Well hello there!

A good friend recently told me, "Yeah I follow your blog. There's nothing lately!"

Point taken.

Here's where I don't waste your time with excuses.

Here's where I update and try to remember what I haven't said yet...

We moved to Utah at the end of May. Hooray!!

We are in Taylorsville, which is about halfway down the Salt Lake valley.  It's perfectly central to all of our various loved ones.

This is the street we live on. 

I am in LOVE with Fall.
LOVE.

I am working back at the same Macaroni Grill (by choice) I was in 2002. I am a server/trainer again and they are looking to promote me to bartender (aka more $$). I love it just as much now as I did then. The people are amazing. There are even 4 still there from 12 years ago. If that doesn't tell you something, just know that the average restaurant turnover rate is maaaybe 6 months.

Todd started out working with me there, and quickly got to learn how to be a line chef. Unfortunately, they didn't have enough hours for him so he had to look elsewhere for steady work.

I won't even bother wasting time on mentioning that place, and I'll just happily relate that he is now working full-time at a much better and more stable company. He works for multiple insurance companies that provide Medicare part D Rx benefits, on behalf of CVS Caremark, on behalf of Xerox. Say that 5 times fast. I still get lost trying to explain it to people. At any rate, it's challenging and complicated work. He works M-F from 7:00-3:30 which makes it hard in the mornings, but nice at night so that I can still go to work.

Of course we now only see each other for an hour a day at the kid hand-off, but we're finally able to maybe start paying our bills.

My computer died a month ago, and most of my blogworthy photos are still locked in the hard drive, so you'll just have to wait for Evan's 1st birthday (from June) and Rylin's first day of preschool (waaaaah!).

Our car needed some major work done (2 grand worth?!) in November so we could go on our road trip to California and Las Vegas. I'll post separately about those (promise!!).

So that's our life for now. I'm home with the kids during the day while Todd is at work. Rylin has preschool on Mon and Wed afternoons. She took (and was not thrilled with) a ballet class for 6 weeks. I work at nights. We all have Sunday off, which is our family day of rest.

We're maybe (hopefully) looking to move into a house when our lease is up next summer, but a LOT has to happen before then.

Obligatory witty end-of-post comment.