..: SORRY :..

Sorry to all my avid blog followers... (since there are SO many of you lol) I haven't really had any time or energy to write anything on the blog. Lots of things have happened over the past month.
First off, I got another job... I haven't been working at Steins since the winter season ended.. and I probably wont work with them again til the next season starts.. So technically I am still an employee there, but I'm not working and I haven't decided if I will even work for them next season or not. I am still at Envy. Love it there. Probably will never be able to fully leave that place. I think my regular clients would kill me if I did. So I mentioned to a co-worker of mine at envy who works in park city at another hotel that if they were ever hiring to let me know since we will be moving up that direction. So a week later the assistant manager (who also used to be my manager at steins) called me and said she wanted me to work at the other hotel and wanted me to come in and fill out paperwork and do the required hands-on interview. So I did and got a job! It was kind of cool! I've never had anyone approach me for a job before.. I've always been the one to apply and then call them all the time til they hire me :). So right now I am working 2 jobs full time. It's kind of killing me... but it will be all worth it in a few weeks.

McCall is still loving his new job. He looks freakin HOT in his uniform too. I still get anxious when I see that gun strapped to his hip everyday, but he works in a safe area and so I am not as concerned for his safety than I would be if he worked in a different city. So all is well with that portion of our lives!

The next big news is that we are buying a house!! How exciting, I know. We put in an offer on one that I loved, then they freaked out about how much money they were apparently going to lose on it and took it off the market.. I was SO mad! But then we went to our second choice (the one that was McCall's favorite from the start) and we put in an offer thinking they would counter it and they ended up accepting the offer we made.It was pretty awesome! So we are set to close in a few weeks and will most likely be moving over labor day weekend. Yay!!
and if anyone is looking at buying or selling a house.... I have the BEST agent and you should totally use him. Hit me up if you are interested.

The other news isn't so great.... So.. McCall's sergeant said that having a blog that is so easy to find isn't the brightest idea when you are a police officer. Apparently she found it without hardly trying (which doesn't surprise me given that our names are the URL) I always said I wouldn't be a paranoid person about what I put on the internet and I don't post anything that I wouldn't want the world to know about... so when McCall told me I should change it, I was less than thrilled. but she said that you never know when you will piss someone off and they can pretty much google his name and find the blog and know where we work and somewhat where we live.

So.. I won't be getting rid of our blog all together... we will still have a blog, but I am going to be making a new one that doesn't have our names in the title and all that so that it is hard to find. I don't know when I will be getting around to it, or what the new blog will be since we are too busy at the moment with the house and moving, but I will keep you all posted. If you want to be included in the new blog adventure then just either comment, e-mail me, or message me on facebook with your e-mail address. I will be sending out the new blog address that way rather than posting it on here... that would make the switch kinda pointless if I just posted it on here. So whoever follows my blog ( I don't care who you are as long as I know you somehow...friends, family, frenemies, acquantances..just whoever... :) let me know your email and you can be linked up to the new blog within the next couple of months once I get it started.

Thanks all!

Update!

Well.. Life is good. McCall started his new job last week and is loving it. We aren't loving the hours right now... Him working graves has definitely messed up my sleep as well. I have been staying up way too late and sleeping in even later. So I am totally tired from it all. It's all good though. Only a few more days of it this month and then he will be switching to days. We are in the market for a house now. Which is both  exciting and terrifying. My brother is going to be our realtor which is way nice of him. it will be interesting to try and find time to go out looking at houses between both of our schedules. Lots of changes coming our way this year... like I said. I love it. I love the organization that McCall works for now too. they are way laid back and mellow.. and they are way safer than some of the other jobs he could have been working. I am so glad that it has all worked out the way that it was supposed to. I caught up on a few of my posts so keep reading if you want to see them. I feel like my blog is way boring but oh well. I'm not out to get famous or something from my blog. It's mostly for me.

Catch Up

Day 08 - Historical inspiration. A post about someone from history that inspires me today.

Day 09 - My dream job. A post describing my dream job.
Day 10 - Recent proud moment. Something I'm proud of in the past few days.

Playing catch up on my thrity day posts.
Day 8 was a little hard for me... I don't really have a historical inspiration.. I love gordon b hinkley. Such an amazing man and prophet. Same with Joseph Smith. Both inspire me spiritually and make me want to be  better person. "Try a little harder to be a little better" as president hinkley put it so well.
Alot of people inspire me. I love people who stand up for what they believe in. I love it when people can be themselves and not care what other people think. I love people who sacrifice things they want for the people they love. Mostly I am thinking of people that I know personally rather than historical figures.. I guess I am more of the type of person that likes to leave the past in the past and live in the present with people around me who inspire me everyday.
 
Day 9. My Dream Job.
there is two things I could write about in this section so instead of choosing one or the other.. I will do both! :) first of all... when I got into my relationship with McCall.. I knew that he wanted to be a cop from day one. So that means.. we will never be millionaires.. so I pretty much plan on working at least part time to help support us. We could probably live on one income but it is just easier to have us both in good jobs. So that is why I decided to be a Dental Hygienist. Good pay, flexible hours.. what more could one ask for in a career. I have worked things out pretty well for myself. I have a great massage job that brings in good money, I have good schooling under my belt and soon I will have my degree to be a hygienist and I can do one or the other.. or do a little bit of both. that way I can write my own schedules and keep the hours that I want and I would be able to support myself if anything were to happen to McCall. Perfect.
Second dream job... if you can even call it a "job". I think its more of a calling. I can't wait to be a mother though. One day we will have our own little munchkins running around. It's definitely a life long commitment and not one I take lightly. I look forward to the great life we have ahead of us full of little kiddos... we'll see how many kids I can talk McCall into having. :)
 
Day 10 A recent proud moment.
Aside from McCall's new job... hm... I am proud of the fact that I have built myself a good reputation. One of the biggest things I have learned from my dad is that you never burn your bridges. I took that to heart and I definitely keep my professional relationships in good standing. you never know when you will need something from them in the future. I did just that with my job in park city. And one of the supervisors got an assistant manager job at another hotel. She called me to come and work for her there the other day. So basically I got a job offer for a job I didn't even apply for. Which I am pretty stoked about. I am pretty proud that I have gotten to that point and that I handle myself in such a way that people want me around and people want me to be a part of their company. Its a pretty amazing feeling!

FINALLY!!!!

My honey FINALLY got his job!! I am so sick with pride-it's not even funny! So proud of my Deputy!! :):) WE have been struggling with the job market and have been put through alot of pain and heartache during this whole process. It was SOOOO frustrating! All the ones we felt SO good about just kept falling through for no explainable reason and we just couldn't figure out what we were doing wrong. But finally.. and not a moment too soon.. we got the offer we wanted the MOST! It's such a great feeling!!

Our lives have gone from zero to sixty pretty much overnight because of it too. SO much to get figured out and so many things to consider. He starts his new job in a week. He gets fitted for his uniform in a couple of days too. We are planning on moving for sure. The drive to summit county is just too long from where we live now. So we are officially in the market for a house too! yay!! I'm so excited about that part. We are looking in Heber and in a few Salt Lake areas like Holladay and Sugarhouse. But we will see. My brother is going to be our realtor too which is SO nice! He is giving us an amazing deal! Now the challenge is going to be finding the place, closing on it, and then moving. Plus, depending on where we choose to live will determine where I will work as well. There are lots of M.E. clinics around those areas so I should be able to do a transfer... hopefully! I'm sad to be leaving the clinic I am at now. I LOVE it there. So I guess I will just have to visit often :).

