Birthday Fun!

Last weekend we traveled to Omaha, NE to celebrate Ariana's birthday. Yes, it was a long and fast trip, but it was well worth it. We got to spend the weekend with my family, Nathan's family and the Pawlitcheks from Mankato. We had a blast. Swimming, pizza, games, presents and family. What more could you ask for? Ariana had a great time as well! :) We ended the weekend on Sunday and got to visit Don White's church in Omaha, and I got a chance to see my cousing Charity who is about to have a baby. Hooray! Yes, family is wonderful and birthdays are wonderul. A good time was had by all. For more pictures visit my facebook site.

Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow!

I'm thinking that Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye needing to be taking a trip to Wyoming instead of Vermont. I also think that it is Becca's fault that we have snow already. She's been in quite the Christmas mood lately and watched my favorite Christmas movie, White Christmas, just the other day. I can't really say that I've been much different though. I bought a baby Christmas stocking the other day. No, I'm not going to have a new baby this Christmas, but it was too cute to pass up, and some Christmas I will have a new baby. 

Now on to: NEWS from Wyoming. This will be the new section of my blogs where I'll give updates on the happening around here instead of just my jabberings. For those of you that haven't already heard, Becca is going to have a baby girl. Hurray! Nathan changed jobs. He's not entirely in love with this job, but it has excellent benefits and is sort of juts a means to get to the job he wants to have. And that about wraps it up for the news portion.

Ariana's birthday is coming up, and I am getting so excited. It's fun to have little girl birthdays, and it's even more fun to be able to share them with your family! I am sure I will have plenty of pictures to share with everyone after this fun filled occasion so stay tuned!

Still Alive

Yes, it has been quite a while since I've posted anything to my blog. Life doesn't seem to be lending itself to the blogging world right now. A 10 hour work day as opposed to an 8 1/2 hour work day (the difference in travel time) is quite different, and I am still not used to it. By the time Ariana is in bed it's time for me to read a little bit of a good book and head off to bed myself so I can be ready for another 10 hour work day the next day. I love weekends! I will be in Heartland in exactly 2 weeks. I know everyone knows this, I just can't help sharing my excitement with everyone over and over again.

I have started going to practices for the worship team here at Restoration and will be starting to help with services soon. This is very exciting to me. I love helping lead worship in the house of God. If you can believe this I haven't even played the piano once this entire summer! Yes, this is a very sad phenomena. I haven't had access to a piano (besides a very miserably out-of-tune piano, and I guess I'm not that desperate, or I just want to save everyone's ears). Well, that was a very long run-on parenthesis, was it not? I feel as if I could share millions of different tid bits of information on my life at the moment, but I know people get tired of reading extremely long blog posts, so I will finish for now. Maybe this way I will post a little sooner.

Arrh! So Cute!

Dress up time is so much fun.

Ethan wanted to drink some water... like the dog!

An Update

I thought I should write a little update on what's going on here in Casper. I have no grand pictures to post, and I'm having trouble loading any videos on blogger at all, so you'll have to go to my facebook if you want to see those because they will load there. 

Nathan and I have been here in Casper for a little over a month. As I mentioned before, I got a job two days after moving here. It was such a blessing. I work for Sage Medical Group. It is a Doctor's office with 5 doctors, so I stay pretty busy. I am a receptionist. I pretty much answer the phone and take messages all day long. I always thought I was the type to love office jobs like being a receptionist, but since having this job I realized how many different things I got to do in my previous "office" job. I fell like I do the exact same thing every single day at this job, but I am enjoying it. I just had my 25th birthday on Friday and my coworkers had a cake for me at work, so that made me feel good. It was a good distraction from thoughts and feelings of missing my family terribly. That was probably the hardest day as far as missing them, but we take things one step at a time. Watching my daughter play and have fun and be so cute helps cheer me up as well as walking out this new journey with my husband.

Nathan has a job now! We are so excited, blessed by God, and a bit relieved. It would take a while to tell exactly what's happened with his job prospects, but he pretty much hasn't had a job since we moved until last week. He is now the Director of Catering at the Best Western here in Casper. He feels as if he is underqualified for the job and isn't sure how he got hired, but like I said, it was just a wonderful blessing from God. It is a lot of responsibility and a lot of new things to learn, but he thinks that once he really gets into things he can help make some improvements at that hotel and offer great service to the people he comes in contact with. He won't have to do too many evening and weekend shifts which is wonderful.

Ariana is growing quickly, saying new words every day. Her new favorite is "why", thanks to her cousin Ethan. She and Ethan play fairly well together. They're favorite things to do together are to jump on the trampolene and take baths together. We are still living upstairs with Becca and Caleb, but hopefully Nathan and I will move downstairs this week which will give us a little more room, and Ethan can have his bedroom back. I realize this has been extremely long. Next time I will try not to wait so long in between blogs.

P.S. I miss you Mom and Dad, Meghan and Jordan!

Family

I love family. And that's all there is to say!

We're Here

We made it to Casper early in the morning Wednesday morning. We're not exactly settled in yet, but that will come in time. Soon I will post pictures of our new home (when I get some new batteries!). We will be living in Becca and Caleb's basement. My parents and sister are here, and that is so wonderful but I don't want them to leave. It really just feels like vacation right now because we haven't started jobs and Becca hasn't had to work since we got here so it's like a normal Wyoming vacation. I think things will really begin to sink in once my parents go home. I know we will be able to make this place our home; we already love the people in the church (Restoration Church) and God is opening many doors for us.

One of the most exciting of those doors that God is opening is a job for me. I got a job today! This is very exciting to Nathan and I as I came without a job and we weren't sure when I would get one. I will be working as a receptionist for a large doctor's office connected with the hospital here. It's what I was looking for, and I think it will be a great job. I went in for an interview today and was hired about two hours later! Yes, very excited. I almost cried in the middle of the store when I got the call. It was just what I wanted, but I didn't think it would actually work out so well and so fast. God is good! I start on Monday. I would have liked a few more days to get acclimated to life here, but a job is wonderful. Nathan will be working for the public library part-time as well as working for Aflac. Ariana will go to daycare here. This is another great blessing from God. A woman in the church, and a very good friend of mine runs a daycare in her home, and she has been saving a spot just for Ariana. So life is good and God is even better.