Goodbye X-Press.... Hello Prudential

Today is my last day of work at xPress Printing. This job has been such a blessing. I had a hard time finding anything when I moved here and all I got at first was part time in the afternoon... and the super nice people at xPress let me come work in the mornings and I hoenstly don't think I would have made it if that hadn't been the case.

But the Real Estate company I work for has merged with another company and now there is an opportunity for me to work there full-time and I had to take them up on it. So after today I will work full-time at Prudential Utah Elite Real Estate. I really am so excited to start there next week and to get a little more settled into the new things I'm doing at work.

But I will miss it at xPress... its been really fun.... and its just not the same at a job where I don't get to watch TV!!!!

EAST COAST WOODMANS, HERE I COME!!!!

I am going to NORTH CAROLINA. The newest Woodman is getting baptised in June and I've gone back and forth on whether I should go... or rather if I could go. But earlier this week I was talking to Carolyn and decided that I really didn't want to miss it and I would try to come as long as I could get off of work. Luckily I work for the best people in the world and my boss said that I could totally have a couple of days to go spend with the family. So last night... after a long day of looking at plane tickets... I finally booked my flight and now I'm officially going!!

I'm SO EXCITED to meet this little guy and to kiss and squeeze him and to see all of the East Coasters and to get to spend some time with Michael before he leaves again. It will be awesome!

Sometimes I am stupid

Wednesday after everybody left, I drove to work. That should have been as easy enough task for me to accomplish. Then, as 5 o'clock rolled around, I went to get my keys out of my bag and they were nowhere to be found. I started freaking out that I dropped them somewhere and I knew they hadn't been turned in, because I would be the person that they would be given to.

So I back-tracked my steps from hours earlier and when I got to my car, there they were... sitting on the front seat.. with all the doors nicely locked. I called Megan to see if she could bring me her spare key and of course she decided to go to Draper that day to spend the night. I'll tell you, when it rains, it pours. So I called my other roommate and she wouldn't answer her phone.

Finally, I was able to get ahold of my friend Blake who came and rescued me until I could get into my apartment to get my spare key and then brought me back to rescue my car. Man was he a life-saver. I have no idea how that happened, but it sure made for a more exciting day. Haha.

Family Time

This past week Christine, Alyssa, Brittany, Mom and dad were all in Utah after driving out here to bring Alyssa to school. Since the family was gonna be closer than normal, Cathy brougth Sydney and Jake and decided to join the fun. It was a really fun couple of days. My work was kind enough to let me have a little bit of time off to hang with the family, and it was awesome.

I like to eat Jake. Jake likes to look drunk. Haha.

My and my Spawky.

We ate lots of food... OREO DESSERT!! We swam with Sydney after the snow cleared. We played cards (Thanks to Brandon and Cathy for Hand and Foot). And we just talked and laughed and had a ton of fun. I'm so glad that they got to come and I got to spend some time with them. Definately made for a more enjoyable work week.

Farewell Lost

Tonight was the last episode of LOST and normally I wouldn't take time out of my day to blog about something like the end of a TV show.. but this is different. When I first moved to Utah and didn't have a job, Megan told me I should watch lost.. and since they were all online, I decided to give it a shot. I totally got hooked and watched all the seasons just in time to watch the last season as it was coming on.

Then the people that we work with watch it too and we would always talk about what we thought was gonna happen or what things meant while we were at work. So when we found out that today was the last episode, Ron and Heather invited us over for a lost party. We had Sunday dinner and then watched about 5 hours of lost between the recaps and the new episode. It was so much fun and I'm glad that I watched it with them instead of on my computer later... which is what I probably would have done otherwise. Such a good time and it really did have be guessing right up until the end. That was good stuff!

I GOT APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So when I was a baby and set up my Bank accounts for college, mom and I decided that since I was just a child of 17, I didn't need a credit card and could make do with just a debit card. It totally worked and I never really thought much about the fact that I didn't have a credit card.

Then a couple years ago when I graduated college, I thought it would be smart for me to get one because if I ever wanted to buy a car or do ANYTHING that required credit, I wouldn't be able to. So i tried to get approved for anything that I could so that I could start building credit, and no one would approve me because I didn't have any existing credit and I wasn't a student.

I couldn't get approved for store cards, regular credit cards, cell phone accounts.. nothing. It was starting to become a really big problem and I worried about it all the time. Chase wouldn't even allow mom to cosign for me because the economy was bad that they weren't allowing cosigners. So i was screwed.

But then a couple of weeks ago Capitol One sent me a letter from a previous time I had applied and gotten denies saying that they approved me for a credit card and that they would send it today.. and TODAY IT GOT HERE!!!!

I was so excited that it came and I can finally be a grown up big kid. But really I"m just glad that I can start to build my credit in this my twenty second year of life. It looks like the american flag and is pretty sweet. Mom even was so excited that she said I should go buy something on Sunday to celebrate. But luckily, I'm a lot more holy than she is and have decided to keep all of the commandments!

PS.... a few weeks ago I got me new glasses for my birthday after about 10 years. My old ones were so bad.. they were about 5 rx's old and the lenses had broken so they were superglued and held together with turquoise strings. I love these new glasses and I'm so glad that I have them. Plus they are J-Lo glasses, which make me feel cool, even though she stopped being cool in about 1996.

St George Trip

I realize its been a while, but I should try to be better. This past weekend, couple of girls from our ward were going to St George for the weekend and invited Megan and I to come along. Of course, we were ALL for that!! It was soo much fun and really nice to get away for a couple of days and bask in the warm sunlight.

We road tripped it down there on Friday night after we were all done with work and school. Once we were there, Aubrey had a time share that we were able to stay at which was awesome. So then for the next two days, we just hung out, layed out, played, watched lots of movies, ate lots of junk food and had a TON of fun.

All of our fun we had in the car.

Hanging out at the house and the pool. Soooo nice.

While we were gone, we ate at Dairy Queen.. twice. Aubrey had never been there and I am happy we could let her know how amazing it is. Then, on Saturday after we layed out.. we had the funnest afternoon. We went shopping at some outlet malls. In the midst... we were getting thirsty, so we went to little smoothy place and it was so delicious. Then, after a bit more shopping, we had dinner at Texas Roadhouse. Aubrey had never been there either and it was the most amazing dinner ever. Soo good

Sunday, we did kind of the same thing, but in the afternoon when we were ready to leave, we drove around for a while and ended up at the St. George Temple, which is just beautiful. None of us realized how pretty it is there and we were all so pleasantly surprise.