Getting Back to It

Now that life has seemed to slow down a bit, for now, I thought I'd get back into the habit of blogging (since my journaling has taken a drastic down fall). It's been almost a year since I've done any kind of update. So here's a brief overview of our life the last year:

I graduated! I finished out my time at Utah State and my internship with the Division of Child and Family Services and graduated with my Bachelor's in Social Work in May of 2015. It seems so long ago now but it was hard work worth doing and I am sooo glad to be done! Nate is still in school at SLCC and still studying computer engineering. He'll graduate someday :).

After graduation we moved back to Bountiful and are so happy we did. We are closer to family and friends now and feel much more connected to the people we love. Not to mention our apartment is amazing, I love it. We got new couches which made me super happy because I hated the old ones. Nate is serving in the young men's with the teachers quorum and I am serving in the primary with the 11 year old's. It's been an adventure.

I accepted a job with DCFS in July 2015 and have been there since. I love it. It's definitely a challenge but it's fantastic. I work with foster care and ongoing cases on the same team I did my internship with.

Nate had surgery in August 2015 on his shoulder and had to quit his job at FedEx. It was a few months before he was recovered enough to do much, and has just gotten to the point where he is considered "fully recovered". He is working at Western Governor's doing my old job and actually likes it quite a lot (mostly because he gets to spend an exorbitant amount of time watching YouTube videos).

We are pregnant! We are welcoming a little unnamed boy to the world in May and are so very very excited to be his parents. Though we can't decide on a name for the little monster we already love him more than anything. Nate's going to be a stay at home daddy while I go back to work after the baby gets here.

That's our life in a nutshell right now. I'm sure things will get much crazier when the baby gets here but it's been a nice break not having to do work and school. And it's great having a job that I love. I will try to keep up a little better with the blog but I make no promises.