Hello!
It has been awhile! We have been super busy with school and work! Abe and I started school again in August! So we have been back in for over a month now. Our classes are going great! Abe loves his Spanish classes and is even in a class with one of his mission companions! I am enjoying my Early Childhood classes and I am very excited to start this new major! We both are doing very well. Abe has a test over the phone for Spanish comprehension and conversation abilities. He says he is pretty nervous for it, but I know he will be amazing! I just took a test on Early Childhood Education and I got 100% on it, so I am pretty happy!
We quit our jobs at the group home! We were tired of going to work and having extreme anxiety at work. We could get hit and punched at any moment there, and it was exhausting emotionally. So we quit! We are now working for Weber State University at the call center on campus. It is very relaxing and it is awesome! We feel very blessed to be able to work there and to have found new jobs so quickly.
We are still not yet pregnant. I went to the doctor because we have been trying for 6 months and we have been getting very frustrated and sad. Everything looks great for me! My doctor did an ultrasound and I actually got to see the egg I was about to ovulate (sorry if that's too much info!). She gave us a lot of helpful tips so we are hoping for the best!
We had our one year anniversary on Sunday! It was awesome! We spent the weekend at a hotel in Ogden. On Friday we rode the train to Salt Lake City and spent the afternoon there! It was a lot of fun! We went to Temple Square and City Creek mall. It was so fun While we were waiting for the train to take us back to Ogden we got stuck in a crazy thunderstorm! We both got soaked, but it was really cool, and frightening to see the lightning strike over the city. On Saturday we swam at our hotel and went to dinner at Chuck a Rama. Best dinner ever! Their mashed potatoes and gravy are amazing! And their salad bar is huge! It was great! On Sunday we went to church and just relaxed! It was really a great weekend!
We hope everything is going well for all of our family and friends!
Abraham and Amanda
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Monday, August 4, 2014
End of Summer Update
Hello Everyone!
It has been a busy summer! Busy and very good! Sadly we are not yet pregnant. Birth control was terrible for me and it has taken awhile for my body to go back to normal. Hopefully soon we will be pregnant! It is hard to be patient. Especially since I am in Primary and I see cute little kids all of the time. It is hard for me not to be kind of depressed and upset that I am not yet pregnant. I see FB posts from girls we graduated with who complain about their babies crying and not napping a full hour, and it is really frustrating. And then I have some people who tell me that they know how I feel, and it only took them one time to get pregnant. Haha not what I want to hear. I never believe them when they say they know how I feel. I appreciate them trying to help though! But really we have it good and I am glad that I have good friends and an incredible husband! I am not sick or anything, so it will happen eventually (hopefully)!
We were able to celebrate both of our birthdays in June! Abe's June 12th and mine June 29thWe are now 22 years old! Kinda weird!
My cousin Chandler left on his mission almost a month ago. He is still at the MTC right now bust soon he will be going to the Cape Verde mission in Africa! We went to his farewell and it was just wonderful. He is an amazing kid! We will miss him for the 2 years he is gone!
We went to California for my Great-Grandpa's funeral. The funeral was sad, but the rest of the trip was really good! I cried when we had to come home. I lived in California until I was 10 and moving to Idaho was traumatic (when I was 10, it isn't anymore). We went swimming a few times and we were able to hang out with my grandparents and cousins. It really was so much fun. We had not seen my family since Christmas so it made me so happy!
Abe and I start school in a few weeks! Whoo! We always tell ourselves that we are gonna go to class every day and do our homework ahead of time... Wish us luck with that. We got grants for school. Thank goodness! And we are applying to become Utah Residents. So hopefully we get instate tuition and no longer have to use loans to pay for school!
Fall is coming soon! We are so excited! Cooler weather, warm clothes, hot chocolate, and pretty leaves! It is going to be awesome! I am so excited! It will be great!
Amanda
It has been a busy summer! Busy and very good! Sadly we are not yet pregnant. Birth control was terrible for me and it has taken awhile for my body to go back to normal. Hopefully soon we will be pregnant! It is hard to be patient. Especially since I am in Primary and I see cute little kids all of the time. It is hard for me not to be kind of depressed and upset that I am not yet pregnant. I see FB posts from girls we graduated with who complain about their babies crying and not napping a full hour, and it is really frustrating. And then I have some people who tell me that they know how I feel, and it only took them one time to get pregnant. Haha not what I want to hear. I never believe them when they say they know how I feel. I appreciate them trying to help though! But really we have it good and I am glad that I have good friends and an incredible husband! I am not sick or anything, so it will happen eventually (hopefully)!
