It's been a while.....again

First off wow, I have to say I am really bad at this blogging thing. I get a sudden thought like "I totally need to put this on our family blog!!". What happens? Life does. So to not write a novel since the last time I put anything on this blog was in 2012 I'll start out slow.

So lets see in 2013, I continued to work for U-Haul until Nate graduated from MMI. He graduated the top of his class in February. We wanted to move near Mom & Paul and right after they moved he was offered a job up by them. So we moved to Payson, AZ. A couple of months after we moved, I saw a job for a front desk position at a local hotel. I got the job! I have been wanting to work in a hotel for a long time so I was ecstatic. About a month and a half later, they promoted me to Assistant Front Desk Manager. My boss called me on my birthday to offer it to me, talk about an awesome present!

        We were doing pretty well (not a whole lot happened), but then a year later a position comes open for a General Manager's position in Pinetop, AZ (about 2 hrs away from Payson). At first I was hesitant to run a resort all by myself, but I offered to go over to Pinetop to "play" GM for a week. Nate told me that I should go for it no matter what, that even the interview would be good experience. He then told me I moved all over the world for him, it was time for him to move for my job. (Sometimes that man knows how to talk). So before I did my week there, we took a drive to take a look at the resort. WOW!! I instantly fell in love and I knew right there I could do this, and this was to be my job. I applied the next day. So while waiting on pins and needles for an interview, I did my 1st week. I got a call the day before my week ended, and asked if I could come to Sedona for an interview. They put Nate and I up in a hotel, and said that we could go have dinner after my interview. My interview lasted over 2 hrs just walking and talking. It was the most amazing experience I have ever had, or so I thought. I was told that there was other applicants and I would know by the end of the week, that was a Monday. Wednesday I get a call in the morning asking if I was still interested in the job, I of course said yes! I hung up and screamed and danced all over the house.

         My first official day as a GM was May 25, 2014. This resort was in more need of work than I had thought, and there has been many times I would say "Holy Crap, What the Hell did I get myself into?!!!!!" What was this man thinking hiring a mom that had only been working consistently for about 5 years in her life and just raised kids!! Nate would just tell me to stop doubting myself. He was right. (I hate it when he's right) So 6 months later, I find out that I brought the scores up for the resort so much that we were up for Resort of the Year! WHAT!! Holy crap man seriously! THEN I find out I have to do a Power Point presentation in January (mind you this is December) and present to about 12-15 people from corporate. OMG uh this girl flunked spanish in high school so I wouldnt have to stand in front of people and talk all by myself. - So quick back history - for those of you that know me well you would say to that well you were a part of a drama group, where you had to sing and act. Well there is a bunch of other people around you and for some reason it was different. -

        Anyways, the time came in January for the GM conference in Atlanta. I have not been apart from Nate in 8 years since the military so this was also not helping. He has been my rock and to do this without him just freaked me the hell out. So here I am practicing this presentation and I am about to throw up on my husband while practicing. (this was the day before I left) Needless to say this does not help at all!! The day of the presentation comes, I get to the presentation about 15 minutes early and they weren't ready yet. So I get to sit outside of this board room full of people I have never met or barely know. I start freaking out again, thinking "Oh I am totally going to screw it up for my team, I don't want to let anyone down, OMG what if I screw up in front of my boss!" There was more but that would take forever to write down. I go in, plug in my computer, and presented my outstanding team and our accomplishments over the last 6 months that I was there. I NAILED IT!! I looked over at my boss when I was done and he looked like a proud papa. When I get back to the room I called Nate and said I knew you could do it! Luckily I didn't have to wait to terribly long to find out who won, that night at the 1st dinner of the conference the winners was announced. We didn't win, but that was ok because I won a battle of my own.

This year we are up for Resort of the Year and I will be even more prepared!

That is all that has happened of major events in our life till January 2014. Stay Tuned for the rest of the year up to July!

Ok where did my year go....

I was showing a talking with a good friend of mine and told her she should start doing a blog, so I proceeded to show her our blogs that we have and noticed my last post was in January..wow time flies ( I guess we had a lot of fun this year). 

Well lets see, Nate is not working for the manufacturing plant anymore which is AWESOME because between work and school he was barely getting enough sleep and spending time with us was non existant. 

I am still working for Uhaul (slowly getting fatter by working at home). Nate had a job offer in Elko, NV to run a motorcycle shop when he graduates February 15th, 2013, kids are doing great in school. 

We had some camping trips, we finally as a family took a mini vacation to San Diego, 

Leslie surprised us with a visit, went to the renaissance fair (where Nate saved a couple great horned owl babies) , Nate and I went to tombstone and saw our good friends the Serrano's, went to another ghost mining town called Goldfield, AZ, 

saw the beautiful city Sedona, AZ,

then just spent most of the summer in our pool and tried to stay cool. after all that we just worked and went to school.  

