Embark on a new journey

Today was the first day in my new journey. I completed registration for CNA Training and am half way through my second week of work. I am so excited to have the opportunity to start into a new career and be prepared to look for work when we get to Utah the end of May. I am so grateful for all that I have and for who I am and who I am going to be.

Monday during devotional one of the management team reminded us that we choose how we  let others make us feel. This was so good to hear to reinforce the positive path I am on. I have written many goals and am doing a 30 day challenge with my Beach body group and it is enlightening how much one can learn about yourself and how goal setting sparks positive change. You know that there's something that needs change. It;s lurking and you don't want to deal with it and when it occurs to you, you shut the door and look the other way. I have been doing this for far too long and you know what? When I face it, I am going to not only solve the problem...but I am going to have peace like I could never believe before.



It is so much easier to manage things when you're facing them head on rather than trying to step around them and pretend everything is okay. There are always situations that we do our best to avoid. Give yourself a break. We all have things - but successful and happy people are honest with themselves, face their flaws and fears and work through them. And guess what - you're the kind of person who has proven you're not afraid of a challenge and you're serious about achieving amazing results.

Be brave and go for it! This is my new motto. I have much to do before we move back to Utah the end of May but am so glad that I have direction and am making small steps each day to realize my dreams and achieve my goals.

I can't wait to see what I am able to accomplish at the end of this 30 day challenge. Chalene Johnson is such an inspiration and I am glad my Cheetah exercise group put this challenge out there for me to participate. Who knows if I win, I will get an awesome t-shirt. I would do it even if Ashley didn't have a prize because it has been a long over due change that I needed most. 

Great Day

I just returned from an interview and things look promising for employment until we move the end of May. I also have the unique opportunity to look into CNA certification. If all goes well I will start classes in a few weeks.

It is my goal to complete the CNA training for certification and get my background check and finger printing done before the move.

I have also been in touch with my Realtor and may put in an offer for a short sale in Eagle Mountain. It is a cute rambler with four bedrooms and two baths, two family rooms and a big back yard.

I also still have a chance if I am interested in a three bedroom townhouse in American Fork but haven't really decided if that is the way I want to go. I miss having a house and a yard. Kam keeps telling me he would love to mow the lawn and have a garden so I may just keep single family homes in our search.

I am so grateful for the last four years that we have been in Arizona. It will not be easy leaving behind Kams school, friends, our ward family and the many friends we have come to get so close to but we both believe that our heart is in Utah and that is where we want to make our permanent home.

 

I love all of my children with all my heart. I am so grateful that Tasha, Cheresa and Brandon have grown up to be healthy, happy, productive members of society. A mother can't ask for much more. I am proud of the adults they have become and most of the choices they have made to bring them to where they are today. I love my grand children with all my heart and am so grateful I had the last two years to share in their cheering, football, soccer and sleep overs with grams along with barbeques at Tashas house in San Tan Valley.

It is my hope they all continue to be true to themselves and continue to grow and learn that everything is possible with the Lord on their side. I know they are watched over by our Saviour and that he is even more proud of them than I am. I pray that they put God first in everything they do and if they remember this they can accomplish anything and everything they desire.    

I wish everyone a blessed day in their journey of life.

Preparing for a new journey

I am so grateful for the wonderful Mortgage Lender that I have been working with over the last year. Her name is Linda and she is located in Orem, Utah. I told her we are getting closer to our move back to Utah and asked her to look at my file again and see if there are programs that could help with down payments or that have 100% financing and she gave me several great options.

I was pre-approved last year but hadn't made the final decision whether Kam and I would continue to reside in Arizona or re-locate back to Utah. So it looks like we finally decided and I am so excited to be working wit Linda. She told me because she is working on the lending aspect of my next home purchase she also wants to help me by writing letters to Credit agencies to clean up my credit and get items removed that need to be removed. I was so grateful that she offered this service without a charge.

I feel so good about the direction I will be taking and the anticipation of being a home owner again. I owned a home in Sandy, Utah for 20 years and it was bitter sweet when I sold it in 2006. I was grateful that I knew the young couple I sold it to. I could have gotten much more for it had I sold it to a gentleman who wanted to purchase it for his mother but it was important to me to have a family own it. I raised all of my children in that homw with the exception of my youngest, Kameron. He completed 6th grade at Edgement Elementary prior to our move to Arizona.

I was fortunate enough to provide roots for my older three children who all went to the same schools until Brandon graduated from Jordan High in 2009. He also married two days after graduation.

Well, this is my first blog so I will end it with this great picture of me and my children. I am so blessed and grateful for where I have been , how far I have come and where I am headed.