Wow I should post more often

I should really post more often. I am sure Sara Kay is annoyed with my erratic posting habits and I promise I don't do it on purpose Sara. Not a whole lot has happened but enough that I should have been posting.

I have been selected as Mrs. Evanston and in May I will be competing in the Mrs. Wyoming pageant. I am very excited about this. If any one wants to come see me it will be in Cheyenne. Let me know if you want tickets and I can get them cheaper in advance.

I just finished my first semester of my doctorate program and am moving on to semester two. Which speaking of that is what I should be doing right now, homework. But instead I am procrastinating and blogging. I will be done with school in September hopefully and I am very much looking forward to it.

Jeremy and I have both been working hard as usual. There have been changes in the security department and now Jeremy works as a CNA a few times a week and as security a few times a week. He's not totally impressed with it but he is toughing it out and making the best of it. I am still just plugging along at my job, no big changes.

Well I really need to do my homework and I can't think of anything else to write so hopefully I will be able to log on and write soon, I will try not to forget.

January

It has been forever since I have posted and I appologize. Not much has changed around here. We are both still working at the state hospital. We had a really great Christmas. Jeremy got a GPS which he has had lots of fun with. He got me an electorinc piano which is absolutely wonderful because I have always wanted to learn to play the piano and I am now teaching myself. We also got lots of nice presents from my parents and a wonderful framed picture from Jeremy's parents.
Other then Christmas not much has heppened here. We are doing well and hope all our friends and family are doing good as well.

August

I really need to post more often. However, I feel like we don't have anything fun and interesting to post. We have not gotten anymore work done on the house although I am hoping to get the kitchen finished by the end of this month.
Our yard has fallen victim to the hot summer days and doesn't look real great any more. I am hoping next year is the year for our yard.
I am going to make this post short and sweet so that SaraKay can't say that I don't post but so that I don't bore anyone with the mundane details of our lives.

Good news from the Hill house

July ended up being a really good month for us. We got the cement gutter removed from the middle of our yard. I just have to brag about my husband on this one because he was a trooper. He and Justin took sledge hammers and crow bars and removed that whole gutter that way. I just helped load it and I was tired. Jeremy is an amazingly strong and dedicated hard worker. I love him so much.

In other July news Jeremy finally got a shift change. He still has Tuesday and Wednesday off but he now works the 7-1530 shift which is great because we can be home together at night. So far we have taken advantage of the situation by cooking several suppers together, going to the rec center for workouts and just spending time together. It has been great. Jeremy is still a security officer but he is also now a trainer at work and is currently doing training classess on seclution and restraint. He has really taken this seriously and has been doing lots of research and learning on the topic. I am so proud of his dedication.

Well that is pretty much the best update I have. We are still working on the kitchen although it is almost done. Our yard has really gotten put on the back burner this summer but I'm hoping as fall comes we can get that looking better and get some new grass growing where the gutter used to be.

Big Hole!

So yesterday I was home alone after Jeremy headed of to work. I heard this noise that sounded kind of like something falling off of a shelf. Knowing how naughty my beagle can be and knowing that he had recently been in the bedroom I figured that he had dislodged something and it had picked this moment to come crashing down. So I went in the bedroom but found nothing out of place. Then there came the big crash and honestly I was a little on the freaking out side. Because now that I was back in the back of the house I could tell it was coming from the spare bedroom and I had no idea why there would be anything crashing in there. As I'm sure my friends can imagine the worst was going through my head. I was thinking of this scary theif coming in the window and being ready to hurt me. So I opened the door and found not a scary man but a hole in our ceiling. Which was almost as bad. So apparently we had a leak in our roof which made our sheet rock and insulation wet and it caved in. Were it not for the tar paper under our shingles we could see day light because the roof boards are seperating. In the next few days the insurance adjuster will come and then deside what needs to be done. For now I'm keeping the door shut and trying not to stress out about it. Jeremy came home from work when I found the hole and helped me to make sure it wasn't likely to spread any farther. Hopefully no more rain for a while so that we can keep our insulation dry and our hole the same size.

There really isn't anything else major going on in our lives right now. I went to my sisters open house on Saturday and it was nice. Her husbands immediate family all came and my family was all there. My mom did a really nice job on getting every thing pulled together! It was beautiful. I also picked up the beef we bought from Dev and Becky and we are so happy to have it. We are going to have rib eye steaks for supper tomorrow night. I can't wait.

Ok, now that I have bored everyone with the mundane details I'm going to bed because I'm an old lady and I get tired early and I had a long day at work.

Happy Summer Solstice Everyone!!!!

May....what a month!

So I have totally slacked off over this month, at least on blogging. First of all we painted the second half of our kitchen and will be putting up all the trim hopefully this week some time. For those of you who I haven't bombarded with information about my kitchen that I am so excited about we painted the dining room half blue. Now a few weeks ago we painted the kitchen side a nice buttercup yellow. All the trim is white and it looks so good. I can't wait for it all to be done. I am hoping to sand and paint the cupboards within the next few weeks and then everything will be done in that room and I can move on to the next room.

We have also been working hard in our yard. The road ran through the yard at one time so we have been pampering some grass seed so that we can have more then weeds in our front yard. We have little tufts of grass coming up now and we are very hopeful that they will grow up to be a strong healthy yard of grass. Because of the road issue we also have a gutter running through our yard. Jeremy did lots of hard work on removing it on Saturday but we still have so much to do. But it wasn't just Jeremy, I was also weilding the sledge hammer and busting up my fair share of concrete.

And more concrete removal has been taking place in our front yard. Our sidewalk is really busted up so I have decided to remove it and replace it with stepping stones and stepables. I have a plan in my mind as to what its all going to look like and its going to be great. Besides that it gives me a project to work on that motivates me and keeps me outside. Which is a good thing because most recently the doctor told me it would be good for me to get lots of sun as long as I wear sun screen. And it feels good to have a project that I am excited about. I also have the garden started. I will be planting the corn on Wednesday and then everything will be in and hopefully headed toward a very plentiful harvest.

OK, so I'm sure I have missed lots of information but I just can't think of anything else that is worth your reading. And hopefully this month I will remember to write more then once at the end of the month.

Trip to Zion

Well, for once something is actually going on here. Jeremy and I just got back from vacation this past week. We went camping down at Zion national Park. It was amazing down there. It is absolutely beautiful, the weather was all warm and sunny, and the hiking and camping were completely awsome! We started out the trip by riding up the canyon on the shuttle bus and seeing the basic sights. On our first full day there we hiked up to a ridge called Angels Landing. It was absolutely beautiful. Part of the hike includes 22 switchbacks called Walters Wiggles. Its not the best picture but each of those brick walls is the base of one of the switchbacks. Once you get up toward the top you are on a fairly narrow ridge holding on to a safety chain. You can pretty much see the whole park and it is absolutely beautiful. That was the only hike we did that day as it took a long time and was awfully hot coming back down the mountain. The next day we were able to hike to the mouth of the narrows and then we hiked to the weeping rock. There are also the emerald pools which is a three loop hike. We only hiked to the first pool because it was getting late but it was absolutely beautiful. I don't know why but all the pictures I put up decided to go to the top of the blog. I was going to add more pictures but I don't want them all bunching up up there so I will try to figure out how to add them in another post.

Other then vacation not much has changed here. Jeremy and I are both still working hard. I am getting ready to go on a trip to drop a client off at a new placement. It should be a good time as I get to go with my friend Marie. Then we will do some PR at nursing homes along the way. Jeremy will be here holding the fort down with the dogs. I'm sure they will take good care of him.

Well, now that I've shared all the excitement in our lives I guess I will go pack for my trip!