Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Aaron and I spent Christmas Eve at my aunt's house eating dinner and playing with my cousins little kids. We also had a visit from SANTA! We went to midnight mass Christmas eve and then woke up Christmas morning to open gifts. We didn't get much this year since the cruise was our Christmas gift, but it was still nice. We then went down to my Grandma's house where we ate tons of food and visited with a few of my aunt's and their families. Then we headed to my Dad's parents where we ate a little more and then went into a food coma :-)
We've pretty much just been relaxing since Christmas, but we're getting ready to head back to Oxford tomorrow because we both have to work on Tuesday. We also have to pack and get things ready for the cruise. Then we may head down to Kentucky a day early to visit with Aaron's brothers before we have to leave for Miami on the 1st.
We hope everyone has a great New Years and I probably won't post again until we get back from the cruise, so I'll see you in 2010!! :-)

One step closer..

To become licensed as a speech language pathologist you have to pass the PRAXIS. This is a standardized test that covers every area a SLP may possibly get into, so needless to say, studying for it is hard. I took the test on the 14th and we weren't supposed to get our scores back until next week, but they posted them early and I PASSED! I kicked the tests butt! I am so extremely proud of myself and now the only thing that's standing between me and becoming an SLP is student teaching this spring. I am so relieved and proud that all of my hard work is finally starting to pay off.

The end is in sight...

We have had a crazy past few weeks. Last week Aaron had a ton of group projects that were done and I had a lot of assignments also. We hardly saw each other at all Tuesday and we didn't see each other at all Wednesday (except when he was getting home from a group meeting at 3:30 in the morning and I woke up). Plus, on top of all of that we're trying to potty train a puppy! But the end is in sight!!! This is the last week of classes for both of us and in two of my classes we're taking our finals, so after Thursday I will be completely done! Aaron still has finals next week, but they shouldn't be too bad. Then we'll have a whole month off to relax and recuperate. In the spring I don't have any classes, but I'm student teaching full-time, but at least I'll have a normal schedule so I'll be home at a decent hour at night and don't have to get up at the crack of dawn.

This weekend Aaron worked Friday and Sunday so I spent those days getting work done and Saturday we put our Christmas tree up! :-) I can't believe it's almost Christmas, this year has gone SO fast! Aaand, last night we had our first snowfall. It's just a little dusting, but enough to make everything white! I'm finally starting to get into the Christmas spirit!
Here's a little family photo we took last night...

The Sebourns
2009

Our family is growing!!!

But not that way....

Aaron bought me a puppy for my birthday! He went Sunday to pick her up and lied to me about it but I'm super sneaky and found out about it (although I'm NOT proud of how I found out) so he gave her too me Sunday night! She's an 8 week (today!) old, boxer puppy named Zoe and she is the cutest freaking thing I have ever seen. She is sooo sweet. She loves to play and cuddle! Aaron and I are quickly figuring out how much we don't know about puppy training. She hates her kennel and has no idea how to walk on a leash. She's pretty good about letting us know when she has to go outside to go to the bathroom though and she only wakes us up once in the night to go. Man, I feel like I'm talking about my child, although she pretty much is...

Anyway, here are a few pictures...

Zoe on her way home















First bath















napping, from all her hard playing

Thanksgiving

I don't know what it is, but it does NOT seem like Thanksgiving is next week. Maybe it's because the weather is still pretty warm, or maybe it's because I've been so busy with school and work. I don't know what it is, but it seems like just yesterday it was May and Aaron and I were getting married. Now we've been married 6 1/2 months! I can't believe that much time has gone by.
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because it includes all of my favorite thing:
family.
food.
naps. (don't tell Aaron I said that, I normally hate naps but on Thanksgiving they're allowed)
football.
and this year there's a very special added bonus, my birthday!
We have some family come in to town so it will be fun to visit with them, relax and we'll get a much needed break from school.
So, in case I don't get a chance to post before Thanksgiving, I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with food, family and fun! :-)

So I realized that in all of my stress of the semester I completely forgot to write about something I'm really looking forward to..
On Jan. 2 Aaron and me and my family are leaving to go on a CRUISE! :-) We leave from Miami and will be cruising to Semana in the Dominican Republic, St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Tortola in the British Virgin Islands and our cruiseline's private island in the Bahamas.
When we first booked the cruise I was excited because I love cruises but now, I feel like I NEED this cruise. This semester has been insanely busy for me. I feel like I hardly have time to get my work done, let alone so it will be sooo nice to have an entire week where I don't have to even think about school and I can just relax and get my sanity back.
Ahhhhh 59 days and counting.... Can't come soon enough.

All Aboard...

I am not a fan of bandwagon jumpers. Now that the Bengals are 4-1 (and should be 5-0 if it weren't for a freak accident in the final seconds of their first game) I have noticed that some of those fair whether fans that only come around when we're doing halfway decent are starting to express their "love" for the Bengals. Don't get me wrong, its great to have a lot of supporters for your team, but there's a quote by Marilyn Monroe that says "...if you can't handle me at my worst you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." And I know that when Marilyn said that she clearly wasn't talking about football but I think it relates. It really annoys me when people who continually bash a team all of a sudden act like huge fans as soon as said team wins a few games in a row.
So, moral of the story, if you're going to be a fan, be a fan through the good and the bad so as not to anger us true fans.