We were able to celebrate both of our birthdays in June! Abe's June 12th and mine June 29thWe are now 22 years old! Kinda weird!
My cousin Chandler left on his mission almost a month ago. He is still at the MTC right now bust soon he will be going to the Cape Verde mission in Africa! We went to his farewell and it was just wonderful. He is an amazing kid! We will miss him for the 2 years he is gone!
We went to California for my Great-Grandpa's funeral. The funeral was sad, but the rest of the trip was really good! I cried when we had to come home. I lived in California until I was 10 and moving to Idaho was traumatic (when I was 10, it isn't anymore). We went swimming a few times and we were able to hang out with my grandparents and cousins. It really was so much fun. We had not seen my family since Christmas so it made me so happy!
Abe and I start school in a few weeks! Whoo! We always tell ourselves that we are gonna go to class every day and do our homework ahead of time... Wish us luck with that. We got grants for school. Thank goodness! And we are applying to become Utah Residents. So hopefully we get instate tuition and no longer have to use loans to pay for school!
Fall is coming soon! We are so excited! Cooler weather, warm clothes, hot chocolate, and pretty leaves! It is going to be awesome! I am so excited! It will be great!
Amanda
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Big Changes Happening!
Hello!
This has been a very eventful week. I have changed majors and quit part of my job. Abe has found a new job and has started training. School is out for summer (unless you are taking summer classes like I am). You may be thinking, why the heck would she change majors if she is two semesters away from graduating? Let me tell you! It is a long story though so if you really do not care, I would suggest not reading the next five paragraphs.
So I was working at a foster care agency as an Assistant Program Administrator, I was in social work so my supervisor and I thought it would be awesome if I could do my Social Work internship with them. I would be working with the foster parents and the foster children, and I would also be working at a group home that the company is in charge of, for mentally disabled women, for the experience. So I was working like 3 different jobs for one company. It was going well at first, but things started to get a bit crazy because of the end of the semester. I had homework and tests that needed to be done.
Easter Sunday, I told a foster parent that I could not take the foster children for her Monday because I had two finals that I needed to take that day. She said okay and thanks for letting her know. Then an hour later she sent me really nasty texts on how I am not making her a priority and I am not doing my job and she hates me and the company and we are unprofessional. She stated she was letting my supervisor know that I do not help her out with anything and I am not doing my job. I apologized and said I will take them and try to figure out my tests. She sent a few more rude texts and I never answered back.
Well, I was up all night crying because I did everything I possibly could for her, the kids real mom cancelled visits almost every week and rescheduled visits with them all of the time and I took them every single time to see her. I had cancelled once before with the foster mom because the company needed me at the group home, and once because of tests and homework, but that was it. The next morning (I had gotten like 4 hours of sleep that night) my boss called me and very harshly asked what I had done and said he had never had any problems with this foster parent before today. The foster mom had told him that I have cancelled on her every week and never took the kids anywhere, and she said she was filing a complaint against the company because of me. So pretty much I was feeling like it was all my fault even though I was telling the truth.. I told him what had happened and I emailed him all of my time cards, and reports I have written on the kid's visits (it was required that I write a report any time I saw the kids, thankfully I did it!). I never lied one bit, and he could see that thank goodness.
It was enough to show me that Social Work was not something I want to go into. I have never been treated so poorly in my life. I have never been accused of so many false things in my life. It caused me so much stress and worry and I just do not want to go into a career that makes me feel so stressed and worried and gross. I had been thinking about changing for a few months now and had done some previous research about what interests me, but I never really had a reason to change, but now I do and goodness I am so happy and excited to be out of social work! So I switched! I am now a Early Childhood major! This change only adds one or two more semesters to my schooling, so I figured, what the heck. I deserve to do something I want to do.
I have also resigned from Assistant Program Administrator and taking care of the foster kids. I now just work at the group home, and I really enjoy it! I am so happy about this change. I feel a thousand times better and happier. I just take things too personally. I had my supervisor tell me that you get used to it and become numb, but that seemed terrible to me so that is when I made the absolute final decision to switch. I am so excited to start my new major! So instead of having 2 semesters left, I have 3 or 4. Depends on how many classes I take a semester and if I get permission to do student teaching at a preschool with some other classes I am supposed to take before I do that. I am so happy though. My family and my amazing husband have also been very supportive of my decision. That makes it even better.
Abe has a new job at a group home helping mentally disabled men. It is the same company that I have been working for. He seems to really be enjoying it! Which is really good! He will be working 20-25 hours a week instead of 12-16 hours a week like he was at the WSU Alumni Center. So we will be make a considerable amount more. Which is great because we have been trying to save up for a baby! He is very good at his job. He is good at everything he does really! He is incredible! He is done with school until August, and he is very excited about it.
