Crazy thing called Life

Life has been interesting as of late. Kevin is still working at the bank, and things got a little crazy around there but will start calming down for him. Things have gotten crazy because he has been stuck working by himself a lot even on the most busy of days. They have hired a new employee so he should technically get some more help soon, provided they don't change their mind about where they are going to place the new guy. I have completed another class, and all though the grades are not posted yet I have a good idea that I have maintained my 4.0 Average. Which I am ecstatic about.

I have been experiencing migraines a lot lately so I went to see a doctor and was prescribed some heavy duty migraine medicane. A couple of days ago I came home to find my dogs had gotten into the medicine and there were 8 pills missing. All of the pills had been chewed on, and powder from those pills was all over the floor. I called the vet, who insisted they both be brought in ASAP. I struggled to find a ride (since Kevin had the car) and what seemed like an eternity later Kevin was able to take a few minutes to come get me so that I could have the car. I spent several hours at our vets before finding out that I needed to take the dogs to the Emergency Animal Clinic in order to be monitored and on IV medication. So needless to say I was not very happy, because we had to pay the vet for the emergency appointment and then they were sending me to another Emergancy where I would yet again have to pay. Scrappy was stayed the night and was able to come home the following eveing. The vet is reasonably sure Scrappy hadn't gotten into the medicine at all. Which meant Malaika had consumed all 8 500mg tablets. She had to stay an additional day which. All in all we had an extremely expensive week of Dog care. They are okay and home with us now which we are thankful for. They still have to go get another blood test in a week to make sure there were no latent signs that were missed previously.

Now, we have to figure out how we are going to pay for this. We had to use credit (which we hated doing, but we were able to finance with a low interest rate) We are trying to decide what the best way to handle it is and I am probably going to have to look for a second job. That makes me concerned because on top of my already existing job (which is now 35 hours a week) and on top of grade school I am wondering how I am going to handle anotehr job. Not to mention finding transpertation to another job.

So as I sayed before. Life has been crazy. Hope everything is well with all of you. MUCH LOVE!

As of Late

This month has provided us with many experiences. We started this month taking a week vacation in Texas to see friends and family. It was a blast, although we were tired when we finally got home. We are not use to staying up until 5am everynight. I haven't stayed up that late in forever. Whether it was playing cards, Wii Fit, Dominos, Tennis or Rock Band (for Wii) we kept busy seeing friends and socializing. Something else we got the pleasure of doing was celebrating our 3 year anniversary. I love my husband so much and can't believe we have been married for over 3 years now :-) I am richly blessed. After our vacation we came back to Colorado where I started my work at the school again. My husband is also going through changes at work with old employees getting permotions and new employees taking their places. Things are moving like crazy but we are loving life!

feelin lonely

We have been saying a lot lately that things in Colorado are good, they only probably we seem to have is that we don't have friends. The truth of the matter is, we do have friends. There are people we both would consider friends that we work with or go to Church with. What we mean when we say we don't have friends is that we don't have people we really hangout with outside of church and work. There are a lot of older and younger people that I would say we are friends with at church. We really don't have friends our own age, friends that we can hangout with and play games with. While in Lubbock, we had lots of friends but we had two couples that we hungout with all the time. We would hangout at each others houses, cook dinner for each other and play games at least once a week if not more often then that. We would sit and play spades and hearts and other games like that for hours on end. We would be playing games and having conversation and realize it was almost 4 in the morning when we had work or church the next day. These are friends we shared, and I believe still share a deep intimate connection with and we couldn't wait for the next time we got to hangout. These friends where friends that were experiencing the same stage of life that we were. They got married within a month or even a week of the time we did. The people we work with, and the friends we have are at different stages than us. This is not a bad thing, it just makes it more difficult to hangout or to share that connection that we so desperatly want and need. Our friends from Lubbock can never be replaced and they will always hold a special place in our hearts. For that we are extremely thankful. For now, we continue to search to search for another couple of people who we could hangout with. Who like to just chill at home and play games, a group of friends that we don't have to do anything with but that we are just content being with and who are content just being with us.

I felt the need to clarify as I was concerned that our comments about not having friends up here might have offended some of the people we do consider friends, just any a different way.

