Let's Get This Started!!!

Wow!!! Jess has said it all. She flatters so well, she can always make me blush. It's all true that she said, it's been 6 years and our friendship is stronger and better than ever! She has been there for EVERYTHING!!! She knew about my husband, Anthony proposing to me before I did, she was one of the first who knew about my lil baby before others. She's one of the people I turned to when I need someone.

I grew up in Idaho. When I was 21, I left Idaho for 8 months to work at my dream job, WALT DISNEY WORLD!!! Yep, this lil tater moved to Florida. This entailed me flying for the first time, all by myself (yep I just broke out in song), having roommates I had never met, and living on my own without my family around. It was a good time!!! Met great people (who I am still in contact with), got to go to Disney World EVERYDAY for free!, experienced the South's weather, and discovered the Waffle House and booze!!!! Which my butt did not enjoy!

I returned to Idaho and went back to college. I got my degree in Elementary Education and minors in Theatre Costume Designs, German, History, and English Literature. Yep, a lil bit of everything. The last two years, I worked at a great school as a 1st grade teacher! Then in March 2011, this tater's world changed.

My loving husband, who has been getting his MFA in Theatre Lighting Design as Utah State University, get a call from Alabama. They wanted to interview him for a position they had opened. And poof!!! two weeks later, Anthony got a call and found out we were moving to Alabama. So in August we moved to Alabama, two short months after our first baby, Jasper Tobias was born. (That was a difficult and scary story for some other time).

That's where my story begins for the stake of this. I am now in Livingston, Alabama. I am a stay at home mommy, hausfrau, and assistant to my hubby. I have gone in and volunteer to help with props and costuming.

Alright, I think that's gonna leave it there for the time. There will be more, but my lil man is hungry and it's kinda hard to nurse and type at the same time. So toodles for now.

My first post - Welcome!

I moved to Idaho from Casper, Wyoming in 2005 so that my husband and I could go back to school.  Him, to start his Masters program, me to finish a Bachelors Degree...any Bachelors Degree.

I began working in the costume shop at ISU my first semester in Idaho (2005).  I didn't have much experience with actual sewing.  I dabbled on occasion, but didn't really know much.  One day, at work, I was working on making a hat for the upcoming show, "The Importance of Being Earnest".  I had never made a hat before!  I was told the steps of the process, but who knew if I was doing it well or correctly.  Then this extraordinarily tall gal with amazing hair and a big presence came up to me, "Hey there, little girl" (even though I was four years older than she, I was about at lease foot shorter), "What's up?"  I must have looked incredibly confused and lost because she dropped her task to come over to me.  I should have, I really had no idea what I was doing.  I asked her for some guidance and she obliged.

We worked together for the next two and a half years collaborating on projects, designs, and tea parties.  When I decided to pursue photography, she helped me with shoots and ideas for my assignments.  She calmed me when I got stressed and she took me for drinks to celebrate the close of every semester.

This fabulous woman is Tiffany.

Since that time in the costume shop, she has married and had a bebe, we began our careers, and moved along with life, but we have stayed friends.  I am now part owner of Precision Jiu Jitsu along with my husband and our buddy, Heath.  I also have a little photography business, Photographique.  My husband and son are the lights of my life; I couldn't imagine what I would be without them.

Tiff and I have been there for each other for the good times and the not-so-hots and the absolutely yucky.  She is my dear friend.  When she moved away, I was incredibly sad to see her go, but I vowed to keep in touch and have her continue be an important part of my life.  As Tiff and I were chatting the other day, we had the simultaneous idea to keep up with each other's goings on in this blog.  It is for each other and whoever else decided to read.  This is our place to share stories, recipes and the projects that we are working on.  Essentially, we are writing letters to each other, minus the postage.