long time, no see

well, i'm back...finally. brandon and i have been sooooo busy working on the house, our computer crashed (obviously, it's back now:), and some of my family from ND came for a 5 day stint (including my birthday!). now that things are settling down some i thought i'd blog a bit. truthfully, i'm not really in the mood so i'm just going to do a little update:

• i was working...reception work and then sales type stuff. not my thing, but it was nice having the extra money around. it was a good feeling to know that after this summer i will (hopefully?!) never have to work a job like that again. from now on i will be therapist extraordinaire, starting with my 1000 hour internship working with perpetrators, victims and witnesses of domestic violence. i start in exactly 2 weeks (when the school year officially begins...my LAST school year!!-can't believe it, never thought i would be so close...still so much to do!:).
• our home is much closer to being finished. don't get me wrong there is still A LOT to do but it feels good to have some major projects finished. we even christened the backyard saturday night when we hosted our first backyard bbq (in our new home-we've been here for almost 2 years:) for my 25th birthday.
• one of my grandmas and two of my aunts came for a visit. i showed them around salt lake and had a great time taking pictures of crazy things. since there are so many pictures, i'll do another blog about what we did and all that jazz.

anyways, i've got 2 weeks to get things around the house where i'd like them since i never have time to do much around here after school starts AND i absolutely have to make a lot of progress on my thesis. but, i will be making a trip to st. george this week for some R & R.

so, now that you've all been updated i'm done for now. ttfn!