Big news! For those who live in Utah or close to Utah or anything about Utah! The Ogden Temple Open House dates have been announced! The temple will be available for the public to visit during an open house, which will run from Aug. 1 to Sept. 6, excluding Sundays. There will also be a cultural celebration on Sept. 20. You can read about it yourself and learn more about the open house on www.ksl.com It is pretty darn exciting! It will be rededicated September 21, 2014! This is great because Abe and I have a hard time getting to the Bountiful Temple even though it is like 35 minutes away. We are so excited and blessed to have temples so close to us!
Well thanks for reading! We hope you enjoy!
~Abraham and Amanda Thomas
This has been a very eventful week. I have changed majors and quit part of my job. Abe has found a new job and has started training. School is out for summer (unless you are taking summer classes like I am). You may be thinking, why the heck would she change majors if she is two semesters away from graduating? Let me tell you! It is a long story though so if you really do not care, I would suggest not reading the next five paragraphs.
So I was working at a foster care agency as an Assistant Program Administrator, I was in social work so my supervisor and I thought it would be awesome if I could do my Social Work internship with them. I would be working with the foster parents and the foster children, and I would also be working at a group home that the company is in charge of, for mentally disabled women, for the experience. So I was working like 3 different jobs for one company. It was going well at first, but things started to get a bit crazy because of the end of the semester. I had homework and tests that needed to be done.
Easter Sunday, I told a foster parent that I could not take the foster children for her Monday because I had two finals that I needed to take that day. She said okay and thanks for letting her know. Then an hour later she sent me really nasty texts on how I am not making her a priority and I am not doing my job and she hates me and the company and we are unprofessional. She stated she was letting my supervisor know that I do not help her out with anything and I am not doing my job. I apologized and said I will take them and try to figure out my tests. She sent a few more rude texts and I never answered back.
Well, I was up all night crying because I did everything I possibly could for her, the kids real mom cancelled visits almost every week and rescheduled visits with them all of the time and I took them every single time to see her. I had cancelled once before with the foster mom because the company needed me at the group home, and once because of tests and homework, but that was it. The next morning (I had gotten like 4 hours of sleep that night) my boss called me and very harshly asked what I had done and said he had never had any problems with this foster parent before today. The foster mom had told him that I have cancelled on her every week and never took the kids anywhere, and she said she was filing a complaint against the company because of me. So pretty much I was feeling like it was all my fault even though I was telling the truth.. I told him what had happened and I emailed him all of my time cards, and reports I have written on the kid's visits (it was required that I write a report any time I saw the kids, thankfully I did it!). I never lied one bit, and he could see that thank goodness.
It was enough to show me that Social Work was not something I want to go into. I have never been treated so poorly in my life. I have never been accused of so many false things in my life. It caused me so much stress and worry and I just do not want to go into a career that makes me feel so stressed and worried and gross. I had been thinking about changing for a few months now and had done some previous research about what interests me, but I never really had a reason to change, but now I do and goodness I am so happy and excited to be out of social work! So I switched! I am now a Early Childhood major! This change only adds one or two more semesters to my schooling, so I figured, what the heck. I deserve to do something I want to do.
I have also resigned from Assistant Program Administrator and taking care of the foster kids. I now just work at the group home, and I really enjoy it! I am so happy about this change. I feel a thousand times better and happier. I just take things too personally. I had my supervisor tell me that you get used to it and become numb, but that seemed terrible to me so that is when I made the absolute final decision to switch. I am so excited to start my new major! So instead of having 2 semesters left, I have 3 or 4. Depends on how many classes I take a semester and if I get permission to do student teaching at a preschool with some other classes I am supposed to take before I do that. I am so happy though. My family and my amazing husband have also been very supportive of my decision. That makes it even better.
Abe has a new job at a group home helping mentally disabled men. It is the same company that I have been working for. He seems to really be enjoying it! Which is really good! He will be working 20-25 hours a week instead of 12-16 hours a week like he was at the WSU Alumni Center. So we will be make a considerable amount more. Which is great because we have been trying to save up for a baby! He is very good at his job. He is good at everything he does really! He is incredible! He is done with school until August, and he is very excited about it.
Big news! For those who live in Utah or close to Utah or anything about Utah! The Ogden Temple Open House dates have been announced! The temple will be available for the public to visit during an open house, which will run from Aug. 1 to Sept. 6, excluding Sundays. There will also be a cultural celebration on Sept. 20. You can read about it yourself and learn more about the open house on www.ksl.com It is pretty darn exciting! It will be rededicated September 21, 2014! This is great because Abe and I have a hard time getting to the Bountiful Temple even though it is like 35 minutes away. We are so excited and blessed to have temples so close to us!
