Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Might As Well

So I'm at work bored out of my mind waiting for the last patient to come out of surgery which won't be for another hour and I figure, why not update the ol' blog? I don't have pictures but I'm already slacking on my goal to document our lives better. I'll start at Christmas... We went home to AZ and loved every minute of it. It was so fun to see family and friends and even harder to come back to Utah. Brock turned 28 on Jan 6... such an old man! Not really but I can't believe how time is flying. I'm having a hard time remembering what we did for his birthday. I know we tried to see Mission Impossible 3 (he succeeded, I had to leave with the baby half way) then went to eat at Tucano's. We didn't really do anything else because it's hard to do things with a baby (hence me missing MI3). Brock is still not loving his job. I know this is hard for people to understand but the job isn't what Brock thought it would be. The interview was very misleading and it's frustrating to go to school for 5 years or so and work in a job where you are the only one with a degree and everyone hates their job. Brock is a glorified mechanic, not an engineer and he's frustrated. He feels like he's wasting his time up here even though this job is good and gives us benefits. He's not happy which makes me unhappy. Soooo... our plan is to get our savings built up and then jet when we reach our goal. We left our rad house in AZ to live in a two bedroom apartment... what were we thinking?! Plus, we've moved 3 or 4 times in the last 6 months. Punch me in the face. First we move from AZ to Lehi. Then from Lehi we move into the one bedroom apartment. From the one bedroom we finally moved into a two bedroom. I'm so done with moving! It's amazing my child is still alive... she was so neglected every time we moved. I will say this move has been a good experience and I think we needed it to see that we don't like being away from family. Plus, if we hadn't taken the job, we would have always wondered "what if"? So now we know and we move on! My job is great. SO much easier than my last job. I'm actually bored. But, the job is flexible (which I love) and brings in extra income to bring us closer to our savings goal. The best part about working in surgery is no weekends or holidays. How cool is that? Addie is getting so big. She's starting to take a few steps by herself and it's pretty exciting to think she'll be walking really soon. I'm sure I'll regret that once she actually starts walking but it honestly doesn't matter becasue she's already into everything. That's about it! We just work and try not to miss AZ too bad. It gets really lonely up here and it's getting harder to be away but we try to stay positive and focus on getting back as soon as we can! Pictures to hopefully come later (but probably not so don't get your hopes up... like anybody reads this anyway)!

2 comments:

Krista said...

I READ THIS :) I want to see your sweet little Addie! She is so cute! I love when they start walking but your right when they do its like strap on the helmet cuz they are in for a bumpy ride.
and... SEEEeeeeriously I feel ya on the moving part. FRICK.. I was telling Jeff we have moved 11 times since we've been married.. he didn't believe me so I counted it out for him, and he was all... DAAAAAANG.... sorry hun. hahaha, but its good, just learn to love and grow from it! Miss you, hope you get to come to AZ soon.. but not like in June or July cuz you will be like.. ummm YA Utah was awesome, come now... Or in Nov. OK :) hahaha

Candice and Steve said...

I'm reading your blog too......! Of course we miss you guys like crazy. The cute pics of Addie on Facebook make me crazy. I hate that I'm missing her start to walk. Dang! Yeah.....your friend is right about moving here in the summer. You should try to wait until at least Sept. It will still be like Hades here. Love you!