Annual Update...(haha)

I can't believe it has been a year since I last posted on our blog! Time sure goes by fast! Well, it has been a busy year and I just got busier too... I started going back to school in August, and now the semester is almost over (and I should be doing homework instead of blogging!). I am going into Health Administration at Weber State. I still work full time and go to school full time too. Since I last blogged, I got a promotion from being a secretary to being the Office Cordinator for all of my boss' clinics at the hospital! I have been doing that since April, and I love it, which is why I went back to school! I still work at the front desk at one of the clinics for half of the week and the other half I have time to do my administrative stuff. Along with the promotion, the company requires that you sign up for their leadership training class, which lasts 4 months and you go for half of the day every other week. I have to take my class out in murray, so it pretty much takes up the entire day, but I am almost done with that too! It has been SO helpful though, and I really enjoy it! In my role I am the supervisor to the other secretaries, which means I had to do all of their evaluations, and have a few "chats" with them in the last few months. Not my favorite part of my job, but its not that bad. I stress over it right up until I start talking to them, but so far the conversations have gone well. I have seriously learned so much in the last 6 months (and the last year), that its hard to believe that I have only worked for the hospital for just over a year. So, between my job and school I stay quite busy and I am always thinking about one or the other! James has been busy all year too and he is just starting to slow down to where he actually only works 40 hours a week! During the summer there were weeks that he would work 80 hours in a week! It was pretty nuts for awhile! He loves his job though, so he doesn't usually mind working more! We went camping quite a bit this summer and had a ton of fun! And now I am just so excited for Christmas, that I can hardly wait to start shopping and to decorate my house!!! Our puppy, Joey, is the funniest little guy... he has a new habit of asking to go to bed! Yep, he wants to be tucked-in! :) hahha. He will go to the front door and whine, and then lay down until we get up and start walking toward him. If we don't hear him whine, he starts to scratch the door like crazy and then he will bark at us! We walk over to him, and then he runs and hides under the kitchen table until we have his bedtime snack in hand, and then he will run over to his little kennel and lay down! (He has to be put in his little pet-carrier bed, otherwise he would try to play all night long!) And then once we hand him his treat and shut the door, he will go to sleep! Sometimes, he will ask to go to bed at like 8:00pm! It's so funny, he must play hard while we are at work all day ;). Joey is such a spoiled little puppy, but we love him, and he is just so sweet that you can't help but spoil him! He is such a happy dog too, he loves riding in the car, seeing other dogs -even when they don't like him- he absolutely loves them!, he loves little kids, he is OVERJOYED when we come home at night (even though I usually come home for an hour long lunch with him), and he randomly gets bursts of energy and will run laps around the house, and will lightly paw at your face if you stop rubbing his belly when he doesn't want you to stop yet. James and I have such a great life and we are so lucky, and we love every minute of it! :)