ok so last night i was at work and a customer service manager comes up to me and she says "you're wanted in the manager's office." i get kinda nervous because i think i'm in trouble for a no call no show or for some absences or whatever. so i go to the office and the store manager bill and some other lady (i think her name was either shirley or shelley...) tell me to take a seat. and then shirley says "so. why do you think you'd be good for the photo lab?" so i ended up getting the job i really wanted!!!! i start the second. and the day before all this i called sarah and she told me to think positive about everything so as soon as i do, this happened :D


AND on top of that jason and i got our own car!!!!!! it's a 2005 honda accord dx. it feels amazing, it's super roomy, and jason says it feels amazing to drive. the steering wheel was a little shakey at first, but we got the tires rotated and now it's not at all. jason and i thank my mom so much for loaning us the money for this amazing car, and for spending so much of her time and energy trying to get us a car.

and i found some random pictures that i thought everyone would wanna see, so here they are.

here's one of jonas sleeping. i almost died while taking this picture because terry was asleep 2 feet away and i woke him up (oops :x). but it was worth it ;)

last thursday and saturday jason and i were in vegas looking for cars and we had about an hour or 2 to watch the twins while jeremy and sarah went to a doctor's appointment. i got a few good pictures of them

elijah has some good poses
she is just too adorable
i even let the twins take some pictures and this is what elizabeth did :)




this picture of elijah was taken a looong time ago. his face is priceless

this was after the reel big phish concert. jason was so excited about that drumstick that he caught

and this is chili just being chili

4th of july and other stuff

It's been a while since we've posted, sorry. I am going to make this a quick one filled with very amazing and cute pictures from the 4th. Also some cute ones of chili. I (Jason) am starting school at the community college here in mesquite this fall to get my gen ed out of the way, then transfer to vegas. Also we are buying a car on friday, I am excited :P

Anyway, here are the pictures for your enjoyment.


Chili playing the computer



Elizabeth isn't so sure she made the right choice by attending the firework show



Here are a bunch of pictures of Elijah finding the flash on the camera hilarious.







Elizabeth is still having doubts, and Elijah may be drunk.



The best picture of Elijah ever, can't say the same thing about Jordan



The fireworks finally start. Elijah kept saying "oh my goodness!" I sadly was not there until about halfway through the show because I was stuck at work. I missed out on all of these pictures but I can pretty much get what was going on by looking at them.

Jonas, Chili, and all other things

It's been a while since we last posted. It is usually Nicole doing these things but she is at work and I am up anyway so I decided to give it an update. First off I would like to apologize that the links to all of your blogs are broken on our page. Nicole was messing around with some new templates and it got lost somewhere and frankly I am to lazy to fix it right now.

Nicole got a job as a cashier at the wonderful world of Wal-Mart. It isn't full time, but anything is better than nothing right now. They are cutting everyones hours at Wal-Mart here, and wont be hiring full time until fall. We really don't care to much at the moment, just trying to get ourselves a car right now, and hopefully we will be able to find better work sometime in the near future. Besides our schedules being totally conflicting, all is well :).

Chili is 9 months old now, and we decided to get him neutered. Nicole and I called the 2 local vets to get some prices, and found one for 130 dollars(or so we thought). There was one ten dollars cheaper, but this place asked a lot more questions and seemed more thorough so we decided to go with them. This last Tuesday we took him in to get the operation done. We dropped him off, they told us to pick him up around 3:30-5:00. I called the vet after I dropped Nicole off at work around noon to check on Chili, and they said all was fine and I could get him at 4:00. I had a feeling that something was up so I asked again how much all of this is going to cost. The price magically changed to 152 dollars. 22 dollars might not seem huge to most, but to us its a lot. I was pretty angry and when I went at 4 to get him I asked what had changed. They said 130 was just an estimate, which I say is BS because they asked me all of his specs (breed, weight, age) and then gave me the price. I got it down to 145, but still only paid 130 and had to sign some promisary note. They told me he isn't allowed to lick himself for a week and a half, and no rough playing or running around. After I got home I spent the rest of the evening repeating "No chili!" A couple days later he was acting really weird. He would walk really fast for like 2 seconds and just sit down, so I called the vet. They had me go in to give me a cone for his head (which they should have given me in the first place) because we couldn't stop him from licking himself. That plus some pain meds was another 25 dollars. Safe to say I am going to the other vet form now on. Chili is barely 20 pounds ant it took 4 nurses to put his collar on. I have never seen a more accomplished look on anyone after those nurses got it on him, they were so proud of themselves. Chili lets us take it off and put it back on with ease when we let him eat/drink.

Anyway, now for a bunch of pictures from Jonas to chili before and after pictures. Love you all

pics!

so a new camera battery charger finally came (i have no idea where my other one went) so here are some pics.

chili keeping jason company while he sleeps :)

here are quite a few from the mesquite days fair. jonas got his face painted

and he had fun on lots of rides

jason played some games with him

we went through the fun houses and linda was actually the one that took this one :P

jason's face is priceless

and then after the fair jonas was playing with all his new toys in the back yard and he was being silly

his "big muscles"

i have no idea why jason always makes weird faces in pictures

jonas loved having those leaves on his ears

doing it best

so....yesterday i went in to take the do it best tests. the first one we only had 1 minute to do and they gave a bunch of codes or label things with 6 letters and number and 5 choices underneath it and we had to circle the one that matched exactly. the second test we only had 5 minutes to do and there were maybe 10 word problems and 20 regular math problems (like 16x5). there were 18 people taking the tests including me, and only 6 passed including me. it's kinda sad that not everyone passed, it was really easy. and if i could pass with leaving several answers blank and with most likely making stupid silly mistakes due to the pressure of being timed, i don't see how anyone could fail those tests.

and then after that i had to take this personality test that was not timed, but it had the most rediculous questions i've ever seen. on one part there were sentances that we had to finish with 3 choices, but we had to distribute points to each of those answers and the points had to equal 10. for example one of the questions was

i work....
hard
fast
smart


so now i have to wait for them to send in and get back my personality test. i should be getting a call for interviews in about 2 weeks :)




aside from that, i finished knitting my first hat. it looked terrible. it was about 10 sizes too big for jason's head. but i just finished knitting another hat today and it turned out so much better :)

!!!

Happy Birthday Linda :)

thursdays are great

sorry sarah and jeremy that you can't find out the sex of the baby utnil tomorrow! but the good news is jason got a job. unfortunately he has to wake up at 4am for the next 2 weeks. hopefully soon enough i'll find a job of my own.


until then, knitting is a fantastic way to pass time.