Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait!
A saying that I have heard time and time again, and I have waited and finally a good thing has come to me! I have accepted the Customer Service Specialist position at Scenic Hills Care Center. It has been a long process but in the end it has been worth every minute of my time. I have been wanting to get a "big girl" job for quite some time and I just couldn't find that perfect job. I heard of an opening at Scenic Hills and I went in and picked up and application and I filled it out and waited a week to be sure that this is really what I wanted to do. After a week I turned it and and waited and waited and waited. After two weeks of not hearing anything I called and asked if the position was still available. It was and I was scheduled for an interview. After the first interview two weeks passed again and I hadn't heard anything so I called again to see if they had filled the position, and they hadn't so I was then scheduled another interview. After that interview I waited a week and then I heard form them and they asked me to come in a job shadow for a day and I gladly accepted. After I shadowed I waited again, and then I was called a few days later and was asked to come in for one last interview. I went in and had the fastest interview of my life, but was feeling very confident afterwards. The next day I got the call and was offered the position and I ever so excitedly accepted! I am so excited for this new adventure that I am embarking on. Something that I have wanted for so long, and something that I think will be the answer to my prayers! So now I just have to go through with a TB test, and a physical and then I will be given my orientation dates and times and then I will be well on my way with my career, rather then just going to my job every day! So it's true what they say good things will come to those who wait!
Monday, December 12, 2011
2011: A Review Of Our Year
2011 was quite possibly one of the toughest years for us. It was a good year non the less! There were many happy memories made, a few sad days, and a whole lot of fun along the way!
January:
We rang in the New Year with some of our closest friends, although we had all taken a little cat nap before midnight we made it to celebrating both the central and the eastern time zone New Years!
Soon after the new year our friends Sara and Chad welcomed their sweet baby boy Lane Alan into the world on Jan, 5th! I think he stole all of our hearts and has most of us wrapped around his little fingers!!
Our world was rocked a little when Brad's grandfather passed away. At the age of 91 he gained his angel wings, we were so blessed to have had him in our lives for so long. Not a day goes by that we don't think of him and remember all the wonderful memories that we were able to make with him!
I had the opportunity to join my cousin Allayna's birthday party at Club Tabby in the mall. She and 3 of her friends were given makeovers where they had their hair, nails, and makeup done! It was so fun and the girls had a great time. After the makeovers we were all treated to Olive Garden!
January also brought us lots and lots of snow! We had a few days that we couldn't go anywhere and stayed home cuddled up on the couch! My favorite days!!
February:
February seemed to be a pretty uneventful month for us. We celebrated valentine's day with a night out to dinner, but nothing big.
March:
We along with the Angle's and the Speicher's had an adult day and went to Louisville/Clarksville and did some shopping at The Bass Pro Shop and a few other stores in the area.
Other then that March was pretty uneventful for us also.
April:
April was a very rainy month, but did bring us some very beautiful rainbows!
We also celebrated four amazing years of marriage in April! What a wonderful, fun, adventurous four years it has been!
May:
May was a very busy farming month for Brad. They rainy weather finally let up and they were able to get the crops out.
We also welcomed our second nephew in May. Matt and Jen and big brother Lucas welcomed Caleb Matthew on May 2.
Brad was the best man in Michael and Jennifer Lueken's wedding in May too. And that wrapped May up for us!
June:
St. Meinrad celebrated it's 150th birthday in June, so we spent a weekend celebrating! Brad and my cousins' husband Chris played in the cornhole tourney, we attended the various celebrations and the parade that wrapped it all up.
Our worlds were once again rocked unbelievably when my grandfather passed away in June. He had a short battle with cancer and we lost him at the age of 77. Not a single day goes by that we don't also think about him. So many memories were made with him and he made a huge impact in both of our lives! We miss him dearly!
We celebrated Brad's 32nd birthday in June too!!
July:
We attended our first "Dragging Main" event. We were able to drag main street Tell City like my parents did when they were teenagers! It was a very neat event and lots of fun!
We made our first trip to Santa's Candy Castle in July too. It was a very neat experience and I look forward to going back again and again.
August:
August came and went without much going on. We did take our big vacation in August. We were gone for 7 days and we visited 14 states up the east coast. It was an amazing adventure! Next time we vacation I don't plan to take on that many states in that few of days!
September:
September was busy farming month again, as the weather cooperated and the guys were able to get some harvesting done.
We also took a mini trip to Brown County over Labor Day to celebrate my Birthday! Misty and Brad went with us and we all had a great time!
