Babies and Christmas

Well it has been a while since I have posted but we were waiting to announce our news. Most everyone knows already but Scott and I are expecting our first baby. It has been a rocky first trimester for me but I am almost out of it! Yea! I am 12 weeks a long now and almost into what most people tell me will be a much better time. I have been trying to enjoy being pregnant and not focusing on the bad stuff. Many people cannot have children and I am blessed to be able to have them. So I am trying to remember that the exhaustion and occasional morning sickness means there is still a baby in there! We will of course keep everyone updated on the pregnancy. I am due on June 11, 2012 but like all the women before me...good luck haivng it on the right day! All babies born in this family on both sides are late ones!
As we enter this holiday season I am so incredibly grateful for the things I have been given. I love the Christmas holidays and that includes the events and time leading up to it. I actually love the month of December more than the actual day and I try to do lots of Christmasy things like baking cookies and going shopping all through December. I hope this Christmas season finds everyone happy and blessed! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

New jobs!

So it has been a SUPER long time since I have updated our blog but here it is. We have had a tremendously busy summer. I had resigned from my school district job to start working at a home school. I spent most of my summer getting lesson plans ready for that but it was so worth it. I have been there for two weeks now and I am loving every second of it. I actually had my Geography class the other day (those are 13 and 14 year olds) say thank you for the lesson that day. Wow! They are really great kids. Of course there is the occasional bad moment but I am entirely happy at this new job!
Scott also got a new job and the blessing is wonderful! I can't seem to thank God enough for it. It came at a great time because Scott had a friend tell him that Academy is starting to cut everyone's hours now and he would be working only 30 hours a week. He is working for Core Lab which is the same company my dad works for. He is in the IT department with 5 other guys. He loves it. He gets a laptop and an IPhone4 which is really nice for him. He has a cubicle he can decorate and will be his own personal space. We are really so incredibly blessed to have this job. I thank God every day for this opportunity. Scott is really so talented and he is finally using the talents and skills that he has developed.
Life is going really well. We are trying to have a baby so prayers will be a wonderful help! I promise to keep this updated more frequently now!

End of School!

I am so ready for the end of the school year I can hardly stand it. I love teenagers around this time of year. They are so pleasant! (hint of sarcasm there by the way) Memorial day is around the corner and Scott and I have plans with Billy, Rene and the girls. We are really excited to barbeque and stuff with them. I had a meeting with the lady that runs the new school that I will be working at and I am really excited to get started. I am teaching a few new classes and so I will be working on lesson plans for next year during the summer. But I have lots of time. This summer is going to be a busy one. I have a huge list of things to get done and I am so glad to have the time to do it.
Scott has been talking alot more about the IT positions at Academy and it is looking really promising for him to transfer departments. It would be a better fit for him to work in that department. It uses his skills better and I think he would feel more accomplished if he was doing something he wanted to do. He keeps plugging away and I am really grateful that he does what he needs to do to support our family even though right now it is just the two of us!

Easter

So we had a great 1st Easter this year. I am very much about the traditional cheesy stuff so I put together Easter baskets complete with candy the night before. I realize we don't have kids but it is still fun to do that kind of stuff. Sunday morning we watched the Testaments which for those of you not LDS is a story about the Nephites here in America waiting for Jesus to come and visit them. So it flashes back to Jerusalem where he is ministering. Then it goes through the crucifixion. The night before we watched Voyage of the Dawn Treader which is the latest installment of Chronicles of Narnia. So much symbolism in that movie and the two of them made me think about how glad I am for the Savior's sacrifice. He didn't have to do it but he chose to atone for us. It was a CHOICE. He could have stopped it at any time but HE loves us so much that he went through with the pain. So this Easter season as I have been pondering my life that is what I am the most grateful for. I am so not perfect and I need the atonement every day.

Married Life

So I have figured out that I am not very good at updating my blog very well but I am trying. So far March was good to us. For part of Spring Break we house/babysat some friends kids and it was pretty fun. We had 3 kids for about 5 days and it really made me appreciate what stay at home mom's do. Time is not your own when you have three kids at home all the time.
Both of us have just been working and making ends meet. I FINALLY got my personal injury payout from my accident last AUGUST and so we treated ourselves to some stuff and socked the rest of it away. We have a lot of ambitious plans this year that will take money.
I did officially resign from my job and my principal was really supportive of my decision. I am excited to start a new job and a new phase of less stress! We will be doing really well.
I will try to update with more pictures of fun stuff. We need to take more pictures and do more fun stuff I guess!

Illnesses

It has been a while since I have published anything so I thought I would take a minute to update the blog. The past couple weeks around here have been plagued with injury and illness. We bought another car 2 weeks ago and while I was getting into I twisted my back or something. Last week I could barely walk but I am feeling better this week. That is a good thing because Scott had been doing everything for me since I had to be off my feet and then he got the flu really bad. But we are both getting better now so hopefully March will start off in a good way. Other than that we are getting along pretty well.
I got a job working at a new private school that will cut me down to part time but I am very excited to get back to teaching just for the sake of teaching. The environment I am in now is very toxic and I am ready to be much calmer and less stressed. We will starting our family in the next year or so and I don't want to be teaching at such a high stress, controlling place!

Finally!

Scott finally has a job! It is not a job we might want to build a life around but he has a job and that is what we have been praying for. Small blessings are grately appreciated. So he will be working in the Academy call center. For those that don't know it is a sports and outdoors place and they are just barely opening their new call center. He has lots of experience with that so we are hoping there will be some other exciting opportunities opening for him. It will pay the bills and that is what we need. He also has a job fair to go to on January 27th put together by a couple churches here in town so we are definitely hoping maybe something will come out of that too. We are praying for small help and faith is increasing each day.

Here is one from our reception in Utah.

This is our favorite one outside the temple!

A wedding shot. I am just testing this right now. More will come I promise!

How technological am I?

Hey everyone I am trying out a blog. I am hoping that Scott's family in Utah find it helpful to keep up with our lives. Then again maybe we are just not that exciting. We will see I guess! I will try to post more things on the blog when I can get to a computer that has pictures and stuff on it. I need to put some wedding pictures up so people can see them. I can see how to do that when Scott is around! More to come........