Well, I'm a HUGE slacker. I can't believe I haven't posted on this thing in a month! But there's a good reason for that. June was a busy month for us!
For starters, the beginning of the month I had an incredible opportunity to do laundry at the temple. You're probably laughing at me and rolling your eyes as to why I think doing laundry is amazing, but doing it at the temple is something else. The machines are so big and they have such orderly and precise ways of doing everything... my OCD was very pleased.
The following week was Brian's birthday weekend, and I kind of like to have birthday WEEKS instead of days or weekends..... So we finally took a long overdue camping trip to Moab! But before that we celebrated on Wednesday with Kirk and Lindy and went boating/wakeboarding at Pineview, per request of the birthday boy. We left Friday afternoon and drove down to Moab, got our camp set up and crashed. It had been a very long week which only felt longer since it was my last week as the marketing director for Smith Knowles Attorneys (SURPRISE! This is the news I mentioned in my last post). Awhile back I had thought about exploring some other options. The law firm is so incredibly busy all the time that my job was unnecessary. I loved working there with incredible bosses and the best coworkers, but sometimes you just know when it's time to move on. I had looked occasionally but never found a position that I didn't make an excuse for. Either it didn't pay enough or I didn't like the hours or I felt it wasn't "prestigious" enough. No matter what, I always found a reason to say no once they offered me the job. So I stopped looking. And like all good things, when you stop looking for them, they come to you. While we were on vacation on the east coast visiting family, I received a phone call from Get Away Today Vacations in South Ogden. They had kept my resume on file until they were hiring and wanted to call me in for an interview. I called them back and scheduled the interview, not thinking much about it. After the interview, I felt really good about the job and told Brian I wanted to talk about it that night in case they called back next week and offered me the job. But I didn't get the opportunity because they called me 2 hours later to extend the job to me! I was so excited, but that night I was so stressed out. I didn't know what to do or what was the right decision. I worried about leaving the law firm and starting something new, and had so much anxiety I almost didn't take it. But the next morning when I called back, I felt I should take it. Soooo I am not a reservations agent for their company and so far I'm loving it! I mean, I plan people's vacations for a living (which I was basically doing with all my friends anyway) so it's a dream come true!
But anyway, back to Moab. Saturday we got up early and spent the whole day at Arches National Park, hiking to all the major landmarks and arches and taking a million photos. We both got sufficiently sun burnt before we called it a day at Arches and drove to Dead Horse Point State Park for a little leisurely sightseeing (without the hiking). I'll upload lots of pictures because the majority that I took were from that day!
Sunday was Brian's actual birthday, so we went and got a big breakfast before setting out for mountain biking. We had a slight mishap with the tire pump and wound up not riding very far at all, and decided to call it a day and make our way home. We took the scenic route home to go past the Manti temple and got home early enough to take a nap before dinner and go see Brian's grandparents that evening.
The 13th, Brian started his new position at Northrop Grumman in Salt Lake City and it's been an interesting job for him. He works long hours (usually 7 AM-5 PM) and I honestly couldn't tell you what they've had him doing. At least he has off every other Friday. He's been such a champ fitting in health insurance appointments as well and summer school is still keeping him busy. BUT he passed the hardest class in the business school with an amazing grade and I am so happy he's finally done! It consumed so much of his life and he was so stressed. Hopefully the rest of these summer classes will be a breeze, and then JUST ONE MORE YEAR!
The following week I officially started at Get Away Today and had a week and a half of training on the systems before we finally got to start helping clients. It was a veryyyy long 2 weeks!
The 4th of July was super fun because Kevin & Amanda and the kids came up for a long weekend! Thursday the 30th of June we went boating and BBQing up at Pineview. Friday Brian headed to Lagoon with all his family. I was supposed to be working all day but came home halfway through the day with a stomach bug that was being passed around our office. It kept me laying around the entire weekend and the most adventurous thing I did was lounge in the pool because the cool water helped keep the nausea away. Monday on the 4th I started feeling a little better so Brian and I headed up to Bear Lake for the day with Kirk and Lindy to see Brian's aunt and uncle who have a house up there. The lake is so pretty with it's turquoise water and their home is the cutest beach house you've ever seen! It was nice to have a long weekend, I just wish I had been feeling better!
Luckily this week went pretty quickly since it was only a 4 day work week, and now it's the weekend! I wasn't sure when I would get around to this thing again so I figured I better update it before it was too late and I was forgetting things! (Even though I know I already am...)
Hope everyone is having a great summer so far!
