Life changes!

Hello!!!!!!

I am finally back!!! The truly awful thing about taking a month off is I have so much to catch up on and have no idea where to start, so I think I will just make this post simple.

Chris got a job about a month ago!! Right after I came back to D.C. from California! He is working for a defense contracting company out of Alexandria, Virginia, as a project manager. He has been SO busy stepping into the role of not only his new job, but his direct supervisor's, the Deputy Director of the South West division of the company, who had her baby two days into Chris' first week! He has been working his hiney off...but he has been complimented and noticed by the CEO and division directors for doing a great job! I am so proud of him!

In another but similar note, I TOO have a new job...with the same company as Chris! Professional Solutions has hired me as the administrative assistant! It has been going very well so far, I am loving the people I am working with! It has just been a slight bit of a transistion for me to wake up at 6 am! :) I am honeslty dead tired at 10pm every night, which is totally new for me, I am a self proclaimed night owl...but not anymore I guess!

It is wonderful because Chris and I are able to go into work together and have lunch together everyday, so whatever down time we have we are spending together, which is so wonderful.

On top of our new jobs, we found a place to live! We are renting a townhouse in Springfield, VA and are only 20 mins. from work in traffic...which for the D.C. area is amazing! We are really loving our place, it is 3 stories, the upper level has 3 bedrooms, the main level which is the kitchen, dining and living rooms, and has all wood floors which I love, and the lower level which we have made into a game/rec room. We are in an end unit, and we have really nice trees and lawn around our house and in our neighborhood, plus there are tons of running trails! We are really enjoying this area and the house so far. We are still hoping to buy a house, but we had to sign a year lease, so we are having to put the home buying idea on the back burner for right now!

We finally have all of our household goods in one place! We have spent the last couple of weeks trying to unpack and settle in...and hopefully by the end of this weekend we will be done! :)

The other big change in our lives happened yesterday morning, my brother Colt left for a 7 month deployment in Afganistan. We have been blessed because we have been able to spend alot of time with him lately, which I am so happy about! He will be gone until sometime in June, so my heart is hurting right now out of missing him and worry. I know he will come home safe to us though, and I am already in the back of my mind planning his welcome home party at our place for when he gets back! It's a good distraction! :) Please keep him and his fellow Marines, and all of the men and women who are deployed right now in your thoughts and prayers.

So...all of this is why I have been just AWFUL at posting blogs for the last month! I am hoping that things will slow down, at least for a little while, in order for me to catch up more on scrapping! :) I hope all of you have had a wonderful week! I will be posting pictures with my next blog, I just have not uploaded any from my camera!!

Love and hugs to you all!