What a Blessing this life is...

Last weekend was my 30th birthday. Hooray! I'm so done with my 20s! We spent the weekend in Salt Lake City, mostly to see our amazing friend, Marci join us in the world of married people.

We drove down Friday night (my birthday) and then Saturday morning we woke up early, made the trek to SLC's Temple Square. The second I stepped onto the grounds, a sense of calm came over me. I felt so much peace in me be there. Seeing the temple surrounded by pink blossoms, gorgeous flowers and the smell of lilacs in the air. Taking time to just sit and enjoy it was amazing. I took the chance to just enjoy being there. Marci and Jeff came out of the temple and I couldn't stop smiling!! What a fantastic morning!

We ended up spending most of the day in Temple Square. We took the carriage ride, we did the visitor's centers, shopped at Deseret Book, we did it all.

It was fantastic. It was a great time to just get away from it all- work, family, stress. Fantastic timing too.

More later about some big news we have!!!

Holy Heck!

Just wanna say one thing real quick:

St. Patrick's Day sober SUCKS!

Someone have a Guinness for me.. or two.

The end.

I am NOT going, but I want to.

So everyone in my family (girls that is) are going on a cruise from San Diego to Mexico. Was I even asked to go? No! Do I want to go? HELL YES!!! I have the time off and the money, time for a Carribean cruise next year.. LOL

I never get asked to go with my family on trips. In 2000 my entire family went to PA to visit my dad's side of the family- I wasn't asked to go. My brother's wedding in VA, again wasn't asked to join. My family assumes I don't have the time or money to go. Of course I do!! I know how to save up money. $2000 to go to Ireland/England- I'll be there.

Just getting tired of hearing about everyone else going on trips and not being asked to join.

It's quite annoying.

What a fun day... HA!

Work started out with NO motivation to do anything (which was appearantly going all over the office). Then, I went home to go to lunch and the neighbor had been evicted. Per the front office- all items were "take what you want". So, we did. Daybed, trundle frame, dvd player, garment bag (been needing one for a while now), gorgeous bookcase as well as a couple little things. Little did we know.. it wasn't off to Goodwill like we thought. A couple of other people (including someone with a truck and trailer) picked through things. Around 4:30 the owner of the items showed up. Oh well.

Should I feel guilty at the expense of someone's misfortune? No. He's 22. He got EVICTED!! I got a new bed.

End of that!

Time for a much needed update.

While I sit here watching Paranomal State, I will take the opportunity to update date this.

First up- I am back to using my degree!! After a 3 year break, I'm working for a Home Health agency here in Denver. I was hired to get the office back in shape, and 3 weeks in was promoted to the ONLY data entry person when my coworker accepted a position somewhere else. So, the stress is up. I can handle this- right?

Next, we're moving.... again. After the first week in our new apartment it became very apparent that we weren't going to be here soon. Last month we finally decided that we were going to leave. A good friend of ours was going through a horrible marriage and was leaving her spouse. Now that I work with her, we thought that we should all move in together and save money. Sounds good, right?

Well, last week she left and moved in with us in our tiny 2 bedroom apartment with her 6 year old, a dog and the cat. Talk about chaos!!! Having her move in was a good thing. We've come to realize that we can not do this whole living together thing. Glad we know before we were stuck with a huge monthly payment! Needless to say, we still are moving. Got a great new place (big so that when we have visitors/kids/babies? there is room).

A couple of weeks ago I got the opportunity to visit with Kira. What a blast!! We went to dinner, did some shopping. On my second day there, we went to an outdoorsman sporting expo. Bottomline, my daughter shot her first gun!! It was such a proud moment (pictures to come later). She also caught a fish, shot a crossbow and overall had a fun time. Ironically, her dad had recommended doing it as a joke and it ended up being a blast!!

We'll be in Seattle in May, but wont be able to go to Kennewick though. Its for a wedding reception, so the timing wouldn't work. Oh well... another time.

That's all for now. Internet is limited, so I'll see what I can do. Thanks for reading!