Back to skool!!

I'm almost as bad at updating my blog as I am calling people! Sorry family. I'll try to do better.

Life has been full of changes lately around here. I'll catch everyone up! So, I've been really bored and frustrated with my job situation for a while now. After a mini quarter life crisis and some good timing on Dad's part, I've decided to go back to school to earn my bachelors degree in....(drumroll....)Interior Design! Yeah! Can you tell I'm excited!

I was ready to take my test for my insurance license when I realized that I REALLY didn't want to go in that direction. Life is too short! Dad actually sent me an email to me at work out of the blue on a particularly crappy day letting me know that there's a school in Fort Myers that has an interior design program. After some soul searching and number crunching, Jamison and I decided that this would be the perfect time for me to go back to school, finally! I'm taking one course online right now until Luke goes back to school, then I'm leaving my job in September so I can devote my time to college. I'm trying to find something I can do from home a few hours a week to absorb some of the shock from cutting out one income though. There's a lot of opportunities for at home customer service agents and I've done that before so I'm just trying to find the company that will be a good fit in the mean time.

In other news...Luke is enjoying his summer. He's spending two days a week with Jamison - when he's off and the other three at summer camp at the church he went to pre k at. School for him is right around the corner though. They start Aug 18th.

Well, that's about all for now. It's been raining here pretty much all day every day for the past two weeks, but we finally have some sunshine! I'm going to go outside and enjoy it :)

On Wednesday Alan, Heather, and I went white water rafting on the Arkansas River out of Canon City about an hour south of Colorado Springs. We were running a little late, due to a potty/breakfast stop...but we got there in time for them to tell us that the water temp was 38 degrees!!! Needless to say, we had to get geared up in full wetsuits. I'm glad we were too busy to get pics of that! Here's me and Heather all ready to go. We were so stoked.
After a short drive through the canon we arrived at our drop off point. I definitely had to use the facilities by then, but I was not about to take off my get up to go to the RR! I was confident the adrenaline would hold me over...and it did!
This is the view from the raft down the first part of our 1.5 hour long ride. The weather was wonderful; it was actually about 80, so the cold water didn't feel bad at all....unless you were totally submerged!
Like Alan...at one point our super cool guide John, said "hey, if you want to jump in, this would be a great time to float" Keep in mind in the "rules" section of our preparation before getting on board they said 500 times "stay in the raft"!!!!
Heather and I decided it would be nice to stay in and enjoy the scenery, which was awesome by the way. Well, we made it successfully down the river. Here's a pic of Heather and I at the shore where the raft came off. We were seriously considering going on the class 4-5 stretch on the second part of the trip down through Royal Gorge, but our responsibilities were calling. (Mom and Jen were so nice to watch the kids) That's our next adventure, hopefully Jamison will join us!

Trip to Colorado: Part 2 "Whose Idea Was This?"

Yeah...whose idea was this? One mile straight up, 2800 steps. Sounds like fun, right?





It totally was! This was an extreme workout, but we did it together. I'm so proud of Mom for making it all the way. We had a blast.





This was on the home stretch of the 4.5 mile hike down...the altitude must have gotten to my head.

Trip to Colorado: Part 1

Me and Lucas took off to Colorado Springs for the week to celebrate my mom's 50th birthday. Our flights were ok, but I was really nervous and nauseaus most of the way unfortunately. A few more bumps than I care for. Mom and Jim picked us up at the Denver airport and then we went to eat at a crazy mexican restaraunt where they have indoor shows and cliff jumping! Luke loved it. We got back to their house and Luke was ready for a bath.




The next day we went out to breakfast and went to Territory Days in Old Colorado City. It's a huge festival with arts, crafts, music, and FOOD! Here we are enjoying meat on a stick.

Lucas got some ink too!

On Monday we went to Bear Creek for a little hike. It ended up being a little longer than we anticipated...note to self, look at a trail map before starting out! It was a lot of fun though, and a good workout. Here's Luke on top of a monument on the trail.

This is Bear Creek, it looks more like a trickle though. Luke couldn't decide if he wanted to be in the picture or not, so mom just took it.

We're having a great time here so far. It's so nice to spend some time with my family! I'll post more later about the Incline we did on Tuesday in part 2.

So we didn't have anything better to do....

So we decided to destroy our bathroom!

We were walking around the HD thinking about all of the projects we need to do and decided today would be a good day to redo our guest bathroom. We've been watching months of HGTV getting ready for this house (well, I've been watching and telling Jamison all of my ideas anyway). He's so good, we picked out our tile and vanity, bathtub, fixtures etc. We got home and started demo-ing the floor tile, which quickly let to the shower and next thing you know the whole room was gutted (after some sweat and a few drops of blood from all three of us) good thing we had bandaids on hand. That tile is sharp flying off of the walls!

Here's some pics of our progress...:)

my first blog

Hi everyone,

So I finally got around to posting a blog on here! I love reading everyone else's day to day happenings, hopefully i'll be able to keep in touch with everyone since you all know i'm terrible at returning or making phone calls regularly!

I'll catch you all up breifly on what's been going on here...We moved into our new house this week and I'm so glad not to be living in two houses at once anymore. Especially since they were about 20 minutes away from each other. We've done a lot of work the past couple weeks getting this house move in ready with a lot of help from Jamison's dad, Gene. It was a foreclosure, so there was a lot of dirt and other odd things left behind by the previous owners.....shoes, mail, some unrecognizable stuff splattered on some of the walls, and a six foot concrete block barbecue out back. I used a lot of bleach! Here are some pictures of the bbq Jamison took a sledgehammer to. It probably helped relieve some of the stress he'd been having at work..btw he's going back to Best Buy next week, thank goodness. Buzz and his girlfriend Amanda were so nice to come down and help us too. We didn't get much done, but we had a lot of fun with the camera and a mullet wig....scary. Always a good time!

Here's some pictures of Luke too. He's growing an inch a day it seems...all of his pants are starting to look like shorts! He is learning to read at school and he does his math homework first every day. The writing part is a little more of a struggle, but he does really well when we finally get him to do it.

Life is good here, we're very blessed to have lots of love in our home and to have friends and family like you!