ROAD TRIP!!!!!!

We are going on a road trip!!! Our friends Cameron and Natalie have dared to take a 10 hour drive with Bryan and I to............

Salt Lake City, Utah!!!

I've never been but I heard it is beautiful!!! And we are going to this wonderful, beautiful place, the Salt Lake Temple! We are very excited! We leave Friday morning @ 2:00!! (Natalie and I get to sleep the whole way there!!!!) And we don't get back until Monday night! It's going to be a great vacation!!!

Two weeks notice!

Well, I did it!! I gave my two weeks notice! I'm glad I decided to leave but I find myself feeling bad that I'm leaving such a great company that has treated me so well. I have worked for this company for 2 years now and I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to be apart of it! But I have to protect myself. The company is making a lot of changes such as mergers and layoffs! I can't be one of the people they lay off and with me not being a full escrow officer yet, I would be!! I'm just a little nervous starting a new job. But I'm sure it will be good and I already know that my manager will be wonderful!! Wish me luck!!!!

My Family!!

This is my family!! I went over to my sister's house on Saturday! We had a blast! We went swimming and had a bbq! I love spending time with my family! The one on the right is my sister Tiffany!This is my niece Ariel! She is 4 and beautiful! She is going to have to beat the boys off with a stick!!

This my nephew Raistlin! He looks very innocent in this picture but he's not fooling anyone! He is now 3! Isn't he handsome!!
And this is my 2nd niece!!! Her name is Montana Taylor! She is minus 2 months! Her birthday will be October 23, 2007!

Emotional Roller Coaster!!

Well to say the least this past week has been an emotional roller coaster! Everyday was a new load of stress. And unfortunately for Bryan stress makes me a huge grump!! I generally don't want to talk to anyone and I eat a lot (which in turn makes me more depressed!) But today was the ultimate! My manager resigned :( and we met our new manager, as if one bad thing happening today wasn't enough! Let's just say the staff is very different than what we are used to! I'll have to figured out what is best for me, whether it is staying here or going with my old manager! We'll just have to see!!!

Corporate America!!

Well, today my office had a bombshell dropped on us! Our boss from downtown came in and fired our front desk, who is way more than just the front desk!! She can be an escrow officer with the knowledge that she has of this industry!! And we love having her work with us! And thier excuse was "the company can't afford her"! Please someone tell me how a Fortune 500 company, who was ranked one of the best financial institutes, can't afford our 1 front desk person!! I guess that's corporate America for you!! Our boss also asked our branch manager to step down and they want to merge 3 offices into our 1 and have one of the other managers be the manager here! Nobody in this office has ever heard any good things about this other manager and I have already had a run in with her and she is in a completely different office than I am!! To say the least I am not looking forward to her coming in here! I have a feeling that my branch manager will leave the company. She is the best manager that I have ever worked for! She is fair, generous and is always willing to help with any questions or issues that come about in files!! All of us here are stunned and don't know what to say! In this market how can we be sure that our jobs are stable! Our downtown assured the rest of us that our jobs are secure but how can we trust what they say and how can they be so sure (especially with a new manager coming in who can decide what staff she wants to keep or get rid of!!) I'm having a really hard time knowing how to deal with this "explotion"!

Here she is!!

Meet our baby!! This is Trapper! I've had her for about 7 years now! She is a 9 year old golden retriever and is CRAZY!!! Trapper has become our "child" if you will! She wakes us up in the middle of the night and is constantly needing attention! She keeps us extremely busy! Trapper loves the lake, the river, and any ponds...... but for some reason she hates baths!! I still don't understand how "water" dogs can hate baths!!

Proud Wife!!!

I am so blessed to have such a wonderful husband! I am very proud of all of his accomplishments and all of his ideas and goals! This is one of his goals that he had! To build a rock crawler! He bought this '85 Toyota pick-up for cheap and is rebuilding it from the ground up!! He already has the beautiful, huge tires that are a must for rock crawlers!!

And he has already rebuilt the engine!! It's a beauty, isn't it!!

He is going to start working on the body work next! I am amazed every day at his talent!

Weekend Getaway!

Bryan and I got away this weekend! We are very blessed to have such a wonderful family that let us crash at their cabin! We stayed at Sandra and David's cabin up in Forest Lakes! It was absolutely beautiful!! (I'm an idiot and brought the camera but forgot to take any pictures!) It was around 65 degrees all weekend and rained a little! The air smelled wonderful!! I finished my book (that I've been working on for 3 years now..... can you tell I don't read very often!!!) and we rented 4 movies! We rented Lady in the Water (a little wierd but interesting), Shooter (very good! Mark Wahlberg is a sniper!!), X-Men the Last Stand (Very good), and Employee of the Month (Surprisingly very funny!!) Needless to say we had a very relaxing weekend which was way over due!!

Family Day Fun

On Sunday Bryan and I went over to my parents house for dinner. I love seeing my family and I absolutely love seeing my niece and nephew! My sister and brother-in-law brought over the Wii. That thing is amazing! It is so interactive and it actually gets you up and moving. It is so addictive! My niece of course beat all of us at bowling! (yes bowling with the Wii!) We also played tennis, boxing, and golf! It was so much fun, Bryan and I are thinking of getting one!!

Day off!!!

I was so excited. I finally took time off of work! Grant it, I really wasn't feeling all that great but I was mainly just exhausted! I left early on Monday and called in sick on Tuesday. I had fun sleeping in until 10:30, watching "The Pursuit of Happyness", and hanging out with the boys! Bryan, Cameron, Kyle and I went to Peter Piper Pizza for lunch and went shopping. Cameron and Bryan made homemade buffalo chicken wings! They were so delicious! Put those two in a kitchen and it's amazing what they come up with!! I pretty much had a "chill" two days! I was very excited!!