Sunny with the High of 88!!?

What an Absolutely BEAUTIFUL day! Sheesh. Every window in our house is open. I love it.

Time for a quick update. Chris got a job!! Yesss!! He's working for Miller paving company- but he's working with his buddy laying gas lines. Basically they are out in holes all day long and playing and digging in the dirt. Today is his 2nd day and he said he really likes it. The hours are "normal". 7am-5pm. At least starting next week we'll be getting a paycheck every Friday. Which will be nice because we are down to about $13.00. That's checking and savings combined. Guh. And I still have to get at least $5.00 in gas today. So we'll go ahead and make that $8.00 for our available funds. sigh. On a lighter note, though, Chris called me today around 11:15 and said that he had a minor emergency. He had bent over to pick something up off the ground and he SPLIT the whole butt out of his jeans!! LOL!! So I had to go take him some jeans. Haha. Hahhhahhaa!! ;)

This week I've been watching Dirk's (Chris' best friend) daughter, Dakota. She's 5. It's fun, but a little stressful because I have to be up at 6 when Dirk comes to get Chris for work & to drop Koda off. Then she's here with me until they get off... They usually get home between 5 & 6. Just depends on how busy they were. So I've baby-sat for, well, it will be 36 hours in the past 3 days. LOL! I feel like a mom. And actually it makes me really excited to be a (hopefully stay at home) mom. :D I've been doing a ton of cleaning, inside and out- and I even tried mowing today. The mower and I had a fight, though, and the damn mower won. :(

I finally got rid of the GIANT piano that was taking up too much space in our spare bedroom. My friend Abbie gave me a desk that she didn't want anymore. So now I have an office :) I'm loving it!

Well- I think that's it for today! Hopefully I'll be updating more frequently! :)

Have a happy, sunny Wednesday!

Grown up hours...

I'm quite behind on this blog ordeal. :( I've got pictures I need to post, updates to make and new goals to set.

First I'll start with the pictures... :)

Here are a couple of the "bumpy" blanket that I made for Billy. Turned out good, (well in pictures at least) and Chris seemed to like it :)

Also, there's a pic of the "mangyle" vest.... although I've done a lot more than what is shown in this particular picture. That's just the last time I took pictures of it.

And then there's just a fun artsy-ish pic of one night when I was teaching Abbie to knit. We had hot chocolate in fun vintage tea cups :)

So that's the knitting update. Still not done with Kamdyn's blanket. Still not done with the vest. Yeah.

On a lighter note, however, I got a new job. It's very very VERY part time. We are talking 12-16 hours a week right now. It's working in the Child center at the church where Chris and I are attending small group. I'm actually pretty dang excited! I start tomorrow :) Chris also starts at Spirit sometime this week. His start date was a little delayed, but we are going downtown to get things sorted out tomorrow. So hopefully that all goes smoothly.

In the meantime I'm still looking for something to fill in the gaps since the Church job is so part time. I'm hoping that my friend Abbie can talk the latchkey coordinator into letting me come back to Emerson. I used to work there but quit for a "full-time" job so I would have it when I graduated. Then I got laid off a year ago. Guh. You try to make a good decision and then it backfires. Ah well. That's life. I did quit buffalo though. I couldn't be there anymore. Especially if Chris wasn't working there anymore. He keeps me sane there. Or, kept rather. lol.

So now we are day people. We'll work days and have nights and weekends off. Actually, tonight was our first night eating dinner at a 'normal' time. We ate at 7! I know it sounds normal to everyone else, but we have been working nights together since we met. So about a year and a half now. And I'm pretty excited that we'll be in bed in about an hour too. Ohhh the grown up life. I'm quite excited to start living it! :)

I think that's pretty much everything for now. Wedding plans are coming along and we are finally starting to get our finances in order too. Hopefully with these new jobs (and hours) we can finish paying off our debts and start saving for our honeymoon!

Woo!

Only 242 days to go...