As for right now we have abandoned the idea to move to Elko, NV because the rent is so high there and we cannot buy a house, so we are following my mom to Payson, AZ. The rent is much cheaper there, we already found a house to live in (2 doors down from my mom) and it is a small town (with trees!!!) which when we asked the kids where they would like to live they said they want a small town with trees. Nate doesn't care if he works in a motorcycle shop right away because he fell in love with this town too, and there are shops there but since its a small town it will be harder to get in with them, so most likely he will do the motorcycle stuff on the side, at least for now. As for me I am going to use the rest of the hubby's gi bill college money and go back to school for either an associates or a bachelors degree in business management. I want my own shop and so does Nate so it will be nice to actually know what im doing and well if it flops i have a degree to fall back on. Brenden will be driving soon...wow... so he will be finding a job (which he is excited for...i think) Lyric is doing better in school now that she is in middle school and cant wait for Payson so we can do the mountain biking again, and hiking. We all have missed the mountains in Snohomish but don't want to live there anymore. So now we are getting ready to move once again (which i think its our 26th or 27th time since we have been married) and start a new adventure. This year has been pretty good to us so far and I cant wait for the new adventure next year. 

New Year Aspirations...

This year looks to show that "white light" at the end of our tunnel. Nate is now working on top of going to school. He started work for this manufacturing company which is interested in some of his ideas for them to produce. They make gun parts and light sabres for other companies already, but now one of the owners is wanting him to come up with a knife design that they can produce themselves so they can sell a product. As for me if you haven't already seen on my facebook page I am starting up my jewelry business again. Uhaul has cut my hours and I have really got to do something other than cleaning on my days off. We put together a craft area for Lyric and I. That in itself when you have your own space to work on your projects just seems to give me inspiration. I have noticed down here the demand for rosaries are quite amazing. I know I'm not catholic but I went to a catholic school in my yr high years and I do have a great respect for the meaning of them. I will of course do other things though but for now my main focus is the rosaries. They are a little bit more time consuming than the average piece of jewelry because you have to keep in mind of how many beads are actually on there. Lyric is also turning out to be a promising jewelry maker like her momma. I have taught many women on how to make a simple loop with wire and most women just don't get it right off the bat. Takes a lot of adults a lot of tries before it looks presentable enough to sell. I was amazed when I showed Lyric one time on how to make a simple loop and she got it and it was extremely good, so good that I will be also selling her stuff on my site too. Hence the new name of the business Moliassa's Designs. There is also a blog for that business too if you click here .  I will be show casing my daughters stuff too. I am not sure if he is still interested but Brenden had voiced that he was interested in doing chainmaile, so if he still is I will definitely keep everyone posted and will sell his stuff too! Oh and for those of you following Nate's blog, I'm not sure when he will have anything new to post because during the week he is at school from 7:30am-12:30pm and then works from 1:30pm-9:00pm. so he is a busy man and only has weekends to work on anything. 

Stopping to smell the flowers....

Today I noticed that we still have flowers growing, and our rose bush has not stopped blooming all winter. So of course I had to take some pictures.

Some new projects....

So I have found my creative edge again! I have tried the last couple years before christmas to make a beaded ornament cover. This was last years beaded ornament cover that was a white elephant gift.

This year my muse started when I saw an email from work that they do a holiday ornament contest. They have a "virtual" tree that people vote on. This is my entry....

Then Brenden comes to me that his friend wanted a red necklace for a dance coming up, I had a lot of fun with this one. I broke out my loom and had fun. Here is where it ended up. I hope she likes it.

Today I think I will start something new while I still have the inspiration to make things. Not sure, but I will post as soon as I get it done.

Sunrise in November

I woke up this morning came outside and this was the first morning that I was able to capture a sunrise from our yard. Still is amazing that in November that we have nice weather. Little chilly in the morning (around 60 degrees) and a nice 75-80 degrees in the day time.

Galahad is loves to just sit in the yard by the fence and just watch things that are going on in the neighborhood. Although sometimes he gets a little hair up his butt to run and play with Cleo.

Cleo thinks that our pine tree is her own personal "ball" tree. 

Well this week I have been doing some more wire wrapping, Uhaul gave me more hours this week, and I have been recouperating from our halloween party. Unfortunately I was so pre occupied with the party I forgot to take pictures :(. I always take pictures and we had some great ones this year. Hmmm maybe Ill make everyone dress up again and take pictures.

Long couple weeks....

So the beginning of october my work started cutting my hours down do between 20-30 hrs from the 40 hrs I have gotten used to. I was starting to get a little worried about the finances until I recieved a call from the lady I do beadwork for on the side every so often saying she needs me really bad. This job pays pretty well for what I have to do so the last couple weeks I have been technically working two jobs. On top of all that Brenden had his first homecoming that he wanted to go to, confrences and of course we are having a halloween party. Today I have a moment to be able to have time to write something on here.

Brenden and homecoming...so he was so nervous about dancing and for those of you that know him its not something you think that he would do anyway. Well he came home with a big grin on his face and apparently danced his ass off!

His date...they went as friends.

It is so strange here, now it is getting to be the nice season here and the flowers are starting to bloom. 

Well next week Ill have some pictures of halloween costumes and our decorations. We are having a kid friendly beer approved party on saturday, so my attention will be on the party this week.