The last couple of months have been spent mostly working (for me) and doing school work (for Jason). Jason is taking a prep class for the first actuarial exam that he will take the beginning of January. It's a difficult test and he still has a ways to go to be ready for it, but he has come a long way in the last year and a half. Jason has spent quite a bit of time looking into internship and job opportunities for the summer. He's had a few screening interviews and they've gone well, so we're keeping our fingers crossed that something will work out. The interesting part about that is that any job he gets will most likely be out of state and probably won't have insurance benefits. If that's the case, it's possible that I could just stay here through the summer and continue to work at my job. Neither of us like this option, but it is a possibility.
Besides work, I've been spending a lot of time with the Young Women. A couple months ago I was released from being a Primary teacher and moved to the Young Women's Presidency. I work with the 12- and 13-year-olds. I haven't been in YW since I was a young women and that feels like a really long time ago. I still can't say the revised YW theme without messing up and it's been kind of tricky to get the hang of the newer Personal Progress program. I am very excited about the new curriculum for next year though. We have about 11 girls at our activities and that number will only grow next year with many more girls coming in. I do have two advisors that work with my class and they are very helpful. To be honest, it's kind of been stressful that last couple weeks with some serious drama going on. The drama has involved several girls, moms, leaders, and the Bishop. The YW President and I are very ready to be done with it and hope that things settle down soon.
For fun Jason and I have been playing ultimate Frisbee Thursday nights at a local park and watching most of the BYU football games. I also started attending Zumba classes through BYU again, which I love. Melody and Brandon were up this last weekend and we had fun going out to dinner and catching up with them Friday night. Mike and Desi also just had their fourth baby last week. I just wish they lived a lot closer so we could go visit them! Ivy came 3 weeks early but fortunately everything seems to be fine with Desi and the baby.
Jason and I aren't big into Halloween. Neither of us dressed up, but we did get quite a few trick-or-treaters tonight--more than anticipated. We ran out of candy after an hour and a half and had to turn off our lights and hide in our bedroom for the rest of the night. Fun times. :)
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| BYU v. Oregon State-- Homecoming football game |
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| Jason ran a 5K Conference weekend at Wheeler Farm to benefit the Council for Exceptional Children. He came in 6th place in just under 19 minutes. It's hard for me to believe that without any training, Jason can run 6 min. miles! |
