Long lost Friend

As you can see I am terrible with this journaling. My mom said that since we will be moving I need to be better at it so that the family knows what I am up to.

Like I said "moving". We have decided that it would be best to move up to Idaho since it would be a better area for raising kids "one day when we have them", purchasing a house would be more affordable and Ryan will be able to transfer his classes to Boise State. We will both be working with the granite company. He will be an installer at the beginning until he learns the quirks and then probably a template (drafter). After he starts to learn some things he will also be making commission on some bigger commercial jobs. I'm hoping the commission will be a money maker so that we can move on and be more independent.

Since my last post I had been called to be the Primary President in my ward. I was very nervous about this, but kinda relieved to know that it was only for our tiny ward. We have maybe 15 kids that come every Sunday. Ryan teases that in our ward we don't hear much kids but we do need to check pulses to see if the elderly are still there. We have an older ward. I'm hoping our new ward that we move to will have some younger families.

Mike and I had made a trip up there during spring break. I went to look for a place for us to stay. I was looking at rentals and found a place that I liked quite a bit. Then the next day Mike wanted to just go look at this one house that was for sale. We looked at it and it looked even better than the house that Debbie and I had declared as the "perfect house". As mike was looking at it he said that he would be dumb not to make an offer on it. They we taking bids until the next day at noon. Well the bank liked Mikes offer and they are trying to finalize things. We're are all hoping that we can close on it soon so that I can tell the rental company that we are going to pass.

If Mike get this house Ryan and I will rent from him and stay there for a bit. I hoping that in a year we will be able to save up some so that we can put a down payment on a house ourselves. We are thinking of putting in a garden this Summer. I'm excited! Also the property already has a chicken coop so Holly said she wants eggs. She likes fresh unpasteurized eggs. I'm actually looking forward to that too. It'd be kinda fun.

Mom says I'm going to turn into a cowgirl on her. Haha I don't think so. Although I might buy me some cowgirl boots so that I don't scuff up my city girl shoes when I go riding the horses.

Working at elementary schools

I started working at Tarr as a clerk for Safekey though the City of Las Vegas in Jan 10'. I had a hard time with my supervisor there near the end. She seemed nice up front when I first started working there and I caught on pretty quick (learning the computer system). Then later in the year I became friends with a girl in the program I started helping her with her homework. It was fun. Though for some reason I don't think that Katie liked that I did that, but she wouldn't tell me what specifically was bothering her. I'd help her by the door so that whenever a parent would come in I could help them or request money.

Six weeks from the end of the school year I started working in a classroom also. It was not a stressful job which I liked. I mostly graded papers for a teacher. Haha she was very unorganized. Whenever I wanted the teachers answer sheet I had to go searching the room for the book.

It may have been like 4 or 3 weeks till the end of school when a Clerk up and quit safekey at a school down the street. They needed me to switch to that school (Kahre ES). I knew it was going to be my last day at Tarr for Safekey so I told Abigail and it was kinda funny Katie asked her why she seemed so different that day. Haha she didn't know of our great friendship and how sad she was to miss me.

Here is a picture of my friend Abigail. Since I was working in her fourth grade teachers class room she came and stopped by after her fifth grade graduation. I grabed my camera to get a picture with her.

Two Years!

We went to Smashburger and a Movie. I love that shirt on him!

Volleyball Groupie

Ryan and I have been playing volleyball since we started dating. at first I was a little hesitant since I knew I wasn't great but I liked Ryan enough at that point I wanted to spend more time with him. I believe that it was two seasons outdoors and two seasons indoor every year. It was fun. In the beginning I was warming up to the idea of it I liked it but wasn't great. I later started getting better. Though I felt as though one of the players put me down sometimes when I wasn't so great and I didn't feel like she was that great a player herself. So I had a time I didn't care for it much. As I got even better I realized I like sand as Ryan liked indoor. He liked to be able to control it more and spike while I was afraid of some of the opposing teams spikes during indoor. Outdoor was much funner for me. Near the end I kinda phased out since I felt like we were always out playing volleyball and we didn't go out on date nights just the two of us. So I boycotted it :-D Not long after Ryan phased out too since he needed to study more as classes were getting harder.





