- Jordan got a new job working at vivint
- Norah started walking in May at 10 months
- We lost our job as RAs
- We moved apartments
- Jordan took the PCAT
- I enrolled as an evening student at BYU to take a ballet class
- We took Norah camping for the first time
- Norah turned 1 year old!!
- I got a job teaching ballet!
I'm sure a lot more happened but its not worth spending 10 more minutes trying to remember. I do want to expound on the whole "we lost our RA job" thing. As many of you know Jordan and I were working as RAs at the Branbury apartments since June 2010. It was a pretty sweet set up, we would work as many hours as it would take to pay for our rent. It was very flexible especially because both Jordan and I could do it separately and we could have Norah with us when we were working. It had its disadvantages, it definitely made it so we never had down time. At one point Jordan was going to school and working part time at the MTC. I was working full time and teaching at 2 dance studios. On top of all that we were working about 20 hrs a week at the Branbury. It payed our rent but we also never had down time. We considered leaving the job many times because of the stress it was causing but we couldn't let go of having our rent covered. It was actually because of our living situation that we realized it would be possible for us to afford to have a child. But I always had a feeling like "this is too good to be true". I knew eventually it would have to end and unfortunately it ended at a very inconvenient time. At no fault of our own we were fired simply because our manager thought it would be better to have single people do the job (ridiculous I know!). We were given 6 weeks to find a new place to live and to figure out how to pay for rent. I went into panic mode and basically signed for the first apartment we found, and with lots of faith we moved forward. We like our new place and we LOVE being free from the Branbury, but are also very stressed with money. Paying a deposit, having a major car repair, paying for my summer tuition, and buying furniture have depleted our savings. Jordan will be starting school and having to cut back hours at work which means we will be making up for it with student loans. We have been SO blessed to not have to go into debt for school until now but you've got to do what you gotta do. It was a huge bummer that this happened, but it could always be worse! Jordan and I are just so grateful for what we do have, which is more than we deserve. We just look forward to the day when Jordan will be done with school and we can actually have a steady income, which will be in about 5 years :(.
