California Bound

Just about a week and a half ago I found out that I gota job at Advantage Sales and Marketing in Plesanton, California. So after my family reunion last week, I followed my aunt Terrie out to the golden hills of California. One of my favorit thing about driving to and from California and Utah is "the Ball Tree". I do not know why this is my favorite part of the drive, but it has been ever since I was little. It took 14 hours to arrive in Danville, CA where I now stay with my aunt and uncle. (It took an extra 2 hours because my aunt had to stop at EVERY rest stop to go pee, and by every rest stop I am not exagerating)

My job is pretty nice (actually it is pretty boring and menotonous), I sit in an air conditioned room for 8.5 hours each day and look at I9's. They are the forms that employees fill out to verify that they are able to work in the US. If I was into identity theft this would be an awesome job! I have access to all of Walmart, Food Maxx, Sams Club, Suave, Dove, and many more company's employee information. I go into work at 7 am and get out at 3:30. So it means that I have a lot of time after work to play! I have spent way too mush on gas though, I fill up way too often and I have yet to get a pay check and won't for about 3 more weeks! I take a trip Danville to Plesanton, then from Plesanton to Danville everyday, and at least 2 a week I go to Concord and back. Way too much gas, and I need a paycheck now!

Long time no blog...

In the past 3 weeks much has gone on. First, school is out! For five months, and I am now living at home. This is a picture of some of the girls in the ward on one of our last spontaneous adventures, this one was at monkey rock at night.

Second, Mark and Summer got married on the 31 of July. (I have a new sister-in-law! And am loving it!)

Third, we are moving, Mom works in Salt Lake and Dad works in Layton which means a long commute for both of them. So, we will live in Layton about 6 min away from Dad's work and about a half hour away from Mom's work. Also our family got very small in the past week. Kyle, Alyssa, Spencer, and Kelsi, who all lived with us here, now are in Arizona for Med. School, and Mark got Married. Leaving us with Me, Mom, Dad, and Skye (who will be leaving on a mission on September 1st to be at home). In all things are opposition... the night after Marks wedding, everyone left, the Kyle Jackman Family, and Mark. (And to think just the previous night everyone was together and happy for the wedding.) Which means I am home alone, and very, very lonely a lot. I have gotten things done though, I have caught up on my sleep since I sleep in the basement now, because it is too hot to sleep up stairs in my room. And must I add, the basement (in the room that I sleep) has no windows, so I never know what time of day it is. Example, I went to bed around 11:30 last night, woke-up around 7, because my bladder was telling me I needed to get up. Then I laid back down thinking I would wake up in about 30 min. Little did I know that I would wake up at 10:45 to a call from Janae, wanting to bring Levi over to play.

Also I have gotten my room cleaned out. There were three piles in my room, keep, DI, and trash. Man, I am glad to have 1 trash bag full of garbage gone, and 1 big box of DI things gone. My room is actually really clean now.

And now I am counting down the days till my cousin Jacob comes up here. I am glad to say that he is one of my best friends. Growing up I could not say that, we were always fighting, and trying to one up each other. But now we have become very good friends and I am glad. When he comes up here, he is coming to stay! To go to BYU, which will only be about 1 hour and 15 min from my house, so we will be partying it up all the time! also his family and him are coming up to our Jackman family reunion (it is not their side of the family, but we are still so happy that they will be coming).