April Showers... brings May Showers

This is a sunset of the Olympic Mountains! We went home about a month ago & it was so great to see everyone (even if it was just for one hour). We got to visit all our preggo friends & since then lil' Atticus Justice Mathews (our friends Asher & Christina's baby). We went home... and man do I have to say I miss home. There's nothing like Indiana/Michigan flat land... with gentle rolling hills, and nothing like having a thunderstorm followed by an ice storm, or playing disc golf in snow:)

There has been no big changes here, except I finished taking more of my NAIOMT (manual therapy) courses, have touched base with some long lost family members on facebook :) (love you guys) and been working extra hours to make a little extra money. Next month we plan on moving to a friend's house, since they are moving away:( (not 100% sure, but almost). Eric has been searching endlessly for jobs, going to job fairs and searching on the web. He applied for the City of Puyallup for a seasonal position, so hopefully he will land that job soon. Please keep him in your prayers. He has been playing a lot of disc golf, has played in a tournament last month getting 14th place in the Intermediate class, and he will be playing May 9-10 close by where we live.

We also plan on going to San Francisco road trip this memorial day weekend, stopping off to see the Redwood forests and playing disc golf of course:) We will make sure to take a lot of pictures!

March Madness

Well, I'm not really into the March Madness, but I do watch ESPN a lot with Eric, so I know that Syracuse has played a lot of overtimes and they are tired. Anyways, well there has been some changes in our lives, its been a few months. Eric is transitioning to another job, his teaching career is going to be put on hold for a while. I am still me, working some extra days to make a little extra money, may be getting a PRN job working at a nursing home this summer. I also took a test last week to complete my Level I certification for my certification in manual therapy and first few steps toward my fellowship, as well as took the next Level II course last weekend. I really enjoy my job... just trying to deal with paperwork... and paying bills. Our doggie... Chloe is so wonderful, she is always happy to see us and she is well behaved, she is bashful, but once you start playing with her she loves you.

We are going home in 2 weeks! I am so excited to see my family!!! I think it will make me become homesick though, hoping for some decent weather. Eric and I aren't too sure when we will be moving next... we love the outdoors here. Other than that, we have no plans of babies yet, but we do know that we do want to have babies!! I can't wait to see my friend's babies... 3 of them (2 will be pregnant still mama V and Christina!). Well love you all and we miss you, we are missing you and if you get a chance give us a update on your life! Love you!!

New Year 2009

Winter 2009 so far...

We are doing good on our end. My brother and niece came to visit about a week ago and it was a blast! We also got a new doggie, Chloe... she is awesome and I love her. Eric had about 2 1/2 weeks off and just started back to teaching. I have been super busy with work, doing paperwork outside of work and working late hours, but I really enjoy all the people I work with and I am going to start taking more continuing education courses starting in March. Eric and I are just working, enjoying our much time together, and today we finally got to play disc golf again after 4 weeks of not playing due to the crazy weather here. They had the worse snow here that they've had in 30 years and then it flooded of course so we couldn't play for a month.
We miss home... Eric will be coming home in February. Then we will come home again in March for his spring break... and that will be my first week of vacation since I've started working. We also started working out more regularly. We are started to make some friends too and that has been pretty cool.
Please fill me in when you can, I am best with email. Miss you guys! :(

Thanksgiving Break

Well I am writing a little too early, since it is Thanksgiving today still... just the beginning of the four day weekend. We didn't get to go home this holiday, I tried to make a turkey... see my artistic pictures :) Chachi... what do you think? :)

We had dinner with some friends it was a Hawaiin style dinner... it was AWESOME!! Almost everyone there today was from Hawaii or somehow closely connected. Let's just say... I ate spam & it was good :) Spam is a special treat in Hawaii, they serve it at McDonald's Spam & Eggs. I liked some noodle dishes too & Joy's husband was an ex-caterer... so let's just say we had 'da bomb (you like that slang) dinner!

Update on me & Eric, well we are doing good. The biggest event that has happened is our wait is up for our Pilgrimage to Haifa, Israel, Holy Land. We chose our dates at the end of March 2010. It is a 9-day Pilgrimage and we will be going to the Universal House of Justice in Israel, the shrine of the Bab and Baha-u-llah. It is encouraged for Baha'is to go on Pilgrimage once in their lifetime... needless to say we were on a wait list for 3 years (it was supposed to be 7 years) & we will be visiting sacred shrines and gardens to the Baha'i Faith where historic events took place with the Bab, Baha-u-llah and followers of the Faith. We are very excited we have been blessed with the opportunity to go. God willing we will be able to make it there with ease. We have not purchased airline tickets or anything yet.

I will add more to what we did this Thanksgiving Break... our weekend has only begun. We miss everyone very much. It is hard being away from everyone, especially now.

Late Summer Pictures

Eric & I in Oregon.. Labor Day


Pacific Ocean... We miss you guys!



Our camp site in Oregon on Pacific Ocean




Me & Angie... I visited her in August, kickin' it at her hubby's football game

Me & Anna, she made a beautiful bride

Beginning of Fall... end of summer

Well.. of course it has been forever since I have written on here. We are getting along dandy handy... we both are finally getting adjusted to our daily routines with work, dinner, working out, and spending time together.

Jen's world: I've just finished a Visceral Manipulation I course this past weekend... now I can work on the intestines and colon... all that fun stuff, and this weekend I will be finishing my NAIOMT Level 1 course... learning to perform a more efficient lumbar/thoracic/cervical scan with differential diagnosing. I am learning ton from my clinic manager (Pam), the co-owner (Michael) and my co-workers... G-dawg, Char, Ty, Deanna, Bill, Kirsten. I spend half my time with worker's comp patients and the other half working with ortho/musculoskeletal dysfunctions/injuries from ages 7-80. So... it's all good & I am just trying to get a hang of documenting.

Eric's world: He goes to work at 630AM & gets home about 5-ish... he has been a little stressed to say the least, trying to get adjusted to all the paperwork and lesson plans. Tomorrow he is getting evaluated by the principle so he has to do the big Group work lesson plan. He doesn't have a comment about his job... i just tried asking him. Some days he seems to like it more than others, he is just taking it a day at a time. He hasn't started to workout or train for another show like he would want to. He is just trying to get good sleep in... every morning he has great intentions of waking up super early... but we hit snooze for at least 30 minutes.

Seattle area: it is starting to get chilly... the falls are different here than the Midwest... it smells like pine all the time and it is still really green here. The rain season hasn't start yet... for the most part it is in the high 50's & night time it is low 40's. So altogether not bad. We went to Oregon beaches for Labor day... and Eric got to swim in the Pacific Ocean for the first time.. I opted not to dive in & we played some disc golf in Portland area.

The other weekends we went back for Anthony & Amanda's wedding & I have been taking courses during the weekends while Eric goes and plays in disc golf tournaments. We play disc golf at least once a week.

Okay that is enough for now.... sorry it has been so long. Love you guys!