Getting better

At Grapefest

I'm really trying to get better about keeping this updated. It's hard with Dylan now, but I'm trying. I want to also do it because it will sortof give us something we can print out later and remember all of this. :) let's see what has happened lately. Well, I have a pretty promising job offer that my friend Delana has helped me find. It has really been hard finding something on my own. I keep up with every job I apply for and I have applied for like 5 or 6 jobs a week since Dylan was born. That's a lot of jobs. Yes, I had 3 interviews and that's great but no offers. I was getting pretty discouraged and then Delana mentioned that the advertising agency that the company she works for uses could possibly be hiring soon. So she forwarded my resume on and got me an interview. The interview went great! I loved the 2 women I met that would be above me I believe. The atmosphere of the company was quaint, it was a smaller company, about 40 people. It is for a project manager position. I have never been in that position before, so I'm not sure how much experience I have with it, but since I worked about Publicis, I'm hoping that will be enough. I'm really nervous about doing a good job and impressing them if it all works out. I just hope they don't think I have more experience than I do. I'll do whatever I need to do though. I'm sure it will be tough leaving Dylan, actually I KNOW it's going to be tough, but financially Mike and I just can't do it anymore with just his salary. It lasted us this long but we have been on a VERY tight budget and we are getting really sick of that. Oh and this job is 45 mins away WITHOUT traffic, so I'm really worried about that, but if I have to do it, I have to do it. I just have to make a certain amount now with daycare and gas, so I'm hoping they will pay what I need to make. Delana said we might meet sometime soon to discuss that, so I'm hoping it all works out.

We are headed to Austin YET AGAIN this weekend. :) I Love Austin but man it's hard packing up the entire house into a car with 3 dogs and a baby!! It's a challenge but some how we always figure it out. I try to pack it all better each time. We just have to bring so much for baby D. We are going to the Texas/Texas Tech game, I'm so excited!! It should be a good time. Mike's parents are watching D for several hours and then my parents will watch him while we are at the game. I hate to leave him for so long right now, but we have been looking forward to this game since I was pregnant. :) I just hope it's a good game and not a blow out.

We had A GREAT time last night. We went to Grapefest in Grapevine. It's a food and wine festival. I try to go to it every year because it's a lot of fun. The last time we went it was with my parents and it was a lot of fun. But my mom and I made the mistake of doing a wine tasting at 11:00am!!! It was WAY too early for that much wine. haha. But we stayed for a long time and had a great time. It was free on Thursday, plus we were headed out of town so I figured why not. We just knew it was going to pour on us, but it didn't. It actually felt amazing out!! I had a few small glasses of wine and Mike had a couple beers and we walked around, listened to some bands and just had a great time. Dylan was awesome! He got fussy a few times but he just wanted to be held. Plus he was starving!! I made him a bottle and he's still not sure about formula (we give him formula every now and then because I just don't produce enough to store it and it's WAY easier in situations like this). So he kinda spit it out for awhile but then finally took it. He's such a good boy. We had a blast with him though. Except when the band started I think it scared the poop out of him, literally! hehe. We were pretty far back so it wouldn't be too loud but it still scared him. He looked like a deer in headlights. poor thing. hehe. Anyways, it was a great night. I didn't go to bed until 1 though since I had to pump (oh the joys of breastfeeding) and then I woke up at 5:30am to feed him and could not go back to sleep. So I got up and started packing for the weekend. Now it's 8:30am and I'm sure it will hit me soon. :)

Everything else is going great here. Just so happy to be alive and healthy and have wonderful friends and family. Yes, I could ask to be rich or have the best job in the world or have a lot of materialistic things, but that's not what matters in life, it's just enjoying the one life you get and not sweaty petty things. (this is something I try and tell myself everyday, hehe).

Jill