#2 Remodeling The Bathroom

Well as you can tell I had a little fun with the remolding. They wanted me to scrape off all of the popcorn stuff on the ceiling. Lets just say that If i didn't have the goggles on my eyes I probably wouldn't have been able to see. After going through all that Laura decides to crack a joke. Saying " Hey maybe for Halloween you can be a ghost. I mean i know how to make you all white now."

Late in coming , but good nonetheless

So Looking at everyone's blog I have noticed that we are the last ones to update it. Well you will be surprised at how busy we have been. I've hardly had the time to breathe it seems like, for i am working hard at both jobs. What has happened since we have done the last blog... Well for starters Memorial day I had off from both jobs and we went to the zoo. Second I have been helping remodel the upstairs bathroom. Third Ella and Laura went to White Water. Forth We found a little gardener snake. Fifth Ella did a little painting, and last but not least we went Camping.

So as you can tell a lot has gone on since May 7, the last post. This will catch you guys up to speed on what has been happening here in our little neck of the woods. Also during this whole time I have been working more at Chili's and am going to be putting in an application in to be a Personal Banker at the downtown location. The reason behind it is that Our Personal Banker at our location is going to be going to school full time and only working Part time as a teller. One of our other tellers that we have is going to be quiting on August 15. So it works out in the end. All that we need is a full time PB and I am going to talk to my manager about it.

So the days that I have been working at chili's is Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and also Saturday mornings at 8 in the morning. So besides getting more shifts at chili's more money for us, If they would seat me, and if they would quit giving me Q.A (Quality Analysis, making sure correct food goes out to the correct table) and Host Shifts. Other than that things are good. Ohh the ones on Saturday are for New Hire Orientation.

First trip to the zoo!!!

This weekend that we went to the zoo was the first actual 3 day weekend that I have had in a long time. So we decided to go to the Zoo. We were planning on being there only a couple of hours but we were there for like 4 hours. As you can tell Ella had a good time at the zoo. It was hot when we went so a lot of the animals like this Gorilla were in the shade just taking a rest. Things were going good. Funny little story about the zoo. We went into this area for all of the marine life. We walked down into this area and were walking around when out of the blue this voice rings out and says "The picture that you have does not do her justice." I looked around and notice a couple . The wife said the same thing again, then she added "you don't remember us do you?" I looked at her and then the baby, then at her again , and then I looked at her husband. That is when it hit me. I showed them a picture of Ella while I served them at Chili's a few weeks past. Talk about weird.


These are just some of the pictures that we have for you. More to come.

Work

So as Laura has said I got a pay raise. We are all very excited about it. While I was in the drive thru last month my branch manager came in to do our quarterly review. He ranked me an even 2 all they way across. It is good for me. I am working hard at it and am getting a lot of referalls. In the drive thru alone I got 2 credit cards, and also 5 Home Equity Line of Credit. All of these were just warm referalls and hoping that they go through. It is 10 points per credit card and 10 points for each HELOC. I also believe that i get a dollar per point. That is the best in the drive thru, and I have two more coming when I get back to the drive thru. My pay raise to let you know is $0.18.

PAY RAISE!!

Thomas is getting a pay raise. We are not sure how much yet but every little bit helps. It is pretty awesome because he has only been working there for 4 months!! YEAH!

First Bandaid

Hello Family,
As you can or can not tell by the picture Ella now has 4 bottom teeth. Yup that is right 4 bottom teeth and she wasn't cranky at all. Well this morning after she woke up from her nap we noticed that there was a cut on her thumb. So we put a bandaid on it and that is what the second picture is of. The third one is just a funny picture that we took. Well hope you guys like them.

Teeth

Ella is still cutting teeth. It takes like a month for them to come in. Thankfully it doesn't really bother her because there are 4 coming in at the same time. We are busy packing our stuff back up to move into my parents house. The real reason we are making this move is because no one wants to deal with my sister. She is not taking responsibility for her son and we can see how it is affecting Halen. She will be leaving Halen with us for a month until she "settles in" to the house...so we will wait and see. She was engaged but broke it off a few weeks ago and is now in a new relationship which means a lot of her being gone until the wee hours of the morning. We will have the whole upstairs of the house so we are thinking this move maybe a good one for at least now. Also Ella says MOMMA and occasionally DADDA and loves eat whatever she can get heer mouth around including the metal legs of the chairs. She is really getting good at moving around. The other day she scooted her exersaucer across the floor.