Exciting new adventures...read to the end!

                                           HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Happy New Year from the Barbers!!!

 

 



Happy Birthday Mom!!!!

 
January has been a great month for us and very busy!! I started a new full time job with Mountain America Credit Union as an MSR I and was able to quit both of my part time jobs! YAY!! It was truly a blessing that I found this new job and I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who opened the windows of opportunity. It was really stressful working 2 jobs, however at the time, it was a blessing in many ways and I have to be grateful for that. For my training I had to go down to West Jordan, Utah for a week of training at the corporate offices. Luckily Kevin was able to go down with me so we decided to go down a few days early and do some shopping/relaxing. It was so nice to have a little break between jobs. Training was excellent and the longer I was there the more I realized how fortunate I am to be able to work for such a fabulous company with great ethics and benefits, that really values its employees and wants them to succeed. We of course took advantage of the swimming pool and hot tub!
 
 

This is one of our favorite stops in Ogden, UT! We stumbled upon it one time and we LOVE it! It's a fun little Mexican restaurant that is DELICIOUS!!!

 
 
 
After a whirlwind week, we rushed home Friday night because my sister Courtney and niece Summer were up for a quick weekend trip from Phoenix! I haven't seen them since they moved down there in August so I was pretty excited to get home. As soon as Summer saw me she held out her arms and came running towards me and just hugged me so tight. I loved it! She also really loves uncle Kevin so she was so excited to see him as well. After that she our little buddy and often came downstairs to visit us! Saturday night we had a girls night and Mom, Natalee, Courtney and I all went to Dairy Queen and then a movie. It was so fun just to be us girls! I love them so much and admire each of them in many different ways. I'm so lucky to have such great sisters and of course a wonderful, sweet mom.
 
On Martin Luther King Jr day the credit union was closed so I had my last two wisdom teeth removed. I was worried about it because I had to be at work the following morning for my first day at my branch! I had Kevin and Wayne give me a blessing the night before that I wouldn't be in much pain and that I would be able to go to work and feel well. Well, I was so  very blessed and felt pretty good Tuesday. I definitely didn't feel 100% but I made it through the day with minimal pain medication and overall the experience hasn't been difficult at all. I am so grateful for the priesthood power that blesses my life and for my husband who keeps himself worthy to use that power.
 
A few days later Kevin left for Seattle to attend some training for his internship with College Pro. He was gone for 4 days and it's the longest we've ever been apart. I really missed him to say the least haha but it at least I know I still love him :) I spent a lot of time with mom and Wayne, it was "just the 3 of us", but I was definitely ready for my hubby to come home.

Another bit of exciting news is that we are moving!!! It has been 11 months since we moved out of our apartment and into someone else's home; first to mom and Wayne's, then to Todd and Erin's and back to Mom and Wayne's. Although we have had many good and fun times at these places we have called home we have also had our share of struggles and we have learned a lot. It has been a great growing experience for us and our relationship with each other and with our family! About 2 weeks ago I started having these nagging thoughts about finding our own place again. I kept trying to push them aside but they kept coming back so I took that as a sign and started looking through the classifieds. I found several potential places but we have certain criteria we wanted met and it had to be in our price range. We are still poor college students haha! After Kevin got home from Seattle I talked to him about it and we decided to take an afternoon and "go looking" at what I had found so far. The second place we walked through we fell in love with! As soon as we walked in the front door we both fell in love with it and knew that this was supposed to be our new home! (The same feeling we had when we found our first apartment.) We figured out the application process and started it ASAP! We still had a couple more appointments to go "looking" at, but they just didn't measure up to what we had already found. The following day I received a call that we had been approved for the condo we loved and it was ours if we still wanted it. We are thrilled to begin this new adventure and to finally have our own home again! It's going to be like Christmas opening our boxes! When we packed everything up there were still things from our wedding that I hadn't even used yet!

I will post pictures when I get some but in a nutshell here is what we will be living in. 3 bedroom, 2 bath condo with vaulted ceilings, a cute little kitchen I absolutely love, and WALK IN CLOSETS IN EVERY ROOM, a cute little patio, and all the other necessary stuff a home is supposed to have. Two things, I absolutely love the kitchen and the fact that there are walk in closets plus a legit master bedroom. If you can't tell I am pretty excited. For anyone that has helped us move they can attest to the fact that Kevin and I have a lot of clothes/jackets and the big closets will be such a treat! We'll be moving in a few weeks so the preparations are underway. 2014 is going to be a great one!!!