Baby News

Keith and I are expecting our first little one on 11/26/11. We're so excited! A little nervous, a little stressed, but enjoying every moment of it....except for the morning sickness. Who'd have thought that a little extra hormones could wreck such havoc on a body? Wow!

We don't know, yet, what we're having, but we'll find out in a few weeks and let everyone know. Thank you for all the love and support! I may create a baby blog, but I might just update this one more regularly. I'll keep you posted on that as well.

CHICO APARTMENT

YAY. Keith and I moved to our own apartment in Chico. After 5 1/2 months of living with the parents we're finally on our own again. Thank you Mom and Dad for allowing us to live with you, save up some money, and re-adjust to life in California. It's a much faster pace than what I remember. :D

Oh, we moved back from Utah in September of 2010 so Keith could take a job working for my dad's insurance agency as Chief of Operations. I worked remotely for the Leavitt Group until January, when I went to work for Applied Systems, Inc. as a Sr. Consultant for their EPIC agency management system.

MOVING

Wow, it's been a lot longer than I thought since our last entry! I guess the most important news is that we're buying a house in Cedar City, UT. Cedar City is in Southern Utah, about 2 hours northeast of Las Vegas. We're very excited. We close escrow tomorrow and we'll start our move over the next couple of weeks. I have attached photos of the home. Things are crazy of course, but going well. Keith got a promotion and a raise at work and things are looking great for me as well. I'm so excited about Keith's promotion, it was hard earned and well deserved!

UPDATE!!!

I'll add photos later but a lot has happened since December when I posted last. Sorry about that! So, Christmas was pretty nice, lots of travel as usual, but it was pretty cool overall. In January Jen started interviewing with The Leavitt Group. They are Tim's partner at Titus-Leavitt. The position she was interviewing for was to help put together a service center for their agencies Commercial Lines clients. Meaning, all the agencies that are partners with the Leavitt Group (like Tim) would send their small commercial clients to the service center for customer service, like in-house out-sourcing in a way. In February Jen and Keith drove out to Cedar City, Utah for Jen to interview in person. She was offered the job and took the position and started work on March 2, her 28th Birthday.
Jen went to lunch with Jayna Taylor and Kim Julian on her birthday and that night went to dinner with Jenni Leavitt. Keith moved out to Utah on April 5 and he's settling in rather nicely. He's also interviewing with the Leavitt Group to work in the Personal Lines service center. Last weekend we drove out to Zion Overlook, which looks over the National Park. It's kinda cool living out here. It's dry and that sucks, but there is a lot to do. We're looking at getting some ATV's and camping a lot, investigating the area we now live.
We've made a few friends out here, Jayna Taylor is awesome and great to hang out with. She's funny and very cool. Hopefully once we take up our new hobby we'll meet more people and have a wider circle of friends.
I'll post photos and more updates later!

November 2008

SO, we had Thanksgiving at Nana's and Uncle Dan's this year, but before all the food Keith and I went to see Grandpa. He was so funny, but he was having a bad day as far as his memory was concerned. Grandma thinks they gave him more meds than normal since more people were going to be around. That could be, but it was sad. He didn't know where he was or who I was, or anything. He knew I was family, but not who I was. Anyway...
At Nana's we drew names for the first time for who we're getting gifts for this year, to cut back on expenses (you know how the economy is). At Nana's we had a wonderful turkey, but Aunt Pat made her awesome broccoli casserole thing, always a holiday favorite! Then, Nana brought out her famous Pumpkin Pie, she does some thing to add a layer of like some cream cheese thing or something, but its bomb! I haven't uploaded pics yet, but I will soon. Everyone that is normally there was there except Gregory, Angela, Terry, and the Bettencourts.
At Grandma's we were already kinda stuffed, but I couldn't resist Aunt Marlene's Enchiladas, also a Thanksgiving favorite of mine. There were also all the typical Thanksgiving courses, but the Enchiladas are my favorite, every year. Everyone was there, Richard and Stephen Suhr, the Boulants, Keith and I, Nick and Karen Johonie, Aunt Marlene and Uncle Tim, Grandma, the Dan Titus family (since it was at their house), and Tom and Aunt Debbie's sister, and the Murphy's....Chris, Leandra, and Aunt Joanne, and Leandra's boyfriend Bobby too. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Job Hunting Sucks

So, it's October and I still haven't found a job yet. I got laid off in June! What the heck!? I know the economy is in the toilet and everything, but jeez, give a girl a break! Anyway, enough about that. Keith and I are not up to a whole lot right now. This past weekend we really just hung out, watched some football, while I went through our wedding photos sorting stuff so I can start our scrapbook. Yipee, finally, its only been 5 months. :) Love you all!

Mr. and Mrs. McFarland

Mia's First Ursuline Game 2008

They played a really good game beating Santa Rosa High 3-0.

Clem and Marisa's Wedding

We had a blast at Clem and Marisa's Wedding, we hung out with many friends and family members. Everything was beautiful, the weather perfect.

Fun with Friends

Last weekend my sister, Virginia and her friend Lisa came up to visit, they brought Jocelin with them. We went to the mall and shopped and hung out together. On Sunday Lynsey and Kirsten (cousins) came up as well and we had our makeup done at MAC and we had a lot of fun together, we got our pictures taken and everything. Girls weekend, what could be more fun? After Virginia left for home Lynsey, Kirsten, and I went to dinner at Chili's. We had a great time.