Family Update

There's a lot of random update type info I want to put on the blog so this is what this post is, plus some other random stuff...

Josh and Andrea Packard just moved into my ward. Josh is Garth's son for those of you who are family. Their daughter Stella is in Marcelus' little Sunbeams class. Their little guy James goes to Nursery with Phoenix. I think we'll have them over for dinner soon! It was fun when she introduced herself in RS. When she said Packard, I blurted out "...Packard as in Forrest & Esther Packard..." and she turned back and said "Yeah", and then I said "We'll talk after." It was funny. My RS president was kind of dumbfounded, and was trying to keep up.

I have a new little calling, well kind of...I go to Marcelus' Sunbeams class as a helper in case a kid needs to go the bathroom or get a drink. It's cute being in there, but I'll miss RS. I think it's every other week though, so that's good.

I have been growing out my hair forever to perm it (like Shar likes) but it's growing so slow and I don't really like the color even though I pretty much get nothing but compliments. I just don't feel like it's me. I just think it's a mousy brownish red color. I'm not used to it on me and now it's getting to the length where I can't do it good without a Chi. I gave mine to my sister a long time ago so I'll need to get a new one sometime I guess, but I just wish my hair would grow out faster so I could just perm it already! It's going to be a while so I think I might go dark in the meantime. We'll see.

Our lease here is up in March and the rent is going up. We've gotten really used to what we pay so we're going to move out and find something that's the same. Besides, it would be great to be closer to my sister Connie. We really like our ward, but it will be better. We're going to try and find something along the 60 between Power and Signal Butte for you locals.

Sharrid is finishing up 2 online classes here soon, then will dive right into 3 more. After those 3 (this summer) he'll have his Associates degree in Corrections. In August he will apply for the Nursing Program and start the prerequisites for the program while waiting to be accepted (about 14 months out from applying) then the program will be 2 years and he'll be done. He might become a Nursing Assistant in the process at some point and quit corrections. I'm really proud of him and happy that education and getting his degree is such an important thing to him. All his online classes here and there since we've been married are starting to pay off and we can see the end in sight. He's going to be a Nurse! Sharrid has been working at the Hospital about 2-3 days a week guarding inmates who need medical attention. He's there a lot and has had to work a little bit with the Nurses so he's gotten a pretty good idea of what he'll be doing. I think it's been really good for him to be there in the environment. Sharrid told me that he would like to finish all of his schooling down here and with the prospect of me being treated soon, I told him that I was okay with that. So, that means that according to our plans we'll be here for another 4 years. He told me that after he was done, we could move wherever we wanted. So that's our plan. I told him I don't want to end up here. I want to be closer to my family and it's just a little too big for me personally. The timing of things in the near future are unknown to us as far as my treatment, when we'll have more kids, ect. So we're trying to at least plan what we can, and we'll just have to see what happens with the rest. We'll have to play those things by ear and cross those bridges when we get to them.