Catching up

OK so to echo my last post I don't post often enough. The problem this time is that I have had a ton to post about and I just have never gotten around to it. I think my procrastination is a disability.

At the end of May I competed in the Mrs. Wyoming Pageant. This is the photo that I used for my program picture. Jeremy took it for me and I have to say he has a pretty good eye for photography.

The pageant was awesome. I didn't make the top 10 but one of the girls that I became friends with did make it. I was really excited for her. I had a great time doing the pageant. I met a lot of great girls there and had so much fun. We got to do some "dancing" and learning the walking and the "snaking" and the waving and the posing was awesome. The other photos are me in my interview suit and a bunch of us with the reigning Queen Joanna.

On our way home from Cheyenne we went the long way through Casper intending to see Jeremy's sister Michelle. But after we got to Casper we found out that she was out of town. So we walked around the mall for a while, bought some new curtains, got a hotel room and did some swimming in the pool. Then the next day we went to Independence Rock and Martins Cove. I was a wimp and didn't climb to the top of Independence Rock but we got part way up before I chickened out. I just didn't think I could make it. At Martins Cove we walked up to the Cove and neither of us are sure where they camped 500 people. But it was kind of a cool experience even if we did get sunburned.

So after that we had a pretty quiet month of June. Jeremy went camping with Brian on what was supposed to be a 3 day trip but they got rained out on the second day. Jeremy is proud of himself though, and he should be, because he boiled some water Les Stroud style. For anyone who doesn't know Les Stroud is a survival expert that has a TV show, I think its called Survivor Man. Anyway regardless of what the show is called Les showed his viewers on one episode how to boil water in a plastic water bottle like you by from the store. So Jeremy rigged up his water bottle over the fire and within just a little while he had water hot enough to make coffee.

Over the July 4th weekend my parents and brother and sister came to Evanston to help us put up a fence. The bad news here is that we didn't get the whole fence put up that weekend. We are still working on it but we are pretty close to being done. The front yard has a chain link fence and the back is a wood privacy fence. We are looking forward to having our whole yard fenced and then we can start working on making it a yard and not a weeks patch.

And finally we are going to Jamaica in September for our anniversary. We are very excited. We have less then 8 weeks left. We can't wait to sit on the beach and just do nothing for a few days.

Ok, I think I have caught up, and I will try to keep caught up but no promises.

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.