Our trip home...

Finally, after almost 3 months, we got to go home together this weekend! I was able to get Friday and Saturday off of work, so we left Thursday evening and got to spend all weekend at home. It was awesome! I spent most of the day on Friday with my mom and Jesse got to go with my dad to Archbold, OH in the semi to deliver some pallets. My mom and I picked up my cousins Caleb and Kallie and watch them for a little bit on Friday afternoon, and I was SO excited to see them! Kallie is talking now and has gotten so big, and Caleb was just his normal adorable and crazy self! Friday night, we went to the auction at church for the Christian school, so we got to see a few people there that we hadn't seen in a while. Jesse hung out with Wahli, Eric, and Dustin later that night and I watched Caleb and Kallie with Cortney and Krista. Saturday, we got to spend all afternoon with Jesse's parents and some of his siblings, just hanging out at their house and relaxing and catching up! Lucy is four now and just as cute as ever! Saturday evening, we went to the spring musical at Leo because Evan was Pharaoh in it...I love musicals, and it was so fun to see my brother in it! Sunday, we went to church and then to my dad's surprise 50th birthday party...it was so great to see so many people there who just love my dad to pieces! :) We then got to go to Chuck E Cheese for Lucy's birthday party that night...she was SO excited to be there and most of us were giving her all of the tickets we won playing games...you should have seen all the prizes she was able to get! She had so much fun dancing in front of the camera and playing games...she's so cute! I was dreading having to come back...I love it here, but I was having so much fun at home!

Jesse started school again on Monday after a two-week spring break, and I have been working like normal...we aren't sure when we'll be home again, but we definitely won't let it be 3 months again! Keep in touch!

Good news...

Wednesday night, I came home early from work because my eye was starting to get really irritated. I took my contacts out as soon as I got home, but it only seemed to get worse, and by morning, my eye was completely red, irritated, and watering like crazy. I called in sick to work and was miserable pretty much all day. I went to the doctor in the afternoon and he said I had pink eye...and that I'd have to miss another day of work. Friday night, our friends invited us over, but I was reluctant to go because the doctor had told me to cover my eye and try to keep it shut as much as possible (which I have never heard of with pink eye, but I think he was just covering all of his bases incase there was a scratch, also), so I had been wearing gauze patches over my eye. But they were like "don't worry about it, we'll just have a pirate party!" And sure enough, we got there and they were both all dressed up, they had old cigar boxes with jewelry hanging out of them like treasure chests, and they had pirate signs on their door! They even printed out a picture of a parrot and put a straw on the back of it to make it stand up and taped it to Jesse's arm...we didn't think they were THAT serious, but it was really fun!!!

So when I finally went back to work on Saturday, I got in and there were balloons and streamers all over the mirror at my station, and I thought "Awww, they put get well signs on my station", but when I went over, they had written on my mirror in dry erase markerr "Congratulations on your promotion"!!! I was really confused because I was under the impression that I still had to get my numbers up and I also thought I had to go in for an official interview with our DL. My boss called a little while later and confirmed that I had gotten the promotion, and she wanted to surprise me with the balloons and everything! Jesse and I are really excited about it, thank you all for your prayers!!!