and an office, 1 bath, includes washer/dryer and all major appliances. We have our own driveway and our own shed to use for storage. There's a big park across the street. The landlord seems like a really nice guy (he loves to BS a lot). I'm excited for it, but not really excited to have to pack up all the crap we've collected over the last few years. Could be a good change though and I am getting excited to experience a new place.