I GOT A JOB!!!!

After several months of looking I finally got with the right agency that was able to find work for me. I am back in the mortgage industry, working in a different position then before. I will be working on the closing end rather then the processing side, hopefully it will be a nice change of pace but from what I understand this company is extremly busy with room for OT even. It all happend so fast that I start tomorrow, that's how bad they need people, so for my friends that read this and are still looking for jobs in the mortgage industry just let me know and I will be happy to pass on the info.

David loves his job, he's on I think his 3rd week and is getting his team of people together to get rolling.

I hope that this will be a good start for us, we need something good to happen for us! I'll let you know soon how the job is going.

Happy 2nd Birthday Jenna

Today our little one turns 2. I can't believe it, it seems like I just brought her home from the hospital. She is growing like crazy but still a peanut at only 23 pounds and barely in 18 month clothes. She has quite the personality now and very stubborn just like daddy and mommy. She loves to watch Dora, Cinderella, Meet the Robinson's, and a few others. I would have to say her favorite toys right now are Becca's Woody & Jessie Dolls from Toy Story 2, she has to know where they are at all times. She is starting to use 4-5 word sentences now which surprises us most times but her new favorite is "I'm doing somethin" when you ask her to do something.

Everyday I look at her in amazement as it took us 3 years to bring her into our lives.

Happy Birthday my precious little one!

We love you!

History

I sit today and watch history being made with the inauguration of Barack Obama and I do it with a heavy heart. You see today would have been Stosh's birthday and as many of you know he is not here any longer to celebrate his birthday so we celebrate it for him.

I think of him him often, I hear a song, see a picture pop up on the computer or I watch Jenna as she carries a picture of him around and says "uncle Sosh" as best as she can say it. I only wish he knew how much he would be missed. We love you Stosh and Happy Birthday!

Kayla's first cheer competition

We are proud to report Kayla had her first cheerleading competition today. Her team took 5th place! We are so proud of her and her team. They did not get a lot of time to practice like most cheer teams do so 5th place is awesome.

She was so excited and had smiles on her face the entire time!

To much snow...

And now it's really really cold. Uggg. The kids are enjoying the snow, we all went outside on Sunday to play for a bit, even Sable went out too. She loves to roll in the snow and play. Jenna got to ride around on the sled too until she was ready for a nap.

The news reports have said that we have already exceeded snow fall for the year in just a few short weeks. I think I'm done with the snow now and ready for spring aren't you?

David's new job

So far David likes his new job which is great news. He said everybody is really nice and so far the drive doesn't seem to be to bad, seems to like his boss and co workers. He has even found a long lost friend who's wife works there. It's also nice to know that his cell phone won't be ringing like crazy for work problems so he gets to relax in the evenings. Oh yah did I mention it's up the street from the Bears training camp, I think that part is really cool.

I haven't been getting as many hours as I had hoped but let me just tell you it kicks my butt when I am working. I knew it was hard work but man I guess I am in worse shape then I thought I was in. I'm so worn out by the end of the day it's all I can do to stay up until bed time. I'm sure it's only a matter of time that I get used to it.

Happy New Year!

New Year was pretty quiet for us, both Jenna and Becca were sick so we stayed home. We had lots of munchies and David and the kids made pizza's for dinner. I worked all day and was pretty tired so it was very hard to stay up until midnight but I did and this is the first year that Becca has lasted until the New Year also.

New Years day David bowled in a tournament and did really well. Read below for his take on the tournament:
Out of 356 men bowlers only, total, I landed in 12th place. My qualifying scores were: 246, 300, 211, and 268. They take your 3 highest scores plus handicap. Handicap was 72 total for 3 games. Scratch series was 814 and handicap series was 886.

Not too shabby.

He doesn't know what is prize was as they are still totaling them up but I am very proud of him finishing in the top 15.

Crazy Christmas

I'm a little behind so as you see many of the posts are dated the same day, sorry. We got the girls on the 23rd so they would be with us for Christmas Eve and Christmas day. We spent Christmas Eve with David's mom and David's step-brothers family. We had yummy Italian beef sandwiches and cheezy potatos(tradition) and after we ate we opened presents. Jenna was so funny since this was her first Christmas where she started to realize that there were gifts to open. She tore right through them, throwing the clothes aside barely unwrapped.

Christmas morning we had a visit from Santa who ate all the cookies and drank most of his milk and left lots of presents. Later that afternoon we had a yummy dinner here with ham and ravioli.

Kayla turns 13!

December 14th, little Kayla turned 13. We still can't believe it. She is growing up so fast, she's not the little girl I met on her daddys shoulders at the zoo. We had a small party here for her since it was so close to Christmas none of her friends could come over so sometime in January hopefully she can have a sleep over. Kayla and my mom made a yummy cheesecake and Becca and my mom made homemade ice cream.

We had Olivia over for the evening and we kept busy, the girls decorated a ginger bread house and decorated the Christmas tree. I'll post a slide show of all our activities on her birthday as soon as I figure out how.

First visit with Santa

Our local bank was getting a visit from Santa so I took Jenna to meet him. She was very excited to see him but when it came time to talk to him she got upset and for sure wouldn't sit on his lap so quick thinking santa suggested that I sit with her for a photo. After the visit from Santa she wanted a little snack and to look around and the Christmas decorations.

Jenna's first snow play

We got about 5-6 feet of snow right when my mom got here and I was dying to get Jenna outside so the Stauners were going outside so Jenna and I went too. Yvette brought out a small sled that Jenna wanted to try so we put her in and pulled her around the street and she loved it. She didn't want to go in but finally I convinced her to go in. Her poor little butt was wet from snow and her little legs were so cold.

I got her dressed with what I had close by, nothing matched but she was warm and dry. She took a nap shortly after we got inside but she woke up, I brought her down but she was still tired so she crashed out in David's chair for a while more. I guess she had to much fun and it wore her out.

Mom's visit

My mom finally came for a visit but she came alone, Bill had to stay home to take care of some dental work, she got here on December 10th and stayed until right before her birthday, December 21st. We were not sure how Jenna would do since she hasn't seen her since she was only 6 months old and has only talked to her on the phone but she was very excited to see her.

Jenna wouldn't really let her close though, but always had to know where she was at all times. They had fun together making cookies for David to take to work and lots of shopping to get ready for Christmas. Jenna finally let her close the night before she left when she got out the bubbles. I will have more pictures when mom gets hers downloaded then I'll post them so check back later.