Burt Family Update

It’s been quite some time since we’ve last posted, so I thought I would give everyone a little update on what is going on in the Burt family!

Christmas passed and it was wonderful and quite! Jeffrey came up from Eugene, OR. to stay with us and we had a blast! For Christmas dinner I made Prime rib, mash potatoes, homemade rolls, corn, devil eggs, homemade apple pie and all the fixings! I got a little carried away for only three people. We had a great one, but missed our families! New Year’s was also quite; Paul and I went to dinner in Mt. Vernon and then went and saw Marley and Me. It was really cute and Paul was such a good sport for letting me pick the movie!

On the 7th of January I got a call that my grandmother had passed away, so Paul and I left that day to go back to Roseburg for the funeral. It was a really sad week! It was also bittersweet because I got to see many of my distant cousins, aunts and uncles, whom I haven’t seen for years. Anyhow, thank you to everyone for all of your support and comments… I’m just glad she is in a better place! All of the adult cousins (there are 12 of us) are going to contribute money toward supporting a girl in Somalia (I think that’s where she is?) that my grandmother was doing before she passed. It’s just a small contribution we are all making each year in the memory of my grandmother.

We started school again on the 12th and I’m really excited to say it’s my last semester! YAY! It feels like I’ve been in school forever and I’m so glad the end is in sight! Paul will go to school through July, but will walk with me in our graduation ceremony held May 28th! Our semester ends on March 7th, so we only have about 5 ½ weeks to go! Wahoo! Oh, which reminds me….

Paul and I are going on a cruise! We are super excited and can’t wait! The cruise leaves out of Long Beach, CA. on the 8th of March and will come back on the 15th. It’s a seven day Mexican Riviera that stops at Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas. We both are in desperate need of some warm weather and as most of you know, Paul and I are trying to have children (no luck yet) and figured this would be our last “alone” vacation for a while! We are more than ecstatic and just can’t wait! My semester will conclude with an amazing cruise, with my wonderful husband; I couldn’t have asked for a better ending to a long, long, journey!

We hope everyone is doing well and miss all of you so much!