Random Updates and Happy Valentine's Day...Late!

So I've had a lot of people asking us what or if we know what or where we're going after graduation in May, and what job Jared will take. Here is a quick update on the both of us. I feel like I never have much time to add stuff to the blog so sorry this is all updated on the same day, and very long. Jared signed on with Fred Meyer in Pocatello a couple of weeks ago. He and I are both really excited about the job and staying here...especially the discount we get now at the best store ever! He was telling me today that a couple of people in his class were also interested in applying for the position but they only interviewed one other person that has already been a Pharmacist for a while; but they selected him. We feel really lucky! However, he still has 2 roations left to complete and to help "them" get through until he graduates he will be working 20 hours/week. Yup, this means he has been working 8-5 at his rotation, and 5:30-9 at his new job. I'm so glad I have a dog to keep me company and keep me safe. It will be a tough few months for us, but worth it so pray that we'll make it through to the end. I CAN'T WAIT! Also, we've been looking at some really great houses in Pocatello and are excited to get one...FINALLY! But, together haven't had a lot of time to look. If you know my mom very well, you'll know what I mean when I say she's right on top of it all :) Here is a shout out to her...Thanks MOM-It's been fun! Oh-and to my dad he drove around with us too...but only lasted 1 night!

Jared and I, becuase of our crazy schedule, ended up celebrating Valentine's Day Wednesday by going to the Jim Brickman concert here in Poky. It was AWESOME, and we ordered a heart shaped pizza. We hope everyone had a Happy Valentine's Day!

...Now about my job: I'll try to make this as short as possible. Idaho Department of Labor is contracted through the Department of Health and Welfare to provide their job search assistance program for welfare recipients. It's called Work First. We've been waiting for about the past month to see if the contract renews or not...this time it will be throughout the whole entire state, rather than just SouthEast Idaho. Well, we found out today that Health and Welfare didn't select the Department of Labor for the contract, and I have no idea what I'm going to do. Basically my job will be gone as of the end of March. However, since I have been with the DOL for almost 5 years I will have a job either working in Unemployment, or the W.I.A. program. Either way though, there will be people in our office that will lose their jobs. It's sad because all my co-workers are great friends and I have loved working with them, loved my job...helping people, teaching classes, even all the paperwork...it's really been the perfect job for my education and experience, we all thought for sure we'd probably get the contract. So, who knows...I've thought about taking some Medical Transcription and gravitating to the work from home employment...so I may look into that some more. We're kind of the go-to people for finding jobs though, so for now, I'm keeping my eyes and ears open for the good ones!

Welcome Maggie!

Jared totally surprised me about a month ago with a Dachshund puppy named Maggie. It really was a HUGE surprise. He took me out to dinner at Applebee's in IF. I kept trying to guess what we were doing there for a Friday night date, (laser tag, bowling, movie, paintball, go-carts.) So we get in the car and he takes me to this really weird neighborhood and as we are walking up to the door of the trailer a girl met us at the door and she said, "You're here to pick up Maggie, Right?" I was like WHAT ???? So we walked into the trailer with a mass of people and the whole place smelled like pot and cigarettes...I know because of my place of employment, and we rescued her. She had a way ugly pink, lacy lingerie thing on and a hot pink collar, 7 months old, with no shots, or spaying but she was kennel/mostly potty trained. The first thing (after we stopped by Petco) we did was give her a bath and a new collar! I love her to death...she's kept us laughing and kept our minds occupied on something other than ourselves. She's got the cutest face!

Maggie and her favorite stuffed Elephant, you can't tell so much in this picture but she is pretty long.

This is Maggie keeping me company while Jared works all night long...she's quite the watchdog, eh?!

Rexburg Temple

We had a great time this weekend visiting the Rexburg Temple Open House with a lot of my family and one of my friends from work and her husband. Neither Jared or I have ever been to an open house so it was cool to see how the whole thing was organized. There were so many people, it was neat! Oh - and it was freezing cold! I think Jessica said their van read about 15 degrees. Brrrrrrrr...so do you think Jared took the Pharmacy job in Rexburg?

Brag on Jared

In November I got a call from our enrichment counselor because they were planning a craft night for the upcoming holdiays. I love doing stuff like this but some may know that I tend to also get way stressed out too, thinking, planning, and just wanting it to be over. So, one of the girls had suggested making Candy Canes because they saw the one that I had, which my mom made for me. So to make a loooong story short they had, I think, 25 girls sign up to make them = 25 candy canes. I was freaking out! Jared was way calm about it all and luckily offered and did all the hard work for them. He is THE MAN! He cut out all the wood, assembled them together, and I vacuumed up all the saw dust :) Thanks to the Turners as well for all their help and the use of their heated garage, and tools...it was kind of a whole family project! Here are a few pictures, it turned out nice for all the girls so that was the enjoyable part. I was just glad when it was over.

1 Week!

So apparently a couple of days for me, actually turns out to be a week. Jared has been working in IF for the past couple of days so I've had some boring time to get some stuff done including some girly touches (sort of) to the blog. I'm the Activity Day leader for the girls in our ward ages 8-11. Last week we had a pizza party becuase 2 of the girls (twins-left) turned 12. I don't really know what I was thinking but we (me and my assistant) decided to have it at our apartment. I think this picture will explain a lot, but our poor neighbors through the walls-it was incredibly loud and caotic...as usual!

If anyone has any good ideas for activites to help occupy 10 girls for 1 hour that are simple with no expense let me know!

Wednesday

Okay - so Jared went to play church ball (they had a game tonight) and since it has taken me the whole time he's been gone to figure out our stupid blogger login...I will be posting some stuff tomorrow or the day after. I figure if I don't do something soon, since Jared created this blog, (Thank You) it may very well turn into a snowboarding, fishing, and pretty soon coyote hunting video blog, which would be very disgusting!

Snowboarding at Pomerelle

Aaron and I went to Pomerelle Ski Resort in Albion for one day between Christmas and New Years before he went back to Virginia. It had been a long time for both of us but we picked it right back up. We had a great day but Aaron couldn't get away from the bad luck. First he broke his binding clean off his snowboard, and then he broke one of the straps off of the replacement binding from the rental shop. I guess thats what happens when you are as hard core as he is! Thanks for the fun day Aaron.

Here's Aarons broken binding

I had to throw in a video of me getting some air!

Here are 2 more videos of us on the white stuff.