Another reason that I love my husband!

I left for work on Saturday and this is how the house looked....

 We were trying out the colors together near the front doorway and thought they looked good.  I was a little worried about the brown being a lot darker than the paint sample we tested but the more it sat with me the more I liked it.

   

Saturday night I came home from work to find.......

Not only had Jordan started painting but he put up the board along the wall that I wanted!!!  I LOVE how it turned out.  We still need to paint another coat of paint and I will paint the boarders on my day off then we can finally put up pictures. 

Our house is starting to come together. 

Puppies and paint

Since training is over my new position at work has started and so has my new shift.  I am getting used to working later and adjusting to the new hours.  I think that the biggest change has been figuring out a food schedule.  I eat lunch at four and dinner around 8:30pm every night, which usually consists of something small if anything at all. I take a lot of snacks which seems to work better for me then a full meal.

It is a much more laid back department and I really like the people that I work with.  I have been learning so much about fraud prevention and it is rewarding knowing that I am helping people everyday to stop fraud and protect their personal information.  I think that this is going to be a great stepping stone for me.

With the extra hours at work Jordan and I have set up a routine with the pups.  I watch them in the mornings, he plays with them in the afternoons and then once I get home we let them play until we go to bed.  They are such good dogs.  We have been teaching them to sit and are still working with them on barking.  They are learning pretty quickly and seem to be happy.   

We gave them their first bath last week.  They weren't quite sure what to think about it and were all snugly afterwards.  It was pretty cute.  We have really liked having them around.  I never thought of myself as a pet person and they are a lot of work but they add so much personality and happiness to our home.  I love it!! 

The other big project we have been working on besides training the dogs is picking out paint colors to finish the hallways.  We originally picked out four colors and brought home samples to try.  None of them seemed to work right so I sat with them for a few days and then finally decided to keep looking. 

Then I found the perfect colors!! 

I am painting the back hallway leading to the bedrooms the light brown.  Then we are painting the front hallway two colors.  Brown on top and white on the bottom. We are adding a thick white chair rail along the middle of the wall.  Once paint is up I want to put up a gallery wall of photos along the top half of the hallway with white frames. 

And finally we are painting our front door the reddish/burnt orange color.

I think it will look so nice once done.

My goal is to have painting done and pictures hung up by Thanksgiving when Jordan's family comes to visit. It will take some teamwork to get it all done by then but I think we can do it. 

      

(I love having my own home!!)

What makes me happy.

I love conference weekends! 

It always makes me feel reinvigorated and rededicated.  

I especially enjoyed President Henry B Eyring's talk.

" In the depths of his anguish in Liberty Jail, the Prophet Joseph Smith cried out: “O God, where art thou? And where is the pavilion that covereth thy hiding place?” (D&C 121:1). Many of us, in moments of personal anguish, feel that God is far from us. The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God; it occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible. Our own desires, rather than a feeling of “Thy will be done” (Matthew 6:10), create the feeling of a pavilion blocking God. God is not unable to see us or communicate with us, but we may be unwilling to listen or submit to His will and His time.

Our feelings of separation from God will diminish as we become more childlike before Him. That is not easy in a world where the opinions of other human beings can have such an effect on our motives. But it will help us recognize this truth: God is close to us and aware of us and never hides from His faithful children."

Lately I have been feeling very happy.

Maybe it has to do with training for a new job that I find interesting and enjoy.

Or maybe it has to do with all the little moments I feel in my new home.  Washing clothes in MY new washer and dryer.  Sitting on MY patio while reading a book or picking paint colors to paint the house.

Or maybe it has to do with Jordan's sister Vanessa moving to Arizona and working at EBay with me!  I told her about a job opening, a few days later she was offered the job and moving.  We get along really well and will have the same days off!!  We will have so much fun together.  

Or maybe it has to do with getting the week of Christmas off of work and listening to my Mom giggle like a little kid when I told her that we were coming to spend Christmas with them. 

Or maybe it has to do with coming home everyday to see these sweet faces... 

They have been so easy to train. 

Not that I have much to go off of since I have never had a dog of my own before, but they have stopped whining unless they need to go outside to use the bathroom, they are being crate trained and went into the crate by themselves today!  (A big accomplishment for them) and they get love to play together.   

We have them on a routine where we get home and immediately take them to the park to run around, then feed them, play some more outside and then nap time.  Jordan has been so great about getting up at night to let them out to use the bathroom.  I am pretty spoiled!

We have learned they love balls and sticks. 

 They like to play with all the neighbor kids but love to be close by to either Jordan or I. 

Fox loves to snuggle and Grizzly loves to give kisses.

And they crack us up all the time!!

But most likely it was listening to conference and knowing that I am loved and watched over by the Lord.

 

Knowing that He is aware of me and my struggles and mistakes and inspite of all my weakness that He still loves me unconditionally.   

Of course that is what makes me happy!