This picture is of us at Famous Daves. We collect quarters for missed serves and every now and them bought dinner with it. I know we didn't have enough to cover dinner for all of us there is no way! But it's fun to think of it. This was also in celebration of Arlie's Birthday. Left to right (& wrap) is Mark, Kelly, Arlie, Cookie, Ry, Me, John, Brett, , Kelly.

A year and eight months

It seems so crazy that is had already been that long. Ryan is still chugging along in school. I can tell that school is not his favorite thing. He is a very hard worker and loves to learn but when it comes to school I think he just wants to pass the class and move on.

He is still in scouts and since it is starting to get warmer I think they will be going on more scouting trips. I am still in primary but they have moved me to an older class. I used to teach the little ones that just started coming to primary. Now I am going to be team teaching the ones that are starting to go to Young Women's and Young Men's. Our ward has a small primary so I believe that our class consist of four classes combined. The first week I went to this class was last week. They were not so reverent to today I asked Sister Strickland if I could speak to them right after the prayer. The jist of what I asked them how they act at school, and how they should act in the House of the Lord. They did WAY better. I hope that we will be able help remind them to be reverent so that they will learn more from the lessons.

As for living accommodations we are still living at the house that Ryan grew up in. His mom has been incredibly awesome by letting us stay there free of rent. All we have to do is pay the utility bills. While this incredibly awesome still do long for the day that we can one day have a place of our own so that I can call a place our own and decorate it the way I please. This may be many years before we can even begin to even think of such a thing since Ry is still in school. We are most definitely looking forward to having the place to ourselves. Dale will most likely be getting married in August.

We will see how long that last. Mike has dropped a hint of Ryan possibly taking part in his counter top company. UNLV may possibly cut the engineering program (because the way the economy is and budget cuts taking place) and if they do it may not be for a few year but it still is an option for us. If that happens we may have the option to possibly move up to Idaho. It will be pretty darn cold for a chick that prefers the summer and grew up in Vegas but other than that I am not supper opposed to the idea. I definitely would miss being close to my family but I would like to consider myself a strong independent person.

Also I have had hopes of starting our family soon but my thoughts today had turned to really wanting to be able to stay home with my kids. Neither of us have a great paying job at the moment so our fear is that our savings would quickly diminish if we start a family now. I am not sure what to do. I really want to be able to spend as much time with them when we do have them. Also my main reason to stay home it do my best at teaching them as best I can about the gospel so that they have a fairly strong testimony by the time they are teens. As Satan's war rages forth they will be needing stronger testimonies then past generations have had. I'm thinking of trying to get someone to help us to know where to go with this decision through prayer.

As as summer is approaching I think I will be able to go to our family's timeshare. I've been wanting to take Ryan with me since he hasn't gone yet. Though I'm not sure he will be able to go again. Last year he took a week off for scouting and also Mike and Mom were getting married and wanted us to help in pulling off. This year I think it will mostly be because of him already taking a week off of work for scouting. I think it has at least been two years since I've gone so I'm longing for a vacation. I look mostly forward to dipping in the pool and laying out be the sun. Will be needing alot of sunblock for sure though since I haven't seen the sunlight much recently.

Shorter Haircut

A Christmas Gift

This was a Christmas gift from Wendy. A few weeks earlier we had gotten together one day and made some home made bread. I told her I would like to make cinnamon rolls with some of it. She said that would be fun and we tried it. I told her a trick that I had learned not long before that of how to cut the dough roll without squishing it. It was by using a string and wrapping it around and pulling across each other. I thought it was a pain to have to lift the roll and put the string underneath. She came up with the idea of crossing the knifes and bringing them together. It was a great idea and worked perfect. Then she shows up with these platters and the even had our last name etched on the bottom! :-D As you can see I couldn't resist these cream cheese frosted sweet rolls before taking a picture.