Updates

Sorry for my poor blogging habits I know I haven't updated for a while. I feel like everyone knows what is happening in our live so I don't need to update, but that's not true.

I will try to update more frequently but I can't promise anything. Here is a long update if you care to read it.

Jordan is still working at Lowe's Home Improvement, he is still taking a brake from school until we can afford to send him back to BYU.

I am currently unemployed and have been looking for consistent work for over a year now. I did work for a construction company for about two months but their work load dried up very quickly and I haven't worked since Thanksgiving.

I spend most of my days filling out job application after job application, I haven't gotten a single interview. It is getting more than a little depressing. On Jordan's days off we seem to be spending a lot of time doing apartment maintenance on our apartments and on Jordan's brother Pedro's apartments that we also manage.

We finished remodeling one of our apartments: we put in a wall that was taken out because the former owners had very bad ideas and now we have to fix them. We also put in a new floor and replaced the ceiling in the same apartment. We also did some other repairs to this apartment. We didn't take any pictures but it turned out really well. We were able to get it done for only the price of the drywall. We used everything we had left from our remodel and things that came with the complex when we bought it. It took us a month but we got it done before the new tenants got married and moved in.

Jordan had to work on Christmas Eve so I spent the day with my family and when Jordan got off we went to the Miles Christmas party. I forgot the camera so I don't have any pictures. On Christmas day we went to my families for the first time since we were married we spent a Christmas with my family. It was so much fun. This Christmas we had more of my siblings together then we have had in a long time.
Opening Presents:


My niece Alena's presents (only child, and only grandchild on her mom's side)



Waiting for the stragglers to wake up so we can open presents.



My brother Heinrich



Jordan having fun with the dogs, this is Echo.



My Parents gave a bunch of these hats out for Christmas (I have know Idea) Isn't Jordan's beard amazing! It took a while to grow this but I love it.



Our Christmas decorations, we have presents for the dogs under the tree. Jordan couldn't resist.



The pig lasted a whole day, and the yellow ring lasted three. But the third toy is still holding on for dear life.



We started a tradition when we got married that we would buy a Christmas ornament for each year. This is the one we got this year because we got our puppies this year.




There were a lot of other family parties but I didn't bring my camera to anything else so if you are interested you can check out my sister in-law Kim's blog or my sister Anna's.

Last week we spent Jordan's day off on Pedro's roof repairing some shingles that ripped off. About a third of the shingles had pulled free and slid down the roof. Roofing in the winter isn't very much fun. You have to wait for the sun to be up long enough to defrost the shingles so you don't slip and you have to work fast before the sun goes down. So we worked from 11am to 5pm and just finished before it was too dark to see. Then we drove to Lindon for the Miles family January birthday party. There are four birthday's in the Miles family in January including Grandpa Miles' birthday. We were an hour late but we made it. It was a lot of fun.