Nathan’s first real job interview ever landed us in Othello. A very small Washington town that is mainly farming. It was more of a get to know you trip, see if you fit in with our group kind of thing instead of a real interview. All expenses for the trip except gas was paid for. We even had a gift basket waiting for us at the hotel.
Overall it seems like a nice little town with friendly people. Real estate was really cheap too so it would be a nice place for a first home. I felt very grown up and in the real world accompanying my husband on a trip to a job interview. I was too excited about getting out on our own to find anything wrong with the place that would make me not want to move there. Generally I am not picky, and since this place has incentives to pay back all of your school loans, I was even less picky.
Ok I really liked our Halloween costumes so I made this banner for the blog and had it up for about a day. Well Nathan and I both decided it made us look a little (or a lot) extreme. We like sci-fi and all but we aren’t crazy people about it. Halloween was way fun. This was the first year we took Ahnna out to trunk or treat. Once she caught on to what was going on she had a blast.
So the hardest part about parenthood up to this point has got to be potty training. I totally stressed out from the get go. I’m just starting to relax a bit but whether she is starting to get it or not is completely unknown. She does not quite get the reward system yet and every time she sits on the potty, if she goes or not she yells “WOOHOO!!” when she gets off. She actually goes in the potty maybe half the time. We are only a few days in and I know it can take a few weeks but every time she has an accident I melt down and want to quit. Pathetic I know. The only thing that has made me not quit is knowing that it is bad to start training and then stop over and over and I have tried a few times already so I HAVE to follow through. Man this talk about them “being ready” applies more to me in this case. My mom is sending me this book about using a doll to help train them. I think she will do well with that because she always liked to change her doll’s diapers.
and splash around in the bath. He does not have a ton of expression here but he LOVES the bath. If I knew how to do the little sensor blur I would have filmed his legs too, that is where all of his excitement is, splashing his sister with his kicks.
Rented this movie a little bit ago. It was actually a really good movie. I thought it was going to be all cheesy but it was really funny and it had a really good moral. The rich sci-fi nerd was the best.
I didn’t take a picture which is sad because it was beautiful. I cooked my first turkey. I had a roommate that made cooking a turkey sound like a big deal so when I made one yesterday I felt very proud of myself. It was even moist and delicious! I was sure it was going to be dry like 90% of the turkey out there. Cooking a turkey is actually really easy, I don’t know what I was afraid of before. Except I kind of have a thing about handling meet, especially beef. It can just really gross me out and the closer it looks like something that was living at one point makes it worse. I usually get all meat boneless and skinless for that reason. When you prepare a turkey you have to pull out the neck and the bag with the organs and giblets… I wasn’t a huge fan of that part but I did it – and then I let my mother in law take off all the extra meet from the carcass when we were done. I’ll do that part another time.