McCall had accepted a position at the State Prison in draper and was supposed to start last wednesday. He was not excited about it AT ALL! The only reason he accepted the position was because he was running out of time. The retirement system is set to change on July 1st and if you don't get hired by then, you have to go on the new one. Which is NOT a good thing. So he took the prison job to ensure his retirement. Luckily, Summit county called him with an offer not even 2 days before he was supposed to start. The reason this is so amazing is because if he had started his job on that wednesday, he would have signed a contract, and that contract would say that if he was to quit within a certain time period, he would have to pay them lots of money. We were planning on just buying him out of the contract if he got the right offer later, but it was so nice that we didn't have to lose that money and worry about all of that. He really wouldn't have been able to start that wednesday anyway... We have had the craziest couple of weeks between family stuff going on and work, school, job issues as usual. He just didn't really know how it was going to work for him to start at the prison that day.. now we know why it all happened the way that it did. He was never going to start there anyway.

It is so nice to be able to see the grand scheme of things. And to be able to see the Lord's guiding hand in our lives. We always knew that the reason none of them had worked out til now was because those places were not where we were supposed to end up. It didn't make it any less frustrating to know that, but at least it offered a little bit of comfort, knowing that it would all work out somehow in the end. Not once did McCall doubt that fact. He got discouraged, but every time another one fell through, he would just say that it wasn't meant to be and that isn't where he is supposed to go. We don't know what awaits him with Summit County or what he is so destined to do there, but we KNOW that is where he is supposed to be. I wish I could say I was as strong as he was. But I wasn't. I know now that I need to be more patient and have a little more faith in the plan that the lord has for us. He works on His time, not ours. I am just grateful that someone else FINALLY saw what I see in him everyday. The Sheriff for Summit County had nothing but amazing things to say about McCall, and congratulated him countless times on his hard work getting his degree. It was so refreshing to have someone finally recognize that. I am so glad that McCall will be working with an agency that appreciates him and recognizes what an amazing individual he is. SO proud of him right now.
Much more info to come... lots of changes for us this year.
and I guess I take it back.... I don't totally HATE 2011 after all :) it's turning out to be pretty amazing. Better late than never I suppose.

Day 7- The Faves.

Day 07 - The faves. My favorite book, movie, tv show, and artist.

Ah! How do I pick just one favorite?? I don't know if I can do it.. but I will try!
 

My Favorite Book:

Well I kinda cheated on this one and I'm putting a series instead of just one book.

There are Nine books in this series and I LOVE them. I read them when I was going through Jr High and High school and I have read them through a couple of times since then. I just love them. I am a big history buff and this follows the history of the LDS church with fictional characters inter-twined with the real people from back then. I would highly recommend them to everyone. The books are really huge.. like they would take up a whole book shelf by themselves.. but they are an easy read and are quick to get through.

My favorite Movie:

Hm... this one is hard..

I sat and watched this movie a few years back..home alone.. snuggled in my pjs on a sunday in my big bed... and I bawled!! Then when McCall came home.. I told him he better not die from a brain tumor.. and then I made him watch it with me again that night..pretty horrible.. I know! I love Gerard Butler too.. so it doesn't hurt that he's in it :)

It just hits a little close to home since my biggest fear is that I will lose McCall.. So if I ever need to cry.. I just watch this :)

My Favorite TV Show(s):

I picked two for this one.. I LOVE grey's anatomy.. I know it's super cheesy and dumb... But it was either Grey's or House.. I am obsessed with medical shows. Maybe it's all my medical jobs and my anatomy background.. but I just love em. The second is one I watch with McCall.. it's more of a mix of the science and police stuff that we both like. If McCall ever gets a K9 unit we are naming the dog Dexter :)

My Favorite Artist(s):

My first favorite is Rascal Flatts.. They play our song and we have tried to go to every concert since we have been married. Their tours haven't been as consistent so we have missed a couple though. My next favorite is Paramore. Very loud rock, and angry chick music.. always makes me feel better when I'm pissed or sad. LOL.

The End!