tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56518368762550617202024-02-18T17:47:05.691-08:00The Dexter'sKyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-41827918031488285092011-10-06T18:36:00.000-07:002011-10-06T18:45:22.830-07:00Been awhileIt has been a long while since I wrote a blog. A lot has changed since my last post a few years ago. First off Kyle and I got married a year ago as most of you already know. We have a puppy that just turned a year old and we are still as always working on the house and making it our own more and more each day.<br /><br />The newest change for me has been my new job. I left <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Denning</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Downey</span> after 3 years. I learned a lot but was ready for the change. I am not working at the County in the finance department. I am now on the other side of things (doing the work that I used to audit).<br /><br />I am enjoying the change and learning a lot from my new boss. It is very different atmosphere. The first big change was being told that I could finish something the next day. It had been a long time since I heard that. My supervisor is very different also. She doesn't micro-manage me as much as I am used to. That has taken some getting used to. I keep doing my work but I am not being timed and told when it has to be done. I know when it needs to be done but at the same time I am not pressured. <br /><br />Kyle is getting ready for hunting season. He has a week off so he is headed out to his parents property and going to camp for a few days and try to get something out there.<br /><br />Well hopefully I will start to keep things a little more up to date on here.Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-4336721122414078752011-08-05T19:11:00.001-07:002011-08-05T19:11:52.067-07:00Another GIVEAWAYCheck out the awesome giveaway!!<br /><br />http://woodnstitches.blogspot.com/Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-15744381682681732112011-05-22T09:30:00.001-07:002011-05-22T09:31:32.553-07:00Give awayMy favorite place to get home decor is doing a giveaway. Check it out!<br /><br /><h6 class="uiStreamMessage" ft="{"type":"msg"}"><span class="messageBody"> <a href="http://woodnstitches.blogspot.com/2011/05/americana-wood-flag-block-set-giveaway.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://woodnstitches.blogspot.</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span><span>com/2011/05/americana-wood-fla</span><wbr><span class="word_break"></span>g-block-set-giveaway.html</a></span></h6>Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-85984785607631486102009-08-18T19:57:00.001-07:002009-08-18T20:00:25.698-07:00Our new fence<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihR8UBUCH_5pg4UFeIT9xlMZsaf2ZO4itbUc_TSMsGUrr-8a3TgwT6SlIf66xBlSabJTeXv_Djqg6vshVv-MGkgX_hYMI7Cr0iH5GBIP2ggNHS1zynYLV8gMdWTd2Rb_l3qa3Qga6oZ03X/s1600-h/DSCF2191.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihR8UBUCH_5pg4UFeIT9xlMZsaf2ZO4itbUc_TSMsGUrr-8a3TgwT6SlIf66xBlSabJTeXv_Djqg6vshVv-MGkgX_hYMI7Cr0iH5GBIP2ggNHS1zynYLV8gMdWTd2Rb_l3qa3Qga6oZ03X/s320/DSCF2191.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371504278486536258" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg3t60DXj5CA5HpBv3jA9JkbRJg0YnifLtAAk_XUrX7arvrHZmmsa097BmUtdTbx2tUvX_o8ZIYYL4BC9oeLq-W7_XJGMSbljjwHThOy_WW5i7xrYJDVsAl3_WkqpdlRHhj1s7vnZWgL-3/s1600-h/DSCF2194.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg3t60DXj5CA5HpBv3jA9JkbRJg0YnifLtAAk_XUrX7arvrHZmmsa097BmUtdTbx2tUvX_o8ZIYYL4BC9oeLq-W7_XJGMSbljjwHThOy_WW5i7xrYJDVsAl3_WkqpdlRHhj1s7vnZWgL-3/s320/DSCF2194.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371504112221102898" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimRGUTVG8q3iidt_8ti7XWWrAzbHM_vIx3ilQcz8rAWhM3dPZX3WvEEFKf1X-DylxR9d_ipAK8SUuD6pC8EJ3upKFAPcgnwOc-sAQ99KXkYnKRRP645Fj3-CsnCvwc1T4GMIbqsOzECKQh/s1600-h/DSCF2193.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimRGUTVG8q3iidt_8ti7XWWrAzbHM_vIx3ilQcz8rAWhM3dPZX3WvEEFKf1X-DylxR9d_ipAK8SUuD6pC8EJ3upKFAPcgnwOc-sAQ99KXkYnKRRP645Fj3-CsnCvwc1T4GMIbqsOzECKQh/s320/DSCF2193.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371503936855635666" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhczV-9Zm37ohyphenhyphen8CdtuLqCiFFbYu0IOhMEex2fwPYct7RSm9Cua1-8npVcbIGFn6CxutLvP31NkD68OTkHnEqcesp0VzeCa_fL_Q_VDtg3ZVp9MTJeX_PKIbz4LMWmnwFuTT-PUpEFBuimH/s1600-h/DSCF2189.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhczV-9Zm37ohyphenhyphen8CdtuLqCiFFbYu0IOhMEex2fwPYct7RSm9Cua1-8npVcbIGFn6CxutLvP31NkD68OTkHnEqcesp0VzeCa_fL_Q_VDtg3ZVp9MTJeX_PKIbz4LMWmnwFuTT-PUpEFBuimH/s320/DSCF2189.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371503760871931394" border="0" /></a><br />Here are some pictures of our new fence!!Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-47949833814122508472009-05-09T21:09:00.000-07:002009-05-09T21:33:04.111-07:00New house, spring, and much more...Well I was just reading a friends blog and felt that I really needed to get a new post done for myself.<br /><br />We are all moved into the house now, well not completly out of the storage unit but we are making progress. Things are starting to come together in the house. The kitchen is bigger then I really need. I have empty drawers, no cabinets but that I cause I spread everything out. We did some painting in the living room and hallway. No more white walls in there. I still have to do some more touch up work on the moldings, doors and ceiling. I left those all white. The living room is now a tan. We also painted one wall in the spare room the same tan color. We bought three gallons of the tan and we had a gallon and half left over. The spare room now has a bed in it. We are still looking for a queen frame so we can get it off the floor. Once we get that we just have some pictures to put up and it will look really nice.<br /><br />Our yard is slowly turning green. Kyle is out there every night watering it and then mowing it every week because he keeps putting fertilizer on it. But it is turning green which makes him happy. He wasn't too excited to see the first $80 water bill but he will live. We are also planning on planting some trees, garden and flower beds in the coming month. We were on our way to the garden place today but ended up not purchasing as much as we would have liked because on the way there a truck hit a rock up on my wind sheild. So instead of some trees we will now be replacing a wind sheild. The rock did some pretty bad demage, Kyle had glass on him, there is a crack down my whole wind shield, and is sure to be leaking with the first rain.<br /><br />Needless to say we are loving the new house. We also went to the human society and got a new cat. She is 13 years old but if you didn't know that you never would. She plays like a kitten and acts like one too. We now have cat toys all over the house.<br /><br />Work is going really well and staying very busy. We are in our last 6 weeks of the fiscal year 2008 audit season. I am currently working with Bob on all of his audits to attempt to get them all done. He works on the cities and counties. So I will be traveling a lot over the next few weeks but it will keep me very busy and I will learn a lot. I think I will have the chance to learn how to do a federal audit which should be fun and get me ready for next years audit season. <br /><br />Kyle is starting to get busy again with work. Summer time and people drink more beer or the no work thing is making people drink more. Who knows but it keeps him in a job. They are actually talking about letting him continue to work three days a week all summer but get him help so that should be nice but a very busy three days.<br /><br />As for everything else I am back in school. I am about to finish my first class of the graduate program that I started. I am going to the University of Phoenix and working on my Masters in the Science of Accountancy. The program is designed to help me prep for the CPA exam. I will be done in about 14 short months. Every class is 6 weeks and I only take one at at time. <br /><br />Lets see the last thing that has been exciting is I finally found the reason for my hives. I went in and got allergy testing done the beginning of the week. It only took them about 2 months to get me in. I am allergic to yeast and corn. But I took those two things out of my diet and I instantly got better. Corn does include everthing made out of it so no more pop and candy for the most part. Getting those two things out has made me feel a million times better already in just a few short days. My crohns is doing really well to, no drugs for that so I can't complain to much. Hopefully this will be the end of my health problems for awhile. <br /><br />We are looking forward to the summer, working on the yard, racing, camping and a vacation to Oregon. We are planning on coming out July 17 staying for a few days around Salem and then taking off to the coast to camp for a few days and then drive up to Seattle area for a few more days.Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-26409474237336467762009-03-16T14:16:00.000-07:002009-03-16T14:31:51.471-07:00UpdateSo here is a little update on what has been going on since my last post of our house. We still aren't moved. Hopefully (crossing my fingers) we will be moving in this coming weekend. Getting our loan out of underwriting has been a little crazy. I have sent a ton of bank statements and paystubs to them, my college transcripts and who knows what else. Hopefully we will rap everything up this week. <br />We have lots of plans for the house but the big thing right now is getting into it and then cleaning the old place. Plus before we move I want to make sure that it has all been cleaned up before putting stuff in their. Kyle is planning on cleaning the carpets and I want to get the bathrooms and kitchen cleaned to start off with. Then after we are a little settled we are going to be purchasing some blinds for the windows, and slowly starting to paint the starch white walls. I am thinking our bedroom will be two different tones of green. Possibly the office will be a blue and the spare room is a toss up from Red or a burnt orange/brown. The living room I would like to paint it a tan or cream. <br />When the snow melts and we start getting warmer we will start working on some new flower beds, trees, and then a garden in the backyard. We will also have to put up one more side of fence in the backyard.<br />Soon it will become our own home.<br /><br />As for everything else I have finally decided to go back to school. I am starting March 31 at the University of Phoenix. I am doing my masters in the science of accountancy. I want to get to a point where I am ready to sit for the CPA exam and that is what this program is designed to do. So hopefully after 12 classes in accounting I will be ready. The classes run for 6 weeks at a time and I only take one at a time. I should be done in about a year and 4 months. Work is pretty busy to March is the month of all of our Federal audits need to be done so we have been frantically working on getting those done. I have been out of town for the last 4 weeks for a couple of days at a time. Things should slow down a little and we will start working on the smaller audits but we have a lot more to get done before June 30 when everything is due.<br /><br />Kyle is mainly working lots and waiting to get to move into his new garage and start fixing it up.<br /><br />Well that is us for now. Soon I will post a new address for us and then I will also be changing my phone number I think. I figure it seems time to do that since I did buy a house here. Although after having the same phone number for 8 years it is a little hard to give it up.Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-62898107480562553212009-02-10T17:37:00.000-08:002009-02-10T17:52:56.049-08:00The new houseWell it looks like I will be buying a house with the help of Kyle paying ha<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3zxxMZdEnq4Qk6_cdsG-qA276U3898onNP_RrhZPdd4LwZMJYn_9tg2wxweAUSLw85RGwFq-m0juzIexlwVDqsX_C9EFKYUt9w7Fs3cFSH9D1mzYMfQSHQFWU7Mlm3tG2uMaNDkoAn1Ur/s1600-h/14927687_1.jpg.266x200"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3zxxMZdEnq4Qk6_cdsG-qA276U3898onNP_RrhZPdd4LwZMJYn_9tg2wxweAUSLw85RGwFq-m0juzIexlwVDqsX_C9EFKYUt9w7Fs3cFSH9D1mzYMfQSHQFWU7Mlm3tG2uMaNDkoAn1Ur/s320/14927687_1.jpg.266x200" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301349846203962114" border="0" /></a>lf of it. We had been looking for awhile around and prices have recently dropped that we couldn<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUwi454goVSPPgCSV-j_00IeVVb-8lwYVH0iezEByhfTJ9XiuM5gHDId4XJ8iM_uxkjzYGCbt7oOE5R9IXJR9ZzI36qhDOIhr2jM0jKEgS5xf0hJjdCAizhToC-9ICxEx4pX5H02s3HxOC/s1600-h/14927687_5.jpg.266x200"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUwi454goVSPPgCSV-j_00IeVVb-8lwYVH0iezEByhfTJ9XiuM5gHDId4XJ8iM_uxkjzYGCbt7oOE5R9IXJR9ZzI36qhDOIhr2jM0jKEgS5xf0hJjdCAizhToC-9ICxEx4pX5H02s3HxOC/s320/14927687_5.jpg.266x200" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301350662580069138" border="0" /></a>'t actually afford what we were wanting. So two weeks ago we went with our realtor and looked at 6 different homes. We really liked two of them and ended up putting an offer in on one here in town. It turned out that there was another offer in also and I put my best offer in and it wasn't good enough. So after talking with Kyle about it we decided to put in an offer on our second choice. It was a 3 bedroom 2 bath in Somers, which is about 7 min. from my work. So in reality it is actually closer for me to ge<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifwrf2NtXlizdZH6QBAR38ld2jgSQJdVVxVWmmobiIpCZAQNNgkB3xBjgr9LqVG3EbW_Bq_Thyq6wiatxJira8WKB2ldq6SpQN2ZOWgh5ANEA1_ZeJyi3TH5fbqYr6EtG-YCFpHrrHmjJr/s1600-h/14927687_2.jpg.266x200"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifwrf2NtXlizdZH6QBAR38ld2jgSQJdVVxVWmmobiIpCZAQNNgkB3xBjgr9LqVG3EbW_Bq_Thyq6wiatxJira8WKB2ldq6SpQN2ZOWgh5ANEA1_ZeJyi3TH5fbqYr6EtG-YCFpHrrHmjJr/s320/14927687_2.jpg.266x200" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301350000343631010" border="0" /></a>t to work then I am currently at. Our offer was excepted on all of our terms on the first try. Should have gone lower I guess. I know I know sh<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw0jY0NViWvmtrz45STY9ndEcODR6XF6VLEViPjn3ir3OTrwkLhL-oNyrJX0qrjfsel7Yq2cY5OVu5yNydSoI0u_a28ZQxvj1Rw-Vkpc4WkncKs021wir1YLxazHDGgl86oqnlcwC3Dsju/s1600-h/14927687_3.jpg.266x200"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw0jY0NViWvmtrz45STY9ndEcODR6XF6VLEViPjn3ir3OTrwkLhL-oNyrJX0qrjfsel7Yq2cY5OVu5yNydSoI0u_a28ZQxvj1Rw-Vkpc4WkncKs021wir1YLxazHDGgl86oqnlcwC3Dsju/s320/14927687_3.jpg.266x200" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301350296056778434" border="0" /></a>ould have listened to my dad. We have been doing a lot of running around and getting thing but things do seem to finally be coming together. Tomorrow is our inspection and then an appraisal in the next week to week and half. Our loan officer seems to think we might be able to close a little sooner then we had originally said. It is set for March 19. We aren'<br />t holding our breath on that but maybe we will get to move sooner. Would be nice to have a little extra time. Here are some pictures of our new home.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfvHFZI1_3Z7msbx3mQHOiKYwhzEaD3PbOqBXGNMIPcD0uZxVMJtFHnlaOWehqKb2PexlmsoirdPE3JGdMaxX3GpBVH2LZT0ENU7nFZq4jkF2kuh2kngteMYv5RRMk7tMaLfoOBXqGpsxB/s1600-h/14927687_4.jpg.266x200"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfvHFZI1_3Z7msbx3mQHOiKYwhzEaD3PbOqBXGNMIPcD0uZxVMJtFHnlaOWehqKb2PexlmsoirdPE3JGdMaxX3GpBVH2LZT0ENU7nFZq4jkF2kuh2kngteMYv5RRMk7tMaLfoOBXqGpsxB/s320/14927687_4.jpg.266x200" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301350475595978514" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpb6dxqe0RdGmgiZ5iNlIavNB7pheum92rfMe2b515msm8zH3fG28egiZcGEOytut7whGcx_vkjMkq-v_I6GrMhShI92S67gS8foJIvG5LDn6euS-KUvSIgvykWUwvWT92NAcqshYUFT-P/s1600-h/14927687_7.jpg.266x200"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpb6dxqe0RdGmgiZ5iNlIavNB7pheum92rfMe2b515msm8zH3fG28egiZcGEOytut7whGcx_vkjMkq-v_I6GrMhShI92S67gS8foJIvG5LDn6euS-KUvSIgvykWUwvWT92NAcqshYUFT-P/s320/14927687_7.jpg.266x200" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301350833799579218" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ZNQjc2zwVkflRoHxULi_My0dQ6p01l5cS4dG2jPYDycVmtsWIiUrcrjakxp0u5w8_Jsq4gpk7xNspC_3wuTeToRZlHyM2J1KYhqPPUyAGxMVDIoHJSZFkht1M9XEz990IFZiED6yHbmY/s1600-h/14927687_8.jpg.266x200"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ZNQjc2zwVkflRoHxULi_My0dQ6p01l5cS4dG2jPYDycVmtsWIiUrcrjakxp0u5w8_Jsq4gpk7xNspC_3wuTeToRZlHyM2J1KYhqPPUyAGxMVDIoHJSZFkht1M9XEz990IFZiED6yHbmY/s320/14927687_8.jpg.266x200" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301351186036217730" border="0" /></a>Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-85724537934627757662008-11-25T15:31:00.000-08:002008-11-25T15:50:52.897-08:00Loving my new jobWell the subject says a lot. I have been working in my new job for well 7 weeks now. I am really liking it. I am learning a lot probably something new every single day. I have been to several new places doing audits. Darby, Havre, Augusta, and Poplar are the new towns I visited. But I have also done audits for Bigfork SD and Evergreen SD. Every audit I seem to add something new to my work load. I have been traveling with the two partners Kim and Bob. They both have different teaching skills but it seems to work for me. Bob is a little more into the explaining the reasoning behind things while Kim will just tell you how to do it. Both styles work for me. The school districts and city audits are a little different in their own ways. I don't know which one I like more yet. The next few months I have a lot more audits coming up. I think I am doing a few counties, cities, and school district. I believe I am also doing a closing of the books for Lincoln County also.