friends/work/weekend/house/jobs so many new things going on with us!!!!

Friends

So I have been re-connecting with a bunch of High School friends. It has been great! I have lived away from the Sacramento area for 7 years and coming home to all my friends has been amazing. Some of them I haven’t seen since graduation while others I have seen over Christmases and school breaks. It really is nice to have girls nights again and have people to shoot the breeze with. It’s also nice to catch up and see where everyone is at in their lives. We are all starting to feel like adults!

This weekend

This weekend we are going out to visit Bryan’s family. I am so excited. I haven’t seen his family since we moved into our house in July. Bryan’s brother Trevor is finally home! He served a two year mission in Sapporo Japan and came home last Friday. We are traveling out to Roosevelt Utah on Friday and staying until Sunday. I wish we could stay longer! We are going to their place for Christmas this year and I am excited, this will be my first Christmas with the Todds!!! Here is a picture from the last time I saw Trevor! We went to an amusement park in August 2008.

Bryans Job

So Bryan started at HP last week and he is loving it! He gets to work with people close to his age. He is going to be going inside Sales at HP and I am so proud of him! He really is enjoying work and will be in training for a while. He will get an account, meaning start real work on Nov 1^st. He is hoping for an eastern account so that he can start work at 6am and get off at 3pm! I am just so happy that both of us have jobs that we love!

My Work

So work has been going really good. I think my body is slowly adjusting to being at work 9 hours a day. I am definitely not having a hard time sleeping anymore. Have I told you how much I love Intel. Let me see, the benefits, the 401k matching, the working from home option, the free drinks, the free fruit, the casual dress, and the fun stuff I get to do at work every day. I am learning a ton. I wish I could learn quicker so I could be more of a help to my team, but there is so much to learn… In a nutshell I love it. Here is a picture of my desk....

House

The house has been amazing. We have been doing lots of things and all our projects seem to be going well. Our next major project is the landscaping. We basically have a lack of landscaping all over our property. We can’t wait to finalize plans and get started. It will take about 12 weeks to finish and I can’t wait to start enjoying our yard! One of the other things we got installed is a whole house fan, I know I blogged about it before but it is amazing. I mean it has been getting so cool at night here that we are running it every night and we haven’t turned our air conditioner on for days. I mean this morning I woke up and it was 64 degrees in the house! Bryan rolled over this morning and told me he was cold so I gave him a blanket! Can you believe that, summer and we are cold. Awesome! Here are some photos of the house, our new bed and new fans!!!

Nails

I know all of you love my nail posts, but I have to share this amazing color with all of you. It’s called OPI ink and it is amazing. It is basically blue in sunlight and purple indoors. Here are two pictures: Ps- these are not my nails, I just steal pictures from google!

indoors:

outdoors

Scrapbooking

So I have majorly fallen down on picture taking. I don’t even know where my little camera is at the moment. Moving has kind of turned things upside down. I scrapbooked Bryan and I’s first year of marriage and stopped there. I need to start up again and it makes me sad I really feel down on the job the last year and half. When you see me next ask me how my scrapbooking is going so I feel bad and pick it up again, okay? I really need to transfer the program along with all the clipart from the computer I used in Salt Lake. We had it in our office at the apartment and both Bryan and I used it. Well now that we both have our own offices at home, Bryan set it up in his office. I figure I got a computer from work and I could just use that for my office. Well I totally forgot about the scrapbook thing and now I am kind of confused at what I should do….

update

So things have been hectic! I started my job on the 30^th of June. I am going to be working on the Display side of Intel 3D graphics. So the position usually takes about 2-3 months to get trained. Well they are short handed with people being on sabbatical and vacation that they are going to be training me in 3-4 weeks. I am very excited. I always have something to do and I am really enjoying work. My training buddy and mentor are very nice. They are both very helpful. I have set up my cube with pictures and stuff. They gave me a laptop and docking station with a GIANT monitor and keyboard. I have my own phone so call me during work hours 8am-5pm on it if you want to get a hold of me.

So Bryan finally arrived Sunday evening. He and Keven made the long haul from Salt Lake to here with a Uhaul, trailer and our other car. I couldn’t wait for them to show up. I have been doing stuff with the house for weeks. We have officially had keys since July 7^th. I have gotten a lot of things done since then, but there was only so much I could do without the furniture and Bryan! So now that he is home, the official moving in has begun. Last night the Todd’s and my parents, Keven, Bryan and I unloaded the Uhaul. It went really fast with 8 people carting things in the house. We got everything in the garage and moved a few things into the house. There is tons more to do, but we at least have everything in one state now. I am so thankful for the Todds and my parents for helping us. It got done so fast, I was amazed!

So here are some photos for your viewing pleasure.

kumo napping in the empty family room

new washer and dryer

kumo helping with the trash

kitchen with plants I just put up

new chair/ottoman that is going in our bedroom for a reading area

My dear friend Nikki's Birhtday is today!

