So I haven't updated on here since March, so this isn't going to be as in depth. But figured I should give an update so that everything is up to date.
Jared landed a teaching job! He will be teaching band at Wayne High School and Wayne Middle School, which is in Wayne County which is in South Central Utah. The schools are located in a town called Bicknell. Bicknell is located an hour south-east of Richfield, and about a half hour from Capital Reef National Park. I honestly don't really know what classes he will be teaching this next school year, just that he teaches at the high school in the morning and the middle school in the afternoon. As I learn more about the happenings of this next school I will try to include them on here. Oh and Jared's first contract date is August 14th, and then school starts the 21st.
With the new job, we will be moving (a 2 1/2 hour commute doesn't make any sense). We found us a 3 bedroom 2 bath home to rent for the next school year. Rent is fairly cheap in the middle of nowhere, we will end up paying $562/month. We will be taking one of my family's dogs with us when we move, his name is Bo and he is a 4 year old border collie/blue heeler. I am so glad to be able to have a dog with us, because I think I would go crazy without a dog. Jared will be moving into our new home on August 9th, and I won't officially be moving in on August 30th. We decided that I should stay a little longer so that I could earn a full months salary. It's gonna be hard to be a part for a couple weeks, but hey after spending our whole dating life living far apart this should be a breeze. Once I move down I have no idea what I will be doing as far as work goes, which is why I am staying longer. We are both looking forward to this new adventure in our life.
That's really the most important stuff that's going on. We keep falling more in love with each other every day, and can't wait to have our own place again.
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Sunday, March 31, 2013
March Update
Ok this last month, quite a bit went on.
This month was a big month for Jared with the school. He conducted his first band concert this month. He did fantastic, although I may be a bit biased. He also went with the band to festival this month. The band did great. Jared only has 2 more weeks of student teaching left, so he has started looking for jobs. Last week he went to a job fair thing down at BYU where he was able to interview with some of the school districts from across the state. We are both hoping that we can find something here in the valley. Jared is REALLY interested in the band teacher position at Copper Mountain Middle School, which is a brand new middle school opening up this next school year. Some of the students he has been teaching will be going to that school next year, and they are all hoping he gets that job too.
On the 15th we went to St George to be there as Jared's sister Marsha received her endowment at the temple there. It was a wonderful experience. Also while we were in St George when we went to a sacrament meeting we were able to hear from Elder Bednar and Elder Snow and their wives, and it wasn't even a special meeting. It was pretty cool.
We also celebrated our 2nd anniversary. We went out to dinner together and took a drive up by the Draper Temple. We were able to talk about this last year and the great memories from this past year. And talked a little about the changes that will be happening over the next year, and the things we can do better this year.
We are both doing well and enjoying our work. Life is good.
This month was a big month for Jared with the school. He conducted his first band concert this month. He did fantastic, although I may be a bit biased. He also went with the band to festival this month. The band did great. Jared only has 2 more weeks of student teaching left, so he has started looking for jobs. Last week he went to a job fair thing down at BYU where he was able to interview with some of the school districts from across the state. We are both hoping that we can find something here in the valley. Jared is REALLY interested in the band teacher position at Copper Mountain Middle School, which is a brand new middle school opening up this next school year. Some of the students he has been teaching will be going to that school next year, and they are all hoping he gets that job too.
On the 15th we went to St George to be there as Jared's sister Marsha received her endowment at the temple there. It was a wonderful experience. Also while we were in St George when we went to a sacrament meeting we were able to hear from Elder Bednar and Elder Snow and their wives, and it wasn't even a special meeting. It was pretty cool.
We also celebrated our 2nd anniversary. We went out to dinner together and took a drive up by the Draper Temple. We were able to talk about this last year and the great memories from this past year. And talked a little about the changes that will be happening over the next year, and the things we can do better this year.
We are both doing well and enjoying our work. Life is good.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
February Update
Well I am a little behind on our update for February. So it is not going to be as detailed as I would hope because well, it's already the end of March.
