"That's not mint green. That's the pastel that mint green threw up into a bucket of white paint!"

Ahh yes, the above quote was so brilliantly stated by my wonderful husband this last week. Paints quite the picture doesn't it? He was talking about a truck we were passing at lunch time. It was a good laugh on a day when emotions ran high at work...and it's still three weeks from taxes due! I love my husband. He makes me laugh so much. For example, for about the last week, the CD player has been broken. Not loving the Christian radio station out here, we actually have been just enjoying our car rides together since there are very few places we go that we aren't together. So, we talk or just enjoy looking around us at what's passing by. Well, today, we started singing at the top of our lungs Falling by Alicia Keys, and not well. Passing by us, you would probably have thought that we really had the radio blaring, but we didn't. It's times like that that I know I married the right person for me. He doesn't look at me like I'm nuts, he just does it with me. I think he still thinks I'm crazy, but I choose to believe he loves it. Well, that's my ode to my husband for today.

I've been thinking about kids a lot lately, surprise surprise. I'm not pregnant, but many around me are. My friend in Minnesota is having twins! That's a little much for me right now, but she'll handle it like a pro. She's a great mom and a good example for me. Sometimes I wish we were closer to having children, but I have really enjoyed these last almost three years with my husband. When we got married, everyone said, wait a while to have children, and I was like, Ben and I have been together for 3 1/2 years, we don't need more time just the two of us. But I have actually really loved these years. I know that I will love kids when they come too, but for now I'm content to just sing loudly in the car with my husband, stretching him to be a little crazier and him reigning me in some. Probably preparing both of us to be more ready for children when they do come.

Wonderful Tax Season

So because I work at a company that does business consulting and taxes, this is a very busy time for us. Usually, we hire a temporary person to help me through the tax season because my admin work triples. This year, my boss allowed me and another co-worker to be involved in the hiring process. We got to pull resumes, call people, explain the job, set up interviews and even conduct the initial interview. If we felt the person was good, we would call in my boss and he would contiue the interview. Overall, it was a great experience. Unfortunately, the person we ended up hiring, didn't quite work out. After she had worked three of her first eight days, my manager and I began to think of other options. In short, I now am working 50 hour work weeks and am templess. At first I was wondering if this was going to work or not, but God is good and now, I'm totally fine. It sounds weird, but I'm ahead of the game. I am clearing out my e-mail every day which doesn't usually even happen during the non-busy season, I'm doing all the special projects that my manager and I had talked about doing while I had the temp to help me. In fact, I would have no way of keeping a temp busy had we kept her on! As I started thinking about this over the weekend while I was at work helping others get caught up, I realized there is only one way to explain what's going on and it has absolutely nothing to do with me. It's all God. You see, I had been praying that God would make me efficient, and He has. It's like when you get to the end of the month, and mathimatically, you should not have enough money to cover your bills, but you do. God is the ultimate provider, He is the hardest worker, and for me, He is making the hours in my day long enough for me to be over-efficient. I guess all I can say is Praise God! Without him, my life would be stressed and hectic, but it's not! How amazing is that?!

The wife of a Politician

Well, I sit this morning home alone. This is not necessarily a bad thing, some people like time away from their spouse every once and a while. Most think Ben and I are crazy because we work together. It's amazing how many people at work say they could never spend so much time with their spouse, but it works for Ben and me. Besides, when we're at work, even though we only sit about 10 feet away from each other, we really don't interact much. Anyway, Ben ran off this morning to spend the day as a delegate to the Democratic party. He is voting for Obama in the county...thing...I don't really know the specifics of what it's call, all I know is that when Ben when to the Primary to vote, he volunteered to be a delegate. Now, he goes to a county voting and from these people, delegates will be chosen to go to the State voting and from there the National voting with the Super Delegates. Random side note, he just text messaged me and called it the county caucus, so just pretend I just said caucus instead of voting throughout this last few sentences...I guess I really need to learn these things better if Ben is going to get into this. Gotta say, when I married him, I never thought I would be preparing myself to be the wife of a politician. Maybe I should have seen it coming, but in my defense, he said nothing of this desire before we got married. About a month later he started talking about it though, and now all I know is that his goal is to someday be a Senator! I'm not so sure how I feel about it all yet, but I know that God is in control and that's all that matters. I know Ben will be amazing in this capacity, but me, a senator's wife?? I guess we'll see.

