Life got in the way!

I’m back on the blog after almost 5 months—it does NOT feel like it’s been that long. Last post was about my nephews being born and they are going to be 5 months old this month. Crazy.

Well, I have to catch you up with what’s been going on around here…

February was extremely exciting of course with Levi and Grayson being born, but then I got to take a solo trip to IL to visit them when they were 6 weeks old! So wonderful.


My nephews at 6 weeks old.

Then on February 29 I officially became a Premier Designs Jeweler! You would think the logical route would be for me to sell Gold Canyon since I worked at the home office, but it’s so saturated around here and I always said I’d sell it when I moved…so I have a friend at MOPS that sells Premier and she asked me to host a party for her. So I did and I loved their jewelry and I thought the hostess benefits were amazing. They get 30% of retail sales and more. So after hosting I couldn’t believe I was actually considering it because it all happened so fast. I took a couple weeks to talk to Shelly about it and mull it over, but this is one that just felt right and at the right time.

I am really loving doing little style sessions with my jewelry and showing everyone how to accessorize. I’m slowing building this business and I’m even going to the company’s national rally in Ft. Worth, TX in July. I’ve heard it’s an amazing experience. Imagine thousands of women and new jewelry—it’s going to be nuts!

Spring was also filled with other fun things like my birthday, a Cubs spring training game and Andrew’s 3^rd birthday. We finally got our family photos done in May and they turned out great thanks to my friend Stephanie who just wanted to practice on us!

We are trying to keep busy because Jeff is out of town in South Dakota instructing OCS candidates for the National Guard, so we’re on our own for June and July! We are patiently [insert sarcasm] waiting for the Army to get back to us about Jeff getting back in Active Duty and most importantly exactly where we’ll be going! We expect to hear something by end of July, but we’re hoping if we have to leave AZ that we’re at least closer to our families in IL. Would be nice to be driving distance from them!