A Bit of This and That

This part of the country doesn't usually get a whole lot of snow, but we got some over the weekend. In fact, it was so much that they canceled part of church. Everyone was contacted and told that we would be having Sacrament meeting, but the rest was canceled, and if we didn't feel safe driving to church to just stay home. Well, it really didn't snow that much--we think people up here are wimps. Though I guess if they're not used to driving in this stuff it could get scary. In any case, we went to church. I heard by the end of the meeting, about 75 people showed up, several of whom were investigators. My primary kids were supposed to sing a special musical number for sacrament meeting, but under the circumstances, their song was indefinitely postponed (which is totally fine because they didn't know all the verses to the song--I was given one week's notice to teach it to them).

Later that day we ventured outside to play in the snow. As a kid I used to be fine playing outside in the cold for a long time, but I've somehow turned into a wimp and hate being cold. We tried to make a snowman, but it was too powdery. We decided to call up some friends who live down the road and invite them to have some hot coco at our store. We had a good time. They are moving to Texas next month, and we will miss them.Last week we hired and had to fire the same guy. He was from Nepal, and during his interview his English was great. However, in front of customers he froze up, and it just wasn't going to work out. So we have since hired back an old employee who left us for Subway and then decided she wanted to come back. We'll have two other girls leaving us the end of January, so if anyone out there wants a job, let us know!

As for my new job (leasing consultant), it's going well. Our apartment complex is relatively small, so we don't get a lot of traffic. I've shown apartments a handful of times, and then the rest of the time I do paperwork, marketing stuff, and help current residents. It's pretty easy, and the perks are great! We get $255 off our rent each month, we don't have to pay water/sewer/garbage at all, I eventually get medical, dental, and vision insurance, and we get a really good deal on internet and cable (we didn't really want cable, but they had to come together. It's weird having so many stations! We've really grown to love PBS in the past four years of marriage since we have never had cable before now). It's so convenient just being downstairs of our apartment, and so I can pop upstairs and see Chris and Sam pretty easily during breaks. I'm learning to balance all the aspects of my life: mom, wife, business owner, and full-time employee. Chris has been great and has been doing most of the cleaning and cooking. Chris has arranged his schedule so that on the days I start work at 9am, he gets off at 9am, so Sam doesn't have to be watched by anyone else.

Anyway, that's a general update for us. We hope you all have a great Christmas! We'll see some of you very soon!