Dont want to wake up tomorrow...

I voted today... did you? I just don't want to watch the election coverage.... and see what the answer will be tomorrow.

My journey now.

Currently I am working as a Nanny... I know I am a regular Mary Poppins pulling all sorts of things out of my bag. I just wanted to update everyone who had been asking. I really appreciate the thoughts and prayers. I am loving the flexibility it is offering us and well the money is nice too. I decided that I didn't want to go back into banking right now even though the opportunity has presented itself. So I am taking care of a wonderful boy named Kale he is 9 months old about to be 10 months and well its really nice because I get to cuddle, feed, put down for nap, play, and love on this baby then I get to hand him to his mom when it is time for me to leave. Although, I really think that being a Mom will be the most amazing thing I ever do with my life but I appreciate the freedom that I have right now. So YaY for the job and well I am so grateful that it is working out so well.

On a different note I was talking to my VT companion(who has become a motherlike-figure for me here in good ole Snelltown) and we were talking about the past couple of months and the difficulties that have happened for Shawn and I and she really put things in perspective for me. She said that marriage the first year is difficult in an ideal situation but then you add job loss and moving from your family and that those are difficult trials for people who have been married for 20 years. When she said that it just made me grateful. I am grateful that I haven't fallen apart in spite of the accusations that flew concerning my old job and that I just gave what was to happen to the Lord. It just makes me grateful to know that I have a loving Heavenly Father and Savior who care about me... Grateful for this Gospel that just lifts people up and gives hope for what is to come and for the constant support and sustaining you can receive just by prayer and scriptures. Grateful for my husband who I can lean on and who can make me see the humor in all situations and that he just works so hard for us and our future and that I can be with him for eternity. I look forward to raising children with him. I am so blessed and its nice to be able to see it because I don't always see it because I choose to cry, "Woe is me". We had conference last weekend and I am grateful that President Monson told us to look at what is important and enjoy the journey now... and I plan to.

The moon's gonna follow me home.

I went home last week because wonderful friends were going to Savannah and so my wonderful mom decided to drive up and pick us up halfway... with me losing my job it has been hard to figure out when we would ever be able to go back down to Jacksonville. We took some fun pictures in the car with the sweet kids we traveled with here are some of the great ones.

above is Avalee in all her sweetness

and here is sweet Emma

And Piglet Ty

We(I) was super excited about seeing my brothers and sister and my parents it hasn't been terribly long since I have seen them but it has definitely been an adjustment not being able to just drive over and sit on my parents bed and just talk with them so when we got there on a Friday night my mom and I were up until 4 am. I know we are crazy but in staying up I got to see my dad and my brother Zach get ready to go out for the first day of hunting season and Zach's first trip hunting with dad.

It is incredible how big he has gotten and that he is now in the third grade. I remember holding him and just rocking him to sleep. Oh man I love him to pieces. Nickity was especially excited to see us and well they both love Shawn to bits and so it was good to be with them. The most difficult part for me was waking up at 7:15 after going to bed at 4 am but we really needed and wanted to go and see Shawn's parents so we went and had breakfast bright and shiny in the morning and then went back to my parent's house and hung out with my Mom, sister Con and Nickity Nick. We decided to go to Sushi for lunch which isn't necessarily Shawn's favorite food but it was fun to figure out how to use the chopsticks.
Shawn what a cutie eating his Yakatori



Above is my main man Nickity Nick and how about he is the coolest almost 7 year old that I know. I know this is really long post and that I wanted to show our trip so I took pictures and that would be fun for our blog but then I wait forever to post it... Anyway back to Jax and the trip there I was really very fortunate to be able to visit my grandparents and see my great-grandmother who is in her mid-nineties. She is amazing and was and still is a woman who has such tenacity and well spit-fire. She is now suffering from dementia... there are a few things that she remembers but if you walk out of the room after you have just introduced yourself she will be so excited when you walk back in like you just arrived. When she met Shawn for the first time she asked my mom if he was her husband and my Mom said, "No Nana he is a little young for me." We all got a good laugh! She put on her show for my husband telling him how she used to tame horses and ride them and how she would work on her farm. My mom told me that she gave her spiel that she does when she meets a new man and well it just made me laugh but I do miss her and although she is still Nana I miss her recognizing me but I don't mind giving her hug after hug because she forgot the first one.
She has an amazing talent in that she can hear a song and be able to play it. She cannot read a lick of music but you sing her a song and she can play it.
I have videos of Nana playing the piano and maybe I can get it up on here but it is taking a long time to upload. So hopefully I can get it to work so you all can see Nana's mad piano skills.
I was really grateful to go home for our quick little trip and it buoyed me immensely. I really hope that another trip can happen soon. I love my family and I am so grateful for them and well I love my husband so much and I am so grateful that he made some sacrifices for us to be able to go and spend a whole weekend with my family because I needed it so badly.