Well at the beginning of February Jared went to UMEA. He was gone for a few days at the conference. What all happened I honestly don't know, but while Jared was gone he sent me some roses. It was very sweet.
We were on the committee for our ward's Valentine's Dinner. I was in charge of getting the decorations up and Jared was in charge of music(big surprise there right). We decorated with the centerpieces from our wedding. Jared found a lot of romantic Italian type music, and it really set the mood. It was such a hit with everyone that came.
Valentines Day we went out to dinner at Sizzler and exchanged gifts of course. I can't remember what we did after dinner exactly, but we didn't have much time that night because I didn't get off till 6 and we both had work the next day.
Jared's mentor teacher's wife had baby last month, so Jared had a lot of practice teaching. His first conducting performance was at the 6th grade orientation with the jazz band.
That pretty well sums up February.
Well at the beginning of February Jared went to UMEA. He was gone for a few days at the conference. What all happened I honestly don't know, but while Jared was gone he sent me some roses. It was very sweet.
We were on the committee for our ward's Valentine's Dinner. I was in charge of getting the decorations up and Jared was in charge of music(big surprise there right). We decorated with the centerpieces from our wedding. Jared found a lot of romantic Italian type music, and it really set the mood. It was such a hit with everyone that came.
Valentines Day we went out to dinner at Sizzler and exchanged gifts of course. I can't remember what we did after dinner exactly, but we didn't have much time that night because I didn't get off till 6 and we both had work the next day.
Jared's mentor teacher's wife had baby last month, so Jared had a lot of practice teaching. His first conducting performance was at the 6th grade orientation with the jazz band.
That pretty well sums up February.
Thursday, January 31, 2013
January Update
Ok here we go into January. So after the 1st of the year is when we really buckled down and packed up our apartment. We were so exhausted from our California and Florida trips (mostly because they were really back to back) that it was hard to get motivated to get moving at times. But we had everything pretty well packed up by the 3rd. We were lucky to have a lot of our family in town to help us with our cleaning (explanation as to why everyone was in Cedar to follow). By the night of the 4th we were 98% done, just a few more things to clean and a few things to pack up. We checked out of our apartment on the 5th and moved up to South Jordan.
So Jared had his Senior Recital on the 4th at 7:30 p.m. He did so great I was so proud of him. Because of his recital all of Jared's immediate family was all in Cedar, which is why we had so much help in our move. My parents also were there for his recital. I'll leave anything more about Jared's recital to him.
Well... we moved up here to South Jordan on the 5th. In case I did not mention it before, we have moved in with my parents for the next several months. And because of this most of our stuff is now stored out in the barn. We now take up residence in a small bedroom (well at least smaller than our last bedroom) in my parent's house. So we went from it being just Jared and I, to it being the 2 of us plus my mom & dad, my 2 brothers (most of the time that also means 1 of my brother's girlfriend because she is here SO much), 2 dogs, and a cat. Yep that's quite the increase. So we are NEVER home alone, and only get alone time when we're in our bedroom with the door shut. Which really isn't terrible terrible. It's nice to be here with them, because I really missed having the dogs and the cat around. In our room we have our king size bed, a dresser(which we share), a bookshelf, and our entertainment center. Not sure how or even why we have all of this in there, but we do and it seems to be working out for us.
Well, I may have mentioned that I was going to transfer to another Maverik up here but I ended up getting a MUCH better job. I now have a job working at a credit union in West Jordan as a teller. I started last Tuesday, and am loving it so far. I work full time and make $1.25 more than I did working at Maverik. So my work days start at 8:45 and I get off around 6:15 when I am working a full day. If I don't work on Saturday I work a half day one day during the week, but if I do work Saturday I get a day off during the week. I really like all the people I work with, and am looking forward to the opportunities I will have working there.
Jared started his student teaching at South Hills Middle School on the 9th, and he is absolutely loving it. He's had many opportunities to teach already after 15 days. There are 2 band classes, 2 music connections classes, a jazz band class before school, and I can't remember what else. I'm sure Jared will post something before his time student teaching is up about how everything is going with that.
