I'm Back!

I haven't blogged in months sorry my faithful readers, if there are any out there! So i live in Moscow now, maybe i should just start a new blog. No, that's too much work, spending hours trying to come up with the perfect title and then hours more picking the perfect background (I don't like the one i have now very much...i'll have to fix that) So i guess that means i'll just update this one so you all know where i live and what i am doing.

As you know I'm no longer a nanny, and while i miss Micah more than words can express i'm very thankful that that chapter in my life is over. I will always look back on that time with fond memories and can't wait to make new memories here in Moscow. I love, love, love living in a place where there are people my age to hang out with! It's so great to get home from work and run upstairs and play games with the guys, or call up a bunch of the other kids and go to the rec and play hockey, or wallyball! I love being a young person with time to do things i want to do again!

My new job is amazing i'm a hygienist assistant and look forward to going to work everyday! I look forward to coming home after each day too. Pretty much i'm just looking forward to whatever comes my way right now!

So to start off the "new" blog and the new year i'll post a few of the New Year Resolutions that i fail at every year, except this year i don't want to fail!

*Put God first each and everyday

*Live a health concious lifestyle

*Get over my crazy fear of talking on the telephone

*Open up more to new ideas, meeting new people, and trying new things

*Stop running from things that might be good for me because i'm afraid that the outcome won't be picture perfect.

Well i think that's probably a nice list to start with we'll see how many of them i manage to keep by the end of the year! I have already got started on one of them i went shopping and got only healthy food, and then went and threw out anything that wasn't!

picts from trip to Montana

Changes

So i decided to follow the fad of updating blogs that i've noticed was happening today. Let's see the biggest change in my life right now is i no longer have a job. It's still a little hard for me to think about, but i think it's probably for the best. I've been feeling for a while that it was getting close to being time for me to move on, so now i can. Just thinking about never seeing Micah again makes me want to cry so i've decided the best thing for me to do is just treasure the few days i have left with him.

Moving options:

Oregon- Everyone know just how much i love Oregon. My family is there, my best friends are there, it's home.

Idaho- Place to live, cousins, great freinds, lots of young kids and game nights.

California- Grandparents, place to live, place to work.

Montana- the most beautiful state i have ever seen. Cousins, friends, fun.

Something totally random and new- meet new people, experience new things

On a super fun and positive note I just got back from a trip to Montana! It was amazingly fun, i love the quiet simpleness of that state. I love that we had so much fun without spending hardly any money. I love that everyone is so polite to everyone. I loved that i could walk outside and feel peace. I love that i could look at the sky and it went on and on and on. Pretty much it was amazing. The post before this has pictures!

memories!

I was looking at old pictures and scrapbooks and found some pictures that i just loved and when i looked at them all i could remember was fun time after fun time so i though i'd share a few of them.

This is a happy summer last year picture. My family and friends came to visit, and it was just one fun time after another. This picture was supposed to be just me and Kirstyn, but just as mom snapped the picture everyone else popped out from behind the tree!
Me and my bestest Trixie...what more need i say
Halloween last year....SO much fun Where's Wilma, Raggedy Ann and Jessie
When i first knew i would love working with Micah i woke up to him playing the guitar and singing. He is so cute sometimes!
The girls...so lovely...New Meadows trip, skiing, games, laughter
Shooting! One of my favorite things to do...this picture was with kyle and tyler and i won the competition we had. It also reminds me of the time i went with the Fileners and while they were shooting i played BINGO over the phone!
Barbie, Mary Poppins, and Joe Boxer...visiting Montana, coffee, books, Buffy, sitting outside all day = happiness
Me, Kyla, Melody our not often seen serious side...but still such fun times
Rook(kyla and allyson version), the rafting trip, being pushed into the water, sleeping outside, bible studies, fun.
The Ramsdal Cabin trip!!!!!!!!! What more can i say but pure good happy fun times!
Me and T-Rex...my favorite San Luis girl, never a serious moment
This is how i will always remember Grams...surrounded by Bingo gifts ready to play with her grandkids who will never be too old!
The perfect shot of me and kristin working at the DQ never a serious moment with her, always laughter and fun, friends since kindergarten when we lived in North Carolina, the Dairy Queen pair that were finally banned from working together unless 100% necessary!
Kyla...me so much fun!
Roomies...convention stew, beach trips, musical stairs, 3 second crashes, parking spots, laughter

Meeting up unplanned in the middle of Nevada at the one and only food place for miles kirstyn moving to Montana kyla and i on our way home from Parma
Lobster sock parties....blew it....sparkling cider and reeses!
The perfect shot of Melody, Kyla, and I. Laughter all the time...and of course Marshmellow, melodious, mellow melody!