Visit from Grandma and Grandpa Smith

Grandma and Grandpa Smith came for a visit and we were able to come and spend a few days with them! Here is the whole Smith gang all together! Taylor of course making funny faces and summer just a few months pregnant!

New Job

I enjoyed working at dillards but I am having a very hard time making my sales quota.  There are some old ladies that worked the floor next to mine and they were like barracudas when it came to customers.  They would lurk on the corner and start fitting rooms for my customers then ring them up.  I just wasn't aggressive enough but at dillards they fire you if your not making enough in sales.  It doesn't matter how many hangers I've straightened or how many ladies I've escorted to the petite section or how many people I have showed to fitting rooms.  All I am is a number, my sales number so I'm heading to greener pastures..... update to come....

I've found a job at Robinsons May (now Macy's) They don't have a sales quota.  They just expect awesome customer service which I'm great at!  I'll be working in Womens World (plus sizes) which is great for me because I tend to shop more than work if I'm surrounded by cute clothes.  The ladies I work with are super nice and my manager is young and nice.  I really wish I could find an office job... This standing 40 hours a week is killing me but I guess its nice for now.  Plus I get a killer discount on clothes!! woot!

Our first house!!!!

With Joe and I both working (Me retail at Dillards and Joe an office assistant at Arm Hauling) We figure now is the time to buy our first house.  House Prices are skyrocketing these day and I feel like if we  don't get in now we'll looses out.  Plus its an investment.  We want to start having kids soon also so our dinky one bedroom apartment isn't going to cut it.  Its 1,539 squar feet and we paid 150k We looked and tons of town houses.  The ones we were interested in would get bought up before we had a chance to even make an offer.  We feel super rushed and felt the need to get into a house right away.  So we found this town home for the price we wanted to spend and jumped on it.  We were the first to make an offer and we got it.  The lady who had lived here previously smoked and had a bunch of cats so we had to remove the carpet and had the vents cleaned out.  Much better!!! That place was filthy!!!! YUCK! I was worried we would never get the smell out.. but we did :) We chose red for the living room walls which I love and brown for the kitchen and other rooms.  Nolans room is a butter color and the den is gray.  We are super happy with our little house.   our goal is to sell in a year or two and get into a nice home with a yard....

Ours is the one story on the left...