The job search

Challenges come and go and we are anxious for this challenge to be gone.  I just wish we could enjoy our time together but the worry just hangs over our heads no matter what we do.  I think we both know things will be fine but your mind starts to wonder and worry how long we might be out of a job.  The one thing we both could do without is the quote we hear from many people which is "this is such a bad time to be out of work."  There are jobs out there for manufacturing management and John has had several interviews.  He is still in the running for several jobs, it is just the hiring process is VERY LONG!  I have GREAT Faith in John (and Heavenly Father of Course.)  He has a GREAT resume and I don't just mean the paper.  He has accomplished  many great things in his career and everyone he speaks with is very impressed with him and his accomplishments.  It is just finding the right fit where he isn't over qualified or under qualified.  It will come, we just need to be patient.  Poor guy he is just going crazy.  He does work long hours looking, applying, networking etc.

I found this great quote.  This is our new motto! 

As a being of power, intelligence, and the master of his own thoughts, a man holds the key to every situation, to make his life what he chooses it to be. When he discovers the divine power within his soul, he can lead his life to a God-like nature. If one dreams lofty dreams, so shall he become. There is magic in the way one thinks. If we expect the worst, we will get the worst. If we expect the best, we will receive the best. If we train our minds to have faith in God and ourselves, we are using one of the great laws of life. If we think and live righteously, happiness will find its place in our lives. It is amazing when we expect the best how forces are set in motion which cause the best to materialize. (83-02) Our thoughts more than circumstances determine the course of our lives. Outward circumstances do not determine the course of our lives as much as the thoughts that habitually occupy our minds. These thoughts carve their impression on our faces, in our hearts, and on the tablet of our eternal souls.

(Howard W. Hunter, The Teachings of Howard W. Hunter, edited by Clyde J. Williams [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1997], 74.)

Thanks to all our family and friends for all the prayers, care and concern for us.  Do keep calling John, he always seems very uplifted when he has spoken with someone calling to see how he is doing.

Natalie turned 15 YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!

Any one that knows me, knows I have tried to keep Natalie from growing into the teen years. I told her when she turned 13 that she was 12A and would turn 12b the following year and 12c the next. I have endured 2 teenage girls and do NOT want to do it again. I was trying at all costs to avoid the 14th and 15th year of a teenage girl in our home. Well as hard as I have tried she is truly 15 now. We have plenty of eye rolls etc to show for it. I have to say though, as teenagers go she is quite pleasant, but you know how teenagers go haha. I saw a bumper sticker that said "you can't scare me I have teenagers" and I think that sooo sums them up!

Natalie is quite the anomaly to all of us. She has amazed us her whole entire life. Thus the picture of her in the pool wearing every possible swimming device we owned in a wading pool. This kind of sums her up. She has more of a social life that all the rest of us put together. She has the best luck in the world. She wins EVERYTHING!!!. We sure are grateful she is a part of our family because she keeps us all guessing what the future brings. Happy 15th Natalie!
You are a GREAT Kid and we sure LOVE you!

Isn't she adorable!!!