It's been almost a month since we posted already?!?!? Time flies!!!

Jesse is officially done with classes, and I think most of his finals as well. On Sunday night, his professor of his research writing class had that whole class over to her house to celebrate the end of the semester. I was reluctant to go along because I didn't know anyone and would be the only spouse there, but it ended up being a pretty good time! His professor, Dr. deRosset, is a really awesome lady, I could tell that after only spending one evening with her! Jesse is going to continue working at the help desk this summer. We thought he was going to be able to work full time, but it turns out that more of the staff are staying for the summer than they orginally thought, so Jesse's only going to be able to get about 20 hours a week. He wants to get a second job so that he's working full time, so please keep him in your prayers as he's looking for another job!

I received news from my DL last week that in about a month, she is going to be transferring me to another salon. She told me when I got the promotion that this would probably happen, but I guess I was still hoping that it wouldn't! She's always felt like when you promote someone within a salon, it's harder for them to gain the respect that their new position brings, that it's easier for them to go into a new salon with their new position already, and I see what she means. I never want to confront the girls because I don't want them to hate me or think I'm on some kind of power trip when I was one of them for a while and almost all of them have been there longer than me. My DL also feels like the Salon Leader at the new salon will train and develop me better, and she wants to see that happen because she eventually wants to make me an SL!!! While I think it will be a good change for me, I don't want to leave my clients behind and being able to work with Danielle has been just awesome! Also, we were planning on taking a vacation for a week at the end of July/beginning of August to celebrate our 22nd birthdays and second anniversary, but my new SL will be gone in Buglaria (where she's from) for the entire month of July, which might mess our plans up. So please just keep me in your prayers as all of this happens!!!

We will be home in about a week for Tyler's wedding, and after that, we aren't 100% sure of when we'll be home this summer, so we will try to keep you posted!

Easter, etc...

We haven't written in a while! I guess we've just kinda fallen into a routine around here...not much new to report!

We weren't able to go home for Easter this year, so we got together with two other couples that we are good friends with, and it was a blast! We went over to Craig and Danielle's house with Michael and Leeanne. All of us ladies planned the menu and pitched in, and it was so good! We hung out there most of the afternoon, and the guys fixed Craig's computer and then we all watched Napoleon Dynamite...we hadn't seen that movie in so long and it was just hilarious! That evening, the guys all had homework to do, so Danielle and I went over to Leeanne's and just spent some girl time together.

Work has been going well for me, I'm still getting used to being the new ASL! Business has been decent...busy one day, slow the next, but overall, things are going pretty good. Jesse is back into the swing of things after spring break, and it is so hard to believe he only has a little over a month left of school!!! He's trying to figure out what his work schedule will be like for the summer and is thinking about getting a second job.

So overall, things are still going great for us! We are planning on coming home the weekend of May 19th, so we will see you all then! Here are a few pictures from our Easter...

Me, Danielle, and Leeanne

Craig and Danielle

Michael and Leeanne

And us!

pictures from downtown chicago and montrose harbor

Montrose Harbor

Downtown Chicago

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!!!