<br /><br />Tax season is fast approaching. Bob was telling me their thoughts for me during the tax season. The hope is we will get around 150 walk in clients and those people would all be given to me. The thought is most of these would be in my comfort zone of individual returns and work my way up to the bigger and better returns in the coming year. Being that our office is right on the main street I think we really could get that many clients. I am also going to help with the free tax site on the weekends so that will keep me very busy. Nothing but tax for about ten weeks!! Then probably back to audit.<br /><br />Lets see the rest of life is going really good. We have been going to Libby most weekends so Kyle can hunt. Which means I get to stay at his mom's house and sleep!! It is a little scary being out there when nobody else is around. They live in the woods and a lot of people come and go around their hunting. I stay inside for the most part. So far hunting season has been uneventful. Kyle has one more day and he can actually shoot a doe so hopefully we will see one on thanksgiving and we will get some meat for the next year.<br /><br />This weekend we have another full weekend. We are going to Kyle's mom's for the holiday and then Friday we are driving to Billings to see his dad. They are having a 50th wedding aniversary for his step mom's parents. So we are going to attend that. We will drive back Sunday so I can be back to work on Monday. I have a four day weekend. I almost can't wait for a weekend at home!!<br /><br />Christmas is fast approaching I am hoping to go get my decorations out of storage on Friday and get them up before leaving for Billings. Kyle thinks I am decorating too early. I dont' think so. Day after Thanksgiving is fair game!! Well that is about it for us.Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-47206765603173291612008-10-13T15:37:00.000-07:002008-10-17T07:53:19.395-07:00A new month and a new jobBeing that Oct seems to be almost half over I thought it was time for a blog. I have started my new job, been here 6 days. I have been doing a lot of reading, and catching up on everything that I have forgot over the last year and half of being out of school. I did my first tax return for them the other day. Hopefully I did a good job on it. Probably one of the first tax returns that I have done with a business and <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">depreciation</span>.<br /><br />I went home for a few days between the two jobs. Spent time with the family and got to see pretty much everybody that lives at least in Oregon. We had birthday celebrations with both sides of the family. For my birthday I went out with some friends to the bar that we went to during college. I came to the decision that I was over the loud music and drinking. Besides that fact that I can't drink anyways. Tia and I went to Whites for breakfast on Friday so that was really good!<br /><br />Kyle and I are really wanting to buy a house. We went to a talk this last week about a new subdivision that they are starting. They called it affordable housing. I am not sure who gave them their <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">definition</span> but $169,900 for a 2 bedroom 1 bath 940 square feet home didn't really mean affordable to me. So I think the decision we have reached is work hard at getting everything paid off and hopefully try to buy in about 6 to 8 months. Probably end up buying an older home. We really want a garage on it for Kyle and a bigger bathroom. Those are the two things so far it has to have. Ohh and a dishwasher.<br /><br />That is about all I have right now, we are trying to figure out the coming home for Christmas or Trina's wedding. We are probably coming for the wedding because I wouldn't have to take much time off that way, we got Jan 1 off for the holiday and Jan 2 for the firms birthday. Probably come by train, because it is cheaper and we know that we can get to the train station. Never know what the roads could be like that time of the year. So hopefully that will work out for getting time off.Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-87862232426626031082008-09-29T09:45:00.000-07:002008-09-29T09:57:20.791-07:003rd time better be a charmSo this weekend was a beautiful weekend. Saturday I was super busy being lazy all morning and afternoon. I got up at ten ate breakfast and then went back to bed and slept till one. Then I watched several lifetime movies. Saturday night was the last night at the race track. Kyle's friend Kyle had one more race that he was in. He ended up getting to do the trophy dash and won. So he was pretty pleased to get a trophy. The main event would have gone okay but they blew a tire and their stuff to fix it had been put away so it took way too long to get it fixed. He made it back out for the last lap. Saturday I started to have problems with my starter in my car so we decided to work on it Sunday.<br /><br />Kyle took the one we had put in the car just two months ago out and took it to Napa, turns out it was faulty. So we got a new remanufactored one and got it all put in and my car didn't even try to start. They had given us another bad one. We took it out again and then took it back. At this point Kyle wasn't happy at all. They ended up giving us a brand new one for a discount so now I have a brand new one that better work!! We spent the rest of the day getting stuff done around the house. We did buy a few more halloween decorations. Kyle bought a scary skelleton guy and hung it outside. And it did a good job by scaring me this morning when I left for work.<br /><br />I only have a day and half more of work. And Wed I leave for Oregon!!Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-80546257618149258602008-09-23T12:56:00.000-07:002008-09-23T13:10:41.232-07:00ChangesWell again I have made another change. I have 5 more days at Northwest Montana Human Resources and will now be working at Denning, Downey, and Associates. I will be a staff accountant working in the audit and tax departments. I am excited for the change but nervous at the same time. I have hope that this change will give Kyle and I more of a chance to go forward and do what we want. We really want to buy a house at some point. Hopefully sooner then later. So hopefully with this new job will help us save some money and then also pay our bills off. <br /><br />Kyle has also had a change with his job. He is now working three days a week. They hope that this change will help with him working so many hours and also cut down on their costs for him driving over there. <br /><br />With my time at NMHR I have traveled to Chicago for some training. I loved visiting Chicago. I did a lot of walking around the downtown area. Sunday I think I walked like 20 blocks looking at different things. I went to Sears Tower, on a architecture tour, to Navy Pier, and then on bus tour of town. On the bus tour I went to the different ethnic communites which was neat to see. Got me out of the downtown area the whole time and saw some other area. They are trying to get the 2016 summer olympics so they have built this beautiful park right in down town. It is so neat with a huge performance area, fountains, tennis courts and so much more. <br /><br />Tia and Jessie came and visited the first part of September. It was fun to get to hang out with them. We went to Glacier park and went camping for a night. I learned how to play phase 10 and fell in love with that game. I still need to go buy it!!<br /><br />I am coming home first of Octoboer. I am taking a short break between the jobs and will be home Oct 1-5 and then will start my job Oct 6. I will be hopefully finding some professional clothing for my new job and then be attending Amber's wedding. Plus it is my birthday while I am home!!