A little bug has arrived...

Well, I have finished one paper- the short one of course. I haven't made much progress on the 12-pager because Abby picked up some kind of stomach bug on Monday. She felt a little better today, but she hasn't been sleeping very well, and that is usually when I do most of my work. Then, Quintin woke up this morning feeling sick. I guess I'd better stop typing here and get to work before the little bug makes its way to me. Hopefully everyone will feel better before Christmas.

That time of year....

Well, I have successfully completed my first semester of teaching. The only thing I have left to do is finish grading almost 100 final exams. It is taking me about 15 minutes to grade each one.....if the midshipmen hasn't gotten too many wrong. I am going to try to have them done by tomorrow afternoon, so I can enter their grades and not have to worry about it next week when I am on leave. Lucky for me I will be busy writing two papers for grad school. One shouldn't be too bad, but I just found out the other day that the 12 page paper that I have to write for my second class is 12 pages- single spaced!!! Who asks for single spaced papers anyway?! So, needless to say much of my spare time over the next few days, and sleep time for that matter, will be devoted to paper writing. Of course we will take time out to celebrate Quintin's 28th birthday this Sunday. Not sure what we are going to do yet, but I am sure we'll have fun.

Playstation 3

This past Thursday Quintin and I were able to do a little Christmas shopping for Abby while she was still at school. We went to Toys R Us first, and Quintin thought he would go over to the game section just to see if they had a Playstation 3. You'll never believe what the guy said?!? He had one left from a shipment they had received the day before. Quintin couldn't believe it. Needless to say, Christmas came a little early for him....or maybe it's his birthday present since that is this month too.

Annapolis Parade of Lights

Last night we went down to the water to watch the Annapolis Parade of Lights, which is where all of the boats parade around decorated with Christmas lights. It was really cold...about 30 degrees...but we didn't let that stop us. We got all bundled up, and luckily it wasn't too windy so we were able to stay out a good while. Abby's favorite was the one with Santa and his reindeer. She also like the "Blue Angel."

Just Cruisin'

Abigail finally likes to drive her Jeep! She has had it for a while....Quintin couldn't wait to get one for her and she used to just sit in it and "chill." A couple of weekends ago we asked her if she wanted to take it out riding and she did. We had a great time cruising around in the huge grassy area that is right behind our house. It was tons of fun to drive up the hill, and then speed down!