Returning to my lil corner!

I know I keep disappearing from this little space of mine, my heart just wasnt in it for some time, think I needed a little break to adjust to life in Arizona and all the new things that have been going on in our lives.  I really miss blogging, I love looking back at my blog and seeing all the fun things that Jon and I have done together, which I know I would of forgotten about, if it wasn’t for this wonderful space of mine.  I'm going to try to keep up with my blog and get back to documenting the life adventures that Jon and I go on J

Life has been great, but it’s definitely been an adjustment. With Jon’s new position he travels A LOT! I feel like I rarely see him and Miley is starting to take ownership of his side of the bed, lol.  I love having my little sister here with me to keep me company, so I feel less lonely with him gone, but it’s definitely hard. Ever since Jon and I started dating, we have been together 24/7, the longest time apart was for a week and that would happen very rarely.  Now, he’s gone a majority of the month, either traveling to Oklahoma or to California. I’m pretty excited because Jon has been gone all week, and he got back home last night! Yay! And his boss is being awesome and is letting him stay home for an entire month before he has to head back on the road, I’m excited to have him home for so long!

Jon and I have some exciting few weeks ahead of us with some awesome new life developments, and I cannot wait until I can start blogging about that! But for now, I’ll leave you with some fun instagram photos of what life has been like the past 2 months!

Happy Friday!

My 2 loves

Jon trying to get Michelle to like sushi…. it didn't work.

Long drives to find a Mexican grocery store and we found a friend!  

My sweet princess 

Jon loving life at the Waste Management PGA Golf tour

Some more Waste Management PGA Golf tour pics

Our Super Bowl sunday set up

My BFF and I in Vegas! 

At the Britney Spears Vegas show!!!! EEEEKKK SO awesome!!! 

Us on Valentines day

Happy Miley and Wendy with our Valentines day gift! Its a lil dog paw for my charm bracelet :)

My valentines day gift to Jon.  Tickets to a golf show

Michelle and I enjoying the sunshine and the backyard! 

My lil home at work :)

Visitors! Our friend Jake drove up from San Diego with his gf to spend the weekend with us, it was such a blast! 

Oh Monday! I passed your test!

So yesterday was a big day for me.  It was my 1st day at my new job and I was VERY excited about it!  Sunday night, Jon and I picked out my outfit and were all set for my big day.

Yesterday, I got up early got ready for work, and just hung out with Miley until it was time for me to head to work.  Just a nice quiet morning...... Until I get to my car, and it WOULDN'T start! Like the AC & the radio would turn on, but that was it! So I started to panic! I had about 45 mins before I had to be at work.  So I call Jon and told him that my car wouldn't start and I didnt' know what to do, since he was already at work.  He told me he was on his way, but to go ask our neighbor, Al, if he could help me get my car started.  Luckily, we have very sweet neighbors, and Al was getting ready to head out for golf, so he came over and checked my car out and said the battery was dead, boooo!!!!  So I rolled my car down the driveway, and he came over with his car and jumped my car.  After his jump, my car turned on, but Jon didn't want me to risk anything, so he picked me up and drove me to work.

By the time Jon picked me up, it was 7:30 and GPS said my office was only 22 mins away, so I wasn't too worried, until we hit the freeway.   It was like a freaking parking lot! So I'm back in panic mode! Thankfully, after some scary maneuvers from the husband, we made it over to the carpool lane, and were able to bypass most of the traffic.  And guess what???!!! I made it to work 5 min early!  I couldn't believe that my morning had started like that!

Thankfully, my boss wanted to take me out to lunch for my 1st day, or else I would of starved at work! lol.  After my very eventful morning, I spent the rest of my day training and learning about my position.  It looked a little like this:

This is my new cubical.  Ill post more pics once its cuteness level increases! 

I have never worked in a HR team, its always just been me and my boss, but at this company we have a team of HR members, and Im really excited about that.  I met a few of them, and they all seem very nice.  So I'm pretty excited for whats to come! :)

Jon picked me up from work, and then we headed home, picked my car up and took it over to a car parts store and they checked my battery and they confirmed that my battery was bad, so we had to get me a new one.

Monday tried to ruin my day, but better luck next time! Team Burns can overcome anything! :) :)

Lets hope the rest of the week goes by smoothly!!!

Happy Monday!!

Guess who has a job and 1st day is today??!!! This girl! Yay!!! I am now an Employment Coordinator for a big pool company.

I had my 1st interview with them 2 weeks ago, and then I had a 2nd interview on Friday.  The interview was at 10:00 am Friday morning, and at 12:20, I received a call from my new boss offering me the job :)  So it was a GREAT way to kick off my weekend!

