Monday, January 18, 2010

new job!

Well, tomorrow is a big day for me! I start my new job at Menlo Park Police Department. I am that normal mixture of excited and a little nervous. I will miss Kyle a lot because he was my companion all day, every day for the past 10 months. At the same time, it will be nice to do something new and I just really like having a job! I realized that, more than ever, by being unemployed. I will have a great schedule! I work 10 hour days (whoa!) but have three day weekends every weekend, which is fabulous! I will start work at 6:30am and get off at 5:30pm with one hour for lunch. I think, especially at first, I will be exhausted at the end of the day. Luckily, I am off early enough to still enjoy my evenings. I want to come home very day and cook dinner, play with Kyle, walk on my treadmill, shower, and crochet/knit/read/watch movies before bed. I will be waking up at 4am (I don't like to rush in the mornings) and leaving for work before 6am. It takes about 25 min-to 30 min to get to Menlo Park and I'm sure it will be even less in the early morning since there won't be too many people on the road, but I want to get to work without stress.

Robert and I have gone through these different steps in our relationship: dating, seriously in a relationship, engaged, married, baby-and now we want to go into the next phase, which will be buying a house. Since my dad is a realtor we are able to look at any house we want. There was one for sale in Montara for $689,000, which is pretty cheap for around here. It was a three bedroom, two bath house with a totally cute and cottage-y kitchen that was still totally modern, if that makes sense. It had another room off the living room that was for an office, but you could totally make it an office/guest bedroom. It had a huge master suite with it's own fireplace, huge jacuzzi tub, walk-in closet... it had beautiful hard wood floors throughout and the other two bedrooms were a really good size. And, it had a big two car garage and a super big back yard. Plus, it was on a side street between two bigger streets so it was the only house on that small block. And it's right next to the old Montara Grammar School which is totally art deco and now is a ballet school. It also had ocean views from the living room windows... i mean, there were trees so it was a little obstructed, but you could see ocean! We fell in love with that house and wished that we had the money now to be able to buy it. We also just love Montara! It's a small town just 7 or so miles north of Half Moon Bay and it's a really beautiful place.

Now that I am starting this new job and when Robert graduates from the academy and hopefully gets a police job, buying a house will become a reality. We are going to be penny pinching for the next year and writing up a budget and sticking to it. We can't wait to have a place to call our own where we can raise our family. I am getting excited just thinking of it!

Today Kyle and I are relaxing since it's my last day before work and I'm getting some house chores out of the way-laundry mostly.

It's a nice windy and rainy day so it's super cozy!

Sunday, January 17, 2010

VIDEO!

I tried to upload this video onto the previous post but for some reason it didn't work... it could have to do with our faulty internet connection! Anyway, here it is now! And if for some reason it does end up showing up on the previous post, then cool! We can enjoy it twice! :-)

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Parkay

Today Dan called and asked if Kyle wanted to come to Ocean View park and play with Elena! We went and had a really fun day. Robert had to go to the range and practicing shooting so it was just me and Dan and the kids!



Christmas!

This Christmas was very fun! Kyle loved opening his presents and visiting with his cousins. We spent Christmas Eve and my Uncle Tim and Aunt Lupe's house and it was a very special holiday with all the babies being so big and making Christmas magical again :-) Erika is due in one month from today and is having another baby girl, Lillian! We can't wait to meet her.




On Christas Day we really had nothing to do. I read a book using my new Sony Reader that Robert got me for Christmas. I L-O-V-E books and thought I would miss feeling the paper between my hands and the wonderful smell of a new book, but I'm actually okay. I mean, don't get me wrong, there is nothing like a new book but at least now, with my Reader, I can just download any book I want and start reading right then and there! It was especially helpful when I had a book club meeting a few days after Christmas and I still hadn't bought the book. (It is a super good book by the way-The Help by Kathryn Stockett. I highly recommend!) Anyway, on Christmas Day evening we decided to go on a little family drive into San Francisco. There were a LOT of people out and about that day! We just thought we'd drive around until we thought of something to do. We went past Pier 39 and saw the gigantic Christmas Tree with tons of people swarmed around it. We drove down Fisherman's Wharf where there were also lots of people lined up outside of restaurants to have their Christmas dinners. We turned and started into North Beach where we went down Lombard Street with all the other tourists that day and then headed up to Coit Tower to take a look at the view on that cold night. Many other people had the same idea because every single parking spot was taken! It was a really different but nice way to spend the day together. :-) We can't wait until next Christmas when Kyle starts talking about, looking forward to, and believing in Santa!