<br /><br />That is my update for now. I should get back to work. 5 more days!!Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-406201486139600102008-07-18T18:22:00.000-07:002008-07-18T18:43:23.406-07:00It is over!!Well my year of service is over. Our new vista has arrived and we have been trying to track down some furniture for her. I think we will get along pretty well. I am excited to start my new job. Jane has already started giving me odd jobs to do. Which is nice to know that I am needed. I got my airline tickets to Chicago. For once flying out of Kalispell I have a direct flight. That doesn't ever happen.<br /><br />We started our third financial education class. Once again this group is different from the other. I think we might actually have a few drop outs and that is okay. We knew it would happen but we were just really lucky with the last two classes. This class is a lot easier to teach cause they actually participate in the class and give answers!!<br /><br />TJ is on her way here as I type. They were just in Libby so she should be here in about an hour. Kyle is off to the big Montana 200 race. There are four cars on the team that he helps pit for, but yesterday was practice and they blew up an engine already. So now there is three. Tonight is time trials to see which lucky 12 will race tomorrow for $40,000. People come from Canada, Idaho, Washington, and Montana to race this weekend. Should be an interesting race, I am a little sad I am missing it. I will have fun though with TJ. Don't know what we are doing yet but I kind of want to go to Glacier and then even up to Big Mountain for the summer festival. So we will see what we can fit in with time. I haven't been up to Glacier since they finally opened the road to the sun. That only happened like the first of the month. Very late opening cause of the snow we had in June.<br /><br />I need to figure out a new name for my blog since my AmeriCorp year is over. If you have ideas leave me a comment or tell me.Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-47822829878800550622008-07-10T09:30:00.000-07:002008-07-18T18:17:48.209-07:00Catch upWell again it has been a month. It never seems that I have enough time to sit down and write a blog.<br /><br /><br /><br />The good news of the whole month is I finally have a job. Yesterday I interviewed and accepted a job here at the agency. I will be financial educator/grant writer. First big event will be my traveling to Chicago for train the trainer training in <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">home buyer</span> education. Don't know where I will go after that I think it is either horrible Denver or DC. I think those are both coming up just don't which is which. I am really excited about my job. Pay isn't the greatest but I do love the financial education program and the people I work with. So I think that makes up for<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-1b8bfo0wgUgoOjXaz2sUVg58QFoiuY0X8V_aTOcfVBuSsfczRcskywWyks5TsWoJ3V0alrjoyWYHmL2ymzVXKHJNpLD3KtUR0k5CvjGhnfJBwi3ziF0ES8cZMwrUx3fnkqlSn3dVs2OW/s1600-h/4th+of+July+weekend+013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-1b8bfo0wgUgoOjXaz2sUVg58QFoiuY0X8V_aTOcfVBuSsfczRcskywWyks5TsWoJ3V0alrjoyWYHmL2ymzVXKHJNpLD3KtUR0k5CvjGhnfJBwi3ziF0ES8cZMwrUx3fnkqlSn3dVs2OW/s320/4th+of+July+weekend+013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224525759249573602" border="0" /></a> it. We will see. Doesn't mean I am stuck here and maybe something else will excite me and I will do that. Never know.<br /><br /><br /><br />Lets see we will work backwards in the month. This last weekend was the 4<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">th</span> of July we went to Libby of course. Two of his aunts where visiting and 5 of his cousins. It was quite the full house. Kyle and I stayed in the trailer which was actually really nice so we could still get away from everybody when needed. Friday Kyle worked and ended up putting in 62 hours last week. People drink to much beer over the holiday. When he finally got off Friday we raced to Libby to get there by dark. We got there at the start of the fireworks. From their backyard we watched about 10 different shows. Here in Montana we can set off whatever we want. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8bHYKqwP0BeTDAU4rF2CON4HxY8m7dWeQaYxJYBj02P714WXs7fVirb1hOck-KZdqsY1g3EYSClTmQF8zef6HstzoALFdNDKrYFpZhRJ1hjPIjeHfH2pIx__uMWT1iCzNDOFn80n0owzK/s1600-h/4th+of+July+weekend+002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8bHYKqwP0BeTDAU4rF2CON4HxY8m7dWeQaYxJYBj02P714WXs7fVirb1hOck-KZdqsY1g3EYSClTmQF8zef6HstzoALFdNDKrYFpZhRJ1hjPIjeHfH2pIx__uMWT1iCzNDOFn80n0owzK/s320/4th+of+July+weekend+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224526115271975874" border="0" /></a>What everybody went to a certain place to watch we got to see from the backyard and set off <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">our self</span>. Saturday we pretty much a lazy day. They got a kitten for Kyle's grandma. Super cute <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">ca</span><span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">t</span> and she just loved it. When we ate dinner she wanted to go check on her and make sure she was okay. Saturday night they got out the shot guns and has some target practice. I even shot 3 times and hit the can once. Turns out I really think I am blind. Once I tried to see the can it was all <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">blurry</span>. That is my story and I am sticking to it!! Sunday we all got up and went on a hike. We hiked to Geiger lake. It is in the Cabinet Mountains. Three miles up and then Three miles down. I was pretty tired and sore. Turns out just being back at the gym for two weeks wasn't quite enough. But it was beautiful once we got up there.<br /><br /><br /><br />Kyle and Kyle finally got the car finished and they did their first race about three weeks ago. My Kyle helps with the car and m<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_r602Z_7Ktvzt1wkJptmUdCK9wCW7NJM5c7Qow2-1JbnHJHg2WcYXlMPMffHgV1gcqyM6vzKI4y4OEKJLIj_UOzXOf5zDquicRzG4h7C5KDe-3RzzTn9HQCbM3mal2EPG_XGEKlCFhzZn/s1600-h/Racing+001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_r602Z_7Ktvzt1wkJptmUdCK9wCW7NJM5c7Qow2-1JbnHJHg2WcYXlMPMffHgV1gcqyM6vzKI4y4OEKJLIj_UOzXOf5zDquicRzG4h7C5KDe-3RzzTn9HQCbM3mal2EPG_XGEKlCFhzZn/s320/Racing+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224526755810484962" border="0" /></a>echanical stuff and his friend Kyle actually races it. They have another one tomorrow. Kyle came in 8<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">th</span> with the car. He did cause a small accident. The race he is participating in is called the hornet class. It is a bunch of older cars with everything torn out of them and then they race. His is a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Pontiac</span> and his hit a mini van. The mini van won't be racing any time soon as he hit the wall straight on. While trying to finish the car they were welding and actually started the seat on fire Friday night before the race. They worked all day Saturday to finish it up.<br /><br /><br /><br />We also went camping for Kyles vacation to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Wallaw</span> Lake. It was really fun to see Kyle in just heaven with being able to pet the deer. We did a little touring around the area and over heated my car as we were going up a hill at like 20 mph. The last full day we were their it rained and snowed. That night it snowed so much that our tent caved in<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKDWFtghRdG1TeGc8FZlCQA0pPt3pzNDz6O2BetUSFPX2vQmvXdx1DWsY91NJU99k6YLrtx3VyuaUfsYO1h82mWQIxJmPCug6H_w8RGuPkrFRhnYtbkt8qmYjyjcfxdNQk8oIRcJk__jFE/s1600-h/Vocation+015.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKDWFtghRdG1TeGc8FZlCQA0pPt3pzNDz6O2BetUSFPX2vQmvXdx1DWsY91NJU99k6YLrtx3VyuaUfsYO1h82mWQIxJmPCug6H_w8RGuPkrFRhnYtbkt8qmYjyjcfxdNQk8oIRcJk__jFE/s320/Vocation+015.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224527809793637506" border="0" /></a> on us. In the morning we got up early packed everything up and then headed home. I was so cold I was pretty excited to have the warmth of the car.<br /><br />That has been pretty much our life. This month the new Vista will start, I start my new job, and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">TJ</span> and her mom are coming to visit. The summer is going by to quickly. Tia and Jessie are even planning their trip here for Labor day weekend.Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-49037285937560722532008-06-04T20:47:00.000-07:002008-06-04T21:08:08.066-07:00Last few monthsWell once again I have fallen behind on my blog posts. My last post I showed pictures of our new place. We got all moved in a settled. We are loving having the place. It is nice to have a place with two bedrooms and possibly a little extra space. We even have the garage but it is full. Kyle took off the next day after we got everything moved and went and got his car from his mom's house. So it is all tore apart in our garage. It sits and waits till he has some money to do something more with it. It will be a long project but keeps him entertained for a few hours each weekend which is actually kind of nice!!<br /><br />My parents come and visited the first part of May. We took them around some more of the area. They even meet Kyle's mom and soon to be step dad. Saw their new house also. They also have gotten all moved. It was a moving month for us. Getting them all moved and ourselves. <br /><br />After their visit to see us I actually took the train home to go on my mom's family coast trip. That was enjoyable. I spent one night up in Portland and got a chance to actually see some friends that are living up there. Then I went home and we headed to the beach for the weekend. After getting home from that I got to see <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Sharlee</span> and Ali for a few. Not too long they have to come visit me. It was a short but very productive trip. <br /><br />Kyle and I actually braved the rain and went camping for a night during memorial weekend. We went to the river near Libby. It was just for a night, I ended up getting burnt by the fire but that only hurt for a little while. We tried out our new tent. It is huge, a lot bigger then we thought. It is going to be nice to have. We are slowly going to buy some more camping stuff as we go.<br /><br />Last weekend we actually went to the race track. My <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">first</span> time seeing live car races. It was a lot of fun actually. I had a really good time. We were actually in the pit because kyle has some friends that are all racing. Kyle was helping in the pit. One of the guys on the team ended up coming in third. Three out of the 4 cars were going to need some good repairs before the next race actually. One car blew an engine cylinder, another lost their breaks, and another guy got in a wreck. It was an interesting race but lots of fun. On Sunday we went for a little drive. We went up to a town called <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Polebridge</span> next to Glacier Park. It was a little spooky drive. It felt like a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">scene</span> from a scary movie. We then were told about a pretty lake up the road about six miles. I had this picture in my head of the ranger following up the road and killing us. He didn't kill us and turns out it is a beautiful lake. I wouldn't mind going back there and camping on a nice weekend. We might consider taking a gun though just cause now we have scared ourselves. I will have to post pictures when I get home.<br /><br />This weekend we are planning on going to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Willawa</span> lake and going to see my parents again when they meet up there. It should be a nice little get away.<br /><br />Lets see for a work update. Tax season is over. We ended up doing over 200 tax returns!! For a first year site and I pretty satisfied. We doubled the amount we are suppose to actually do. We had over 150,000 in federal refunds back to our clients. We are in out second quarter for financial education. I have started teaching the classes. I am really enjoying this new task. Hopefully we will keep doing this. We have hired somebody as of today to take on the Vista position as my replacement. She is coming from Georgia. I am excited to have somebody replace me.<br /><br />As for what I am planning on doing as of July 18. First task is to get a better paying job!! Easy task I think. I am hoping to stay on with the agency and hopefully a job will be opening up here in the near future and I will be applying for a job when it does open. I am looking forward to a new adventure and the training that will come with this possible job!! :)<br /><br />Well I should go I am down in Helena for the night for some meetings. It has been raining here and some how I think I got lost on my way down. I don't really know where I went wrong but I didn't come to Helena like I have in the past. I thought I was going to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Greatfalls</span> for quite awhile. I figured if I ended up there I knew where to go from there but I got here just not sure how it happened. Hopefully I will get easier then I got here. I think I took the long way I guess.Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-34403227166041494422008-03-18T20:56:00.000-07:002008-03-18T21:08:35.918-07:00New House<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjslED-UBpXBhXIOuGbiRo1FQ5QwXiOIe4mdbXJ0wolMJG_eNmKdff_SeVq5kysvRfLGTTGsgqgINkMDWEMhiLLRAVYGmVCGji4dthunLtbNQxj3SxO3TeQBQb4B8M0RetEBHfiRpoc33bz/s1600-h/New+house+003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjslED-UBpXBhXIOuGbiRo1FQ5QwXiOIe4mdbXJ0wolMJG_eNmKdff_SeVq5kysvRfLGTTGsgqgINkMDWEMhiLLRAVYGmVCGji4dthunLtbNQxj3SxO3TeQBQb4B8M0RetEBHfiRpoc33bz/s320/New+house+003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179298962841505090" border="0" /></a><br />Well we have finally found a new place that we can afford and fits our needs!! As usual today started looking through the Daily Interlake for another possible place to move to. Was getting discouraged as usual but then found a place for $700 with 2bed room and 1 bath. Didn't think for that cheap there was a chance it had a garge but figured what the heck. To my surprise it did. So we set an appointment to go look at it and feel in love with it. It is a small 2 bedroom place, but will work great for us. It is at the back of the property of a older gal, probably late 50's but real nice. We saw the place at about 5:30pm and found out by 7pm that we had the place. I was super excited!! Here are some pictures will post more after we get moved and unpacked which could take awhile with our work schedules. Our goal is to move this weekend and clean my place and be out b<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQonWe2m6vgRlABOpsoAVxVVMiDbwsYAVog0UiZRQ2O9IJf0N8kSGhFa1B_mB2D1gJq2iJVQwcXtGSDRUEAir9fIT1dUPqhqdsxkMg_-WOZpnPDLLX_dgjJUFcvyDJ7CbHuIZeUW0abNMq/s1600-h/New+house+002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQonWe2m6vgRlABOpsoAVxVVMiDbwsYAVog0UiZRQ2O9IJf0N8kSGhFa1B_mB2D1gJq2iJVQwcXtGSDRUEAir9fIT1dUPqhqdsxkMg_-WOZpnPDLLX_dgjJUFcvyDJ7CbHuIZeUW0abNMq/s320/New+house+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179299293553986898" border="0" /></a>y the<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpfGjh3bzCcMkZsAFK9lOgf07QJHGxyBvQtMgUJrYrht61E9Ijg4PhO-zzuIuF9gHp8LfnR5gpgyztzU4CNXzFDX7D1tW_kRMR7XbJL3wTlcS6kV8JBd8cNoJx0d3ztVOfQHAehwaqzKAd/s1600-h/New+house+001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpfGjh3bzCcMkZsAFK9lOgf07QJHGxyBvQtMgUJrYrht61E9Ijg4PhO-zzuIuF9gHp8LfnR5gpgyztzU4CNXzFDX7D1tW_kRMR7XbJL3wTlcS6kV8JBd8cNoJx0d3ztVOfQHAehwaqzKAd/s320/New+house+001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179299602791632226" border="0" /></a> end of the month!!Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-10454594727592186322008-03-10T17:43:00.000-07:002008-03-10T18:10:13.039-07:00Been a long long time<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdK4v02nYn2Gju2xf_WHlrievuLY_RqWJa1inGVflAJaQJGzGfRjsnSFZWSgasyPPMiwAZooQ3d2S4NeZ6qZ403U6ua0SWKPeWoH-o4aR4g7WvBVdRfw8M4k-plylpDhD0u3ESYvgDazHL/s1600-h/A+moose+and+Libby+010.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdK4v02nYn2Gju2xf_WHlrievuLY_RqWJa1inGVflAJaQJGzGfRjsnSFZWSgasyPPMiwAZooQ3d2S4NeZ6qZ403U6ua0SWKPeWoH-o4aR4g7WvBVdRfw8M4k-plylpDhD0u3ESYvgDazHL/s320/A+moose+and+Libby+010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176284870757289266" border="0" /></a><br />Well it is March and I haven't written a blog for about a month and half. Lets see if I can give a full update.