Friday night, Jon and I went out to dinner to celebrate, and then got home and had a FaceTime hanging out with our good friends, Janet & Phil, back in Oregon.  I think we FaceTimed for about 2 hours, and it was a lot of fun.  I love FaceTime, it definitely feels like you are hanging out with your friends, even if they are far away. We are planning a Vegas vacation to go see Britney Spears new Vegas show that starts in December.  Janet and I are lucky enough to have husbands that are willing to go to the show with us :)  We are planning our trip sometime in February, and I am SO excited for it!

Saturday morning consisted of breakfast, mimosas and a surprise from the husband with some pretty flowers :)

Slaving away making breakfast! lol

Pretty colorful flowers from Mr Burns

My scruffy dog! We are finally getting her groomed Wednesday, thank goodness! 

And no Saturday is complete without some college football! So, Jon's friend, Curtis came over to watch the Duck game with us.

Jon and Curtis supporting their Ducks

Miley hanging with the boys watching the game

Supporting my Duckies! 

Miley fell asleep towards the end of the game.  The Ducks were dominating the other team, so there wasn't much action.

Sunday, Miley had a vet appointment to get her vaccines updated.  As you can see below, she was a very happy doggie, until the vet came into the room and started messing with her, lol.  But really, she did a good job, and is a very happy and healthy doggie, which makes me a happy dog mommy!  And she got to come home with a new super cute dog collar :)

After Miley's appointment, Jon and I did a lil shopping to get me ready for my 1st day of work.  Ever since I left my job in Oregon, which was 3 yrs ago, I have had very casual jobs and very laid back dress codes.  Now with this new job, I'm entering a very professional work environment, so it's time to vamp  up my work wardrobe.  Any kind of shopping is fun, so i don't have a problem with that!

Well, that was our weekend! Hope everyone has a great day and wish me luck on my 1st day of work!

Weekend Update

I know i'm a day late with my update, but i'm here now to give a lil update :)

Friday was a big day for me, I had another job interview for a HR position with a pool company and it went amazing!!!! I seriously felt like I was gonna walk out of there with the job BUT they are just waiting on getting my background check clearance and they would like me to come back in for a 2nd interview this week.  So i'm pretty excited about this job, it sounds like a great job for me and a great opportunity to learn and grow.

Friday night, Jon and I had date night, so we headed out to a near by Mexican restaurant and had a great dinner and it was nice to finally sit down and just talk and have a good time.

Saturday was a laid back day, we spent our morning working on our tans in the pool, then we checked the mall out near our place and then we headed to a nearby bar to catch the UFC fight.  It was our 1st time at that bar and it wont be our last.  The servers and the food were great!

My yummy dinner.  Gouda mac & cheese. So great!

Sunday was a gerat day for me! Jon totally spoiled me :) We headed to the mall and I got to get my very 1st Michael Kors purse! Yay! We had a deal, where once I got a job, he would buy me one BUT I managed to get it before getting a job, lol.  Then we walked into Kate Spade and they were having a huge sale SO I got to walk out of there with a new purse too! Yay me!

My new babies!

Since I got spoiled, we went to sushi for dinner since Jon loves his sushi.  Jon was pretty disappointed with it, so we are still on the hunt for a great sushi place.

Now i'm just spending my week getting our place completely unpacked and keeping my fingers crossed that I get some good news this week!

Big Day Today!

Jon and I have been Arizona residents for 2 whole weeks today and life has been great.  Last week I got started on my job search and had a phone interview on Tuesday, which I was super nervous about because I'm much better with in person interviews, but they liked me and I have an actual interview today! Yay!!!! I'm pretty excited about it too! Its an admin position at a local nursing school working with the college president.  So wish me luck!!!! The only downfall about the position is that its a 30 min commute.  I had mentioned to Jon that I wanted to find a job closer to home because of gas prices.  But if its a good job with good pay, then its worth it.  I had a long commute to my job in California, so I'm already used to it :)

Another exciting thing about today is that Jon comes home!!! YAYAYAYAYA!!! I've been home alone all week and I'm ready to have my husband back! He's been in California all week for work, getting trained on his new position.  I think once I have a job, it wont be so hard having him gone all week, but right now I'm not a fan.  But with his new position, he will be traveling every month, so I'll have to get used to this quick!

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

New Beginings!

Today is my last day at work, after today, ill be back on the hunt for a new job in a new state. 

I was with my company for a little less than a year, I started with them back in October.  I have gone through many changes with them! I started off as an Admin in one department, then 2 weeks later was promoted into my current position as an HR Assistant.  When I got promoted, I moved into a different building closer to home, then in January, we all moved into a brand spanking new building to accommodate most  of our staff.  It has been a fun ride!