We have graduated from a married student ward to a family ward, and it wasn't because we had a baby that graduated from nursery. ha ha ha. We now are members of the Parkway 1st ward, and so far don't have any callings. Though, we are on the committee for the Valentines Dinner for our ward. We both don't really know anyone in this ward, because I grew up in the 9th ward not the 1st ward. We are both looking forward to serving in our new ward and getting to know the people in our ward.
One thing that is nice about living where we do, is that both Jared and I pass a temple on our drives to work/school. Jared drives by the Oquirrh Mountain Temple on his way and I drive by the Jordan River Temple. We hope to be able to increase our temple attendance at least a little now that we live so close to so many temples.
Speaking of temples, I have set a goal that this year I will do more with family history. I found out at our stake conference or ward conference that after March the youth will need to bring names to the temple and that temple names will not be as available (at least I think). So I am hoping to increase(ok start) working on my family history work so I can receive the blessing that Elder Scott talked about in the talk he gave during general conference in October.
We are both enjoying this new chapter in our life. A chapter full of many opportunities and changes. Oh and now that our cost of living has gone down, we are hoping to save up money to pay off the 1 loan we have once Jared graduates, and also start saving for a down payment on a house.
I think that about covers January.
So Jared had his Senior Recital on the 4th at 7:30 p.m. He did so great I was so proud of him. Because of his recital all of Jared's immediate family was all in Cedar, which is why we had so much help in our move. My parents also were there for his recital. I'll leave anything more about Jared's recital to him.
Well... we moved up here to South Jordan on the 5th. In case I did not mention it before, we have moved in with my parents for the next several months. And because of this most of our stuff is now stored out in the barn. We now take up residence in a small bedroom (well at least smaller than our last bedroom) in my parent's house. So we went from it being just Jared and I, to it being the 2 of us plus my mom & dad, my 2 brothers (most of the time that also means 1 of my brother's girlfriend because she is here SO much), 2 dogs, and a cat. Yep that's quite the increase. So we are NEVER home alone, and only get alone time when we're in our bedroom with the door shut. Which really isn't terrible terrible. It's nice to be here with them, because I really missed having the dogs and the cat around. In our room we have our king size bed, a dresser(which we share), a bookshelf, and our entertainment center. Not sure how or even why we have all of this in there, but we do and it seems to be working out for us.
Well, I may have mentioned that I was going to transfer to another Maverik up here but I ended up getting a MUCH better job. I now have a job working at a credit union in West Jordan as a teller. I started last Tuesday, and am loving it so far. I work full time and make $1.25 more than I did working at Maverik. So my work days start at 8:45 and I get off around 6:15 when I am working a full day. If I don't work on Saturday I work a half day one day during the week, but if I do work Saturday I get a day off during the week. I really like all the people I work with, and am looking forward to the opportunities I will have working there.
Jared started his student teaching at South Hills Middle School on the 9th, and he is absolutely loving it. He's had many opportunities to teach already after 15 days. There are 2 band classes, 2 music connections classes, a jazz band class before school, and I can't remember what else. I'm sure Jared will post something before his time student teaching is up about how everything is going with that.
We have graduated from a married student ward to a family ward, and it wasn't because we had a baby that graduated from nursery. ha ha ha. We now are members of the Parkway 1st ward, and so far don't have any callings. Though, we are on the committee for the Valentines Dinner for our ward. We both don't really know anyone in this ward, because I grew up in the 9th ward not the 1st ward. We are both looking forward to serving in our new ward and getting to know the people in our ward.
One thing that is nice about living where we do, is that both Jared and I pass a temple on our drives to work/school. Jared drives by the Oquirrh Mountain Temple on his way and I drive by the Jordan River Temple. We hope to be able to increase our temple attendance at least a little now that we live so close to so many temples.
