Thursday, July 11, 2013

So I so need to get caught up with this.  It's been nearly 4 1/2 months.  I know, I'm slacking.  Well, I took the job as a web chat person for Dealertrack.  I was guaranteed 30 hours a week at 7.25 an hour.  I started on the 5 of March.  That was my 1 day of training and then it was jump right in with both feet kind of thing.  The job has been going pretty good.  Then the Friday after Mother's day, Kelly, my manager, calls me middle of my shift and asks if I'd be willing to start at six instead of seven.  So for nearly two months I've been working 6am-1pm.  A guarantee of 35 hours a week.  It's been a huge blessing.   Another huge blessing is that Mike got a job as well and started the day before I did.  He started on the 4th of March. He works for someone in the ward doing fountain work.  He's making 16 dollars an hour.  Taxes are taken out but no benefits.  He's been enjoy the work.
It's been a huge blessing.  We have only 1 credit card left to get caught up and it will be caught up with this next payment.  We have 1 credit card paid off and it's closed.  We are working on 1-2 more.  We are hoping we get the rest of our tax return.  We should know by the end of this month if we get it or not.  It was a stupid mistake on my end.  I put one wrong number on Sarah's Social.  Ugghh.  I'm hoping we get it cause then we will have 1 and a half more credit cards paid off.
We are looking for a home to buy.  We found a few that we've liked but most have not been available.  And the ones we have looked at 2 needed some major work.  Hopefully we can find one soon.

The other day, I took the kids to the "Sand Park". This is the only park that still has sand and not the wood chips.  Anyways at one point, Ben said he wanted to go walk in the Forest.  So we went in one entrance and I figured maybe 20 min and we'd come out this other one maybe 50 yards north of the one we went in.  Boy I was wrong.  There were so many trails.  We went down one and came out one place and it was like I didn't recognize where we were at.  So we turned around, went back to a different trail but came out roughly where we did before.  We went back again and found a different trail to follow.  As we started following this new trail, Ben in his sweet 4 year old voice said "Maybe we should say a prayer to Heavenly Father to help us get out."  So we said a prayer.  About a min later I see to larger dogs coming down the trail.  At first I couldn't see any owner.  Just the two dogs.  I told the kids to stop not knowing what the dogs were going to do.  Then I see the owner who assured that the dogs were friendly.  The kids got pet the dogs for a second and we both went our ways.  About 1 min after that we came out the "exit" I was originally planning coming out.  It was then that I turned to Ben and told him we needed to say another prayer to say thank you.  It was a great teaching moment not only for him but for me as well.  Anyways, there's our update for now.

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