2013 was a great year for us. Denton graduated in July and has loved, for the most part, his new job. I think what he loves the most is coming home and actually not having any homework to do :) He has already created several apps that have saved his company thousands. At first we weren't sure if we wanted to stay in Idaho Falls for that long but the longer we are here the more we like it so we are probably going to stick around for a few years.
As for me, I did my student teaching in the Fall and overall it was a great experience. I really miss my kids and being a teacher. After I was done with student teaching, I was lucky enough to get a job as an aide at another elementary school. It has been hard not being the teacher in the room and not having as much responsibility, which translates into less for me to do so I get bored a lot, but overall it has been really good and hey it is a job :) I am looking forward to having my own classroom and being a teacher again in the fall. It is a little early for jobs to start opening up but hopefully in the coming months some will open up!
Since things didn't work out with our second dog, we decided to get a puppy and man are puppies hard work! We joke that she is preparing us for a baby (I'm not pregnant by the way!). She is finally sleeping through the night and isn't going to the bathroom in the house as much anymore. Her and Koda get along pretty well, though she has a lot more energy and so she is always pouncing on him. One day they will be best friends :)
Koda looks so different from when we first got him!
Being inside and being fed good food made a huge difference
(He looks a lot skinnier now because he doesn't have a bunch of dead hair fluffing him up. He has gained 5lbs since we got him.)
Little miss Kya
Another exciting thing is we may be buying a house in the near future! We have been talking to a few banks to see where we need to be financially before we buy a house. The nice thing about Idaho Falls is houses are so cheap! At first we were looking at a few older houses that were lower in price but we decided that for not much more, we could build a new house! We looked at some model homes today and we feel in love with the design and floor plan but will see what actually happens but that is our plan as of right now.
