i haven't blog much lately, and i still don't have much to blog on, but here are probably some good reasons why:
back in august of 2011 i started up a program online to become a medical transcriptionist. it has been really fun, but taking oh so much longer than i had hoped. i really enjoy it, but with working part time, and having 3 kids and lots of other things it's hard to find the time. let me make it clear though, i WILL finish this program because i do not intend to be a checker at smith's for the rest of my life. i thought i better do something about it then, so i am. slowly but surely.
(i have a whole new appreciation for those in the medical field. i cannot imagine what a doctor must go through to get to the point of treating patients~AMAZING, is all i can say)
back in april i got put in r.s. presidency as 2nd counselor. i was totally blown away by that, and thinking they must be pretty desperate in our ward to have call me to that position, but i really have loved it. it's fun to be in primary, but i was a little ready for a break, and believe it or not, i kind of had a feeling that this was going to happen to me before it did. maybe that was one of the Lords tender mercies, to kind of prepare me, just to get me comfortable thinking that it was coming. anyway, i am over the r.s. board and the additional meetings type of stuff. it was really pretty severely disappointing to have tried so hard to put together a big super saturday back in july and only have 3 women (beside the committee and r.s. president) show up. i worked for hours on end making up samples/display items and then the actual kits themselves. i hope the next activity well be attended! please go support your local r.s. activities! :) there's my little plug for any r.s. activity's committee people. i also had to teach r.s. for the first time, ever, last sunday. n.e.r.v.e.w.r.a.c.k.i.n.g...is all i have to say about that!
hmmm lets see, kids have been home all summer.
back in sept of 2011 i found out our neighbors home was a short sale, so we decided we wanted to look at it and thought about buying it. very long story short, we were 2nd in line and the whole time our agent told us that she kept hearing the 1st people probably would not be able to afford it. eventually, about 7 months later, they did. so we started looking again. one that i really loved got snaked out from under me because i had a short vacation to wisconsin, and then my relator had a week vacation and i wanted to show it to james when she got back, but by then it was already under contract. still kicking myself on that one. anyway, so another one comes along and it was in santaquin, ut about 10 minutes south of payson, and we started to fall in love with that one. so we put in an offer and there was some conter offering but then we settled and we were "under contract". we got a home inspection done, and then an appraisal. our relator called and said we had bad news, and that the home would not appraise for as much (not by $12,000) as our price. so we had to pull the plug on that one and withdraw our offer. so as you can imagine by now, i've about had it. i told james that i didn't want to deal with our agent or lender anymore for a while. then i kind of changed my mind and decided that we should go look at this one other house that we had looked at once already. it was our 3rd choice overall, but 2nd choice was already under contract by the time the santaquin house fell through. so we went and looked at this one again and this time we both loved it so much more. we decided to put in an offer and they accepted. so please cross fingers and toes and say prayers that this one will appraise for enough :) supposed to be done later this week. we would love to be in this house, so i hope it works out. it is here in payson, and in the same school district and close to a lot of friends that they girl have already made in school. it's been an emotional roller coaster for me, and poor james has been so patient with me. he just wants me to be happy. and so we will see.
we also went on a fun vacation to my parents at the end of july! more pictures on that, and a few other happenings, to come!
Logan on her first day of 5th grade (one week ago). She is excited and really likes her teacher and her class. I think she is going to have fun being the bigger sister at school and helping out little Autumn finding her way to the bus and such. She is a good big sister! Good luck to both my girls in school this year! You will both do great!
We also went to visit Annie and all her furry friends. Bill was at work, but they did come over quite a few times to spend time with us. We also celebrated Bill's birthday while we were home, and Mom and Dad's 37th anniversary.
The kids all we to a ward primary activity that was like the kids olympics. I think they older ones pretended it was lame, and the younger ones had fun. Oh well, it was something for them to do :)
Next up: California State Fair Super hot, crowed, and expensive, didn't make for the best circumstance for all the kiddos. We got to see a lot of cool stuff though. It was fun for them at first, but they were ready to go by the end.
Grandma paid for all the grandkids to go to this awesome trampoline/ foam pit jumping place. The kids all had a great time!
I got to go to the train museum in Old town Sacramento with my two older girls and with my friend Karen and her son Quinten. It's fun to see the trains up close and go inside them too! Her little boy is obsessed with trains now, so he had a blast. Cute boy! We had a picnic lunch outside the museum and then visited the candy shop.
I even got to sneak out for a movie with Kathryn one night! Me and my two younger girls had lunch at Andrea Brookes (sister in law/friend i grew up with) house with all my friends from high school. It was so fun to have almost all of our kids there playing together. That was a first for us! Sad I didn't get any pictures of that. We had a wonderful visit and hope to go home and visit again soon!
