South Carolina

We went on a fun little trip to South Carolina and during our trip we stopped by Charleston to check out the sites! It was a beautiful drive, in fact the entire state of South Carolina was the prettiest state I have ever been to, with all the Plantations and just the thickest green everywhere! In Charleston, we took a little boat tour of all the sites, this was the US Custom House, just a really pretty building!

We were able to see Fort Sumter, or what is left of it, it was a lot smaller than we expected but after seeing the history behind it, it was because the entire top half of the Fort had been blown off in battle!
We also got to see the USS Yorktown!
There were Yachts everywhere!!
This was the Bridge coming into Charleston.




We went to Myrtle Beach down to visit our friends Bryan and Rebecca Stalvey!! It was beautiful and just fun to spend time with friends!!




They were making these fun little roses out of reeds and grass, of course Addi loved it!
We had so much fun and just absolutely enjoyed our little mini vacation, before Jake starts work!! Now I've got Jake on an endless list of Honey Do's while he's home, he will be so glad to be back to work after I get done with him!!!

JOB....What's that, I've forgotten?

While we have been in school Jake has kept busy with doing all the school work and trying to bring in a little income here and there with odds and ends like Internships and Graduate Assistantships! We made things work, but had to sacrifice little things here and there and had LOTS of help!! Thank you, we couldn't have made it without all of your support. I am so happy and so proud to announce that after many sleepless and tear filled nights, that our prayers (and I know a lot of yours, thank you for keeping us in your prayers) have finally been answered!! We knew eventually we find a Job but we were so blessed to get the exact one that we were hoping for, nor did we know what an amazing company they would be!! I am so full of gratitude and I know that our Heavenly Father has been looking out for me and my beautiful little family!!

Has offered Jake a job as a Financial Analyst!!! I have never seen a job so perfect for my husband. He is a man who has to believe in a company to work for them and lets just say Jake is a believer!! Someone at Disney that Jake interned with asked him why he would want to work for Lockheed?? Jake said "oh I love that kind of stuff" and she goes "WHAT?? but they make Bombs!!" I just recently watched Iron Man 2 and the more and more I find out about Lockheed I tease Jake that it will be like working for Stark Industries!! He is so excited to start work!! I'm so proud of him! I know through the whole job searching process he took a lot of rejection and abuse and he still kept going back for more!!! In the end it was all worth it! The best part of all of this is he doesn't start until the 7th!! So we get two whole weeks of just spending time with Daddy and the girls are just soaking it up, as am I!!!!

Family Visits!

I know that I am really behind on my blogs, so I'm trying to catch back up. For Jake's Graduation we were lucky enough to have my Grandparents and both of our parents come and visit!! The girls and us were so spoiled by all of them and we just absolutely loved having all the visitors!! Thank you everyone for taking the time to come and visit and to make sure that we know that we are loved! We love you all and can't wait for another visit!!

Graduation!!

Jake graduated with his MBA on May 1st!!! Oh what a happy day! We are finally out of school!! I am so proud of him he worked so hard, he was class president, graduated with high honors and was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma for his scholastic acheivements!! On top of all that he was still an excellent father and still always made time for his family!!! I don't know how he had the time to fit it all in but he managed to do it!! We love you so much Jake and we are so proud of all that you have accomplished!