The vacation is over...

Well, 6:00 a.m. yesterday morning came as quite a shock for me after having three weeks off from work. My plan this past weekend was to readjust my schedule back to the real world, but too many days of staying up late and sleeping in had caught up with me. These first couple of days might be a little rough, but hopefully soon I'll be back into the swing of things.

Seth and I had a wonderful Christmas, anniversary, and New Year's. We were fortunate to be able to spend time with both of our immediate families as well as some extended family. We spent two days after Christmas with the Stopher family in LaGrange and then visited with Aunt Lisa and her family on New Years Day.

A highlight of the vacation was a trip we made to Gatlinburg with my family. Mom and Dad had rented a beautiful cabin in the Smoky Mountains for a week. Seth and I celebrated our anniversary in Indianapolis, swung by Cincinnati to pick up Colin, and then drove south for a few days. Rebekah and Chris joined us a day later. We all enjoyed hiking, pool, time in the hot tub, episodes of The Office and The West Wing, trips to town, and lots of good food. It was a relaxing couple of days.

I was able to finish all the lessons in a correspondence class through Indiana University over the break. I just need to take the mid-term and final to finish everything off. I register for my next semester of classes at Goshen College today and begin class on Thursday. In some ways it is nice to be back to work and to have more structure to my days. I am ready to get going again. This semester I will only have 3 credits through Goshen College, so that shouldn't be too overwhelming.

We are looking forward to Rebekah moving home in about a month and to the upcoming wedding this summer/fall!