<br /><br />I have been working a lot about ten hours a week of over time. Free To Choo$e has started and we are actually in the 8th week. It is going great. Nobody has dropped out which we find amazing!! I have been teaching the kids. I have enjoyed it and feel that they have learned a lot. Ten weeks is a lot of time to teach them what they should know about bank accounts but we are starting a new project this week with them earning money for being good and participating in the class. At the end of the ten weeks we are going to have a store for them to buy things!! So far I think a couple of my kids really like it. Two of my kids don't seem to care. Next term we might be finding another teacher to teach the kids so I can start teaching the adults. We are going to see how it goes!!<br /><br />Taxes has been talking up the most of my time. We have done a lot of tax returns and well last time I was told we had done about 72 returns with about $70,000 in returns. I am really enjoying doing them besides the stress but it is alot of working with people which has been quite enjoyable. Taxes aren't as bad as I thought, and the nightmares weren't worth it!!<br /><br />Lets see, I got sick, I started to get sick around Christmas just being sick to my stomach in the mornings well that turned to throwing up every time I ate. Then I turned yellow and went to ER. Turns out my new medicine that they gave me was messing up my liver. Went off of it and then I feel a lot better. I am not trying to go off the steroids again with out any other medicines. So far so good!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJRZXhZ6oVHnKKYDjNNUFhOKmgV5OPFAH2NURr-JaD4TOZZc2RV31Y4xOeWx_ReVqM7lQGHT3BE4lgVd98RpW3UJUGMM9SxjnlzTrhi8-cIGn_0j4N_pC7zSIs9ZpEUNyR3sKWYx1E3Pb-/s1600-h/A+moose+and+Libby+014.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJRZXhZ6oVHnKKYDjNNUFhOKmgV5OPFAH2NURr-JaD4TOZZc2RV31Y4xOeWx_ReVqM7lQGHT3BE4lgVd98RpW3UJUGMM9SxjnlzTrhi8-cIGn_0j4N_pC7zSIs9ZpEUNyR3sKWYx1E3Pb-/s320/A+moose+and+Libby+014.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176281761200966914" border="0" /></a><br />Kyle and I are still looking for a place to move to. So far not much luck. We need something affordable with not too much move in costs. We want to find a place with possibly two bedrooms, garage, and laundry hookups. If we find a place that will work it is usually already rented. Hopefully we will find something before July if nothing else!! We had talked about moving in with his friend Kyle but I don't know that we are going to do that anymore. It isn't being talked about between the boys and I am just not going to bring it up.<br /><br />We went over to Libby this weekend. His mom and Paul are in their new house. We were on our way home and we saw a moose.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzlUx5i9_JtrMZrPfudimJpWC188ET0cr4G9wDKEGjks43m6a-CY1Wc7ekQuAMXKSsDpESB5okaCpG96CsaLPqX_tD-iMLkpK0XMvuWRP_k5b8xsRFvwVlTM5BGPVtjeoyibBRjsHjvInG/s1600-h/A+moose+and+Libby+002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzlUx5i9_JtrMZrPfudimJpWC188ET0cr4G9wDKEGjks43m6a-CY1Wc7ekQuAMXKSsDpESB5okaCpG96CsaLPqX_tD-iMLkpK0XMvuWRP_k5b8xsRFvwVlTM5BGPVtjeoyibBRjsHjvInG/s320/A+moose+and+Libby+002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176282877892463890" border="0" /></a><br />I also got a chance to go sledding. Didn't quite have the right clothing but that was okay. I actually only went down like four times, but it was lot of fun!! The last time down I lost control of my sled and ended up in some fresh snow that also ended up in my face and I came close to some trees. I guess I looked like a snow man.<br /><br />The other thing I had fun doing was shoveling snow. One weekend that we were in Libby it snowed a lot so we shoveled snow at the new house and Kyle's Grandmas' house. It was actually a lot of fun. I want my own shovel now. Maybe next year because it looks like it is not going to snow much more. We keep getting about an inch but it melts with in a day or so. It is melting off pretty quickly. Feels like spring, I am ready for it to be a little warmer then 32 so I can break out the flip flops again!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguH1so896rAJo6fur8mwKqVgqCqQvd8-iafswxSFBKydM9aFh4DfG5f_tL91wY9ifEq705XGSbYnlRsFM9ZRmnYGj3yWthy4rEQTyo-k9CfV4W-NQFXDNMVzMbgNW8udnssRTJQKCQ0SeP/s1600-h/A+moose+and+Libby+008.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguH1so896rAJo6fur8mwKqVgqCqQvd8-iafswxSFBKydM9aFh4DfG5f_tL91wY9ifEq705XGSbYnlRsFM9ZRmnYGj3yWthy4rEQTyo-k9CfV4W-NQFXDNMVzMbgNW8udnssRTJQKCQ0SeP/s320/A+moose+and+Libby+008.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176284235102129442" border="0" /></a>Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-58329760917856608682008-01-16T18:52:00.001-08:002008-01-16T19:07:44.086-08:00A long weekIt is only Wednesday and it has been a very long week. This week is tax training. I have been sitting in class for three days and learning everything I actually was suppose to learn last year in a full term in college. It is all making a lot more since now, which is kind of nice in the end. But it is very tiring!! I had 7 volunteers come to training which is totally awesome. And I have 4 more doing the training on there own which is going to be a little challenging teaching them how to use the computer program.<br /><br />Other then that we have already started taking appointments which is great news. And the financial education class is coming together really great and will kick off strong next week.<br /><br />This last weekend I went sledding!! It was a ton of fun. There is a rather large hill near my house. I will have to post a picture. I don't have snow pants so my butt got a little wet and cold, but it was worth it. After sledding we went over to Abigales house for a potluck. It was fun but lots of little kids. This one little boy came over got on my lap and started eating off my plate. Then ate some bread and then decided he didn't like it so he spit it out. He was then removed from my lap. After that my friend Jessica and I spent the night together hanging out. It was nice to get out with her!!<br /><br />That has been pretty much my life. I am getting a little nervous about the tax season starting but hopefully I will get it up and running and then things will run themselves. We will see how that goes. I am also going to start getting my certification to be a first time homebuyer education counselor and then foreclosure prevention counselor. Should be interesting. I will be spending a week in Great Falls for the first of my training.<br /><br />Well time for bed taxes is running me down!!Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-91491380062332792982008-01-06T19:06:00.000-08:002008-01-06T19:22:18.995-08:00Welcome 2008I figured out how to change my layout and figured I would update my blog. I went home for Christmas. It was nice to get to go home for awhile. I saw quite a few of my friends. Sadly I missed a few of them but will hopefully see them the next time I make it that way. Although to be honest. I have no idea when that time will be. Kyle and I are planning on going camping when he gets vocation and probably not actually in Oregon. <br /><br />New Years come and went. I was sick when I got back to Oregon so I ended up in bed about 9pm. Kyle had to work so we didn't go over to Libby and hang out with friends over there for New Years. We did go over to Libby this weekend. His mom's house is looking great and will probably be ready to move into in about a month or so. That will be a grand moving day/weekend.<br /><br />As for work things are really coming together. Classes for the first financial education class will start Jan 24. The April class is already full also. We are taking sign ups for the June and September start class. It is crazy how many people want to take our class!! Training for the tax season starts in about two weeks. Hopefully start getting calls for people to come and get their taxes done here soon!!<br /><br />Kyle and I are starting to look for a place to live!! We are thinking hopefully end of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">February</span> to be the time!! Things are pretty expensive to get into so we are saving and then will hopefully find the perfect place. We want a place with a garage, dishwasher, washer and dryer. I really want to hopefully find a place with 2 bedrooms also!! That way when people come to visit they will actually have their own bedroom. Plus it would be really nice to have a room for me to be able to set up as my room for homework!! Kyle will have his garage and then I would have a room for school work!!<br /><br />I found out this last week that it looks like I won't have a job at the agency when I am done with my year in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">AmeriCorp</span>. So I will start really looking for a job in a few months. Hopefully find something that I will like and then make a little money doing. See what happens, there are lots of jobs though so I am not too worried about it.Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-89874431547654692022007-12-11T13:24:00.000-08:002007-12-11T13:56:54.407-08:00The Christmas Survey<div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Wrapping paper or gift bags?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">For Chirstmas I do wrapping paper and ribbon too. I like doing all of the ribbon once a year.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Real tree or artificial? </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">This year I have a small artificial tree because it was given to me. Last year I was very upset when my mom boughts an artificial tree. Although this year she says we are going to go buy a real one again when I come home!!</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*When do you put up the tree?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">Well at my moms right befor Christmas, but I put mine up a few weeks ago. Right after Thanksgiving</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*When do you take the tree down?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">At my parents we took it down the day after Christmas, This year mine will come down when I return from Oregon after the first of the year actually</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Do you have a nativity scene?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">No I don't this year. I have to work on that.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Hardest person to buy for?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">My dad</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Easiest person to buy for?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">This year Kyle has been pretty easy.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Worst Christmas gift you ever received?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">Gosh I don't know...i can't think of anything</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Mail or email cards?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">Mail they are mostly out already. Just have like 3 more to do.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Favorite Christmas movie?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">The Polor Express!! Christmas Story is always good</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*When do you start shopping for Christmas?</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">I started in September!!</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">No not that i remember</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Favorite thing to eat at Christmas?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">Chocolate Pie</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*White lights or colored on the tree?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">I love white lights, but this year I went with multi colored. They were cheap.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Favorite Christmas song?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">Silent Night, Jingle Bells too.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Travel for Christmas or stay at home?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">This year I am traveling home to my parents house. First year ever traveling home. Usually I was already there.</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">Probably half then the other half later cause it will bother me till i come up with them all.</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Open the presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">We do Christmas Eve at my Dad's parents and open one present there, from santa, then Christmas Day at home with my parents and then go to my mom's family for the afternoon for more Christmas fun!!</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*Most annoying thing about this time of year?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">I think the Christmas traffic and people!! </span></div><div align="center"><span style="color:#ff0000;">*What I love most about Christmas?</span> </div><div align="center"><span style="color:#009900;">I think this year it will be just seeing my family</span></div>Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-56138497649507304602007-12-09T19:25:00.000-08:002007-12-09T19:39:25.877-08:00Past few weeks<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9e_7u21Pri47qzrE6oX-Ehwro7g8o_EpRZU3z4ml9aZW0wnpEQui69evNLPwV0pgPOx8bp9m7PI6FJbMOPfo3hRrx2rPMuEwjs-uA4V3hKh5VLBjH7nAOEO4z4v5Dk21tZaOn3JXo0ea/s1600-h/Snow+in+Libby+026.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9e_7u21Pri47qzrE6oX-Ehwro7g8o_EpRZU3z4ml9aZW0wnpEQui69evNLPwV0pgPOx8bp9m7PI6FJbMOPfo3hRrx2rPMuEwjs-uA4V3hKh5VLBjH7nAOEO4z4v5Dk21tZaOn3JXo0ea/s320/Snow+in+Libby+026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142182347615802354" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />So that past few weeks have been pretty crazy. My financial education class filled up already. We don't start calsses till the end of January. I was supper excited and then reality hit me that I have a lot of work to do before it actually starts. All the little things have to be done. I can do it though.<br /><br />I have 20 or so people that are interested in taxes. I hope to get like 10 to come to training. Half is good and will make us operational. But again a lot more work to get done!!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8znfXNxXVgzQ-YdWQFPpoGdBgyIsnWg00AjMOV4nK64VrUZput6JIxaGJd1XU2UEvfIfuYsqwtznDx5wkiuYTJ5ynM6FgCZJoo1WoPmVxmMtQr9UHXiF1KL7CV_PozG6wDJbzbwm8BY0a/s1600-h/around+town+011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8znfXNxXVgzQ-YdWQFPpoGdBgyIsnWg00AjMOV4nK64VrUZput6JIxaGJd1XU2UEvfIfuYsqwtznDx5wkiuYTJ5ynM6FgCZJoo1WoPmVxmMtQr9UHXiF1KL7CV_PozG6wDJbzbwm8BY0a/s320/around+town+011.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142182575249069058" border="0" /></a><br />Past few weeks Kyle and I have been doing a lot of hanging out. Last weekend we went to Libby. It snowed and was really pretty. Friday night we went and hung out with some of his friends and played pool. I really enjoyed it!! Saturday we went back and played some more pool. It started to snow some more and Kyle said I beat we wake up to a foot of snow and sure enough Sunday there was a foot of new snow. It was really pretty but it took us a long time to get home.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhStTFp2X6AwCK3qdzARGC177UC8DuvEtUT4QdXOkx64izLATCQi_cD1TLlpeLy17rjEF5V9CACDFwK8ZciOsFZCSvNdpI7m4D_GEQmx9Nm5UVpHW3W7xBgn6ICPAewAyRha7YC29GFRZvm/s1600-h/Snow+in+Libby+034.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhStTFp2X6AwCK3qdzARGC177UC8DuvEtUT4QdXOkx64izLATCQi_cD1TLlpeLy17rjEF5V9CACDFwK8ZciOsFZCSvNdpI7m4D_GEQmx9Nm5UVpHW3W7xBgn6ICPAewAyRha7YC29GFRZvm/s320/Snow+in+Libby+034.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142181772090184658" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDSEoxageG36WEmbDHlzXUlely4nxBZTRelK5VOGO-e4fdF6PcyObUZqusESYLSBnBITemmpF6vv3f0vUGxYCLEIks5pU1dYywXrmG0ACIA7h00Jsrv-zKYz_HxwWqAWvJC8B1sr7UWefG/s1600-h/Snow+in+Libby+035.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDSEoxageG36WEmbDHlzXUlely4nxBZTRelK5VOGO-e4fdF6PcyObUZqusESYLSBnBITemmpF6vv3f0vUGxYCLEIks5pU1dYywXrmG0ACIA7h00Jsrv-zKYz_HxwWqAWvJC8B1sr7UWefG/s320/Snow+in+Libby+035.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142182068442928098" border="0" /></a><br />This weekend we went for a drive and did a little Christmas shopping. Took it nice and easy this weekend.<br /><br />Here are some new pictures that I took.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDtBrV4U9RR2jTLHuZcXaKjIhLJsAfruxo3lj-D6nMtEX_8KV66yF4hAuNVLRSrittbI4qnuvG_h4UZNThEJD70OWT30MDhVXG056c1EuNZec-Ut_630Z-aEKiKM4O-KoEh8yVS8ZIbo9r/s1600-h/around+town+021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDtBrV4U9RR2jTLHuZcXaKjIhLJsAfruxo3lj-D6nMtEX_8KV66yF4hAuNVLRSrittbI4qnuvG_h4UZNThEJD70OWT30MDhVXG056c1EuNZec-Ut_630Z-aEKiKM4O-KoEh8yVS8ZIbo9r/s320/around+town+021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142182940321289234" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLvwfUnCgAgLha8Qlg0pAJrTzTlbLCiXGoTG23Q8K6uUE6P3fJmRmCKr5G9FwF7b3JBv6tCO5VkMofdn1EP-sY8Y04_v33ZGG5lA-cxgZ47CZ9zi5gafvEttL6mKGfScNK21Hc85u12BVH/s1600-h/around+town+026.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLvwfUnCgAgLha8Qlg0pAJrTzTlbLCiXGoTG23Q8K6uUE6P3fJmRmCKr5G9FwF7b3JBv6tCO5VkMofdn1EP-sY8Y04_v33ZGG5lA-cxgZ47CZ9zi5gafvEttL6mKGfScNK21Hc85u12BVH/s320/around+town+026.