2011 is Here!

I have the best intentions of keeping the blog up to date but it never seems to happen! Maybe 2011 will be better? I make no promises ha ha.

The kids are busy as usual. Jayden just had her winter dance show today. She did such a great job! I will be posting her photos on facebook soon! Mason starts school basketball this week. I can't wait to see how he plays when a parent isn't coaching him. Guess we see.

I have been busy working on the church website. Our old church website was an information only brochure online essentially. Now it is an interactive tool that we have built into something useable!!! Exciting! Check it out at www.hopelutheran-dsm.org. It is the item that has tied up all of my free time when I was unemployed and most of my nights and weekends rolling out as an active site since I got my job.

Speaking of job-I am employed again! I am working at Fiserv in West Des Moines! It is a great company and I enjoy it a lot so far. Eric is still looking for work and going to school full time. Hopefully he can land a job in the sports industry soon!

That is a quick update. Until we meet again.....God Bless!

Diary of a Bored Work-a-holic

So I sit here bored out of my skull. Don't get me wrong, I am surfing the net and applying for jobs. I network like the best of them but leads keep falling short. Bummer. Guess God wants me to be a stay at home mom for a little bit longer. Hard for me to understand because we already have a stay- at-home dad so not really sure what is so important that we both need to be here!!

I am a busy body by nature. Ask my mom- I am hardly ever still and not doing something. This being unemployed is for the birds. Once the kids go back to school I am going to pound the pavement and find something worthwhile to donate my time to in order to fill my days. It gets me out of the house and talking to other people. I figure it would be a good time to network with new faces. If anyone has any grand ideas, shoot them my way.

Kids are at the grandparents for a few days. The hubby and I have been enjoying some date nights together watching movies and eating foods the kids normally veto. It has been a good time. We have been relaxing while most of the towns around us are pretty flooded out. Being on the second floor condo makes it pretty ok for us since there is no water around here and it shouldn't reach us anyway! I do pray for the poor folks trapped by this water either in basements or their entire homes. It breaks my heart to see flood footage. Not good.

Well that is it for now. Toodles!

The Job Hunt Continues

So I have been off of work for over a month now. One would think that it means I have all kinds of time to get things done and lay around the house but that never seems to happen! I have been attending some career resource classes and those have been very helpful at boosting the spirits and getting my resume in order etc. It has also given me a great chance to meet some wonderful people.

I spent the last weekend helping out for a wonderful career weekend held at Iowa State for students with disabilities. I helped the leader with the class for resume writing and interview preparation. It was such a wonderful group of kids to work with!

The kids are having a pretty laid back summer. I think some times they are bored when Eric and I are job hunting and taking on line courses but overall they have been doing ok. They have been attending several camps for sports and dance. Those keep us hopping!

We are Back!

Ok so I have been a huge slacker on the blog. I get that for sure! I will do my best to update more often now that unfortunately I have nothing better to do! I have been laid off from my job. Eric was told a week later that he also was being laid off from the same position. Not exactly sure what God has in mind with all of this. The good news is that it gives me more time to try to recover from the gallbladder surgery I had a couple of weeks ago. It should have been a routine surgery but little hiccups have occurred along the way.

So, kids are busy as usual. Jayde is finishing up softball. She has also developed a love for Volleyball which should be able to utilize her freakishly tall figure :) Mason has finished up his baseball season with a big Tournament of Champions win for his team. Now his time is filled with various camps. FUN!

All and all we are well and slightly stressed. Keeping the faith and trying to keep our eyes open for new opportunities!! :)

End of Summer

I have been a slacker- I embrace it sometimes...ha ha. The kids were pretty busy most of the summer. Mason had several football camps that started and that kept him pretty busy. Jayde had a brief time off but had dance camps and clinics and softball clinics so she had her share of fun too. She also danced at the state fair again this year. She does such a great job- I am very proud of her. Here is a photo of the two kids waiting for Jayde's time to dance. We had a good time at the fair.

We took our annual trip to Okoboji in July. We had a really good time hanging out with Angie at her lake house. It was stormy some nights but the days were pretty great.

Jayde is starting fall ball for softball. She really likes it because she gets to try her had at pitching. That makes for a long game to watch but the girls try their best.

Well that is it for now. I will post pics of the kids from the first day of school when I get them downloaded from the camera!! Take care!

Summer Fun

We have finally wrapped up the baseball and softball seasons. We still have several camps going on for Mason but our weekends have finally opened up a bit. We were able to break away and head down to St. Louis last weekend and enjoy a cardinal game and some sites when we were down there. The hotel we stayed at was fabulous and quick to everything so that was nice. The weather was really hot but still bearable since we chose to do indoor activities for the most part LOL. Next week we will be spending the week in okoboji with my sister. The kids are very excited to hang out at the lake. I am excited to have nothing to do but hang out and enjoy the water ha!!

Summer update

We finally slowed down a little bit for me to update this. Most of you follow all of the activities on facebook but Eric kindly reminded me that there are very few Walter family members on Facebook so I have to keep this updated. What is wrong with you people? Even my mom is on Facebook!!! HA! :)

Jayde took a week and went to visit Grandma & Grandpa Walter early in June. Mason has been pretty busy with baseball. That is wrapping up this weekend and then we have a month off. Then football starts. I shouldn't say a month off really because there is still running to basketball and football camps as well as the team may potentially start a summer basketball league in July. That remains to be seen yet. But on the flipside there shouldn't be any weekend tournaments that tie us up. This weekend we are taking a quick trip to St Louis to catch a Cardinals game and to do some sight seeing around St.Louis.

Here are some photos below. Mason playing baseball, Jayde performing at the mall, me and the kids at my graduation, Jayde dancing at the Iowa Barnstormers, me and my sister Nikki at my graduation (William Penn alumni) and Mom hugging her handicap sign :)