General Update / Good News

It has been a long time since I have written an update – so I thought it was about time that I did that. Things are pretty status quo for Yankton and I.
It is still just me, Yankton and Nero. We have had Nero for almost two years now. He is such a loving, happy and alert dog. He has discovered that his favorite hobby is patrolling the windows in the living room/dining room for squirrels, birds, cats, and bicyclists that may be in our yard, cul-de-sac, or any of the neighbor’s yards that are in his line of sight. He gets especially grumpy about bicyclists – who knows why?? It always amuses me that a four-pound fuzz-ball can display such personality.
Yankton is finishing up his two years of pre-pharmacy courses. He has been diligently studying and going to classes such as Organic Chemistry 1 & 2, Biology, Anatomy and Physiology 1&2, Microbiology, Calculus etc. All classes that I went out of my way to avoid!! Thankfully it has all paid off as he has been accepted to the University of the Incarnate Word Pharmacy School and will be starting his REAL pharmacy classes in the fall of 2011. Graduation date: May 2015 – mark your calendars now.

I am very proud of Yankton for doing something so radical as changing careers when he realized he was not happy. I think changing gears professionally is one of the hardest things you can do and there are not many people who can pull it off successfully. Of course, pharmacy school is not going to be easy and he has a tough four years ahead of him. He has already warned me that he is going to have to spend A LOT of time at school going to classes basically all day and then working with his study groups at night.

I am still with the same company. It will be 10 years in July that I have been here. In January I was promoted to Senior Manager of HR and works keeps me very busy. Being in the construction / construction materials industry, I very much want to see more of an economic rebound. The economy will not truly be better until we see the construction industry starting to revive.

I am also staying busy decorating the house. We moved in almost four years ago and I only started decorating about 3 months ago. I have managed to FINALLY decide what I want to do in the upstairs bedrooms. I sorta have an idea of what to do everywhere else. I am planning on doing everything one room at a time. That way I will not be living in chaos in every room in the house.

For those not interested in decorating, you can skip this next paragraphs.
In the front room upstairs (windows face east), I am going to do a dark charcoal grey on the walls. There will be a light grey sheer curtain behind a set of dark grey velvet curtains on the two windows. The furniture will be a rich cherry wood with black and silver accent pieces throughout the room. I am also putting all of our photo albums in this room on a tall narrow bookcase in the corner.

The back upstairs bedroom is the darker of the two rooms. I am going to do a natural blue color on the wall (think light blue, but not sky blue) and white trim on the doors and closets. The furniture will be all white in the room along with a modern grommet top white curtains and white comforter. The only other blue will be from the sheet set.
Other than decorating inside, we are not doing a whole lot to the house. Outside we are happy that the blackberry bush we planted our first year is finally producing berries. The poor thing started as a little sprig and then kept getting weed-whacked by the lawn guy. It finally had a chance to grow and is turning into a bush!

Yankton and I are thinking about doing dance lessons again over the summer. I want to switch to ballroom dancing I and II, but I think he prefers the C&W style. We will see…
Overall, things are good for us. It is kinda boring and status quo, but maybe that is a good thing!
Love and Prayers to all our family and friends!!

Old Family Photos

I have been starting to collect some old family photos for both my family and Yankton's family. Some of them I am having scanned and digitally restored. Here are some from my Dad's side of the family. The above picture is my Grandpa and uncle.

Below is a picture of both of my Grandparents.

Here my Uncle is holding my Dad's hand.

My grandmother with my Dad and Uncle.

This is my Dad at boarding school in Nebraska.