I don't even know why I am starting a blog. I don't know anyone else that has a blog site on here and I highly doubt that anyone I know will take the time to actually do this. With me being a stay at home mom, I have a lot more free time then those people that are single and still enjoying life or that are bored out of their minds working. I guess this will end up being more like a journal for me that no one will ever read because no one will ever know I have it. If I told my husband he would probably say oh thats cool and then forget what I even said. He would never take the time to read it and honestly would probably forget where I told him I started the blog in the first place.
Incase anyone that I know does read this, especially people that I haven't talked to in a while I guess that I will start with what the heck I have been doing the last couple years.
After I graduated high school, I took that summer to have fun. I went to Disney Land and Sea World and Lego Land as a nanny for a lady I was baby sitting for. The funny part was that they paid for everything and I only baby sat once for about 4 hours, we were gone for a week. So hey I got a free trip to Cali. Then I flew down to Missouri for my oldest brothers wedding and that was a fun little adventure. We went to Nauvoo, again and went to some theme park. It was a nice family vacation. I also made numerous trips to and from Spokane to see my brother who lived up there with his wife and son.
That summer I also went rafting for the first time and that was freaken awesome. I had so much fun. Unfortunately I haven't done it since. At then end of the summer I got my first real job at a doggy day care which is funny considering I hated any dog that wasn't mine. I was so afraid of dogs, I would cross the street if I ever saw one! But I needed a job to pay for school. I didn't actually end up starting school until the following spring term but I was able to talk my mom out of making me pay rent in the mean time.
I worked part time and played some. I went to Cali again to see my best friend, that was always a fun time. Other than that I sat around waiting for something terribly exciting to happen in the little area of St. Johns in Portland, Oregon. I have no idea what I thought was going to happen but I kept waiting and waiting. The lamest part was that there was no one to date. Everyone in my stake I had known my entire life and there was no way I would ever date any of them. The freshest meat we ever got in that area were missionaries. They were lots of fun to flirt with. It was too bad they were off limits, there were a few that I would have liked to get to know better.
Finally nearing the end of 2004 I realized that if anything exciting was ever going to happen I was going to have to make it happen. As I was thinking about moving out of my parents house my cousin who was living in Utah at the time called me and said that her and some friends from the singles ward were getting an apartment and she wanted me to come and live with her. I think it took me a whole two seconds to decide that I was going to move. In March, 2005 I moved out to West Jordan, Utah.
That was definitely exciting and the change that I needed and was obviously supposed to make. Before I moved I was feeling so down and depressed and like life was just not going anywhere. Then as soon as I got out to Utah, man things changed quick! The best part about being in Utah was that there were guys, LOTS of guys!
That first Sunday I already had a major crush, I saw blonde hair and blue eyes walk through the door and I was hooked. I was introduced to Zac and things escalated from there. I was the one that instigated our first date, he thinks it was his idea but I just let him keep thinking that. We dated got engaged and then got married all in the same year. Needless to say I was shocked and so was everyone that knew me. I had just moved and already I was getting married. I hadn't even been away from home for six months and I was already engaged.
We got married in November of 2005 and moved to Beaverton, Oregon. I liked it there. In July of '06 we made a big career move and went down to California to work. The company that we both worked for was a document scanning company and so we had to travel to different places to do the work. The first job took us to Salt Lake City, Utah. We didn't mind because that was our old stompin' grounds. We still had our apartment in Oregon during all of this which was a little weird paying $700 to store all our crap. Finally in October our lease was up and we put our stuff in a storage unit and only paid $125 to store our crap.
In November we celebrated our one year anniversary and the fact that we were now pregnant! The pregnancy was in no way planned, it was a big oops...I mean surprise. But one good thing about finding out I was pregnant was that it totally explained why I was being such a witch. That was a relief to me, I seriously thought I was loosing my mind there for a while. At that point we had to start thinking about life a little differently with a baby in the works.
With the job in California we obviously were going to have to move there, so we did, for a month. We found an expensive apartment, $1200 a month for a one bedroom, and moved in our suitcases that we had been traveling with for the last five months. We were there about two weeks then left to go back to Utah for Christmas. We stayed in Utah for about a week and a half then came back to California to find that we were no longer employed. At least I wasn't, I had been laid off due to the fact that the company was doing very poorly. Zac still had his job but we weren't sure for how long. The company was talking about folding and cutting it's losses or if they wanted to stay and see if they could work it out. Zac decided that it would be better to just resign and move on because the company was being very shady and flaky and not wanting to pay him what he needed to be paid in order to live in California.
A week after we had gotten back from Utah we cancelled our lease at our pretty new apartment and moved back to Oregon. When we got back to Oregon we had no where to go so we had to live with my parents. There wasn't a chance we were going to be able to find our own place because we had just spent over $3000 canceling our lease in CA. All our savings, gone!! Living with my parents wasn't so bad at first but after a while my youngest brother and my grandmother were threatening to drive my already crazy pregnant self over the edge. Zac and I had both found jobs and were saving some money again so at the end of March we finally moved out. We moved back to Beaverton into our old ward and everything.
I quit working about a month before I had our baby which I loved because I have never been so tired in my life and I needed the rest. I didn't do hardly anything around our apartment, I was so ready to have her! Squishy Girl was born in July and I was so happy to have her out! But that night I changed my mind pretty quick. She wouldn't sleep.
To make a long story short, she still doesn't sleep at night, which is why I am up at midnight. She is not an easy child. My mom even hands her back to me and says I don't know what to do with her. What the heck, she had five kids what does she mean she doesn't know what to do! Squishy Girl has been an interesting challenge for me and for my marriage. Anyway, thats for another blog.
Around October of 2007 Zac got a job offer from his best friend in, take a wild guess... SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH! At first he said no but never really got the offer off of his mind. In November he started to reconsider the offer. I told him NO! There was no way I was going to move again! I was sick of moving. He kept pressing and pressing and we had many fights and finally I didn't know what else to do but to give in.
The beginning of February, 2008 we packed up our crap, which had grown in size since that last time we moved, and we moved to Utah. So here I am in Salt Lake City not knowing how I got my self into this mess in the first place. There are a lot of feelings and thoughts that go along with this topic but I am tired and Squishy Girl is asleep which equals bedtime.
