Well, Hello!

Welcome to my Blog!!! I’ve never created a blog before but after reading some of my husband’s awesome cousins’ sites I decided to try it out myself, who knows where this could go and it would be great to look back a few years from now and see what was important and what my thoughts were on certain topics at that time.

So I guess I’ll start this off by discussing this past year, one word comes to mind…INSANITY!! Well, I guess a few other words as well, BEST YEAR EVER!!! This year I have been blessed with an overwhelming amount of Ups with rarely any Downs. I got married to the love of my life, landed an amazing job and we bought our dream home! Seriously, what can be better than this!? Kids I guess… but that will come with time =P

Our Wedding

I have to say looking back I am extremely happy with all of the decisions that Jonathan and I had made for our “special day.” Although we had different opinions on almost EVERYTHING I was able to come up with a theme and style that fit both of our personalities. What’s awesome is all of the compliments we received from friends and family who said it was the best wedding they had ever been too…maybe people say that at every wedding they go to?? Who knows?? But anyways, I’d say I did a pretty good job considering our wedding was the first wedding I had ever been to in my life. I’m so thankful to my amazing mother in-law for all of her help throughout the whole planning process as well as putting together my Bridal Shower. Her idea with the cards where all of our guests wrote advice for us for before and after the wedding was seriously amazing! If it wasn’t for one of the cards that said something along the lines of “Remember to stop and look around at all of the people who had come there who love and support you, don’t feel rushed, make sure you eat and dance your little ass off” I probably wouldn’t have eaten or made sure to talk to everyone. Actually, that’s a lie…I DEFINITELY would have eaten either way! I am also glad that I had kiddie cocktails that night because now I will always remember all of the fun that I had. Thank you to everyone who made mine and Jonathan’s wedding day more amazing than I could have ever imagined.

Side note: the Honeymoon was FANTASTIC! We had so much fun and I cannot wait to go back! I would definitely recommend Negril, Jamaica to everyone!

The Job

When the hubster and I got married I was working as a Recruiter for Spherion, which is a staffing agency. It was a full time position but Spherion was about to be bought out by Randstad and it was made clear that there were limited positions and it wasn’t a guarantee that anyone would have a secure position. So I put my resume out there and not even a full 24 hours later received an email requesting an interview with SPI. Within a week I was offered the position and am currently here today. When I first started at SPI I came on as an HR Generalist/Recruiter, seriously one of the most stressful jobs EVER! BUT, I have to say being a recruiter is definitely my thing. You meet a lot of…dinks but having a good interview, making a candidate an employment offer and hearing their excitement on the other end of the phone is one of the best feelings ever! I’ve been here with SPI for a little over 5 months now and have moved on in a sense from just recruiting to being the scheduling manager as well…I LOVE multitasking and having so many different hats to wear. I couldn’t have asked for a better job and it came at the perfect time as well.

Our Dream House

In April, the hubster and I made an offer on the most amazing house I have ever seen…that was in our price range of course. I was so excited about this house that if we didn’t end up getting it I would have been devastated. How we ended up buying a house in April was due to the fact that our lease was up May 1^st and Jonathan thought it would be a good idea to sign another 6 month lease. Save some money and go from there is what we had agreed on. I don’t know why but I just wanted to check the real estate websites and see what was out there. That’s when I came upon this gem and I convinced the hubster that it was way too good to pass up. I said, “It can’t hurt to just look and dream a little.” I was actually surprised to find out that this was in fact Jonathan’s dream house as well. We made the offer, got the house, and have been living in this mansion for almost 3 months… the only complaint I have is that we thought living without air conditioning for the summer would be super easy. Too bad we have like record breaking heat waves going on here in Wisconsin!!! Yuck, so hot I can’t breathe, or eat, or sleep…but still it’s the best house ever! Love, love, love and cannot wait to raise our unborn children in that house =) !!

So I’m pretty sure that with this somewhat quick overview I have summed up the most insane, successful, stressful, romantic year I have ever had in my entire life. I’m so excited to see what’s next!