Update!

Reading my sister's blog has inspired me to update this thing more often. :o) Here is an update on Matt and my life....
Matt is still trying to find a job. I know everyone is wondering "what's taking so long?" ha ha, and trust me, I am too, but I understand that it isn't Matt's fault. He has applied to so many places and they just either aren't hiring, or don't want to hire him because they would have to pay him more. He did just apply to an apartment complex that I think would really like to have him except that he isn't HVAC certified. They want someone certified, but we just don't have the money to send Matt through that kind of training. He would be more than willing to be ceritified if they would hire him! :o)

My friends Jenny and Candyce came down recently and it was such a fun time, it soothed my sadness in missing my family and friends, but also made it worse when they left! I have the best friends in the world who would stick by me in every situation. I realized that while people always say if you can count more than one person as a good friend you are lucky. Well I have so many people that I love and would trust with anything. It makes me feel so happy to know that even though I may not see my friends every day, I could see them tomorrow and it would be like absolutely no time had passed.

I will include some pics from that trip later, I promise!

A week after the visit from Jenny and Candyce, Matt's parents came into town. We enjoyed their company though I didn't really get to see them, (I was working all week). They took us on an airboat ride, which was probably one of the coolest things I have done in Florida since we got here. We got to see some cool wildlife including a baby Bald Eagle and an adult one. A gator(!!!) which incidentally is the first gator I have seen in Florida since we got here. The ecological make-up of Florida is so different than what I am used to.

Matt's parents also decided to purchase one big thing for our home and left it up to us to decide. We decided on a guest bed, because I knew we would be having more guests! Matt's parents were here for a week and have already planned to come out again in June.

Matt and I are anticipating another group of visitors, my family! I am so excited because this will be the first time since I was 2 that my whole family is on vacation together. My mom, dad, sister, nephew, and brother-in-law will all be coming down together and I could not be more excited!! I can't wait to take my little nephew to DisneyWorld. He will probably be on sensory overload, but I can't wait to see an excited look on his face! It will just be a blast! (not to mention that I will have ten days off of work!)

Well more later!

Oh my goodness....

So I can't help but blog a little about the election that just ended. Despite the fact that I think some people are done hearing about it, I have a little more to say.

I was watching coverage of the race on comedy central. That's how attuned the young voters were to this election. When the news came in about Obamas win I can't lie...I was elated. It seems like so many things were a factor for this years elections....race, age, gender, ect ect ect. These are not the things I saw. I saw that Obama is a intelligent man who could possibly fix some of the horrible things going on in our country right now. Some people make it seem like it is, pardon the expression but black and white. That if Obama is president, the end of the world will ensue. Well pardon me, but I happen to believe that if McCain had won, there was a good possibility that several of my friends would be drafted to Iraq shortly there-after. It may not have ended the world, but it would have made my world end if any one of my good friends fell at the hands of a president who seems to think that the war in Iraq is still helping anyone.

The amount that we have spent on the war we will never get back, but you know what it could have done to help us? It could have paid in full for the bailout we are now considering....we wouldn't have had to borrow any money from China....it could have paid for every American to get a free education...there are a large number of things that we could have done instead of spending it on a war that we didn't and don't need right now.

So...I voted for my future. How I saw it best...and I saw it with a man that has the vision to end the war, to fix the economy, to do all the things that Bush couldn't. But here is the thing...the president is still just a man. If everyone keeps looking at this as black and white, good and evil...nothing will ever be fixed. How about instead we are just Americans looking to better the world we are living in now?

And to those people who still say, "we are screwed" and that is a direct quote from someone I know. Well, that kind of depends on you...but as I see it, the numbers have it. The large and vast majority of Americans want to...need to see change. And this is the first President since John F. Kennedy that inspires enough passion to do it. I can't remember the last time people felt so proud and hopeful.

Guess What??

My sister in law had her baby last night, and she had a little baby girl. Now I have one of each! :o) Not sure what the name will be yet. They were wrestling with a few different ones when we talked. Congrats to them!

Ease your minds

For anyone who reads my blog, you should know to ease your mind, I have a job now! Yay! So now you can all be happy, and its with Disney, so I will still have benefits! Woot!

Matt and Pat, crazy bros

Update!

Hey everyone!!

Ok so I know I haven't really posted much on here, sorry about that. I am hoping that in the near future I will be able to do some video blogging, so check back for that. Everything is good here in Florida so far. I miss everyone terribly, but time at a Disney park helps :o) Love you all, more to come.