Well thanks for reading! We hope you enjoy!
~Abraham and Amanda Thomas
Monday, April 14, 2014
Little Updates on our Lives
Hello! It has been awhile! Again. It is hard doing anything besides work and school right now. Abe is busy with end of the semester projects and last minute homework. He also has to work nights so doing anything fun right now is pretty close to impossible. I am busy with work and school also. Thankfully though, I do not have any projects. In a week and a half we will be done with this semester and we will be able to have some fun! Then I start school again May 5. Abe is taking the summer off. My goal is to graduate as fast as I can.
Anyways! That was our extremely exciting school update! There really isn't much to say! May is coming up pretty quickly and we are hoping to start trying to get pregnant then. Lately it is all I can think about. Which makes me feel bad because I worry that Abe thinks I am not happy with just him. I am! I totally am! I have just always wanted to be a mom. Ever since I was little. There was a time when I was a teenager that I was horrified about the birthing process so I said I was never going to be a mom. Thankfully I grew out of that. About a year ago haha.
Our 6 month anniversary of being married was a few weeks ago! We went and played poker at Abe's bosses home that night. It was a lot of fun! Abe won so he got $20! Whoo! Haha I got second to last. It was still a lot of fun though! We enjoyed it! The week after that we went to Abe's older brother's house and played poker with them. We didn't play with money that time. We usually do not play for money. Just that once with Abe's boss and coworkers.
We finally got our wedding pictures paid off and we received them this past week!! They are so great! Our photographer did a wonderful job! She was a lot of fun to work with. Her name is Rachel Taylor. Her website is http://raetayphotography.com/ . She is an Idaho/ Utah photographer. I do believe that she is moving to California soon though! Which is too bad. I recommend her to anyone! She is awesome!
Well thanks for sticking around to read the boring little updates of our life together! Hopefully soon we will have more exciting things to write about!! I wish I was good at this like some friends of mine are! See you soon!
~Amanda
Anyways! That was our extremely exciting school update! There really isn't much to say! May is coming up pretty quickly and we are hoping to start trying to get pregnant then. Lately it is all I can think about. Which makes me feel bad because I worry that Abe thinks I am not happy with just him. I am! I totally am! I have just always wanted to be a mom. Ever since I was little. There was a time when I was a teenager that I was horrified about the birthing process so I said I was never going to be a mom. Thankfully I grew out of that. About a year ago haha.
Our 6 month anniversary of being married was a few weeks ago! We went and played poker at Abe's bosses home that night. It was a lot of fun! Abe won so he got $20! Whoo! Haha I got second to last. It was still a lot of fun though! We enjoyed it! The week after that we went to Abe's older brother's house and played poker with them. We didn't play with money that time. We usually do not play for money. Just that once with Abe's boss and coworkers.
We finally got our wedding pictures paid off and we received them this past week!! They are so great! Our photographer did a wonderful job! She was a lot of fun to work with. Her name is Rachel Taylor. Her website is http://raetayphotography.com/ . She is an Idaho/ Utah photographer. I do believe that she is moving to California soon though! Which is too bad. I recommend her to anyone! She is awesome!
Well thanks for sticking around to read the boring little updates of our life together! Hopefully soon we will have more exciting things to write about!! I wish I was good at this like some friends of mine are! See you soon!
~Amanda
Monday, March 17, 2014
Catch up!
Well! I made this and got busy and kept forgetting to write! I am mostly using this for a little family journal. So if you happen to read it, well I am sorry if it is boring! Okay! I will start with our first married Valentines Day! It was awesome! I had done lots of idea searching on Pinterest (of course!) and decided that I was going to make him a Sharpie mug stuffed with sour gummy worms. Everything was great! I got the mug and the Sharpies and the candy. I drew what i wanted on the mug and baked it. I let it cool off, then I wrapped it. He opened it and loved it! He used it, and the first time he washed it the marker came off! Haha I did a little more research and learned tat you cannot use normal permanent markers for the mugs. You have to use a special kind. So I need to fix it! But it is the thought that counts, right? He still uses it and loves it :-).
