Happiness Comes From Hard Work

Today was such a wonderful day. I finally got through my wild ride on my first crazy rollercoaster. This semester was the hardest, stressful, most difficult, never ending, sleepless, extremely emotional, frustrating, and rewarding semester ever. I have hated and loved every minute of what I have learned and studied and the time that it took to get where I am today. I look back at this first semester and think of what an accomplishment I have made, how wonderful the teachers have been to help me get me through and the best part about this whole thing is the wonderful, caring, and supportive friends I have made. We are all behind eachother, guiding, and encouraging eachother the whole way. We want eachother to succeed and will do anything to help someone take one more step to get a little farther because we are the only ones that know what we are going through. We can't explain it to anyone else but we all had eachother. That was the best part. We unfortunately lost 5 girls this semester which was very devastating. It was so difficult to see them work so hard and sacrifice so much and not be able to get through. I just hope I can get through the next three semesters. I worked my butt off this first semester and I know what I have to do to get through the next three. I did think and wonder everyday if I was going to get through.
I am so lucky to have such a wonderful and supportive husband who has supported and encouraged me the whole time. He was always willing to listen to me when I came home from school and vent my frustrations and he would always have a positive attitude and help me see that I can do it and I will do it. He had double duty with both me and Caitlin coming home and telling him our frustrations. They say this program brings you and your spouse closer or farther apart and it has definitely brought us closer because Cody is so wonderful and patient. I have not been able to see him very much this semester because I would wake up before him and usually go to bed after him. I couldn't have done it with out my family's support and talking with Amber everyday and hearing her words of encouragement and also Lizzy jenkins and her great words of encouragement.
I am so excited for these next five weeks to spend some fun quality time with Cody, to sleep in, clean my house,relax, spend good quality time with my family, and enjoy all of my time off. I know this is a long post but I just wanted to finsh off the end of my semester with what I went through and how this first semester was. I know it is only going to get harder, but I know I can do it.

Our first day of school. We have no clue what the road before us is leading to.

Last day of 1st semester!!! We have been so excited for this day to finally come!!!

Some of the girls in the program!!! Today was a happy day. I have some of the greatest friends!!!

Jen, Mandi, and Glecy

Becky, Erin, Victoria and Katie

The threesome!!!

Jen, Sara Beth, and Caitlin