Change...lots of it.

As I was blog stalking the other day, Austin asked me how I never ran out of blogs to read.  He said I should probably be updating ours rather than reading 1,000 blogs belonging to people I don’t even know.  He was right, so here I am! 

Our life has changed quite a bit from the last time I wrote.  We were living in Texas, which was an awesome experience to live away from everyone and learn to rely on each other for everything.  BUT I don’t think we would do it again…not selling pest control at least.  Anyway, since then…we’ve moved into a new apartment, I got a new job, Austin is going to a new school, we’re in a new ward with new callings as well as a new (to us) car.  Talk about change! 

When we got back from Texas, we moved (when I say moved…I mean 2 suitcases and my purse) into my parent’s house until we both found jobs and an apartment.  Thankfully Austin’s work at Zions had just gotten rid of someone so there was an opening right as we got here, so he’s working at Zions again.  As for me, I couldn't find a job (not that I wasn't enjoying it…) BUT we did find an awesome apartment really fast.  It’s a basement apartment in Kaysville and is about 1,000x bigger than our last apt.  We LOVE it.  When we first saw it, the lady that lives upstairs was having her son in law fix a few things in the bathroom before we could move in, so while he was doing that, we painted our butts off.  We painted every room except for the kitchen and painted the cabinets in the kitchen as well.  It looks way better and it was really fun to be able to 1: not have to pay for an apartment we weren't living in yet and 2: make it ours by painting everything (as well as getting reimbursed).  Best thing ever.  AND I didn't have a job at the time so I had all the time in the world to paint and work on projects for our new place.  It was awesome.  I’ll upload some pics of the progress later. 

As for my job situation…in September I got a job at Franklin Covey at the call center for a temporary job until January.  Side story: In September Austin won tickets to the state fair on the radio, so I went to pick them up at Simmons Media and while I was picking them up I thought, “This would be so fun to work here…I wonder if they’re hiring.”  Then, I’m not even kidding you the NEXT DAY my sister Lindsay texts me and says that one of her clients who works for Simmons Media needs some help in her department and is looking for a full time employee to start as soon as they can.  Obviously me and this job were MFEO.  (Made for each other: Sleepless in Seattle)  So I met with her the next day and the day after that she called me to tell me I got the job.  I don’t know why, but I have always wanted to work at a radio station.  I was so excited!  So now I’m working there in the Traffic Department which basically controls all the commercials and their order, frequency, etc.  I have loved it so far, mostly because I’m not in customer service for the first time in my life, I can wear jeans to work, come in at like 9:30-10 and listen to music all day while I solve my commercial puzzle for the next day.  I love it.  And no, I’m not going to school anymore.  I realized what I was doing wasn't something I was passionate about and I was wasting time and money for us, and it wasn't the right time to start all over with something new.  So I’m now Austin’s sugar mama and we’re trying to get him through school right now.  BTW he is now going to Weber and he’s loving it.

Our new ward has been great so far.  We are definitely the youngest by far, but we've gotten used to that.  Austin got a calling a couple weeks ago as the ward mission leader, and I was called last week to be in the Nursery, and will once again not be able to get to know anybody in the ward besides the chillins.  But they are so cute that it doesn't matter. 

The last of the changes is our car.  Austin’s parents were nice enough to let us use their “kid car” since we've been married and it’s been so nice to always have 2 cars.  Dalton, Austin’s brother came home from his mission in September and he’s now using it, so we bought a little Civic for Austin.  (By the way...I had never met Dalton until now, which was a little weird but it's been fun to get to know him and basically get a new family member) We got a good deal on the car and it’s in awesome condition…….then after we bought it we took it in for safety & emissions.  It failed.  Big time.  After that $900 repair, we just recently had to replace the battery, and we’ll have to replace the tires before winter.  Cars are the worst.   

Besides that, we’re doing great and really loving life in general. Hopefully you'll hear from me before another 6 months passes :)