Care Packages by Janet

Me and my friend Ansley are putting together little packages to send to people who need some extra love. We would really like it if anyone new some people that need some extra love please post or talk to me. We would also appreciate any suggestions you have to what we could put in them.

September and a bit of October too.

In Sept. we had several birthdays at our house.

Mikey turned 7
CarieKay turned 14
Danny turned 5

they all enjoyed their day.

School seems to be going well for everyone, there is a lot of homework and I am proud of my kids for working so hard on it.

after going seriously over on our cell minutes for two months in a row, we decided to get a home phone.

801-691-0813

I have applied for a new position at work, it took them a month to get around to interviewing, which I finally did on weds. hopefully we will find out soon who got the position. (I'm hoping to find out when I go to work tomorrow (saturday))

Thomas is still looking for a job, he has applied for quite a few, but keeps not getting interviews and then getting an email telling him that they have chosen someone else.

Danny is enjoying being with his dad.

August

the kids are all in school. Jim and Echo are both in concurrent classes at Provo High. Jims is Auto, and Echo is doing both a govt, and a math. Carrie is finding that she is enjoying the honors classes they put her in in math. Katie and Janet are also doing well in school. Mikey likes the playground. the younger kids really enjoy walking back and forth to school.

I have been working quite a lot (2 days off in the last 14 days)( I do have tomorrow off so maybe thats 3 days off in 15 days). i was working every other day in deli and then bakery, but the schedule for the next 2 weeks has me in bakery. One day I was in the bakery and the cake decorator was complaining to the dept manager that there were too many orders and she wouldnt get them done, the dept manager turned to me and asked, did you say that you decorated cakes before? I got to spend the rest of my shift decorating cakes, and have a couple of times since.

Thomas is working on the paperwork to get licensed in Utah, and is getting to know Carries three boys as he babysits for her while she works and goes to school.

A job

I got a phone call today from walmart. they asked me to come in and add deli to my preferences. I did, and then they were able to input me into their local walmart system, I now have a job. I start at 6 oclock tomorrow.

Wow,!!! EARLY MORNING!!

in Utah

We are in Utah!

We took a day to load the moving truck and then a day to clean the house so we were behind schedule. but we got out of town ok, thanks in part to our wonderful branch missionaries who came and helped clean and took a huge load to the thrift store.

We were in Laramie Wyo. when the transmission (that was new in feb) went out on us, our dear friend mater drove in and picked up the kids and the trailer the suburban was pulling and took it all to Utah. We took a bit longer getting to provo than we had planned.

We pulled into provo about 10pm unloaded a few things and we were early to 9am church on sunday.

had sunday dinner with Thomas' parents, then disbursed the kids to von and carries homes where they stayed while Thomas and I (and echo) drove to escalante for a job interview bright and early monday morning (8:30). then we drove home to provo. Jim and Von had the truck 1/2 unloaded before von had to go to work, Toms brothers and their boys came and helped finish the unloading.

we decided we were on vacation for the week and did as little unpacking of boxes as we could till we found out if we were staying or moving to escalante. enjoyed the week of visiting with family and just relaxing. I bought and read the book "driven" about Larry H. Miller it was a very inspiring book.

On saturday morning we got an email from the escalante job saying thankyou but they gave it to someone already with the company. Our vacation is now over and we are unpacking as fast as we can. but where to put it all????

our suburban is slowly being worked on. it is under warranty but it is still out of state. we are having regular phone calls with our car place in SD.

Tom is looking for a job, I am on a Leave of Absence till the 16 of Aug. from walmart but so far no walmarts in Ut. valley are hiring, does this mean that I get to be a stay at home Mom, (while babysitting for my sister) or do I need to look for another job, maybe even using my degree?

moving day

Im taking a moment before we disconnect the internet, to blog.

Friday was Tom's, Lillie's and Jims's final day at work. Sunday was our last sunday in South Dakota. Today we are loading the moving truck and we plan on leaving Tomorrow morning before bright and early.

When we took the suburban in to get the Air conditioning worked on, we were told that the part it needs is in Salt Lake city and they could get it here in 4 or 5 days. We told them that in 4 or 5 days we would be in Salt Lake City and we would take care of it then.

the house is mostly packed, but I'm to the point where I cant really see what still needs done, because I have so many boxes in the way.

we are looking forward to seeing all of our Utah family and friends soon, and will miss all the rest of you. I have told the kids more than once we have new friends in Utah, just waiting to meet us.

Love you all!

Moving

Well, we have done much praying and pondering and discussing, and more praying, in the end we have decided to move.

I have given work July 16 as my final day, I plan on transfering to another walmart, not quitting. We are going to head back to UTAH! The kids for the most part are very excited, (Jim doesn't know yet, he is at scout camp this week) there are a few drawbacks, like drivers licenses for my under 16 drivers, going back to the three hour block for church, but we feel that this is the direction that Heavenly Father wants us to go.

Thomas is still looking for a job, so please continue your prayers on that. Also I am asking for nice moving weather with a nice tail wind to help blow us home.

We have reserved a truck for the 21 of July, and plan on being back in Provo, by the 24. we are going to take a short detour to MT. Rushmore on the way home as we have lived in South Dakota for 2 1/2 yrs and haven't seen it yet.

We only have 2 1/2 weeks so I have a lot to do to get us ready to go, an advantage to working at Walmart is that I can bring home boxes every day that I work. pack them then bring home more the next day, and pretty soon my whole house will be packed.

We will see how it goes.