Catch Up

Well, this last month has been very busy, crazy, and at times we were venturing into territory we were un-familiar with.

I received a job offer with a company called Orbit Medical. I've been training for 2 weeks already and I'm finally getting excited. Hopefully by May I can be working from home through Orbit. (That's the dream anyway) I really enjoyed having two weeks off, and searching for a job was no picnic, but due to a good resume I got a lot of offers and I'm happy with the company I chose.

While I had some time off I decided to finish the quilt I started for Scott. I wanted to get it done before his birthday. I finished it the morning of his birthday and I do have to say, I'm quite impressed with the finished result.

Scott loves it, and it's just his size!

On Friday the 16th I called in to work and said I wouldn't be in. I thought for sure I'd be fired, being that it was my first week with my new job, but all worked out well. Why did I call in, you ask? Because Scott decided to wrestle with Brian Miller the night before and due to his old age, pulled some big muscles in his back and shoulder and couldn't move for two days. I called in to work so I could be home with Scott. Someone had to help him get out of bed when he had to use the bathroom, some one needed to feed him and wipe his mouth. He couldn't even sniff his back and shoulder hurt so bad. By Sunday I was sick of his moaning and groaning and started to make fun of him, at times I wouldn't even help him up and he then would have to crawl to the bathroom (I'm totally kidding) by Monday he was getting back to normal but decided to take the day off anyway. Obviously that weekend was shot. Scott is finally back to normal, and is realizing that wrestling maybe isn't the right move for someone his age!

Last week I was getting sick of my normal work out routine. So, I found this awesome website called PodFitness.com. It allows me to choose from a variety of real workout trainers and music of my own choice and then it fashions a workout session targeted toward me and my body needs and level of fitness. If you have an ipod you should check this out. It has really made my workouts more enjoyable. (you don't need a video ipod for this) http://www.podfitness.com/

Last Friday Scott and I attended our first adoption orientation through LDS services. It was two hours long and they went through all our paper work, who qualifies (we do) and they answered any questions or concerns we had when it comes to adoption. We left overwhelmed and excited. There's a lot involved with just getting on the waiting list. We have to have Dr's exams, back ground checks, Bishop's referral, a collage of our married life, and two page letters from both Scott and I along with other misc paper work. It's about a three month process. We are then assigned a case worker who comes to our house and works with us until a baby is placed in our home. The wait could be from 6 months to 7 yrs. (there's a couple who has been on the waiting list that long) To help speed the process up they post our profile on the LDS services adoption web-site and give us pass along cards. The pass along cards are to give to family, friends, or people in our ward. If they know of a young women who is expecting then they give her that pass along card and hopefully she'll want to match up with us and then we go through the adoption process with her. It's all very complicated to explain. We want children so bad that we will do anything, no matter how hard or complicated, to make that happen. We've been trying for almost 6 1/2 yrs. now and we really are hoping for something wonderful to happen!

When one door closes, another opens.

The last couple of weeks have been a little crazy for us and it has to do with a door closing and another one opening. On Jan. 26th I was laid of from work, a job I had been with for almost 6 years. The company has been going through some tough times and with the loss of one of their accounts I, along with a few others, was let go. Of course I was in shock at the news, but there had been hints here and there that there would be some down sizing. My name tag would keep falling off my desk, I was getting the cold shoulder from the CEO, and of course there was the "feeling". It was sad to leave my close friends and the comforts that came with the job, but after the initial shock I went into the "everything will be ok" mode (of course this also occurred with the help of Scott) So, for the past two weeks I have been searching for a job.(not too frantically) After many interviews and job offers I start work on Monday with a company called Orbit Medical. Doing pretty much the same thing I was doing before.
What has been so great about all this is the time I've had off and the great things I have been able to do. Last week I was able to go to the Dr's whenever I wanted. No, "let's figure this out with my work schedule." I went shopping in the middle of the day. I had lunch with my Dad on his birthday, I went with my mom to Salt Lake to help her out at the Relief Society resource center (she's a service missionary there), I was able to help out and make dinners for people in the ward who had been sick or just had babies, I had my visiting teacher over (her nights are always swamped), I had dinner ready every night when Scott got home from work, and I had the house clean and laundry done. Being home has been AWESOME!!! I told Scott, "you will make more money, and I will stay home!" (of course this is when we have children, which had better be soon!!) Along with this time off we were able to make some other personal realizations. The Lord truly blesses us in our time of need!