The last few months...

So again I have failed to keep up with this blog. I enjoy being able to write and share the things that are going on in my life...whether people choose to read them or not. However, with my job and life in general things have gotten a little crazy.

Work Update...
I have been working about 40+ hours a week and have been doing double duty over the last couple months. My position has expanded a lot since I began almost 3 years ago, but in the last 4 months I would say things have really started to speed up. It's good because it keeps me busy but it can also be stressful sometimes. However, I am really excited to see what will happen in the next 3-6 months. We are working on doing some amazing things in our lab and I am really excited to be a part of it all.
This month I was given an amazing opportunity to attend a conference held by Mayo Clinic in Arizona. I went to 2 different sessions and I learned a lot. There was a lot I didn't know, but I came back with some really good ideas, a better understanding and A LOT of questions. I think it was really good for me to attend the conference and understand what outreach laboratories are really doing. I am so thankful that I was given that amazing opportunity to go there and meet people and learn all that I did.

Life Update...
Although work keeps me busy there isn't too much happening in my personal world ;). Matt right now is doing a new job for Dish Network so he was able to get off the phones, which is great! However, I only get to see him Friday - Sunday morning. His new shift is Sunday - Thursday 3p - 11:30p; which sucks but I think this is a really great opportunity for him. Plus, with the way Dish Network is, this shift should only last another month before they decide to do a shift bid and hopefully he'll get a better shift so I can see him more.

When I went to Arizona I went alone, Matt had to say in Denver which marked the longest time that we had been away from each other since we started dating. I know it sounds corny but we do everything together and I love that about us. He really is my best friend.
I have actually heard people say that they can't wait to get away from their husbands, or that they take extra vacation days somewhere when finding out their husbands can't go. I hope I never turn in to one of those women. In 3 years of being together we are learning more and more about each other all the time; I am so lucky to have him in my life.

                                                                      (this is an old picture from when we first started dating)

Dog update...

Dogs are doing well...Rocky is now a free-roam dog in the house. Matt came home a couple weeks ago to Apollo waiting anxiously at the door (which is normal, we don't kennel him) and then all of a sudden there appeared Rocky behind him (who we did kennel). Yep, Apollo busted him out of the kennel...literally. Matt found the gate door to the kennel laying on the ground with the lock busted from the outside...darn dogs. But, besides a pair of shoes, Rocky has done amazingly well keeping himself under control.
Our dogs have come a long way...both of them. We had some pretty bumpy starts to the beginning of our lives with both of them, but for the most part we have worked it all out. It took some drugs (for them) and a lot of patience (for us) but they are good boys. They may not be kids but they sure are a lot of work sometimes, and they have taught Matt and I so much.

That's really about it...I am going to add another one about family because there is a lot of updates for our family. There isn't much else going on here right now, but I think that 2011 is going to be a great year!