Trip to Salt Lake

My artistic picture!

Mid July, Karla and her family came out for Karl to see his family in Cedar City area. While they were in Utah, Karla wanted to take her kids to Temple Square. Mom had lots going on that day, so Katelyn and I went up with them. We spent all day there. We went on a tour of the Conference center, ate lunch at a food court, went up to the top of the Church Office Building (I had never been up there and the view was amazing!) walked around Temple Square, went to both Visitor Centers, and hit the Church History Museum. It was a lot of fun, but we were all pretty tired when we got home. While there, we met up with Adrienne and her two kids and husband. Adrienne is one of Karla's friends from college and I remember her helping to babysit us. It was a beautiful day.

Kara playing with her Happy Meal during lunch.

Kameron enjoying his Happy Meal!

Katelyn and I by the reflecting pool in front of the Salt Lake Temple.

New Job!

So, many of you already know this, but I have a new job. I will be working as the main office secretary at Provo High School. I was working as a Teacher's aide in a Special Education classroom, but this job pays better, gives me more hours, gives me more opportunities to speak Spanish and most importantly, it includes benefits for both me and Wesley. Yay! I started on the 16th of August (yes, I know I am already behind on blogging even that, but oh well) and have been going non-stop since. I am in charge of ordering, answering phones, greeting and helping people that come in, the office TAs and the copy center. As you can imagine, it keeps me busy. Kerri, the previous secretary has been there to train and help me get into the swing of things. She will be leaving for graduate school next Thursday and will be sorely missed.

Graduation!

So, I finally got the pictures uploaded onto the computer from my graduation in April. It took me forever because I had to get my grandma's pictures from my mom's computer, my mom's pictures from her camera and then the pictures from my camera. Thursday of graduation was a beautiful day and we spent much more time taking pictures than we did on Friday, which was rainy and cold. We probably didn't take as many pictures as we could have, because we had Jason who was done and even, I think, Wesley was done with pictures. Graduation was very nice. Thursday's was less than two hours and even Friday's, with the reading of the names, was only about two hours. The reader read the names very quickly. Anyway, here are my favorite pictures from graduation!This is the traditional graduation picture in from of the purple trees.

My family!

The stadium where I spent so much time with the Marching Band, along with my sweet husband.

Babies!

Hey, it's me! Still haven't gotten the graduations pictures either from my mom (my fault, not hers) or off of my camera, so no pictures of graduation. I will put those up someday. So, several of my friends are having babies (Britt, Kellie, and others) or have recently had babies (or even not so recently) and I am really wanting to have a baby and it is just not happening. I think I am defective (again, not my mom's fault, but maybe my dad's....jk). So, instead of having cute baby bump pictures, or adorable pictures of my baby to put up, I am going to put up pictures of the baby that we do have.

I also get to play lots more with my nieces, Aria and Tayvin and that helps...most of the time. Sometimes it makes me want one more. Wesley anticipates my saying "I want one" at least once everytime we see Aria and Tayvin...and Krista and David.I have such cute nieces!

Graduating!

Wow! I can't believe that today/tomorrow I am graduating from college! It seems like I just graduated from high school, but five years have gone by and so much has happened. I moved away from home and lived with roommates, I paid for school, I had a boyfriend, I sent off a missionary, I went to Mexico, I GOT MARRIED (over a year ago!), I did my student teaching, I found a semi-real job, I found a new apartment for us and now I am graduating. All of my hard work has paid off and I get to really go into the real world. I have to be a complete grown-up. I became a mostly grown-up when I got married and had to do the car insurance, internet, utilities, phone bill, etc. on my own, but now I will had to find a real job, get real health insurance, and everything that comes with it. I am excited and nervous all at the same time. Life is pretty good and I am way excited to be graduated.

So, it's been a while since I posted. That is partly because I usually like to post with pictures and we haven't taken a whole lot of pictures since Christmas. So, general update: Christmas was okay. It was hard because Wesley had to work a full shift on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. We spent Christmas Eve with my family and Christmas Day evening with his. We stayed at my parent's house so that when Wesley was at work all day, I could hang out with my family. It was cool at dinner with his family because one of his uncles was able to come who typically doesn't come to any family things.
In January, both Wesley and I got new jobs. Wesley got an internship at Novell, thanks to my dad letting him know about it, and having stellar references, (both my dad and his dad work at Novell :) ). He works in the teaming library and if you really want to know what he does you will have to ask him or my dad, because I don't fully understand it anyway. I got a job working as a para-professional at Orem Junior High School. Basically that means that I am a teacher's aide in the Special Education classrooms. I really enjoy it. There are moments that are hard, but overall I like working with the kids and I get to do a lot of one on one with them.
We are still living in the same house in Provo and will be here until April. Our whole bishopric is trying to figure out how to get us to stay here when the O'Dell's get back. We do have someone living upstairs right now and that is kind of hard, but we are working with it. Overall, life is pretty good. We have wonderful families and good friends and the gospel is true! Love ya!