Grateful

I am feeling especially blessed tonight. Even after a 77 hour week at school last week, a 9 hour day today, my husband gone again, I am just overcome with gratitude for all I am given.

I am so grateful to have my sweet Jordan. He really is the best thing that has ever happened to me! We have never once gotten into a fight because he just wants me to be happy. He works so hard to make a great future for us. He supported me so much in going to hair school and following my dreams. He is my best friend and I will love him forever.

I am so grateful for our wonderful families! My parents raised us to be such a tight knit family and my parents and my sisters really are the best friends anyone could ask for! I am also so lucky I married into such an amazing family who loves and welcomes me with open arms!

I am so grateful for my school! I never thought in a million years that I would be grateful for school! I was definately led to this career and I love love love being a hairdresser! It is my calling in life! It makes you close to people in a way most careers don't even allow! For most people it is illlegal to even touch clients when I am allowed to connect with people on a whole different level! I love making people's day and making people look amazing!

I am so grateful for friends! I am blessed with lots of great friends! In school, I have the best group of friends that make me want to go play with them everyday! They make me grow and want to be both a better hairdresser and a better person! I also have great friends from Rexburg that will always be my sisters and my best friends and I will always be their Lil Meg!

I don't know why but it seems like a lot of people are going through the hardest times right now! So many people I know are dealing with the loss of a loved one, sickness, financial instability, and many other hard times. I am so blessed to be where I am and I know I owe that to my Father in Heaven. I love you all so much!

Halloween!

This year I dressed up four times in three different costumes!! First, I dressed up at school for our Halloween party the Wednesday before Halloween. I was Wilma Flinstone, Katie was Betty Rubble, and Ali was Fred Flinstone! We had so much fun! We even made a car for us out of a big box!

Then Friday night, we went to a Zombie Prom. I has custom latex cuts on my face. After having them on for a while, they were reaaalllllyyy irritating my skin so I peeled it all off and my skin was welted and had a rash. I assumedthe irritation was just because I pulled it off but it got worse and got swollen and I got hives! It went down by the middle of the next day, so i guess I have a sensitivity to latex!!


Then we went to our annual party at Jimmy and Kira Secor's house! It was our third year going and they are always so much fun! We dressed as lumberjacks! We always play the funnest games and laugh and eat the yummiest food! I also used this costume again for school on Halloween day and stole Jordan's hat and suspenders then!

keys

Jordan is out of town a lot recently. He went to Dallas and Seattle last weekend, then Chicago last week, and now he is in Boston and DC! He is interviewing with some really great companies so we will most likely be moving to one of those places pretty soon... well, not Dallas or Seattle, but let's not talk about that. He did, on the other hand, get some great news yesterday! He was offered the job in Chicago doing internal consulting for Sears. That is one of his top choices all along so that is REALLY exciting!!

Tonight I went over to my friend from school, Katie's house for Sunday dinner so I wouldn't have to be alone. Her family lives in Orem so there was a big group with lots of people and lots of cute kids! I can't wait to have lots of nieces and nephews (okay, and my own kids...) running around so crazy! It was really fun and Katie's family was so sweet and nice to me!

This is Katie... just a couple months ago, but both of us look soooo different now! Oh, hair school!

When I went to leave, my keys were not where I had put them. All the rest of her family were gone at this point except the ones that live there. They all looked around and tried to find them for a while before Katie called the two families that had already left with their kids. I had to find them because my garage opener (that was inside my car) is the only way I have to get into my house and the spare key is back East with Jordan! Eventually it came out that one little girl out the keys in her cousins purse, because, naturally, that's where keys go! So her sister drove up form Spanish and we met in Provo and got my keys, then went back to Orem to get my car, then to Springville to go home! I felt so bad that

We are here!!

Just postin got say we are still alive and kicking! Jordan went to Dallas and Seattle for job interviews with Capital One and with Delliot. They fly him out there, pay for his cabs, his hotels (one was over $250 a night!) and food! He is going to Chicago (Sears), DC (Bates White) and Boston (Analysis Group) in the next week! I wish I could go! But alas, I am at school ALWAYS! But I am so happy to say that night school is really not as bad as I thought it was going to be! The people at night school are so nice and everyone talks to each other because the school is so small at night! It is tiring being there that long, but night school is so great and so different from day school so it changes it up. I am really enjoying to night school and getting through the end of my schooling a little faster!!