An Update on Our Lives

I feel like I should update this sometime this month. No, I never got my project done. I went to attempt it maybe a week after my post (I was really busy with homework and such), when I realized the cheap marking pencil that I got in a basic sewing package from Walmart didn't work on my fabric very well. So then I had to wait another week for Jon to get paid.... and then I forgot to buy a water soluble pen when we went grocery shopping the other day. So I'm still working on that one. In other sewing news, I am almost done with my apron. I don't think I ever wrote about that, but I have been going to a sewing class one to two times a month since like November...maybe? My neighbor pretty much is a professional (that's what she did at BYU) and is teaching the class. We started with aprons, and next are skirts. I went to Joann's yesterday and picked up 5 patterns because they were on sale for $1 each! I'm gonna go back tomorrow to find some more. I found some pretty funny ones that I can't wait to try (bibs for babies)! I've also been babysitting my niece three times a week, and I've been going to a kindergarten classroom two times a week. Then I have two classes at UVU, plus my YW calling. I feel like I'm busy all the time now. I don't like it one bit. I can't wait until summer. Although, Jon asked me yesterday if I was planning on getting a job in the summer. I think he wants me to, but I don't really want to. Haha. We'll see....

Jon and I thought his promotion to supervisor would be good for him- he'd have a say in his schedule and would only really have one not so great boss instead of two. However, it is probably worse than before, especially since they only gave him a $0.75 raise. Lame. I told him months ago that he could go back to wildland firefighting this summer, if he wanted to. It wasn't until the end of January that he finally decided to apply, which is when they are usually doing their hiring/already have everyone hired. He hasn't heard back from them, which is not looking like good news for him. I just hope he gets it because I know how much he hates his job, and I'd rather be miserable and lonely at home during the summer than having him miserable every day of his life. Plus, he could possibly make enough in the summer that we wouldn't have to worry too much about him working part-time or me making not very much money this next fall and spring.

I have been enjoying this winter much more than any winter I have experienced outside of California. I don't know that Provo has had a decent snowfall since before Christmas (okay, maybe there was one day- but it definitely melted by the end of the week). It has been unusually warm, and I don't mind it one bit! I'll take rain over snow any day!

13 days until my birthday!!!!

OH, and we paid off our car with our tax returns!!!! YAY! No more car payment! This is probably one of the most exciting things that has occurred recently. Maybe we'll be able to buy another car by the end of this year! That would be wonderful!