I need help.

My blog site is boring... I am lacking a real color scheme and I can't find anything really cool to talk about... Oh well... maybe someone can send me some info on how they made their blogs so cute(Tiffer...Kate... anyone).

So plans for today are to shower... clean house... clean kitchen... dirty the kitchen by cooking... feed the 4 missionaries, one husband, one brother-in-law, one sister-in-law, and myself. That is one jumbo meal by the way... 4 missionaries these are big boys y'all! Anyway it gives me an excuse to make my favorite dish EVER. Stuffed Shells whoo hoo... I haven't had them since my mom made them forever ago... I'm super stoked about supper. And I am going home for the weekend thanks to some wonderful people that I love who live here in the ATL area... yay for them and their generosity. So anyway that is all for now and I would post the stuffed shell recipe but if you buy the jumbo shells box it is on the back of the MUELLER's pasta box!!! I am going to start posting seriously on a regular basis real soon... I just have to re-upload(not a word but it will do for now) all of my pictures... and that will take oh a good afternoon. Hope all is well in the blogging world.

-Ash
P.S. KATE I LOVE YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!!!!!

Trials and Tribulation

Well things have certainly been interesting the past couple of weeks... I was at work and was balancing my drawer and was Two thousand dollars short and well that is just not a good thing at all... I really thought that it would be an error in my work and that Proof would find the error and they haven't. I was in the drive thru by myself and because of that fact I was super careful in counting my money... and handing it out... THERE IS NO WAY THAT I GAVE SOMEONE 2000 DOLLARS without realizing it... so right now I am suspended just waiting for my termination review... When it rains it pours... I know that I didnt take the money nor did I hand it out so I am not sure what is next... but I am just praying that they find the money... So I am in the process of deciding to go back to school and finding a new job... I just hope that there is a really good reason for all of this... I sure am looking for it. So... if anyone reads this if you could just pray for Shawn and I... I am just grateful that I know that Heavenly Father loves me... and I know he will answer our prayers.

Fun things...

I haven't posted in a week or two and thought that I would add some things that Shawn and I have been able to do in the past couple of weeks. We have had some time to enjoy each others company and I wanted to post some things that we have done and taken some pics of... I love being married and right now I love that things are carefree and we don't have a bajillion things that ties us down to one spot... we can kind of pick up and leave when we want to. Its wonderful. We have gone to a Braves game with our niece and nephew and we went to Stone Mountain to watch the laser show while Shawn was working and it was way fun.




The Braves game we were blessed to get amazing tickets for free and then while walking around a family of four had gotten tuckered out and we were given even better seats behind the dugout about 10 rows back... we had a blast.



We enjoyed going to the game and had so much fun with T and Britney.



This was our location after the family of four gave us their high priced tickets and the kids finally could really see the players which made the game much more interesting for them.



This is one of the pics from going to Stone Mountain Park... If you have ever seen Stomp the Yard there is a seen with the Generals in the Mountain... the date on the pic was wrong and I couldnt figure out how to change it so I promise it was this year.

Anyway we are keeping busy and are going to go to Stone Mountain Park tomorrow with some friends from church and I am definitely taking more pictures soon. We are having fun... and I love my little married life.

I am going to be posting some pics of the changes that we are making at the house... I got a little wallpaper pulling happy and started tearing it down... slowly but surely we will be getting things done... I cant wait for this house to start looking better and fixed up. We try to get it all done one room at a time.

Bum Back

So I was in bed waking up late on Saturday... and all of sudden I had this back spasm, like a charlie horse in the center of my back. Anyway...so Sunday it happened again and I just thought that I was weird... then I woke up on Monday and once again I was having these spasms except they were 600 times worse and more frequent. So I then called out of work to schedule an apointment with the doctor and she said that i cant go back to work until thursday... so its been me at home with no tv that works watching redbox movies on really powerful drugs. really powerful drugs. so if you want to give me call it would be really funny for you. home til thursday