Catching Up and Being Consistent

(This was written on 1/18/14)

*So it's almost a year since the last post.  The Old Perry house was (almost) finished, and then rented to a nice young military couple.  Their lease is almost up so I don't know if they'll stay, but it's being (kind of) managed by a local realtor so she will get to take care of that!

*I went back to work full time in March 2013.  As of my last post I had no idea the job was coming.  A former colleague called and said he had taken another job, so his current employer was going to look to fill his spot.  Worked as a defense contractor; the contract would be over in March 2014.  No brainer.  Took it.  Nice people to work with, keeps me busy.  Not a career, but a job.  Mostly for the insurance.  I can live with that.

*Our SIL graduated from BYU and continues his work with the bank.  They moved from Provo to Salt Lake, but recently found out his department is going to be moved about 20 miles south, so they will move to another apartment closer to work for him.

(compliments of HH Photography)

*Hanna has taken to photography like a natural.  She was able to take a class last fall to fine-tune her skills.  She recently took some amazing pictures on Temple Square in Salt Lake.  Hanna is able to be home with Connor, which at this point still means sacrifices, such as only one car!  She's been great about it, still keeps the house so well

*Connor is doing great, has his own super little personality, loves LOVES loves books, was introduced to snow this year (and didn't think much of it), learned lots of sign language in his pre-talking life and is now learning to verbalize all that, loves cars (one of his favorite words), and after Grandpa visited over Thanksgiving, he loves Grandpa's watch.

*JH and I were able to do our annual weekend to Panama City Beach.

*I was able to scoot up to TN to visit my nephew's family when my sister came down from IL to visit -- on one of those trips, JH dropped me off and continued on up to IN where Trey was working at the time.

*I was able to visit my dad in San Diego for his 95th birthday!!  Five of the six of us were there - it was a good trip!

*For Thanksgiving, JH to Utah to visit the kids there, I went to North Carolina to meet up with a sister and all her kids/grands. They rented a nice "cabin" in the mountains a few hours from where my nephew is stationed (go Army!!).  He deployed the first week in December so we wanted to have a grand Thanksgiving together.

*Christmas was quiet.  But a perfect day for me.  Just JH and me as we had both been sick and didn't want to inflict anyone.  (Now that sounds weird saying it was a perfect day and that we had been sick… )

Lots more went on, of course.  One of the (many) bad things about not keeping up with your journal or blog is that there is no way to remember and catch up with everything that happens in 12 months. And there is always a lot.  So here we go...