I need to try and make a better blogging habit! Here again I find myself with so much time passed that I am not sure what has all happened, that needs to be shared here. 

Casey did pass his dreadful math final! Thank you to all who prayed and hoped along with us that he could do it! He has started summer semester this last week. He is very motivated this time around so we are trying to make more of an effort to help him study and stay on top of deadlines. The hard part is that Weber doesn't do first and second block semesters like some of the other universities around so this is a summer long event. 

We are both just working away these days so there isn't too much to report there. We are hoping to have a little more free time as we get organized and more adjusted to all of these work changes. Maybe we see Lagoon passes in our future! Oh and we have tried to start running with Nora. It is HILARIOUS. She runs right alongside us, so we don't use the leash, and she loves to chase away the birds!

Onto more serious matters...

Just a couple of weeks ago my dad's position with Eagle-Satan-Gate College was eliminated. For those of you who are close to our family, you are probably thinking "Is this real life?". For those of you who aren't, I will fill you in: This is the 4th or so time that our family has dealt with unemployment, over the last 6ish years. It is never a personal issue with my dad, it is just circumstance. I think Heavenly Father sees us all as seasoned pros with this trial though and we are all feeling like there will be a light at the end of this tunnel. However, please keep my parents in your prayers as this is still a very open ended journey.

Now onto the next matter of business, my beautiful Grandma Sheri. Just within the last month her health has taken a very bad turn. She has graciously battled cancer these last two years, and that combined with other complications have really taken over her body. We have been very blessed to be able to spend a lot of time with her in the hospital and now at home as she has started hospice. Many of you have reached out to our family and offered such great love and support, and for that we thank you! All of us, Grandma and Grandpa included have really felt the influence of your prayers on our behalf. How grateful we are to have such wonderful piece of mind because of the gospel. It is because of that solid testimony of eternal families that our family is so close and strong. We don't have much time left with her here and that just breaks our hearts more than I can say, but we are blessed to be able to look at this as a celebration of life and love! Our whole family is so close and perfectly crazy (some people find it a little odd) and it is all because of Grandma Sheri and Grandpa Lyle. Thus, we have spent a lot of time as a family laughing and happily talking. There are tears of course, but more and more we are finding the peace and joy of this adventure. Again we can't thank you all enough for your thoughts and prayers, and very kind words/memories. Grandma is as optimistic and faithful as ever and we love her more and more for it.

More updates to come! Pictures below!

Becca

Photo Cred: Landon Welch. True Love.

Grandma's 74th birthday! We had happy-teary-sunshine and "Sheri-Oke"- (thanks Mickey!)

So the happenings of our newest adventures have been going really well! I started my new job last Friday and things have been awesome. On Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays I work as the receptionist at the front desk and then on Wednesdays and Fridays I help out in the HR department. I am still a little nervous about being the receptionist. There are a lot of things I still need to learn how to do and that gives me a bit of anxiety!!! However, I do know that everything I need to know, I will learn in time. Today was my first day helping HR and I loved it! I love the people I work with already. Everyone is so fantastic and friendly. It is a really casual environment which helps me feel at ease. I am really lucky too because this Friday is the anniversary party for the company so we get to leave early for a bowling party. So all in all it is shaping up to be a good week.

We finished school this week! Still no word on Casey's final score for math. It does look like he passed everything else though...or at least using our very reliable math skills we have figured out that he did. Here's to hoping! Everything is going well at his work. He has been really busy and making sure he stays busy so the days go by fast. Flag football is still going. They had their first loss last week (probably because Nora and I weren't there). It sure is a fun time of year!

Nora is having a great old time being Nora. She has decided to expand her kleptomania tendencies to include my shoes. She has never shown interest in them before but yesterday the backyard was littered with all sorts of different pairs! I am thinking she's acting out since Casey and I aren't home as soon during the day. So we will just exercise her more and love her to death because she is the cutest thing on the planet!!!

Having some puppy snuggles!

                              

That is all for now! 

Love,

Us! 

Wow what a crazy couple of weeks Casey and I have had. I can't seem to remember where we left off with this thing! New updates for the blog though. I can't decide on a name or a design. Hopefully this one will stick for awhile.

Where to begin now...

School is coming to a close in the next couple of weeks. We are praying like crazy for Casey to pass his math class. That is probably our biggest stress at this point! Send out good vibes for him on Saturday as he ventures to his final. We are both terrible at math so it has been an interesting semester...you could say it was something along the lines of the blind leading the blind. As soon as this semester ends Casey will have a week or two of summer vacation and then he will start summer semester. I am very grateful for his determination to be done even though it will be a year of straight school. We are also very blessed that his job will allow him to still go and be full time.

Speaking of full time, it looks like I am headed away from the nanny baby and on to another wonderful job opportunity. Without all the details I will have you know that it really has been such a crazy couple of weeks because of this decision; it was not an easy one to make at first. I seriously just felt like I was floating the whole time this was happening and not necessarily in a good or bad way. We have never prayed as hard as we did for this! But I am so happy we did because both Casey and I feel a lot more peaceful now. And can I just say how grateful we are for our wonderful families who have been so helpful and have listened to me gripe about all of this for weeks?! We love you all.

We are really excited though because this is something that will really give us a head start on accomplishing some of our goals for the year. Fortunately this job will also allow me to work right along with my current boss, the nanny baby's mom! I am so excited about that because I just adore their family. So I will be the Office Manager for Axis 41, an advertising agency here in Salt Lake. I will be doing receptionist duties and will also be kind of an intern for their HR department. It is really bittersweet but I know the nanny baby has a fantastic new nanny and I am excited for what is ahead with this position. Definitely many prayers answered here guys. The church is true!

Now for the Nora update: We finished up with puppy preschool last week. Before we could receive the certificate we had to take her through a little course that went through all the training techniques we learned. Well Nora has the moves down but let me tell you...that dog is high maintenance. She was over the treats after five minutes so she would not respond to anything! And if we gave her a treat she would just spit it out on the floor and walk away. So we upped our treat choice and she was a total gem. We are happy to be done with that class for sure. As of now she is just a hairy muddy mess who will give you high fives upon your request!

So that is all for now. We are just trucking along!

Love,
Becca and Casey