A New Start

I thought it would be a great idea to start a blog to keep everyone updated on our lives. Partly because of how far we live now from many of our friends and family, and also because I was told my first week at work "everybody blogs!", so I felt compelled to start. :)

I would love to say things have settled down here at the new house, but it still seems to always be busy around here. I moved to working nights (7p-7a), 3 days a week, and Joe has continued his day shift, 4 days a week (either 7a-3p or 7a-7p). I don't mind the nights, I just don't like sleeping through most of my days off, especially on the nice days. We didn't think the opposite schedules would be hard but it seems like Joe and I aren't getting to spend a lot of time together. Sometimes we have to say "goodbye" to eachother for three days at a time since we work complete opposite shifts and wont even pass eachother. Work for the most part is good. We are both adjusting to new hospitals and different ways of doing things. We definitely miss our old Parkview family back home and hope to get back soon to say hi.

Other than work we are managing to continuously find things around the house to do. So far we have mostly done some painting, but I'm hoping for tiling the floors in the bathrooms and kitchen soon, as well as new countertops. Despite the many things we have on our house "to do" list, we are finding that we love the house more and more everyday. I feel so lucky we found it and have the opportunity to grow in our first home together. We definitely know things we'll plan to look for in our next one, but for now this is the perfect house! Here are the before and after of the dining room paint job... we still have some work to do!

Ash seems to be doing well in her upstairs "apartment"! :) I'm glad to have a "roommate" who works night shift me. I am incredibly bored on nights off at 2am without her around to talk and watch movies with!