Anyways on to updating everyone on where we are at.
In december Paul graduated from college! (Now I just need to finish :-/ ) This was seriously a great day in our marriage! He worked so hard to finish while working full time at his internship with Melaleuca for web design (he's really in graphic design but thats another story). I am so proud of him for getting through school and working hard to provide for our family.
Now Christmas has come and gone, as well as our anniversary and my birthday.
During Christmas we got to talk to my sister Sierra on her mission. That was an awesome experience after not seeing her for 6 months I was really missing her! It was also great because this was the second time she got to see sawyer in person (kind of) since he was born! Christmas was fun having a baby though it could have been more exciting if Sawyer could open up his presents or even know what they were. I'm just excited now for the next Christmas with him, hopefully he will be just as excited as I am! Then on the 30th Paul and I celebrated our 2 year anniversary! It was awesome to think that we had been married for 2 years thinking of how fast the time went by. Then on January 4th I turned 22! I feel so old now, or more like I am no longer a kid, I guess I don't really know how to describe the feeling. However I know I have many more years to live so I have to forget about feeling old and try and live in the present.
Well here we are now to today. Sawyer has turned 10 months old today and I am missing my little newborn baby boy. Though I love Sawyer more than the world, it is true what they say that time does fly by so fast when you are having fun. He has grown up so fast, I feel like it was just yesterday he was so small and sweet in my arms smiling at me for the first time. Now he is such a big boy and starting to want to do a lot of things on his own. (Except for the past few days he's been teething and wanting nothing but to be held)
Paul has still been working with Melaleuca, and I can't say we were completely thrilled when his internship ended and they didn't promote him yet, but told him that he would be kept on as an extended intern. However, we feel blessed to be able to have a job and feel that we are better off than most people who just graduated from college. I have to say that is one thing I did not think would be so hard to figure out. I thought that once school was over for Paul we would be on our way with a new salary paying job, living in a bigger house and not having to worry about day to day expenses. Finding a job has been tough. About 2 weeks ago Paul came home and told me that his boss had talked to him that day and to get to the point of it all pretty much told him he would either be hired or fired by the end of June. The news came like a slap across the face, what were we going to do? I started to freak out a little, which wasn't necessary he wasn't fired (or hired) yet. Sometimes it can be hard when your in this situation. You look around, and about all you can see is how easy and successful life seems to be for other people and how hard life seems to be for yourself. Paul and I were talking about this last night because as of yesterday Paul was informed that he did not get a Job he interviewed for in Utah which he was so sure he would get. It's so easy to get down on yourself and to feel like for some reason you aren't doing things right in your life, that maybe you just aren't good enough to get a job. However, we can't think like this, and no one should who is going through a hard time. This is a trial for us in our families life. However, if we have learned anything about trials in our marriage its that we have to be hopeful and we have to move forward in faith, trusting in the Lord that things will be alright. That's one thing I am thankful for while we are going through this is to have such a faithful, supportive husband and to have the Lord on my side. I have felt a tremendous amount of peace when life starts to feeling too much to handle. I know something will come up for us and life is still good, we honestly have nothing to complain about and we have everything that could ever make us happy.
Sorry if this has been such a boring read! Anyways, the next post will be something more interesting!
Well said. Things will work out, they always do. Hang in there. "Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans" John Lennon. This is one of my favorite quotes.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this was boring at all. I loved reading it! I know what you mean about things being difficult at times, but feeling peace that trusting in the Lord who truly understands what we need, when we need it. We are going through a transition phase as well and it will be interesting to see how everything works out. We need to talk! Will call you soon.
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