Sol Got a Job!!

It finally happened, Sol got a job. It has been a long time coming, but we are so grateful. For the last 8 months we pretty much had no leads on a possible job. We were looking everywhere and Sol was applying at every place possible, but we only got one phone interview out of that and after the phone interview we pretty much didn't here back from them. I'm sorry to say it, but I was beginning to think it would never happen. It was so hard to know how hard Sol had been working and how long he had been working and then not get anything because of it. Thankfully at the end of November Sol got in touch with the President of the Salt Lake Actuary Club and was able to get an invite to a luncheon for the club. He went to the luncheon and that is where he was able to find out about the job with Taylor-Walker & Assoc. he ended up getting. This is like the perfect position for us because he was able to start work immediately and we get to stay in Utah. We are so very grateful and feel very blessed that God was obviously watching out for us and I am so happy that Sol is now in the career he has been working towards for the last 3 years. Our next adventure is finding a house. Lets just hope that doesn't take as long as this job thing did.

Holidays 2009

We spent Thanksgiving with my family again this year. We were supposed to spend it with Sol's family, but they ended up going to Kansas and I had to work the day after Thanksgiving so we couldn't go. We went with my family to my grandparents house which has been tradition for as long as I can remember, though it looks like this may be the last year we'll be doing this since my Mom's family is getting so big. We had a blast eating to our hearts content and hanging with the fam.

Christmas was pretty great too. I had to work on Christmas Eve but it was only half a day so it wasn't bad. We spent Christmas Eve with Sol's family. I can't exactly remember what we did, but I know at some point we watched A Christmas Story which is a tradition in both of our families. Christmas morning Sol's little brother Sam and little sister Hannah woke us up at about 7, which wasn't too early thankfully. We went upstairs and opened presents and we got some pretty good stuff.

I got Sol these two books which he picked out himself and he got me an Ipod touch. (As you can see I am the picture taker so there aren't many of me in here, not that I'm complaining).


This is the stuff we got from Sol's parents:


They were so generous and we couldn't be happier with what we got.

After opening presents we had a delicious breakfast of buscuits and gravy, which is Sol's favorite. Then later that afternoon we headed to my parents house to open gifts before heading to the grandparents.



We got some great stuff from my parents, but I have to say my favorite thing I got was a photo album my mom made for my siblings and I. It is an album of all the vacations we took growing up. It is so great to have something to show all of those memories. Thanks Mom and Dad!!

Overall Christmas was great and we had a blast. We got so many great things and we are so glad we got to spend the Holiday's with both of our families.

Vacation to Moab

Okay, I've decided that I am horrible at updating my blog. I feel like I have hardly anytime to blog and I never know what to say. Hopefully this next year I will be better at updating.

About a week before Thanksgiving I was able to take some time off from work to have a little vaca. We spent the first few days relaxing together and we spent one day up in park city shopping and hanging out. Then the Sunday before Thanksgiving we decided to take a spontaneous trip to Moab for a few days and my parents were able to join us. Sol and I had gone earlier in the summer, but it was so hot then we weren't able to enjoy ourselves as much as we would have liked. This time was perfect. The weather was in the upper 40's the whole time. It was perfect weather to go hiking. All you had to do was wear a light jacket and you were good. Here are a few pictures of our trip into Arches. Most of the Arches we saw this time we didn't see last time.


We had a blast. It was so great to spend sometime with my parents and it was so great to be able to relax a little.