A long week!

This has been one of those weeks that have seemed to be endless. My life would not be normal without some type of car problem in it. Our toyota that Josh drives to work needs atleast (we are hoping) two new tires, and here is the weird thing it is the tires on the passenger side of the car that need to be replaced. Odd right, don't worry I told Josh to stop making right hand turns to solve that problem ;). I am no mechanic but judging by all the car problems I have experienced in my almost ten years of driving, I think we need an allignment as well. When the weather was bad Josh would drive our Saturn to work. Well he calls me to let me know the tire went flat on that car too. I am starting to see a pattern here it has to do with Josh and driving our cars. I have been thinking to myself maybe I should work part time for Discount tires? With Josh taking the car that has three good tires that would leave me with the other. So Kaydence and I spent a lot of time at home this week, I have never seen my house cleaner. I should take pictures cause I know many of you (Erin) would not believe it. Towards the middle of the week we got some sad news. My cousins son was hit by a car and killed in California. I am not really close with my cousin being as we all grew up in different states, but my heart goes out to him and his family. I realize how much more, now being a mother, stories like these effect me. I feel like I need to have Kaydence strapped to me everytime we leave the house. I am truly grateful for the wonderful friends and family that I have, it really opens your eyes. So now to the end of the week, usually everyones favorite right. Well I have dealing with the ups and downs of my job for the past four months. I only work two days a week, but everyday that I am there I hear something different. We are getting hit with the big budget cut and now they want us to cut 25% of our hours which could equally 6 to 8 layoffs out of 26 staff. It is something that is constantly in the back of my mind. I really won't know anything till they get through legislature. Now we just have to sit back to wait and see what happens. At the end of a long week I sit back and realize all that I do have in my life and I try to learn and grow from all the negative.

Holiday Update!

I decide since I had some extra time today that I would update on how the holidays went for us. November started out to be a rough month for us, Josh ended up having to have an oral surgeon remove his tooth right at the end of October. Two weeks later he needed to have nose surgery because he broke his nose on Thanksgiving 2007, no more turkey bowl! So here come the medical bills all before Christmas! Glad to have all the surgeries over and Josh feeling better we were looking forward to my sister Erin and niece Maddie coming home for Thanksgiving and Maddie's birthday. Kaydence was so excited to see Maddie that she didn't want to let go of her to ride in our car home. We were able to do quite a few fun things with the girls the first one was going up to Heber and riding the Polar Express! They were both very curious of everything on the train and they loved santa. Kaydence was so excited to hold "Sprinkles" hand, that was the elf on our car.

Maddie's Birthday was after Thanksgiving so we decided to try and brave Chuck E. Cheese. We thought if we went earlier in the day it would not be too bad, boy were we wrong. There were a ton o people there but the girls really enjoyed it. I think Maddie wanted to play with Chuck E on stage more than open her presents. We also went down to the Discovery Gateway to let the girls play. Maddie loved the water exhibit and Kaydence seemed to like anything she could get her hands on both of them had a good time. Erin and Maddie had to go home the first week of December, this took Kaydence a little while to get use to after have two weeks of Maddie being home. Everytime I mentioned going to Grandma and Grandpa Groves house she would ask if Maddie was going to be there. They had a lot of fun but we were sad to see them leave. Christmas was a little more exciting this year with Kaydence because she was old enough to understand more and get more involved. We decided to make reindeer food so after we opened our pajamas Josh took her outside to sprinkle the food in the snow. The food had glitter in it so it would sparkle and the reindeer would know when to stop. She loved this, Josh ended up being the first one up Christmas morning he had to wake up Kaydence. The first thing she did was run to our window to see if she could see if the reindeer's had ate the food she left them outside. Josh and Kaydence had most of their present opened before I started on mine, I think they were both excited for Kaydence's blocks, they love to build together. After a full day of visiting family and opening presents Kaydence was tired out. She recieved a tent from Grandma and Grandpa Hoellein that she loved. She insisted that daddy put it up in her room and of course she could not sleep in there alone. Josh is such a good daddy, he climbed inside with her and read her stories till she feel asleep. Our holidays were great this year and we enjoyed the time we were able to spend with both sides of our family.

All the salt!

Well I knew I would be horrible at keeping up on our blog. I do think about adding to it a lot but just don't ever really find the time. So as we are driving back from Wendover and I got a little sick of staring at all the salt to the sides of the highway I decided what better time then to blog. We went out this weekend for Josh's company's big sales kick off and awards ceremony. I think it was just more of a reason to get the whole sales force together and see who could really out drink each other. Friday night was a food show and I found myself having to dress business casual. I was not excited about squeezing my self into dress pants that I swear just fit me a few months ago. As we attend the food show very nicely dressed I notice a large percent of those attending must have missed the memo and wore jeans, dang I could have bypassed the squeezing and just wore my preferred outfit of sweat pants. I felt very out of place and lost at the event to say the least. Josh let me sit and relax at a table and kept bringing me food, the last thing I needed after all the squeezing. I did get to meet several of Josh's co-workers, my favorite was a funny Asian lady Josh has done a lot of work with, she was very entertaining and we were starting to take bets on who would have a hangover in the morning.

On Saturday Josh had meetings all day so that left me with few options of keeping myself entertained. Wendover offers quite a variety between drinking, eating and gambling. I only really know how to do one of those three, so I decided it would be a day to catch up on sleep since Kaydence was spending the weekend with Grandma and Grandpa Groves. Saturday night was the awards ceremony and of course to kick it all off the started the evening out with Cocktail hour what a surprise. A little akward for us we managed to find three other guys that were not participating in all the cocktails to socialize with. The dinner was very good and probably the best part of the night. The most I understood out of the ceremony was those who sold millions upon millions of dollars got awards.... the end. The whole reason of the weekend was to come and support Josh in his company, so I was glad to be here for him and for the extra rest I received, but I don't care to visit Wendover again anytime soon!