Update

It's been quite a while since I started this blog, or added anything to it for that matter. In fact the last time I posted Christopher was either at the beginning or the middle of his mission. He has now been home for about a year and a half. Laurel was supposed to be a part of this blog but she never posted and now she is married to The Chad. So now it's down to me and Sarah, Christopher too if he wants.

Here's an update, last year I lost my job due to loss of work for the company, I started working for SmarterTools temporarily in October and was hired on permanently in January, Yay!!! I've made a lot of new friends and continue to learn new things here at work. I offically moved in with Rachelle and Grady last December and have been free loading since. Haha just kidding...sort of.

As many of you may know I was diagnosed with Wolff Parkinson White Syndrome (http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4785) when I was 21 and have recently seen a cardiologist. I will be getting an EP study and Ablation (http://www.capitalcardiology.com/electro.htm) done in December. I'm very excited and optimistic about getting this done.

Also this year I have started tennis lesson, which I LOVE. They will end in December, which makes me sad, but I have improved a lot on my playing. Jeffrey started lessons the same time as me then Daniel wanted to try the Nate wanted to watch and our awesome coach let him join his big brothers in playing. Then when Rachelle had to take the boys to their lessons one week she took Anthony with her. At home he started picking up the badmitton racket and wanted to play. So our awesome coach gave Anthony a racket that he could play with and he has joined his brothers a couple of times even though he is barely 2 years old. Anthony also like to play on my team when Grady and I play against Rachelle and coach.

This about sums up my life so far. I'll try to get Sarah to post something soon. I should probably put some more updated photos on here too...maybe later.

My family

Dad & Mom

Rachelle m-Grady

Daniel

Jeffrey

Nathan

Anthony

Rick m-Lucy

Wendy m-Jacob

Joseph

LeeAnn

Catherine

Joshua

Emily

Robert m-Bettie

Levi

Riley (not born yet)

David m-Erica

Christopher

Laurel m-The Chad

Sarah

Ryan

Frog Pants!

It's been a while since my last post, but I've been wanting to come back on here and add stuff. So after extensive searching through my 4 different email accounts received and sent messages I was finally able to locate my login for the blog.

What's new with us single Ward's you ask?

Last year I gradually lost hours at work and ended up for about three months or more being lucky if I worked more than one day every other week. The job market is tough so finding a job was not at all easy. Of course I stopped answering my phone if I didn't have the number already saved in my phone (bill collectors, blah). I finally got a break and was offered temporary work at SmarterTools (Grady's company, but he had nothing to do with my hiring...I think). As my time there was coming to an end I was getting nervous wondering what I was going to do about work. I had tried all the job posting sites and two employment agencies with no luck. At the beginning of December I was offered a permanent full time job at SmarterTools, AWESOME! I was dreading having to find a new job especially since all my office skills lie in the administrative area and quite frankly after about 7 years of doing that kind of work, I'm sick of it. I was quite relieved to be offered a completely new, non-admin, position at the company. I have now been here for almost three months (WOOHOO!!!) and I love it! I love working with the guys in support, very interesting convo's at times and I've always known this was a great company. Needless to say, I'm very grateful for this job opportunity and I'm definently learning tons of new stuff.

On a more personal level: saving lots of money and will be able to completely pay cash for a car in April, living with Rachelle and Grady and their kids (it's great love the boys) in Phoenix, miss being able to see Wendy and her kids, miss hanging with Laurel and I guess Sarah too and Deana (still working on making new friends on this side of town). Sad that I don't get to see my new nephew for a while. Keep getting sick but excited to finally get insurance in May! This new singles ward I'm in is pretty good.

That's all for now from me. I'm working on gettting Laurel and Sarah to add their own comments, we'll see how that goes.