August 2008

I'm starting my new job this week! Small towns are awesome. We moved to Snowflake on a weekend, and on Tuesday I got a call from someone who needed a nanny. It is a girl that I went to school with, and she is now a teacher and needing someone to watch her 8-month-old baby girl. Her mom will watch the baby 2 days a week so I will only be watching her 3 days a week, and I will have the awesome school schedule. I will always be off on evenings, weekends, and school holidays. At my last 2 jobs I had to work MORE on holidays. So it will be nice. And just one baby this time, instead of 2-3 rambunctious older kids. I'm excited.

Jason's new job is going really well. He gets to travel all over the White Mountains, and sometimes a little farther, like a couple weeks ago when he had to go to Gallup and Halle & I rode with him. Gallup was pretty scary, but it was fun going to see Greer afterwards. It is really pretty there. Jason doesn't have to do any hard labor like he did at his old job. And the people he works with are laid back and easy to get along with.

We are still living with my parents until we get our house in Gilbert finished. Then we are hoping to rent it out. With the market being so horrible right now, we figure we will just hang on to it until things get better.

We were able to go to Mesa on the 2nd & 3rd for the blessing of Brenton & Adree's baby, Bryson Brenton Lanar Jensen. He is adorable! It was so good to see them and be able to share the special occasion with them.

Last week we just got the news that my sister Hillary and her husband Tyler, are moving to Las Vegas! He is graduating Golf Pro school on the 16th and already has a job in Las Vegas starting on the 25th. We are really happy for them, but also sad that we won't get to see them as much. At least Las Vegas isn't near as far as some other people we know that live in PROVO! :) I am also a little jealous that they will get to go to my favorite Temple whenever they want. I guess I will have to go visit a lot.

Halle is still adjusting to being up here and sometimes wonders why we aren't going "home". But she is having fun with all the animals and the 8 acres to run around on so I think she'll be ok. She is making new friends, too. Last weekend we had dinner with our friends Greg & Susana and their 2 daughters, Veronica, who is almost 8, and Vanessa, who is almost 5. I worked with Greg at the Pawn Shop in Show Low before I got married (6 years ago!) and got to be friends with their family. Their girls are a little older than Halle but they didn't seem to mind and neither did she.

We hope everyone else is doing great too! Don't forget to keep in touch!


P.S. More pictures will be posted at the end of the month.