A long time coming

I haven't posted in a long time and I have had a lot of time to think lately. In the last month I quit my job at Hancock's and got a new job at Beehive Clothing. I work in the temple department on temple clothing. (Go Figure) There I sticker bags for the clothing to go in to and tape guidelines for other people to sew. I was hired to bag things for $8/hr. It was less pay than I got at Hancock's but there aren't any weekends, holidays, or evenings required (except if it's overtime). The holidays are also paid. On my first day was informed I would also be doing the taping. Later that week I found out that the taping was a higher pay and they were gonna change it to that. $9.66/hr. Woo-hoo, now I even get paid more than at my other job! It is a very tiring job, you have to move fast. It is piece rate, so I get paid really for what I do. If I only do 90% of what it should take to do in a day I get 90% of my pay but when I get 110% I get 110% of my pay. The really amazing thing is I am already at and past 100% and it's only my 4th week. My boss told me today how happy she is that she hired me.

Anywho so I have 8 hours a day of mundane tasks and a lot of time to think. Here are some of the things that go through my head:

ding dong the which is dead

I can't believe my 10 year reunion is this year. I graduated 10 years ago and ever since that time I have wanted and looked forward to attending my 10 year reunion. Now guess who isn't attending her 10 year reunion? That's right me. I have decided there isn't money to travel to Arizona to go. I am being an adult about it. Though it is hard.

Well there have been others but when I sit down to write them I forget.

Lego Spiderman

Our home teachers son died last year (I can't remember what it was exactly) but he had been sick for a long time. This year some people from the ward and a local elementary school are doing a tree for him at the festival of trees. For those who don't know what that is, every year at Christmas people donate decorated trees, quilts, and all kinds of things that people buy in a silent auction. All the proceeds go to a hospital here in Utah. They invited people in the ward to participate and I decided to go along with the theme (red,yellow and blue, legos, superheroes) and make a quilt top. This is my finished product...well just the top.

Halloween

We decided to make Rose Raggedy Ann for Halloween. I made the costume and she was quite cute.



My sister gave us a ballet outfit that daddy was sooooo excited to put her in.



Thanks Mom for the cute dress. She will be able to wear it for a while.

New-ish pictures

Finally new pictures of the pipsqueak. Although they are a couple months old they are newer.

Things have been busy for me lately, work has been crazy. I feel bad for any time I do something outside of work without Rose. Last Thursday Ed and I decided to go to the temple which was much needed and a wonderful experience but I felt bad afterward for not spending that time with Rose. It's definitely hard balancing work, a baby and everything else.

Lately it has been real busy around my house. My manager was off for a week and I had the weekend after off, so I worked 11 days straight. It was hard (especially since everything went to pot while she was gone) but I managed.

After my 11 days we went camping with our ward. The only way Ed could get me to go was to borrow his parents tent trailer. It was actually perfect because then we had a heater at night, and we could heat water for Rose. We ended up having a good time and eating some great food by members of our ward (and yummy roasted marshmallows). It was just an over nighter and Ed unfortunately didn't get to go for a hike (he thinks he broke his toe the day before we went). I did find it funny that they announced the bishopric would be making breakfast (before we went) and only the Bishop was there and he wasn't even helping.

Rose is getting bigger. Many people still think she is a newborn. She is almost 4 months now. It is a lot more fun playing with her now that she responds. I have started blowing on her tummy when I change her and she laughs as long as she is not too hungry. When that happens she is just to fussy and it's hurry hurry hurry. We think she is teething, her gums are feeling a little ridgy and she is extremely fussy. Mostly in the afternoon though.

We got Ed's acceptance letter to Weber and he will hopefully start in the fall. We still have a lot to do though before he can go. He has to talk to an advisor about what classes to take because for his major they sometimes want them to take specific core classes. We also found out we didn't do everything for financial aide. We had to fill out the fafsa (which we did) and apply with Weber for financial aide, and bring in our taxes and w-2s from last year. I know we have them somewhere...

Anyway they told us after we do that it's still six weeks (about) until we can get anything. Which is after tuition is due, but they won't drop him from class, we just have to pay a $40 dollar late fee. I have decided I HATE big universities. Even when I was trying to go there it was a lot of crud. We also walked a little of the campus it is way to big for my taste.

I'll have to start taking more pictures to post for Grandma. We'll see how that goes....