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142183618926122034" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoZXaisGXZmZxVd4qxZkHrLe9ffMrEOZChnaw3bJtEi3ltUY62-NK_m8qeZtC2tVtJWWKr0mJr7bnWJqTnJRGkV1eQPGrd4UkNbCkCSdhOsigTo9OVsyQfyU1WHb7d9vYTqmRW2FI6ede3/s1600-h/around+town+025.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoZXaisGXZmZxVd4qxZkHrLe9ffMrEOZChnaw3bJtEi3ltUY62-NK_m8qeZtC2tVtJWWKr0mJr7bnWJqTnJRGkV1eQPGrd4UkNbCkCSdhOsigTo9OVsyQfyU1WHb7d9vYTqmRW2FI6ede3/s320/around+town+025.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142183356933116962" border="0" /></a>Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-68142585196692153602007-11-30T08:20:00.001-08:002007-11-30T08:24:33.922-08:007 DegreesSo it is 7 degrees today. It is really cold. And it didn't know. Normally if it were this cold in Oregon there would be snow. Actually it never gets this cold. I am actually wearing my coat today, so I don't get yelled at again. I keep getting in trouble cause I don't have my heavy coat on. <br /><br />Last night I went to a social for the young professional club. It was speed networking. It was a ton of fun and I meet a lot of people. It seems like there is mostly just Realtors or financial people so for me that was fun!! <br /><br />Still waiting to see if Kyle gets his truck back today. He is very ready to have his truck and wants to go to Libby this weekend just so he can drive it. <br /><br />I need to take a picture of the mountains with the snow. It looks really pretty and get is posted. Maybe this afternoon it will be clear and I can get a good one. <br /><br />That is it for now.Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-40832405642597169742007-11-28T13:00:00.000-08:002007-11-28T13:17:19.172-08:00ThanksgivingThis Thanksgiving was my first one ever not going to one of the grandparents house or at least being with my family. I stayed in Montana and spent Thanksgiving with Kyle's mom,brother, Aunt, Grandmother, and cousin. We went over just for the day. Kyle had to work Wed and Fri and were both very long days. Kyle's mom's boyfriend went hunting that morning and came back just in time for dinner with a huge dead elk. We still had turkey for dinner though.<br /><br />I spent the rest of the weekend pretty much relaxing. Since Kyle worked Friday I actually got to sleep in. Till noon actually. Skipped the whole early morning shopping trips. I didn't think I needed to go shopping with all of the Montana drivers that can't drive on a normal day. We did end up going out later that night and getting some Christmas lights and a few decorations so I could decorate my apartment. I have lights in the windows and after tonight I will have a Christmas tree. One of my co-workers is letting me use her small 4ft tree. I am not really sure where I am going to put it but will find a place for it.<br /><br />It is getting very cold. It has been in the 20s for a high and down into the single digits for a low. It snowed the other day only about a 1/2 an inch. Don't know when we will get more but it is just really really cold.<br /><br />I have made train reservations for Dec. 21 and coming back on Dec. 28. Although I may not be taking the train now if my cousin Katrina is coming to visit me. Plans are still being worked out for that and if my brother will also be coming to visit.<br /><br />As for work the financial education course is almost full. We have 13 families or spaces reserved. It has only been a few weeks with registration open!!<br /><br />I finished my first class for my masters degree and got an A. So i have a 4.0 at University of Montana so far!! Now I just need to actually get into the unversity for the program.Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-66046547159959020692007-11-20T08:07:00.000-08:002007-11-20T08:24:33.758-08:00<span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#993300;">Yesterday night it snowed and stuck a little. The ground was a little too wet, but my car has snow on it. So I drove to work with the assistance of Kyle. Not sure what assistance he was besides laughing at me. He said are you scared. I wasn't but I did have both hands on the wheel. He informed me there wasn't even snow on the road. I didn't care I was practicing!!</span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#993300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#993300;">Kyle is letting me use his computer now. We set it up at my house because mine is just not really working. It needs help!! I don't know what to do with myself though, it is so fast! I could download music put it on my ipod so quickly, o and do five other things at the same time. Although lets just see how long it takes me to kill his computer.</span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#993300;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#993300;">I am going to Kyle's mom's house for Thanksgiving. Not sure if we are heading over there tomorrow night and staying there or just going for the day. Probably depend on how bad Kyle's day at work will be. Today he had to go in at 2am. He had over 600 cases of beer to deliver. Tomorrow will probably be just as bad. Putting four days of work into three and he usually works 12 hour days anyway. He might be getting his truck out of the shop this week so I won't have to take him to work anymore. No more 5am or this morning 2am.</span>Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-16948050097587593502007-11-16T15:37:00.000-08:002007-11-16T15:51:28.333-08:00First SnowYesterday we had the first sign of snow. It snowed while I was driving to work but it didn't stick. Maybe this weekend it will come and stick. It is cold enough for snow (at least I think so). Usually in Oregon if it was in the 20's it would snow but their is just not moisture I guess!!<br /><br />This week we started advertising for the financial education classes. We opened up registration three days ago and already have 5 families signed up. Banks want to start telling customers but we are a little nervous about telling a whole lot of people because we feel like we are going to fill up pretty quickly this first class. We have habitat wanting to make it mandatory their families go through it and CASA wanting to send the kids aging out of foster care to it. So I think it is going to be pretty successful.<br /><br />I am going to be teaching the children's education classes. Although so far I am not teaching anybody. Everybody that has signed up has little little kids. We wanted to have 8-13 years old in my class. We are shooting for like 15 families somebody has to have some elementary school kids.<br /><br />I recruited 5 more volunteers for the income tax sites. As of right now I think we have enough volunteers to actually make some operation but I want more!! I have proved the people from the credit union wrong already. She even said she wished I was on her team. I am going to put fliers up around town and see if I get anybody that way!! We have till January before training starts.<br /><br />In other news besides work. Kyle and I went to Libby. We almost had a nice big turkey for Thanksgiving. There was a huge Turkey and he jumped up on the guard rail and then flew into the road. We almost hit him. It was huge it would have hurt my car. On our way home we went the long way up to Eureka which is about 5 miles from the Canada border and back into Kalispell through Whitefish. We also went up to Big Mountain. There is a whole town up there for the ski resort. There was just a little snow up there but there is probably more just from the cold this week. It was a really pretty drive. I kind of want to go to Canada some time. We will see.<br /><br />Not sure what the plans are for this weekend but maybe do a little Christmas shopping. Have to figure something out for my brother and Kyle? Although still has to be kind of cheap cause well I am poor!!Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5651836876255061720.post-87308286452046930312007-11-02T15:31:00.000-07:002007-11-02T15:33:30.640-07:00No Snow<span style="font-family:lucida grande;color:#3333ff;">I forgot to add that there is no snow here yet!! We actually had snow on the mountains a few weeks ago and every day it seemed like it was getting closer and closer to town. Although the mountains are clean with NO SNOW. So my prediction of it not snowing here is going great. Everybody said it snows on Halloween so I was pretty nervous this week but it didn't!! I really need to learn to drive but I don't want to yet!!</span>Kyle & Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187473325009250608noreply@blogger.com1