Lots of love, and until next time may the Grace of God surround you.

First Camping Trip

We went on our first camping trip this last weekend and it was wonderful. We were up in Pike National Forest. We stayed at South Meadows Campground near Woodland Park Colorado. This campground was a decent size, having approximently 60 different lots. It was well kept and the bathrooms were as clean as possible considering they were nothing more than OutHouse type buildings. We were able to have several campfires. We enjoyed eating Breakfest burritos and Hambergers made over the campfire, which I might add I can think of no better way to cook or no better tasting way to eat breakfest burritos. We went on a walk with the dogs around the camp ground and around the near by Manitu Lake. We were definetly out of cellphone range, but we were only 5 miles outside of town which was good because when I realized I had forgotten stuff for S'Mores we were able to go into town to the grocery store and by the stuff that was needed. It got cold at night, even for the dogs so we all had to cuddle together in order to stay warm. We know that we will definetly be going camping again and we can't wait. To be able to be up there away from cell phone, tv, and computers. Not having to worry about what todo next or what has to be done. To truly be able to relax amidst the trees and even having to deal with the random rainstorm that makes you flee to your tent salvaging as much of the food and firewood as you can on the way was excellent. I am attaching some pictures.

Notre Famille (our family)

So, This past weekend our family was up visiting from Texas. We showed them a good time. Went to the Garden of the Gods and up to one of my favorite places Estes Park. It was great spending time with them. Here are a couple of my favorite pictures.

So

life

Life has been busy for us her in sunny Colorado. We still don't have any friends here but we are working and we both are in school. We are trying to strengthen our marriage even more but more importantly strengthen our relationship with God. We love being here (at least most of the time) though life does seem to get lonely a lot. Scrappy and Malaika seem to enjoy each day, especially when I take them for walks and they get to play in the creek. I guess I don't have a lot to say because although life is busy it has been pretty boring. So until the next time I write, peace and God bless.

whats new

To begin with, I never thought I would say I was sick of winter, I forgot how Colorado's weather can be. One day its 66 degrees out and the next is 40 and snowing.... I wish it would just decide to be spring and stop snowing. On the plus side, almost every day is sunny with blue skies. It makes me want to take off my shoes and wonder through the green grass on a morning day. But thats not really the point of this blog so back to what I was going to talk about.

Kevin and I are loving life, we struggle sometimes being here away from friends, and I know he misses his family. Sometimes I wonder if we made the right decision moving her, and then I think of where it has braught us. I am finally working a job that I love, and that I want to go to each day. Working in the BEAM program offers many challenges, some harddays, and some great rewards. Here we have these kids that have been kicked out of other classes and other schools because of their behavior, kids with anger problems, mental disabilities like autism, and kids with an interesting but sad homelife. We are working with these kids on a daily basis, helping with social skills, anger managment, and schoolwork as well. We have managed to get one child almost completely integrated into her mainstream classroom (just checking in with her at the beginning of the day and at the end) another is going to 4 classes with his piers in the mainstream room, and another has 1 class we have integrated him into with another one starting in a week if we continue seeing good behavior. The last one just started with us so he can't be integrated yet but with another day of great behavior I might get to take him to recess with his class on Monday. Its great when you really get to see progression, it make you feel like you really are making a difference.

I also started my grad school program and am enjoying the online setting. It seems to me that I might be more successful with this setting then with the typical in class one. I have only been taking the first class so we will see after a little while how I really like it but so far its better then I expected. If it continues as is I think it will be very worth finishing to get my Masters in Special Education.

Kevin is doing well, he is working at Chase bank. He enjoys being a teller (at least a little bit). He has finally found a job he likes, at least doesn't hate it. Which makes for a little less stress around the house. He is still doing his gradclasses and trying to figure out what he wants to make as his career.

We moved into our own place, one day I will put up pictures for everyone to see. It is a two bedroom apartment, that is a block away from work. Life is great and I am loving it, mostly ;-)

About Us

We decided that we each had our own journals but we wanted one that was ours together. A place for us to add pictures, and let everyone know what was going on in our lives. A place where we could tell our family and friends to go for updates and to see what is new. We will post periotically and hopefully we will stay ontop of the updates. May God be with each one of you reading this.