Abe kept putting off going shopping for Valentines Day, which made me concerned that he either kept forgetting or was going to have me pick out my own Valentines Day gift. So we went to bed on the 13th and I had no idea what his plan was. His alarm rang at 7:15 am on February 14th so he could get ready to go class. He got ready and kissed me goodbye. I fell back asleep because I didn't have work that day and my classes are all online this semester. All of the sudden Abe came crashing into the room. I sat up in a panic and looked at the clock. It was 9:00 am. Abe saw that he woke me up and demanded that I close my eyes. So I did, and he crawled into bed with me and handed me something wrapped in plastic. I looked down and it was a rose! I had never gotten a rose before. So it was the best Valentines Day gift ever!! His other half of his gift to me was skipping class and napping with me. It was the best Valentines Day ever. Abraham is the best husband! I love him and his thoughtfulness very much. That day we went to a museum for our little Valentines date. Then we went to Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner. It was delicious! It was a great day!
Next! Abe's older brother, Isaac, and his wife Mandee had their little baby boy! They named him Davian and he is the cutest nephew ever! They invited us to see him at the hospital the day after he was born. it was an amazing experience. I hadn't seen a newborn baby like that since my little twin sisters were born 15 years ago. He is so adorable. He has the tiniest fingers, toes, and nose. I am grateful that I got to see him so soon. Babies are little miracles.
Last! Our big announcement for this year. Well one of them we hope. I am now officially off of my birth control! We are hoping to be pregnant by September. We will start really trying to get pregnant in a month or two. I am super excited! A little nervous, but mostly excited! Abe is mostly nervous I think, but he does tell me that he is excited also! We are hoping and praying for the best with this new adventure! I worry because I hear of so many people who have problems getting pregnant. So I have started exercising more and I am trying to eat a little healthier. I also worry that I won't start ovulating again as quickly as I would like. I am sure worrying and stressing will not help with that. So I make myself do other activities besides worry. We are excited and happy to be starting our little family soon! We hope everything goes well with everyone we know and love!
Abe kept putting off going shopping for Valentines Day, which made me concerned that he either kept forgetting or was going to have me pick out my own Valentines Day gift. So we went to bed on the 13th and I had no idea what his plan was. His alarm rang at 7:15 am on February 14th so he could get ready to go class. He got ready and kissed me goodbye. I fell back asleep because I didn't have work that day and my classes are all online this semester. All of the sudden Abe came crashing into the room. I sat up in a panic and looked at the clock. It was 9:00 am. Abe saw that he woke me up and demanded that I close my eyes. So I did, and he crawled into bed with me and handed me something wrapped in plastic. I looked down and it was a rose! I had never gotten a rose before. So it was the best Valentines Day gift ever!! His other half of his gift to me was skipping class and napping with me. It was the best Valentines Day ever. Abraham is the best husband! I love him and his thoughtfulness very much. That day we went to a museum for our little Valentines date. Then we went to Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner. It was delicious! It was a great day!
Next! Abe's older brother, Isaac, and his wife Mandee had their little baby boy! They named him Davian and he is the cutest nephew ever! They invited us to see him at the hospital the day after he was born. it was an amazing experience. I hadn't seen a newborn baby like that since my little twin sisters were born 15 years ago. He is so adorable. He has the tiniest fingers, toes, and nose. I am grateful that I got to see him so soon. Babies are little miracles.
Last! Our big announcement for this year. Well one of them we hope. I am now officially off of my birth control! We are hoping to be pregnant by September. We will start really trying to get pregnant in a month or two. I am super excited! A little nervous, but mostly excited! Abe is mostly nervous I think, but he does tell me that he is excited also! We are hoping and praying for the best with this new adventure! I worry because I hear of so many people who have problems getting pregnant. So I have started exercising more and I am trying to eat a little healthier. I also worry that I won't start ovulating again as quickly as I would like. I am sure worrying and stressing will not help with that. So I make myself do other activities besides worry. We are excited and happy to be starting our little family soon! We hope everything goes well with everyone we know and love!
Thursday, February 6, 2014
About Us!
Abraham and I met when we were 15. We dated all throughout high school. When we graduated from high school we went to Weber State University together for a year. When Abraham and I turned 19 (he is only 17 days older than me) he went on an LDS mission to Monterrey Mexico. As he was gone I kept going to school at WSU. I am going into Social Work. I didn't date at all when he was gone! I had fun with friends though! Abraham got home July 2013. We got married September 2013. It has been so much fun finally being married! We love it! Abe got me an adorable kitten for a wedding gift. His name is Rumpelstiltskin. We adore him. He is extremely spoiled! We give him purified water in a glass bowl and he gets to sleep under our covers with us. A cat can't get much more spoiled than that! I am in my senior year at WSU. I will be getting my bachelors in social work soon! Abe is going into Spanish. He hopes to become a Spanish professor.We are excited to share our fun adventures with you and we hope you enjoy life as much as we do!
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