Good Things Come in Threes

Good Thing #1- I am officially (or nearly officially) a graduate of BYU-Idaho

Even though I won't receive my diploma for another month or so, I turned in my last assignment and final grades are posted. I've done the last three semesters of my degree online while working full time; it was a struggle, but worth it. I'm pretty sure that this last semester was my most difficult in my college career. My hardest class, Advanced Research and Literary Analysis, nearly killed me--or I thought it was going to. But I am pleased to say that I worked harder than I have before and pulled a 98% in the class--the highest grade. I'm not trying to brag or anything like that, well maybe a little, but I consider it quite the achievement, considering the fact that I only picked English as my minor because I could graduate quicker not because it is my forte.

Anyway, I can safely say that that chapter of my life is over. Now Devin and I can actually enjoy our evenings and weekends, without that guilty feeling that I'm leaving some bit of homework undone.

Good Thing #2- We bought a house!

Yes, that's right. We've been casually looking at houses over the last six or seven months. We would see a house online and fall in love with it, debate on whether buying a house is actually a good idea and then go to look at it again and realize it had already sold. So a few months ago, when the housing market started to change back to a seller's market we decided we needed to act before housing got ridiculous and we were stuck in an apartment forever. We got a little discouraged at first because most of the housing in our price range were going for well above asking price (thus pushing them out of our price range) so we started looking for a new apartment. We found one about the same size as our current place just a little nicer, but they wanted $100 more than we are currently paying in rent. So it was back to the house hunt. It all happened so quickly when we found the right one. We love it and are super excited to move out of our ghetto apartment. We should close the second weekend in May!

The lawn needs a little help, but that's where we come in.

It's less than 10 years old in a cute little subdivision and they just put in new carpet and wood flooring in the kitchen. I'll post more pictures once we move in. So look forward to that.

Good Thing #3- We're having a baby!

Baby McCleve is due to come mid-November. I had my first ultrasound yesterday and we saw it wiggling around. Devin said it looked like a Bubble Guppy (one of Anika's little kid shows) and I'd have to agree.

I'm very excited to be a mom, and know that Devin is going to make the best dad ever. But for now we wait.

So there you have it. Good things come in threes. When we got the house I told Devin that I didn't know if I could handle much more excitement. For now I think I'll just sit back and enjoy life, because life is good.