And ANOTHER 4 months later......

With 2 posts in an 8 month span, I'm doubting I even have any followers on this blog anymore, but JUST IN CASE, I wanted to finally say hello from Burleson, TX. Boy does it feel like that last post from Loveland, Colorado four months ago was about 4 years ago. Life here in TX is good. I moved down permanently the 1st of August. Chris stayed a week and then had to go back to CO for 4 final weddings, so we were away from each other for FOUR WHOLE WEEKS, which was just awful! But I stayed with Kellye Beard (now Hill) while I looked for work here, and it was so awesome getting to stay with Kel and her hubby and 2 kids (dogs). :) I really miss all of them now that we're in our own place and have been since the begining of September.

So I'll just tell you right now that I haven't taken a single picture that wasn't of Jasmine or Kellye's dogs since my last post, so this post will not be full of pictures. Sorry! Well, in a very small and brief nutshell we are in Burleson, TX. I didn't get a teaching job but got a job as an aide at an Elementary School in the same school district where dad and his wife work. As an aide, I am making less money than I EVER have in our 4 years of marriage, so AS ALWAYS, we are frugal as ever. BUT I LOVE MY JOB!!!!!!! I work with amazing teachers and administrators, and though they wear me out and I do NOT like them some days, I truly love my kids and this new mission field the Lord has given me. I work as a Tier 2/Tier 3 Paraprofessional which is a fancy way of saying that I pull small groups of students out of class and help them with Reading or Math, for Grades K-5. If anyone reading this has ever worked as an aide, you know that your job is basically whatever anyone tells you to do on top of your actual job decsription so that synopsis definitely doesn't cover the million things that I do each week. BUT I LOVE IT and besides the pay, couldn't have asked for a better place to start and a better group of people to learn from.
Chris has already booked 2 TX weddings, but because of my HORRIBLE pay as an aide (we're VERY hopeful and prayerful that this will turn into a nice pay increase as a teaching job next year), he's currently working at a golf course. He likes the job ok, but it's 45 minutes away and very little pay. So he is also substitute teaching (he'll only have his 2nd day of this tomorrow) and is liking that so far. We are very hopeful that next year he can just focus on the business down here if I am making a teacher's salary.
We've already found a great church and have a friends from there that we hang out with, so that is a huge blessing. And I have already spent as much time with my family this year than I have combined since we've been married. We do miss his family a lot but I am very thankful for this season with my family. We miss out CO friends and church family terribly as well but truly feel so blessed to already have some friends and a church fmaily here!
So I guess the next big thing for us will be Thanksgiving. We were nominated to host this year, now that we have a rental house that is more than 2 times the size of our condo back home. So my mom, Chris' parents and 2 of his aunts and uncles will be here for a week. I'd like to say that I would be posting lotsa of pics after T-Day, but I just can't guarantee anything at this point. :) So I will just leave this blog for now with this very brief update and see if there is anyone that is still reading it! :)
Love to you all! xoxo