I Got The Job!

Right after we came home from a wonderful Thanksgiving in Winthrop I attended a job interview for Western Airlines. They are going to start flying out of Bellingham (BLI) in January and are hiring for all kinds of positions. Check out their great fares here.
Western management invited over 80 people to come out and go through the interview process. They had flown in several people from Xtra Airways to help with the selection process. After a very interesting round of first interviews, 23 of us stayed around for a second round. We sat through another round of questions and answers, with the interviewees doing most of the answering, before the panel deliberated again. In the end the 23 of us were there for almost 8 hours and all were asked to show up for company training. Yeah!
This should be interesting, I haven't really gone to school or had a job since I've moved down here to the US! I'll keep the updates coming...

Loads of SNOW Day!

We came back from our family trip to Winthrop for Thanksgiving. It was a rough trip going back west over the mountain pass since it was snowing heavily most of the day both east and west of the mountains. So we came home to a winter wonderland and school canceled for the next week. They updated websites daily, but there was such an accumulation of snow that it was safer to stay home. Volleyball was canceled both on Monday and Wednesday, many businesses ran on a skeleton staff or just plain old shut their doors for a few days. Everyone understood and in the end it was fun to see all the snowmen kids all around had built, and everyone out and about enjoying the far from normal conditions.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, for Thanksgiving this year we decided to drive to visit our parents in Winthrop. It was a lot of fun to see everyone and especially watching Grace play with her cousin Oscar. Last time these two were together it didn't go so well. Oscar had a particular way of expressing his happiness that didn't sit well with Grace. I must agree with her that it is a little disconcerting to have a little curly haired face in your space crowing at the top of his lungs. This time he seemed to have moved on to hugs and pats, which Grace still didn't' care for, but grudgingly endured. It was rather sweet to see the two of them invent games of blowing farts on the furniture and taking turns punishing the piano. LOL
We cooked a ton of food. My sister-in-law's sweet potato casserole was to die for, better than dessert. I think everyone must've had fifth and sixth servings. Yummy! A lot of cards were played and our snowboards stayed tucked away int he back of the truck, because the snow didn't' come till the day we had to go home. But what a wonderful visit anyway...

House Framing Coming Along...

Well, it's not proceeding as planned, but what ever does? Progress is being made and for that we are thankful. Here's my scraproom...and the view facing the kitchen french doors leading out to the covered deck, eventually! LOL

Grace's Modeling Career has officially started...

today I was at my LSS (local scrapbook store - for the non-scrappers in my BLOG audience!), and the girl there greeted me like this... "It's too funny that you're here cause I was just looking for your phone number. We had some questions about Grace's pictures..." In the end they wanted to make sure it was ok with me to display her photos at the store. Out of two days worth of photoshoots with all kinds of kids, her photos were the cutest, or so they thought. I agree. Here's some of them>>>

I Uploaded some Layouts to my Scrapbook Site.

If you are interested in seeing what I worked on during last weekend's 27 Hour Crop check out my layouts at Scrapjazz.
I did end up not working the whole 27 Hours, but in my defense, I ended up taking Grace with me for the first few hours since Martin was working late. So I didn't really get scrapping till later that night. I also took advantage of the wonderful food the gals served up. YUMMY!
At 2 AM I finally gave up on trying to scrap and went home for a few hours of shut-eye. When returned I got on a roll after breakfast and completed quite a few page. I hope you enjoy them.

Halloween Trick or Treating with Grace

I almost didn't take Gracie trick-or-treating this year, but imagine my surprise when Martin called home at about 3PM to see if we wanted to go. I just figured a trip into town by myself wouldn't be any fun, but together that was a whole different story. So I got her costume ready to go and checked the internet to see where we could take a 17 month-old that wouldn't be too cold. The mall and various churches were having indoor events so we headed out in that direction. Of course Daddy had ultrior motives and insisted that we stop in at Costco and check out what's new in the tool aisle.
After browsing and actually not buying a single thing, (yes, I was so amazed you could've knocked me down with a feather!), we headed to the mall. It was quite fun to see all the little, and not so little, ghosts, goblins and witches out and about. Most stores had someone posted outside their doors handing out candy, stickers or small toys. After a few attempts Grace got the hang of it and went up to each person and held out her hand. We used the brown paper bag she had decorated last week at the Mom's Club Halloween bash. She got a good stash for a little witch.

Check out last y
ear at Halloween and this year's costume: