It is really easy to forget to update this!!! Things get so SO busy. Hopefully I can remember to update it more often.

Things have been going well here. We are enjoying it being in the 60's and 70's here during the winter. It is nice getting to go outside and enjoy being outside.

Work is going well for both of us. My job makes my weeks go by quickly. Matt is enjoying working for the lower school still, and has been substitute teaching some too. He is also enjoying doing the chapel service for the kids at the Academy.

I have been taking piano lessons with a lady who lives in Clermont. I take my lessons on Wednesdays. I have been taking them since the start of the year. It isn't easy, but I do enjoy doing it, and am having a good time with it.

Today we went and played Putt-Putt over at Disney. The course we played is basically a regular golf course, but just mini sized so that it becomes a putt putt course. It was a pretty hard course though, and we hit our balls off of the course several times :) After that we came back home and Matt went to go to work at the lower school while I worked some health insurance issues out. After he got home from work we went out to return some movies and went out to eat at Sonny's BBQ. It was our first time eating there and we really enjoyed it.

The dogs are doing well, Wrigley has been learning plenty of tricks. He is sitting by me chewing on a bully stick right now. Rae is doing well too, she is sleeping -- which is what she normally does. I'll try to get some pictures up of them soon.

Well American Idol is on, I'm gonna watch that and do some scrapbooking.

Updates

So it has been awhile since we have had an update. I keep telling Matt he should do an update but he never does :)

So since last time I wrote we got Wrigley a little sister doggie. Well she is smaller than him in size but she is actually 3 years old. We adopted her from a lady who had to move back to China and didn't want to put her through that transition.

Tonight there was shuttle launch but we couldn't see it from here because it was too cloudy. We were a little sad about that.

BUT we are happy because my mom flys into town this Wednesday and dad drives in this upcoming weekend. We are excited to have them in town and excited to show them around where we live.

We will be coming back for Christmas. We will probably start driving Sunday afternoon Dec. 21st and get into town sometime on Monday the 22nd. Then I believe we are leaving Friday the 2nd.

I'll try to post some pictures on photobucket in a few minutes!

I know I know, we don't do a very good job of keeping this updated. I just forget sometimes.

So what is new with us? Not a whole lot. Today we bought Wrigley a Halloween costume :) If you go to our Photobucket website you can see a few pictures of him in it. We got him a hot dog costume! It is a little too big on him, but he is still cute in it.

Our jobs are going well for the most part. We've been spending a lot of time the last few days thinking about our future though, mostly things such as once we decide to have a baby we can't really live in this apartment any more since it is pretty small and only one bedroom. At that point I would no longer be a house parent. We will have to see how that goes. That isn't something we have to think about that too much yet, seeing as we aren't trying to have a baby yet :)

I'm off today and tomorrow. We went to Animal Kingdom for part of the day today. We rode Expedition Everest 3 times! It is a pretty good ride, it is a roller coaster. Then we went through some of the animal walk throughs and got to see some Monkeys :). Then we went to see the Lion King show.

Tomorrow night we are taking Wrigley to PetSmart's halloween pet party. Hopefully he behaves and keeps his hot dog on! If not he will still look cute, just not as a hot dog. He will be thrilled to be around all of those dogs. He goes CRAZY when other dogs are around to play with. He LOVES playing with every dog he sees. Whenever we buy a house in a couple years we will get him another little yorkie playmate.

We went to the beach this last weekend. I think it was a good weekend to go too because it is going to start getting too chilly to actually get into the water any more. It is only getting into the low 80's now, and has been staying in the upper 70's before noonish. Still warmer than all of you up north :)

I think that is about it for now. I'll try to update this more often, I'll have to write a post-it to myself to remember!

-J

Wednesday September 17th

I went out for a 2 mile run this morning after not running for about a week and a half. It was good to get out there again, but it was very hot and humid. It was 8:30ish or so and almost 80 degrees and 89% humidity.

Matt had a meeting at the church today. Just a weekly meeting. He's home now, but goes to work at 2.

Wrigley is settling in nicely (Matt actually just came back inside from taking him out to go to the bathroom). He sleeps pretty well through the night and only barks for a little bit when we put him in his crate. He did chew on a small piece of carpet though!! So we will probably have to pay to have it fixed. Thankfully it is only a small small area and they will only have to patch it. Other than that, he hasn't really tried to chew on anything so that is good. We will just have to not have his little pen thing on the carpet anymore, at least when we are not in the room.

We haven't went to the beach yet, so we hope to go soon. Not sure what we will do tomorrow, maybe go to a water park, or maybe Animal Kingdom? Having the Disney passes really allows us to have something to do that is already paid for. There are two water parks, 4 theme parks and arcade and I think a round of golf.

