hello again

Life is so crazy.

So Joam has a few job possibilities floating around. He starts at Target tonight at 10pm! And UPS is begging him to work for them, too. Hopefully things will turn around financially for us.

And now for some scrapbooking updates! (hooray!)
I've been working on a book for my sister of photos from our trip to Grandma Holders last Christmas. It's not looking good. ): It's so overwhelming to have such a big project. I like when you only have a couple of photos and just have to come up with a two page spread. Let me see if I can pull out the camera and camera cord and hook it all up for a few shots.

Basically it's a post-bound album with the pages that hold 4x6 photos in a grid. I'm just going to make a few mini-pages (as I like to call them) that will fit in some of the 4x6 spots. Ok, ok... I'm off to find the camera. If I'm not back in fifteen minutes... then I gave up. (:

woa

that is a pretty rough picture. haha. i WAS really really tired and they said I could start at 8am instead of 9 and the sign on the door said they were open at 8am but guess who's doors weren't open? (:

by my puggy face you can't tell that I've lost about fifteen pounds since being here. you really can't tell at all by looking at me and that's discouraging but I'll take what I can get.

My birthday is Sunday!

tired

I am so tired right now. Waiting for someone to unlock the door so I can get to work.

Craziness

I like blogs better than facebook, but facebook is so much easier than a blog in some ways.

I am so excited for this weekend. My little brother is moving to Colorado and staying with us. My little sister is driving him and all his stuff out here from Pennsylvania. They will hopefully arrive Saturday night. Then Sunday is my 30th birthday, which we will celebrate at the Denver Zoo. My original wish was to fly in a hot air balloon for my 30th, but did you know it's almost $200 per person to that? Yeah, not doable.

I've lost almost 15 pounds since moving to Colorado. Pretty stoked about that. Mostly because of the hiking we did when we first got here and the lack of eating whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. We haven't hiked much lately. We finally got our own apartment and have been busy unpacking and getting jobs.

I should find an old photo to share... photos are always nice. This is Joam with our little friend, Amaya. She was so little back then! I think she just turned four years old a few weeks ago?

Yo, yo, yo!

We have our own apartment in Boulder finally! We've been here about a week and we still have crap to unpack and put somewhere... but hey, we have a roof over our head that's OURS (sorta)!

I'm working at Target nights and weekends and next week I start a temp assignment that is doing data entry for three-four weeks. Pretty excited. Joam just got hired by Target also, but he'll be stocking shelves overnight. Both of our jobs at Target are considered "seasonal" so they could possibly end after "back to college" is over. Hopefully they'll like us so much that they'll keep us on. I've heard a few people say they are planning to move on or quit after they go back to school so hopefully that will help our chances.

We love our church here (www.originscommunity.com). We actually live right below our small group leaders and we love, love, love them. Lots of cool people to hang out with. Boulder is a great place and hopefully now that we're a little bit more settled, I'll be able to post more pictures. (:

My birthday is coming up on August 2nd. My sister is driving my brother out to Colorado to live with us and they are hopefully arriving the day before my birthday. We'll all go to the Denver Zoo and then show them the town. I can't wait to have Nick living with us. I just wish Jamie would stay, too.

How are you?

Happy 4th of July

I don't know why that last post looks weird and I think it was cut off anyways. I can post pictures from my phone but it doesn't like to just post text blogs from my phone. Oh well.

So, I'm still working at Target... mostly closing. I like it enough, but I do need to find something else that pays better. I like the brainlessness of it, though. haha.

Joam had a few interviews this week so our fingers are still crossed.

Keep my mom in your prayers, she's had this cough for a year and a half and she's getting all this tests to figure out what's going on in her lungs. She's getting scoped next week to get a better look so hopefully they'll find out why she can't shake the cough. Also, hopefully it'll be something minor and fixable.

We are hoping to find our own place to live in the next two weeks and then my little brother joins us out here in like three weeks! Can't wait to see my little brother and my little sister! Hopefully I'll have lots of pictures thanks to a friend letting me borrow her camera with a computer cable! (:

On the 8th, I'm going to head out to Denver to check out an old friend, Patrick Reid, do some stand up comedy! I'm so excited, but it's the same night as our small group gathering so I don't know if I'll get anyone to go with me. But I will go if I have to hitchhike the whole way. (: