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My One Week Mental Health Worker Stint

I decided that I would give a second job a try a couple weeks ago. We could use the money and it was on the weekends so I thought that I could do it. Wrong! This position was from 9pm to 7am Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights making sure that juvenile delinquents weren't running amuck while they were supposed to be sleeping. They called this position a Mental Health Worker? I lasted a week. I seems that my body wanted to sleep at night. Funny how that works. So, I quit that job and enjoy working during the day and sleeping at night.

Blaine & Zoe

We have a cat named Zoe. She is really sweet. We got her in October of 2006. She will be 2 in July. She is a beautiful cat! She has a lot of energy. Shortly after we got her we moved in with my parents for a few months. We were there over Christmas. My parents had these hideous little, red birds on their Christmas tree. Every morning, we would wake up and find a bird with half of the feathers torn off on the floor in our bedroom. During the night, Zoe would climb the Christmas tree and pull down one of the ugly, little birds. I think she was doing the tree a favor! Ü
When Blaine was born, I worried about how Blaine and Zoe would react to each other. Mostly Zoe just ignores Blaine. Occasionally, she will let Blaine pet her for a few minutes.
Blaine loves Zoe. He thinks she is so funny. He tries to meow whenever Zoe meows. It's adorable! The other day Zoe was playing with some yarn and Blaine thought it was hilarious! I have never heard him laugh so hard. It makes me laugh whenever I watch this video. Ü

Bears, Beets, Battlestar Gallactica

For anyone who knows me or Jenny, you will know that we LOVE The Office. I think it is one of the funniest shows ever. I quote it all the time. I chose to use a line from an episode of The Office primarily because it makes absolutely no sense and this will be an entry of random thoughts.

I hate moving! Not because things are heavy and my back hurts the day after. No, I hate moving because 1 or more items that need to be moved out of your old place or into your mew place will inevitability not fit through 1 or more doors. Friday we finally moved to our new house and I thought everything was fine until... the fridge. We went and got the fridge from RC Ripoff (Willey) and brought it back to the house. That was the easy part. We unloaded it off the truck and you would think that I would be smart enough to have a hand truck. Nope, not smart enough. So, we had to carry it in the house. Really not a problem since, ready for this Summer, Tena and Jenny, I'm made if 100% steal and sex appeal. Kevin was also there so that helped a lot too. Well, we got it to the door and all the packaging made it too big so we took the packaging off. We attempted to fit it through the door and the handles on the fridge made it impossible to get it through. We thought about taking the doors off the fridge. Easier said than done. After trying to unhook the cords that ran through the door unsuccessfully, we decided to take the door off the hinges. All I had was a wimpy screwdriver. That plan failed miserably as the screws were really too tight to get out with just a screw driver. Next plan...Take the hinges and the door off the frame. That plan worked in the end because one of the people who inspect the homes happened to come by and he had a cordless drill. Ok, we now had room to get the fridge in. However, while trying to lean the fridge over, because it was too high, we made these glorious black marks on my concrete. We finally got the thing in the house and in the kitchen. But, I did make a slight tear, barley enough to see up close, in the linoleum.

That being said. I love our new house.

I really enjoyed conference this weekend. I can remember when conference would take forever to get here and forever to get it over with. I now find that conference comes quickly and is over even faster. I never thought that I could sit through 5 sessions of conference. It was amazing to see President Monson and feel that he is now the Lord's prophet on the earth. I really like the story about wiggling his ears.

This weekend I also had a sweet experience regarding our family. Jenny and I had said that we were going to wait until December to put our papers in again for adoption. However, this weekend I had some pretty strong feelings that we needed to do it sooner...Like June when Blaine is 1 and LDS Family Services allows us to file again. As we were driving to my parents for lunch I was telling Jen how it seems like just yesterday that we were in the NICU with Blaine for a week and how he is so big now. Jen turned to me and asked "you know what?" and I knew exactly what she was thinking. I responded with "We need to get our papers in when Blaine turns 1." She said yes we do. I know and she knows that is what we are supposed to do because we both were having the same thoughts and feelings. So, please be aware that we will be doing this in the next two months.

My last random thought is one of gratitude. The Lord has blessed our family in so many ways this past year and we are grateful for everything that we have been through. Sometimes it seems we are too blessed but don't get me wrong, I'm not giving any back. We were blessed with Blaine and an INCREDIBLE birthmother who we love dearly, a job where we can still reside in Utah, and now a home of our own. The Lord will provide blessings if we just try our best to follow him. They may take awhile and try our faith but the Lord will always bless us.