Today we are just kinda relaxing until work. Not going anywhere today. We do need to go get me a new cell phone soon though!

-J

Finally my first weekend off!

Starting tomorrow morning (Saturday morning) I have my first weekend off! I've had to work every weekend thus far. As far as plans for tomorrow, Matt and I are debating between either going to the beach, or going to Blizzard Beach (A Disney water park) during the late morning and then heading to the Magic Kingdom for the evening and watching the fireworks there that night. We aren't sure which we are going to do yet, so I guess we will have to decide tonight.

Wrigley is doing well, he has suddenly developed a fear for the grass, so we are working on that considering being on the grass is important to his potty training! He was fine until about 2 days ago and now we have to pick him up and take him off of the sidewalk and put him on the grass, weird.... he's a strange dude.

I got my hair cut. I'm still unsure about it but I guess I don't really have any choice in the matter now, I can't really glue it back on.

We went to Magic Kingdom on Tuesday. It was fun, there was hardly anyone there at all so we got to ride a lot of things and we were only there for 3 hours. We had to leave at Noon because Matt had to work at 2 and he wanted to have time to shower before work. There are some pictures up on our photobucket site if you want to see them.

Speaking of which here is the link again to our photo webpage. You can go to the right of the screen and click on what event you want to see, so like to see the Disney pictures just click on Disney World and it will take you to those pictures. http://s335.photobucket.com/albums/m450/mjfry512/Moving/?action=view&current=EndofTimeInIndianaAndTheMove260.flv

Mostly Settled

We are getting settled into our new jobs and our apartment feels like a home instead of just somewhere we are staying for a little bit.

My job is going well, I am coming off of working at 77 hour week though, and yesterday and today have been my days off. I won't normally work 77 hours, I just had a few very full days and only 1 day off. So now I am feeling renewed after having two days off in a row.

Matt's job(s) is going well as well. He started working at the lower-school this last Monday. He had today off though because it is Labor Day. He works there from 2pm-6pm. He also getting into his role as the Youth Minister at the Church. They were going to go to a concert at Universal Saturday evening (well from 5pm-1am!) but with Hurricane Hanna headed this way they have decided to not do that now. Hanna isn't suppose to hit us head on, it is suppose to hit Georgia more, but you never know those things. No one really knows until it actually hits what it is going to do.

Sitting next to me on my left asleep right now is the new addition to our family. Meet Wrigley:

Wrigley is a 3 month old (born May 24th) Yorkshire Terrier (Yorkie). He is 3.3lbs right now and will be about 6.5lbs full grown. He is the perfect size for our small apartment. The first thing we are doing is working on getting him potty trained. He is doing well with going outside and has only had 2 small accidents.

Busy Busy!

We have been so busy! But now things are starting to settle down and I officially started my new job yesterday and Matt officially started working as the After School Coordinator today! I will have a lot more internet time on my hands as I sit at a desk a lot when I monitor.

So far everything is going good. Most of my girls are moved in. I only have 3 girls that have not arrived yet, but they should be arriving shortly (as in they should all be here by tonight). I have many cultures represented on my floor! I have 2 from the US, 1 from Brazil, 1 from Canada, 3 from Vietnam, 1 from Japan, 3 from China and 7 from South Korea.

They have all been good so far... although I did have to just yell heyyyyy into the hallway because two girls were cussing about how much "stuff" they had. They said sorry and that was the end of it though, so that is good! Most of them have been very respectful towards me thus far and I certainly hope I only gain more respect from them as the year goes on. Everyone is still getting a feel for everyone else (them and me, they all know each other). Things have been a little loud today, but not really more than expected since they are moving in and seeing each other for the first time in a few months. Things will calm down and be quieter once school starts tomorrow (hopefully!).

Tomorrow is my first day off though. Matt doesn't go to work until 2pm tomorrow so we will either just relax around the apartment resting up from the craziness we have had the last few days or we may go relax at one of Disney's water parks, and just leave the water park around noon to get back in time for him to get ready for work.

Other than that nothing else is going on. Oh! Matt got his job at the Youth Pastor at the church. They voted on it yesterday.

Also I am hoping to get my Yorkie soon! I found one from a breeder not too far from here. They have two males (we want a male, they are cheaper for one, and I have heard have better temperments) for sale. I would like to go look at them next tuesday! BUT that is still undecided so we will see. I'm excited about getting one though, so I have a little puppy to sit with me while I sit in the office. Plus they are just so darn cute!

Anyways, that is it for now.

-J