Lazy Days

Billy and I have had a pretty good week, aside from the 49ers losing the Super Bowl of course :(. He's been getting off much earlier and has been having more frequent days off (Yay!!)!! And it's most likely going to be a long lasting change. I guess his crew got so much work done this summer and fall, the departments at Union Pacific are having a hard time keeping up with them so they're forced to slow down. Which means Billy's not only had a lot of time to hang out with me, but to get quite a few applications turned in! These applications are not normal job applications. They remind me of college applications. You have to have transcripts sent out, copies of a bunch of different certificates and cards, physicals and there's usually even a fee! Which of course can't be paid with cash or check, but a money order. He's applying to places all over the country, so this summer he could be flying all over the place for interviews. We are praying he will get called out for an awesome apprenticeship in a few months :) Other than all of that work, we've had a lot of time lately for relaxing and hanging out with friends and getting odd jobs and overdue errands done. And we've also been having a lot of fun hanging out with Olive who loves to cuddle and nuzzle your neck, sleep, play with toy mice and try to get the mouse (and everything else that moves) on our laptop screen. She's gotten very comfortable in her new home :)

The weather has also been much nicer here lately, although to me nice weather now is any temperature above freezing. 

Tomorrow we're planning on moving to Fenton, MO which is a suburb of St Louis. Which means we'll be there for my birthday on Saturday! And even better... Billy will have the whole day off! I can't wait! It's going to be a wonderful day. There have already been a couple of packages arrive for me... one I haven't been able to open yet because it's from Billy so he's forcing me to wait until Saturday but I did open this:

It's from my very sweet mother-in-law :) And a few really really good smelling candles came with it! Our trailer just got a little better looking and smelling thanks to her :)