Changes.

Alright folks. This could be a larger one. I am finally able to update you on the "big decision" I referenced a while ago. The decision I was referring to was the decision of whether to leave my current wonderful job at the front desk of the H hotel to head to a potentially uncertain (but worth it) job of being the Assistant Director for Spring Hill Day Camps: Detroit. And the decision has been made. Stephen and I are taking a leap of faith (literally) and moving to Detroit this summer so I can give this job a shot. There is no garuntee that I will have a job come August and we don't know where we will live come August and we don't know what Stephen will do at any point after we move... so there are a few uncertainties to say the least.

But here is the good stuff: pay increase, working for the Hill (need I say more?), living closer to my family, we should have the option to get a dog this way, Stephen will have more opportunities to get into a fire department full time, and best of all, we will simply get away from the potentially dead end jobs we are at currently (particuarly the stinkin Home Depot).

So here is our plan. Sometime in the middle of May I will be heading to Spring Hill to train for about a month. Stephen will have quit his job by then and will just be finishing up school and hopefully coming to see me ALL THE TIME. Week one of camp is going to Traverse  City and I believe Stephen will join just to have a little vaca. The next week, we are in Indiana and Stephen (with the help of the in-laws) will use this week to move us down to the Detroit area (Thank you baby and fam). I will happily do all of the packing in exchange for Stephen doing the moving. The rest of the summer should be spent together down in the Detroit area living in the Grandparents house. Here come the contingancies....

Situation number 1: I get offered a job at the end of the summer working full time for Spring Hill and we get to stay in the area and Stephen gets an EMT or firefighter job and we live happily ever after.
Situation number 2: I do not get offered a job and we may or may not just move right to Florida.

There are a few things within those situations that could alter them in some way or another (and Linds, don't worry. If we move, we will wait til after September 16:-) but I guess we are just kind of waiting til God shows us where the next turn in the path is. Stephen has been so wonderful in giving up his fire job and being willing to take the risk and support me the whole way. He knows that my hours during the summer are going to be crazy but we both believe it is going to pay off in the end, even if it pays only in experience.

So that is the big one that is looming in the distance, but our other recent change is the fact that we have aquired some babies. And by babies, I mean ducklings! Dory and Cody-maverick are the newest additions to our little lives here in Bay City. THEY ARE AMAZING. Dory is just a cute little blond-y that is not the best at walking and she is super skinny (which I am a little concerned about). Cody-maverick is totally a little 10 year old boy. He likes to jump off of high places and tumble around. Him and Dory (as of today) like to race each other for a few feet which is maybe the cutest thing I have ever seen. They literally will follow us everywhere. If I am standing at the kitchen sink, Dory will sit right on my toes until I move. If we head in the other room really quick, they will do their best to follow us, though we are usually already back by the time they are half-way there. They swim, but it is a little rough and they don't like to do it for too long. There favorite place to sit and fall asleep is right up on on our shoulders or right on my chest. When they fall asleep, it is amazing how fast it happens. They will just sit down and as soon as they stop chirping their little heads will just fall to the side. SO PRECIOUS!

So anyway, we are loving are little children and having a lot of fun! Packing will probably start soon if I know myself. We will let you know if/when things are happening! Lots of love to anyone reading this!

March?! Really?!

Sot I know we talk about it all the time but time really and truly flies. Or rather, it IS currently flying. I just cannot believe for one second that it is already March. I have been married for 8 months. I have been out of school for almost a year. I have been out of highschool for 5 years! I am feeling old I guess; or grown up at least.... I gues it could be because I have been being "super wifey" lately as Stephen has been calling me or because we have finally made it to a point in our marriage where we are not as nervous about totally failing anymore. We know we can do this. We can hold jobs. We can make large decisions. We can hold each other up. We don't really fight. We keep our apartment clean. We get our laundry done (most of the time) in a timely manner. I guess I am just feeling like a grown up.

A week ago or so I was getting down(thanks a lot PMS) because I was thinking about how easy college was and how much easier high school was in comparison. It is not as if life is this great challange currently, but it is all on our shoulders. In college, I still leaned on my parents for a ton of stuff, even if I didn't realize it at the time. They paid for school. They paid for phone. They would help fix my car. Now those things are on us. We are doing fine! I just am getting used to the idea that this is ALWAYS how it is going to be and that blows my mind just a little bit.

I was talking to my wonderfully beautiful and intelligent friend Lindsey and we were talking about how wierd it is when the BIG milestones come, we are somehow always ready for them. For example, when we were in high school, college seemed like this far off land that was crazy. We would have to get ourselves to class ontime and buy our own food. And eventually move off campus and pay bills. And it all just seems to come at exactly the right time. Right when you are ready for it. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?! We graduated and it seemed like, literally, no big deal. Honestly, I was passe about graduating. It was the most chill thing in the world. Marriage was a pretty big one that I was pretty excited/nervous about but still, it just worked. I couldn't imagine living with a boy and I didn't know how that would work but it has and it is AWESOME.

I guess this blog post has no point but to say. Hi, my name is Laura and I am a grown up.