Other than all this, life is good. It's great actually! I love my job. I have fun co-workers that keep my day interesting (in a good way) and lots of work to do which makes the days go quickly. I'm working around 50 hour work weeks through the tax season, but hey, yeah for extra income right? Home is good, I have the cutest two dogs in the world, Chiquita our Min Pin/Chihauhau/other, and Mashugah, our actual chihauhau. My family is doing well, Josh and Christy are in the process of buying a house and my parents recently made a huge change making them a missionaries! Anyway, what will I do with my day? Now that is the question...I'll first decide if I'm getting out of bed and go from there!! :)

Finally at Home

Well, last weekend I spent in Estes Park at a Women's Retreat with my wonderful sister Christy. I didn't know what to expect from the weekend, I was going to be with a bunch of women I didn't know, but I was excited nonetheless. It ended up being the best thing I could have done. Even though the speaker for the weekend was...well...terrible, I really enjoyed the women who were there. Christy and I decided it was the first time that we actually spent time together alone. The consensus: we like each other. We really enjoy being together. As they say at the end of Casablanca, this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Our other two roommates were Terri and Barb. Two of the most wonderful women in the world. Ever since then, I have felt at total peace about being here in Colorado. God is good.

The second thing that has finally fallen into place this week was my job. I have had it for two and a half months and finally they explained to me why they hired me. The area of the company that I will now be administrator for is finally ready to be launched. This is good because it has finally made me feel like I have a place there. Up until now, I have been just learning a lot of other peoples jobs. I am ready to have my own.

My husband found out his LSAT score today. It wasn't as good as he would want but it still puts him in the 82nd percentile which is good. He should still be able to get into Law School. If not this year, next year. The nice part is that God has a plan and that's all that matters. God bless!

Boom baby!!

Well, fall has arrived, again, in Colorado with a vengeance. In fact, it skipped fall altogether and tonight we're suppose to get snow. Crazy world. Yesterday was fun though, my husband and I played hookie from work and stayed home. We burned candles all day, made cider and laid around. It was a very foggy day and rained the whole time. It was very relaxing.

Life is good. Dog sleeping next to me, wonderful husband talking to his equally wonderful family. It's all good. I really have no complaints.

My brother is wisking my husband away to the north of Wisconsin in two weeks and as a trade off, my mother is coming out here. I am excited to spend some time with my mom and sister-in-law. It's also an excuse to get off work early. If dad knew how much money we were going to spend though, he might reconsider! I'm sure we'll be good though...

For everyone's info, we are planning a trip to Wisconsin and Minnesota in January. If you want to know the details, you have to call me to get them! Ha ha! I win suckers!! Please still call.

And I'm still not pregnant. No tomfoolery here.

Back to school, show my dad that I'm no fool...

Well, today my brilliant husband took the LSAT. One more step toward Law School. You would think after a year and a half of not being in school, he would say that was difficult...but then you wouldn't know my husband. I think his exact words were, "That was fun!" With enthusiasm too. Crazy kid. Not that I can say too much, I love school as well. But it was the LSAT's for heaven's sake. I thought those were suppose to be hard or something strenuous. Oh well, to each his own.

The other weird thing about today is that it is almost October, the leaves are turning colors, and I'm seriously considering turning the air conditioning back on! It's so warm! I am definitely not used to that yet. We had a week of really cold weather about two weeks ago and my body said, well, that's about right. Mid September should start getting cold. Now here we are and it almost reached 90 degrees today. It's no Bahrain (props to Josh P) but it's warm. Anyway...

By the way, for all who are wondering and keep asking, I am NOT pregnant. You were thinking it, I know you were...Alright, I'm done rambling for now.

So long and thanks for all the fish

Well, it is now that I say goodbye to the days when I tried to avoid blogs and say hello the wonderful ingenuity of it all. Now that I have friends in many different countries and multiple states across the country, I have to find some mass way of communicating...hopefully this works. If you read my awesome husband's blog, you already know some of this, but bear with me.

I graduated in May with a degree in Linguistics and Language Studies. Sounds made up huh? Well, it is! I really did do that for my major but I created it. I have taken a job with a trucking company, fitting perfectly with all my classes...Okay maybe not, but a Masters in Linguistics is not in the cards just yet so I improvise. I work at a company called American Truck Business Services. We work with truckers. I love the people and the clients are fun.

Ben and I recently moved to Colorado. We like it a lot but occasionally miss Minnesota. Weird thought I never dreamed I'd have, but there it is. I started bugging Ben to either have a child or get a pet...enter Chiquita, our Miniature Pinscher/Chihuahua mix. She is the best dog ever and has lots of spunk. We spend a lot of time with my brother and sister-in-law which is very exciting for me not having lived in the same state as him for the last 8 years.

That's pretty much the jist of my life right now. I expect this site will be filled with random stories, but this is really not all that strange to those who know me. At least this way I am almost sure to never tell the same story twice.