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Updates!
Yes, I have been a bad blogger. The last school year was especially rough and stressful and I needed a mental break to get get my brain rebooted. But we got through the semester, took our trip to MN and came back to chaos. As usual. :P The car transmission decided to really start crapping the bed and the vacuum broke. This doesn't sound like much, but the car is a big deal. Or, should I say, was a big deal. Let me show you our newest addition:



We bought a 2009 Hyundai Elantra yesterday! It's my first new car; Jason's second. It's pretty! And it's tricked out, by my standards. We traded the Buick in, which I felt bad about because I'm most likely far too sentimental about cars.

Another minor project of mine was to clean up our front "yard". The apartment complex doesn't do any landscaping (aside from the few bushes present) and our front area was a mess of weeds. The only before picture I have is Jason "discovering" a birthday present left in the bushes by our good friends Bobby and Allison:



I brought some Lamium back from MN (Thanks, Mom!) and ripped up everything but the shrubs and planted the whole lot. So here's what it looks like now:



Much better, in my opinion! :D I'm just happy that the weeds are gone.

I'm going to make a point to post more; there's actually been a few developments that will take longer to explain that this short summary post. But for now, I'm doing research for the summer, Jason is teaching and we're muddling along.