May in the Cruz Home

I have been absolutely terrible about posting... as I mentioned in one of my first posts, you'll have to bear with me.  I'm not always good about keeping up with things!

Today, I thought it would be nice to do a little update about what we've been doing lately.  (Maybe this will get me back into the swing of things??)

On my birthday with my ice cream cake!

My little family!  <3

May is typically a busy month for both sides of our families.  It feels like we have a birthday every other day!  Since we live in Michigan and all our family is in Ohio, we were not able to make it home for all the little birthday parties, but each and every person was in our hearts on their special day!  The first weekend was actually my birthday.  Steve's sister, Jenna, had her Prom, so we went to his hometown to see her.  I went to her different appointments with her, my mother-in-law, and one of their cousins.  It was actually fun getting to see her get all done up!  Made me kind of miss those high school days!  After seeing her off, we had a little birthday dinner for me, including some ice cream cake (yum!) and hanging out with his family.

My family at Eddie's for my birthday/Mother's Day!

The next morning we woke up early and headed to Columbus to meet up with my family.  It was also Mother's Day weekend, so I wanted to spend a little time with my mom too that weekend.  We had lunch at Eddie George's Grille 27 -- super awesome food and highly recommended if you're in the area!  My grandparents and aunt and uncles from my mom's side joined us.  It was nice to see everyone!  Afterwards, we did a little shopping at Easton.  This part I only enjoyed because I got to see my sister -- I'm not a big shopper.  haha  Anyhow, we spent the rest of the weekend with my family and then headed back to Michigan on Monday.  (Steve took off work to make a long weekend of it.)

Me with my friends from class after our Pinning Ceremony

A week later, I graduated with my second degree!  My focus was Health Information Technology... I will hopefully be working with the medical records.  It was such a relief to finally be done with school.  I did not walk for graduation, so I don't have any pictures or anything of that.  Since I already graduated from Ohio State, I didn't really want to do this one.  I didn't want my family to feel like they had to come up here to watch.  Being done was enough celebration for me.  I graduated with high honors, so I was happy about that.  Now, it's just studying for the RHIT Certification Exam and applying for jobs... oh joy!  haha  Wish me luck!

Steve and me at T-Rex Cafe in Orlando 

About a week after my final class, Steve and I headed for Florida!  He had a conference down in Orlando to get some continuing education credits (CEUs) for his field, so we decided to make a vacation of it.  It was nice to go and have time to just relax and soak up some sun.  We enjoyed going to Disney's Epcot for one of our days there and also Universal Studios for another day.  The rest of our trip we tried to just relax... when Steve wasn't in meetings.  We were there for six days... funny, how vacations never seem long enough!  We definitely enjoyed our time down there, though... and getting to spend the time together was awesome too!  :)

We've been back for just over a week now.  I've been working this week on getting back into a routine.  Steve and I (re)started P90X this past Sunday.  I actually started a separate blog that I'm using as my online "workout journal."  I thought maybe if I committed to blogging about my eating and exercising everyday that I might just do it everyday.  So far, so good!  :)  I am going to try really hard to stay on track with it.  I'm sure that there will be a weekend or so during the process that I will miss, but I intend on posting that, which will hopefully keep me "on the wagon" after the weekend is over!  I'm also trying to get back into a good housekeeping routine.  Being organized and having a routine is what keeps me driven and helps me stay with things.

... on that note, I think I better jump off here, make a little breakfast, and do my daily chore (vacuuming today).  Hope everyone had a fun month of May as well and I hope June only brings more sunshine to everyone's life!  (Literally and metaphorically speaking!  haha)