So I don't normally post anything about my friends birthdays on my blog. I usually just send them a card, text or facebook post. Some friends get a phone call. But since I really miss one friend of mine, she is going to get a blog post. This friend is Nikki. I met her while living in Salt Lake. We meet because of our dogs and I am so happy that chance exchange of information led to such a fun friendship. I have known her for almost a year, and she has turned into a very good friend of mine. She is honest and blunt when it comes to telling you how things are and she doesn't hold back her true feelings. She is funny and witty, and carefree. We share a lot of the same ideas and we can talk for hours, which we have done in the past. She listens to whatever you are saying, and always has some point of view to add to any situation. We have grown to be good friends and I miss her dearly. She was always up for a girls night of dinner and a movie with the dogs, or just simply taking the dogs for a walk around tanner or hiking in the canyon. I just wish that she and her husband John and thier dogs would just move here! Or like she mentioned if I could only just clone her the world would be perfect. I hope she is having a wonderful birthday today, and I wish I was there to tell her in person and give her a big hug! I really do miss her.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIKKI

Some FUN news!

So a few blog posts back I mentioned that Bryan came out for an interview with HP. Well he came out on very short notice. He called me at noonish on a Wednesday and told me to book him a flight out that very night. I booked it and he left work and hoped on a plane here. He interviewed with HP on Thursday June 3rd. It has been three weeks, and Bryan and I were getting worried. Well on Friday I got a call from Bryan telling me he got the job! I was so excited! He will be starting Aug 2nd. He loved the people at HP and feels that he will really fit in and actually have fun at work! I am so proud of him!

Another bit of news that happened this week was about a house. When Bryan came out for his interview on June 3rd, we decided to start putting in an offer on a home. It has also been three weeks of back and forth negotiating on the price. Well we finally settled on a purchase price on Thursday! Bryan and I were so happy the process was over and were thrilled we got it for a good price. We were still apprehensive since Bryan hadn't been extended an offer, but figured we would have 17 days from Thursday to get him one. Well to our surprise he got one the very next day!!!!!!! The 17 days is the closing period when we need to get all the home/roof/landscape/pest inspections done. So if all goes well we will have the keys on July 7th!

So after all this excitement and three weeks of our lives being up in the air, things have seemed to settle down. Now for all the planning and preparing for the move/move-in. Now I start work on Monday, and so all these inspections are going to fall during this first week which means I am going to have one full week! Wish me luck at the job, I am so nervous!!

4 words....

MY DAD LOVES KUMO

Some new photos

So I mentioned adding more pictures from graduation, so here they are:

I also kind of re-decorated my room at my parents house and put up some pictures from the wedding:

And of course I couldn't post pictures without adding one of kumo. Here he is baking himself on the deck in the 80 degree heat. He is so strange.

A little update

So life at home has been wonderful. I have been here for about four weeks and have been keeping busy! The first three weeks was scattered with interviews at Intel. I ended up having more than I expected. The interview process is a little intense with at least four hours of interviews and a couple hours of overviews/lunch. But it is all over! I got offered a job as a Component Design Engineer!
I start on June 21! Apart from the interviews I have been furiously house hunting. Yup, that is right, Bryan and I are house hunting. Now you may be wondering what is going on with Bryan?He came here last weekend to house hunt and visit. He is currently interviewing with HP and ended up coming out this weekend for an interview. Yup, two weekends in a row! So thats it for now, I am sure I will have much more news soon!!!

Graduation and other recent stuff!

So I graduated! I have already gotten my grades for the semester and I passed so that means I should be getting my diploma in the mail soon! Things have been hectic to say the least recently. I had finals last week, along with graduation and various emails and phone calls from Intel. I then moved home to Granite Bay on Saturday, and now I am preparing for a week full of interviews. Everything is changing so fast. Just two weeks ago I wasn't thinking I had any interest from Intel and I didn't know what I was going to do. Well know I've got a bunch of interviews and I have moved. Moving wasn't that bad besides the fact that I didn't have much time to pack. The drive was nice and my Mom and I just chatted away the 10 hour drive and laughed at kumo being a dummy. It has finally hit me that I have moved.... I know that sounds odd, but I didn't really have a chance to say goodbye since it all happened so fast. I got to say goodbye to my really good friend Nikki though, and I am going to miss her tons! I really do hope we stay in touch and visit each other as often as we can! So Bryan is still in Salt Lake working at the Law Firm. He is going to stay at our apartment until he gets a job here. I am hoping he gets offered one here soon because it is lonely without him. Last night I think I rolled over to cuddle him and just got a bunch of pillows :( Anyhow I wish I had more pictures of graduation because we took a ton, but I was sick and didn't take any. So I have to get the pictures from Dad, Bruce and Carla.....so yeah thats the update! Hope everyone is enjoying the nice Spring weather!

Kumo's new tags

So I ordered some tags a week or so ago for Kumo. He has a harness and a chain that he wears when we are out and so I got him a tag for each. They are engraved on the back with his information. They are just so cute I had to post a picture of them. They are called Red Dingo tags and you can get them on amazon!

more polish!

Alright so these are the last photos I am going to post about nail polish. I have told myself I can no longer look. So as of the finish of this post I am no longer going to sit here looking at polishes, or at least I am really going to try not to.....

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