The annual Jeep Poker Run was also in September. All the money raised goes to the Lange-Fuhs Cancer Center. This is one event that we truly enjoy and feel the need to attend as cancer has touched our lives in so many ways!
October:
Brad and I took a trip to Loogootee to Lark Ranch to venture through the corn maze and enjoy some of the little joys of fall.
We also were able to take a trip to Buzzard Roost in the Jeep and the weather was amazing and we were able to do it topless!!
We hosted a small Halloweenie Roast this month. And attended a weenie roast at the Angle's too!
November:
November was an uneventful month for us too. We celebrated Thanksgiving with our families and I did some Black Friday shopping and we worked hard on getting our Christmas shopping started and finished this month. Along with getting our house ready for the holidays!
December:
A month full of Christmas celebrations!
We started the month off with helping the Speicher's paint the girls' rooms.
Near mid-month I was offered the Customer Services Specialist position at Scenic Hills Care Center in Ferdinand, and I accepted it! I am so excited about this new adventure that I/we will be taking!
We then ended the year, and vowed that 2012 was going to be a much better year for us, with a few friends at the Bowman's!
So 2011 is in the books and we are looking forward to the joys, laughter, love, and adventure that 2012 will bring to us!
Happy New Year to all!
January:
We rang in the New Year with some of our closest friends, although we had all taken a little cat nap before midnight we made it to celebrating both the central and the eastern time zone New Years!
Soon after the new year our friends Sara and Chad welcomed their sweet baby boy Lane Alan into the world on Jan, 5th! I think he stole all of our hearts and has most of us wrapped around his little fingers!!
Our world was rocked a little when Brad's grandfather passed away. At the age of 91 he gained his angel wings, we were so blessed to have had him in our lives for so long. Not a day goes by that we don't think of him and remember all the wonderful memories that we were able to make with him!
I had the opportunity to join my cousin Allayna's birthday party at Club Tabby in the mall. She and 3 of her friends were given makeovers where they had their hair, nails, and makeup done! It was so fun and the girls had a great time. After the makeovers we were all treated to Olive Garden!
January also brought us lots and lots of snow! We had a few days that we couldn't go anywhere and stayed home cuddled up on the couch! My favorite days!!
February:
February seemed to be a pretty uneventful month for us. We celebrated valentine's day with a night out to dinner, but nothing big.
March:
We along with the Angle's and the Speicher's had an adult day and went to Louisville/Clarksville and did some shopping at The Bass Pro Shop and a few other stores in the area.
Other then that March was pretty uneventful for us also.
April:
April was a very rainy month, but did bring us some very beautiful rainbows!
We also celebrated four amazing years of marriage in April! What a wonderful, fun, adventurous four years it has been!
May:
May was a very busy farming month for Brad. They rainy weather finally let up and they were able to get the crops out.
We also welcomed our second nephew in May. Matt and Jen and big brother Lucas welcomed Caleb Matthew on May 2.
Brad was the best man in Michael and Jennifer Lueken's wedding in May too. And that wrapped May up for us!
June:
St. Meinrad celebrated it's 150th birthday in June, so we spent a weekend celebrating! Brad and my cousins' husband Chris played in the cornhole tourney, we attended the various celebrations and the parade that wrapped it all up.
Our worlds were once again rocked unbelievably when my grandfather passed away in June. He had a short battle with cancer and we lost him at the age of 77. Not a single day goes by that we don't also think about him. So many memories were made with him and he made a huge impact in both of our lives! We miss him dearly!
We celebrated Brad's 32nd birthday in June too!!
July:
We attended our first "Dragging Main" event. We were able to drag main street Tell City like my parents did when they were teenagers! It was a very neat event and lots of fun!
We made our first trip to Santa's Candy Castle in July too. It was a very neat experience and I look forward to going back again and again.
August:
August came and went without much going on. We did take our big vacation in August. We were gone for 7 days and we visited 14 states up the east coast. It was an amazing adventure! Next time we vacation I don't plan to take on that many states in that few of days!
September:
September was busy farming month again, as the weather cooperated and the guys were able to get some harvesting done.
We also took a mini trip to Brown County over Labor Day to celebrate my Birthday! Misty and Brad went with us and we all had a great time!
The annual Jeep Poker Run was also in September. All the money raised goes to the Lange-Fuhs Cancer Center. This is one event that we truly enjoy and feel the need to attend as cancer has touched our lives in so many ways!
October:
Brad and I took a trip to Loogootee to Lark Ranch to venture through the corn maze and enjoy some of the little joys of fall.