Speaking of temples, I have set a goal that this year I will do more with family history. I found out at our stake conference or ward conference that after March the youth will need to bring names to the temple and that temple names will not be as available (at least I think). So I am hoping to increase(ok start) working on my family history work so I can receive the blessing that Elder Scott talked about in the talk he gave during general conference in October.
We are both enjoying this new chapter in our life. A chapter full of many opportunities and changes. Oh and now that our cost of living has gone down, we are hoping to save up money to pay off the 1 loan we have once Jared graduates, and also start saving for a down payment on a house.
I think that about covers January.
December Update
Okay my goal this year is to give an update every month. I am guaranteeing that it will actually happen, but I will do my best to do so. So here is an update of our happenings since our vacation:
Well we went on vacation to Disneyworld with my family and had a BLAST! We spent 6 days at Disneyworld and 2 days at Universal Studios Orlando, plus 1 day of rest (we all were feeling a little sick and needed a rest) and travel days. We had so much fun. Here are some of our favorite pictures from our vacation:
Yes these are just a few of our favorite pictures. My dad had this photo pass thing, so we got all the pictures from the rides that take your picture plus pictures taken by their official photographers. If you want to see more pictures there are more on my facebook. But as you can see from these pictures, we had fun.
SO after the vacation we came home and went to Cali to be there for Thomas' baptism and a quick trip to see our family there. We made a pit stop on our way home from Cali to see death valley because I had never been there and we have a national park pass.
After our california trip, we then proceeded to pack up our apartment for us to move to South Jordan. Which leads us into January, so you'll have to read January's update for more updates.
Yes these are just a few of our favorite pictures. My dad had this photo pass thing, so we got all the pictures from the rides that take your picture plus pictures taken by their official photographers. If you want to see more pictures there are more on my facebook. But as you can see from these pictures, we had fun.
SO after the vacation we came home and went to Cali to be there for Thomas' baptism and a quick trip to see our family there. We made a pit stop on our way home from Cali to see death valley because I had never been there and we have a national park pass.
After our california trip, we then proceeded to pack up our apartment for us to move to South Jordan. Which leads us into January, so you'll have to read January's update for more updates.
Friday, December 14, 2012
Vacation here we come!
Thought I'd post and say... WE LEAVE FOR FLORIDA/DISNEYWORLD TOMORROW!!!!!
We are both SO excited. We haven't been on an airplane together or a theme park together in the 3 years we have been together. Jared hasn't been to Florida ever, and it's been like 10 years since I last went.
Expect pictures and such when we get back. Florida here we come!!!
We are both SO excited. We haven't been on an airplane together or a theme park together in the 3 years we have been together. Jared hasn't been to Florida ever, and it's been like 10 years since I last went.
Expect pictures and such when we get back. Florida here we come!!!
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Changes are coming
Well there are going to be some changes coming our way. Jared put in his application for student teaching on Friday. He put in to student teach at Bingham High School, which is the high school me and my siblings all graduated from. We found out that we wont get official word until mid November (yuck), that is if Jared doesn't go ahead and call the principal & band teacher (although he is planning on calling them anyway). So... I called my mom and gave her the official word that we are going to move in with them. Yay. So now that we know kind of what is going on, we can start making preparations to finally move out of Cedar. Thankfully my parents have an 8 stall barn, so we will have a stall to store all our furniture and other possessions until we move again. So there is work to do out in the barn, as well as work my parents want to do on the house. The 2 bedrooms upstairs at my parent's still have the original paint/wallpaper and carpet that was there when we moved in 19 years ago. SO it's an excuse to do some upgrading in the house. And of course this move will be different than any other move we have made, because most of our stuff will be in storage. So packing is going to be a little more complicated because everything will need to be packed really carefully. Yes the move wont be until the end of December, but there is still lots that can be done.
Other changes include me losing weight. I know I keep bring up my weight loss over and over between this blog and my personal blog, but it really is a goal I have. Recently I have had pictures taken of me by professionals, and it has really made me want to get rid of some weight. So hopefully some changes in this department.
I am sure there will be some other changes coming our way, but I honestly am drawing a blank.
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