My friend left a comment last night on my blog saying I actually had to keep up with this blog. What? The truth is, I moved home from Iowa 40 days after I moved there, and didn’t really have any desire to explain it to everyone, and didn’t think my blogging lies would go over well if I just pretended to live there rather than here 
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It is a long story, which I still don’t have any yearning desire to tell, but basically I still feel like we were supposed to move there, we learned a lot, and then I felt like we were supposed to come home. So thousands of dollars later, and some major amounts of confusion, but having learned a lot of lessons along the way, here I am.
We are living in Orem. Dustin is finishing his degree at UVU in leadership/business. He is loving it, and it makes me want to go get a masters so bad. I love school! He also works at Allen Communications in downtown Salt Lake, but I am looking for a new job for him that fits better into his desires: which are in the training field. So, if anyone has any tips, let us know!
I am at home with Jeffrey and Alexia and am enjoying their ages. Lexi is 2 this week and Jeffrey is 5. Jeffrey’s best friend lives next door and as of late, he is my best friend too, since he entertains Jeffrey every single day, which makes Jeffrey’s life infinitely better and mine too. Jeffrey is also in preschool and loving it. In classic mom style I think Jeffrey is the smartest boy in the world!
This is a recent picture of Jeffrey taken at Thanksgiving Point Gardens
Alexia is at one of the best stages ever, in my opinion (minus the terrible two tantrums that happen). She is talking!!! Hallelujah chorus can now sound! It seems like one day she was saying one word and then the next she was saying anything and everything and stringing words together. She tells me whatever she wants and I love it! I never could quite figure out what octave of crying meant what when my babies wanted things, thanks anyway Oprah and the baby crier woman on her show! She is also at this darling stage where she looks like a little girl, rather than a baby, and all I do all day long is kiss her on the cheek, even though it makes her mad a lot of times!
This is a recent picture taken of Alexia at the Thanksgiving Point Gardens
Beyond adoring my kids, I do the normal “mom” and “wife” things. I am also in Young Womens and love that. I also started working one night a week teaching a class for UVU. I teach an anger management class for youth. I am loving that as well, and I haven’t been shot yet by one of the angry youth. Actually, the youth I have in my class seem like great people and I pray for them and that they can learn things that can help change their lives and the hard situations they find themselves in. It also makes me grateful for my life and my problems.
Okay, so the reason I don’t like blogging is this: my life isn’t that interesting to write about. I have limited time as it is, and I would far rather do other things in my life than update the world on my kids and my housework, which is what I spend 99% of my life doing. I decided to blog when I went to Iowa so I could stay in touch, and because I was hoping life would get more interesting.
However, I do LOVE to write. I spend a lot of my time writing in my journal and writing about lessons for life. I love teach and I love to study. So I figured I am going to blog some of the lessons I learn in life. I actually have a blog where I organize and keep all these things, but I write stuff I don’t want the whole world of blogging to read, so I thought I would create another with things I don’t care if people read.
So, if you’re not interested in things beyond my life and my daily non interesting events, sorry. But I might just enter into the world of blogging again in a different way. I would also appreciate if you read something and think, “Oh wow, I have a story or an experience that goes along with that,” if you would write me or post it. I am teaching this class once a week, teach at church, and am preparing curriculum for other endeavors as well and I believe people have the very best banks of material to teach from just from their experience in their lives (even boring lives, like my own ) So any ideas, activities, lessons, or experiences you have had or heard, I would love hear them! Thanks, and I love you all and appreciate your concern, love, and interest in my boring life !
See, I'm alive too, and I have short hair