I love what my company does for the community and what is stands for.  I have enjoyed the people that I have worked with and being able to help them as best as I could. As people stop  by my office to say their goodbyes, one thing that I continually hear, is that they will miss my smiling face and friendly attitude, and that makes me happy.  I feel like being in HR, we are here to help staff and make them feel comfortable to come and speak to you, and I'm glad that I was able to do that. 

Working here, I had to learn how to work with different types of people, and that was a little hard on some days, but I am leaving here with a smile on my face and a love for this place.  Nothing will ever compare to my job in Oregon, but with every move, I am getting closer and closer to finding another position like that! 

I am looking forward to this new adventure, and I feel like with this move, I can redefine myself career wise, maybe I wont do HR again or maybe I will, maybe Ill go back to my 1st love of working with kids?  My only criteria for my next job is that it makes me happy and that I have fun with it. 
 

Me in my office.  Jon took this picture of me when he stopped by for lunch one day :)

Tonight, Jon and I are hopping on a plane and heading to Oregon! I am so excited to be back in Oregon with our family and friends.  Wednesday night we will head into Bend, OR, with our friends, and then Saturday is wedding day for one of my best friends, and I am lucky enough to be a bridesmaid!  I'm just hoping and praying that my dress doesn't arrive too wrinkled from our flight, eeekkk! 

We will be back Monday, and just in time to get serious about our packing before the movers arrive Thursday morning and we start our new adventure in Arizona! Its going to be a great 2 weeks, although stressful, I cannot wait!!

 

Arizona

Jon and I got back from our trip to Arizona late last night.  I did not want to come back! I loved it out there! The weather, even though hot, was great and the place was just awesome! I love how clean and pretty everything was and there were no crazy drivers! Which is a huge change compared to life out here in California :0) Jon was the crazy California driver this time, lol.

We caught our flight out Thursday night.  Miley stayed back in Cali with the dog sitter. 

Miley was sad Wednesday night when she saw me packing my bags.  Just look at those eyes!

Jon and I arrived at the airport pretty early, so we grabbed dinner and some drinks.  The we headed towards our gate.  We cut it super close, because by the time we got to our gate, everyone was already boarding.  We were pretty much the last ones to get on the plane, oops!

Ready to do some house hunting!

The temp outside when we arrived.... craziness!

We were up bright and early Friday to start house hunting.  My only requirement for our home was to have our own pool. 

This was the backyard for the 1st house that we saw.  The backyard was awesome BUT the inside was not.  Lame!

We saw lots of cactus!

Jon and I were VERY happy to see that they have Dutch Bros. in Arizona, so we had to make a stop for some fuel!

Happy Wendy! Reminds me of home!

After house hunting we just drove around the area.  We then stopped in at a sushi restaurant so Jon could get his sushi fix.

Jon made me pose for the picture, I don't even know how to use chopsticks! lol

Saturday morning, we already knew what house we wanted, but thought we should look at more houses just to be sure.... but we were also afraid that the house that we loved would be snagged up by someone else, so at 10:57am we made the call for the house that we loved! Yay!!! We made plans to meet with the landlord (Denise) at 5:00 that evening to sign the paperwork and make it official!

 The house and Denise are awesome! She has no problem with holding the house for us until we move in at the end of August, and already gave us our house keys.  We told her our horror story about moving to San Jose and the big scam we had to deal with.  And she even took us over to meet our new neighbors.   Jon and I are very excited for our new house! We got the perfect lil 3 bedroom house, with an awesome backyard, with not only the pool that I wanted, but also with a hot tub and an orange tree! Yay!

Our new backyard! I cant wait to hangout here and enjoy the sunshine! I also love that we have a grassy area for Miley to hang out at :0)

Our 1st picture together outside our new home in Arizona!

After getting out home finalized, we met up with one of Jon's friend from college, Curtis.  Jon and Curtis were roommates when Jon and I started dating, and we hadn't seen him since our wedding 2 years ago.  So it was fun catching up and listing to their college day stories.

Sunday, we had the whole day just to enjoy the city.  So we checked out a mall near Jon's new office.  That was a little different, they were having a concert, so there were lots of people there for the performance.





Then we also checked out Scottsdale, and found the Oregon Ducks bar, which is very important for Jon to have a bar to go to during football season.  We hung out there until we had to head to the airport.

The have pineapple beer, which was super yummy!

Now I'm back to work


Booo work!

I'm excited for this next move, I think we are really going to love living in Arizona!  I seriously did not want to come back! lol