We also were able to take a trip to Buzzard Roost in the Jeep and the weather was amazing and we were able to do it topless!!
We hosted a small Halloweenie Roast this month. And attended a weenie roast at the Angle's too!
November:
November was an uneventful month for us too. We celebrated Thanksgiving with our families and I did some Black Friday shopping and we worked hard on getting our Christmas shopping started and finished this month. Along with getting our house ready for the holidays!
December:
A month full of Christmas celebrations!
We started the month off with helping the Speicher's paint the girls' rooms.
Near mid-month I was offered the Customer Services Specialist position at Scenic Hills Care Center in Ferdinand, and I accepted it! I am so excited about this new adventure that I/we will be taking!
We then ended the year, and vowed that 2012 was going to be a much better year for us, with a few friends at the Bowman's!
So 2011 is in the books and we are looking forward to the joys, laughter, love, and adventure that 2012 will bring to us!
Happy New Year to all!
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Thanksgiving and Black Friday
Hope that everyone have a great Thanksgiving! We sure did, even if we ate way too much! We had all of our Thanksgivings in one day, it was busy but fun and kind of nice to get them all done in one day and be able to get other things done around the house the rest of the time we had off.
We started off Thanksgiving morning working on finishing getting the Christmas trees up. We then headed to Brad's mom's house for dinner with the Schuler family. We visited with them for a couple hours and then headed to Brad's grandma's house for some visiting with the Wilmes family. We had a great time with both families and look forward to visiting with them all again at Christmas! We then came home and I finished up the trees and got my self ready for Misty and I's Black Friday extravaganza!!
Misty and I left our house a little before 8 p.m. Thanksgiving night and headed to Jasper to Wal-Mart! We got to Wal-Mart and scoped out where all the "deals" were. We then took our stand near the items that we wanted, and made plans of where to meet when we had all the stuff on our list. At 10 p.m. when the sale started we got our stuff and meet up to make plans and scope out our "deals" for the midnight sale. We then made our plan for when the sale started. We were able to get everything on our list except for the waffle maker that we gone in 30 seconds! But all in all we were very successful!!
After our Wal-Mart trip we went to sit in the Home Depot parking lot but were finding it hard to stay awake so we decided to go to Carson's to shop around. We went in and found a few deals before heading back to Home Depot to wait until they opened at 5 a.m. When they opened we were the second and third persons in the door. Again we were very successful at getting what we went in for. Brad and Brad met us there to pick up our stuff and bring it home while we stopped at K-Mart to get an item.
We then headed back home, we unloaded the truck and headed out to Evansville. We went to Gordman's and got the item we went for, yes the ONE item and headed for the checkout only to have to stand in line for 2 plus hours!! So, after that we were just done so we headed for home! All in all we had a very successful Black Friday adventure!!
Now we are working on getting our home and ourselves ready for the holidays!!
We started off Thanksgiving morning working on finishing getting the Christmas trees up. We then headed to Brad's mom's house for dinner with the Schuler family. We visited with them for a couple hours and then headed to Brad's grandma's house for some visiting with the Wilmes family. We had a great time with both families and look forward to visiting with them all again at Christmas! We then came home and I finished up the trees and got my self ready for Misty and I's Black Friday extravaganza!!
Misty and I left our house a little before 8 p.m. Thanksgiving night and headed to Jasper to Wal-Mart! We got to Wal-Mart and scoped out where all the "deals" were. We then took our stand near the items that we wanted, and made plans of where to meet when we had all the stuff on our list. At 10 p.m. when the sale started we got our stuff and meet up to make plans and scope out our "deals" for the midnight sale. We then made our plan for when the sale started. We were able to get everything on our list except for the waffle maker that we gone in 30 seconds! But all in all we were very successful!!
After our Wal-Mart trip we went to sit in the Home Depot parking lot but were finding it hard to stay awake so we decided to go to Carson's to shop around. We went in and found a few deals before heading back to Home Depot to wait until they opened at 5 a.m. When they opened we were the second and third persons in the door. Again we were very successful at getting what we went in for. Brad and Brad met us there to pick up our stuff and bring it home while we stopped at K-Mart to get an item.
We then headed back home, we unloaded the truck and headed out to Evansville. We went to Gordman's and got the item we went for, yes the ONE item and headed for the checkout only to have to stand in line for 2 plus hours!! So, after that we were just done so we headed for home! All in all we had a very successful Black Friday adventure!!
Now we are working on getting our home and ourselves ready for the holidays!!
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