New news!

Soo, this morning I got up and started filling out some applications and was just praying that if any of the places I applied for would be a good job for me that I'd get it call for an interview. Not long after I ended my prayer I got a call from a store I had applied to online a few weeks ago. The man asked me a few questions like, why I wanted the job, etc. At the end he said he'd have the hiring lady call me in a few hours and set up an interview with me!! I was so happy I was shaking so bad while I was talking to him.

I know this doesn't mean I have the job yet, but I just wanted to ask for your prayers that if it's Gods will that I can get the job. It seems like the perfect job for me, but again, I only want it if its what God wants. The interview is on Friday at 2pm, so I'll let you know after, how it all went!

Gone so long...

I've gotten a few people asking where I've been lately...I'm still here! I know it's been forever since I last posted, just haven't had a lot to say I guess. :)

Here's some updates:

I gave Wall-e back to his owner :( He was staying where we would normally have a washer and dryer, and my brother was giving his away, so we had to say good bye to Wall-e! The owner said she'd bring him over every once and a while to see him! ;) No more chewed up cords! Yay!

Still haven't found a job, but still praying something will come along :)

We had my brother and his Fiance' over a couple weeks ago! It was so nice getting to meet my future sis-in-law! Can't wait for the wedding in February! <3

As you probably all know, we have a new niece in the family! Yay another Pelkey girl!!! :D She's beautiful! Its fun that I'm just two doors down from her!! <3 Can't wait to watch her grow up and see what her personality is like!!

That's all that I can think of for now...:)

Job hunt

Well, I officially was let go from my CPA job this week. I knew it was coming...work was going really slow, just wasn't expecting it to come this fast! I didn't even get a chance to say goodbye to the kids I've watched for 3-4 years!! So, I'm on the look out for a job, and I'm super excited to see what God will work out for me.
I feel so silly posting this or telling any one that I've lost my job because there are more brethren looking for jobs longer then I have, and need it more then I do because they're married, or have kids, but I do need prayers that God will show me a job thats right for me.

Well, off I go to look for applications! :) Love you all

Something that made me giggle...

I got this e-mail from my brother this morning and couldn't help but get the giggles. Everytime I look at it, I start giggling all over again!! He wishes he could catch something that big...;) Hope you get a giggle out of it too :)

New Kitchen

Sorry its been so long since I last posted!! I have no good excuse to why its been forever, other then that nothing new has been going on in my life. :) But here's what's new for now...

Sis. Carrie (Sis. Tiffany's older sister) gave me some of her old paris kitchen stuff for me to decorate my kitchen with! I was so excited the next day I had Sis. D over to help me decorate! I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. Our apartment walls are pretty bare...mostly because I'm not very good at deciding where things should go on my walls. ;P The pictures didn't turn out that great, but here they are:
Thanks Sis. Carrie! <3 My apartment feels so much more like a little home :) And thanks again Sis. D for helping me decorate! :D

A quick answer..

The last couple of weeks I've felt really overwhelmed with work, and staying on top of things in my little apartment and just feeling like I have no time to spend with some of my sisters...so I prayed about it the last couple of nights. This morning I got to work and my boss said she was just feeling overwhelmed too and her kids were missing her too much every week because she works so much, so she gave me two of my short days off every week. I can't tell you how excited I am! I can finally stay later for story time and help mom at the library, I can sit and enjoy some yummy tea with Mandy, I can go to that step class with Amy on Thursdays, or just be there for my brethren, and of course stay on top of the cleaning of the apartment. ;) Anyways, I was glad God answered so quickly.

Giving up..

I've been getting ready for the tupperware party for tomorrow night, and I decided I wanted to make a few desserts for the ladies that all come. I made brown sugar fudge and "Whoopie Pie". The whoopie pies turned out like what you see in the picture above. Floppy and gushing out. I tried and tried to make these look pretty, but with the marshmellow fluff and the soft cookie...it doesnt really work.
Not sure why they didn't turn out looking like these. I think I used every bowl in the house and now have a very messy kitchen to clean and only 3 whoopie pies to show for it all...sigh. Maybe I'll make it into a cake...with the filling on top..hmmm...

Wall-e and the cord...

When Timothy and I moved out, we took our pets with us...Wall-e (my Chinchilla) and Chuck (His lizard...), and currently have them where our washing machine and dryer would be if we had one. Chuck has to have a hot light on during the days so he's always warm. So, since they're pretty close in the closet, the cord to Chuck's light was close to Wall-e's cage, which is a huge no-no. One of us forgot to make sure it was out of Wall-e's reach...and it wasn't, a few nights ago. Thankfully the cord was unplugged, but he chew through the entire cord twice. A lot could have happened if it was plugged in. The whole apartment could have caught on fire, or I would've woke up to a charred little Wall-e in the morning...=\ Anyways, I was thankful that there wasn't a fire and that Wall-e is still alive. I'm still scared I'm going to wake up in the morning and find him dead because of how much wire he chewed through. ={ He seems healthy and happy still!

Still Alive...

Sorry its been weeks and weeks since I last posted. Feels like everyday is the same thing over and over again-- nothing worth posting about. :P Work has been keeping me super busy since tax season started! They've had me start working more hours, so with two jobs combined, I'm working over 40 hours. Which is good since we just moved out and jobs are a little slow.

Let's see...what's new..? I turned 21 years old this month, found out 2 nieces/nephews are due in August and September <3, I'm having a Tupperware AND Pamperchef party this month and next month, annnd I think that's all that's new. I'm super excited to host the parties at my little apartment. It'll be my first time having that many ladies over at once! :D Can't wait!!

Sorry this post isn't about anything exciting or important...

Brittany and Lorraine Pictures...

This year for Christmas Brittany and I went and got out pictures taken by the same lady that took my families pictures for mother's day. We had planned on doing it last year before Britt got really sick, but pretty much right after planning it, she was in the beginning stages of the sickness.
We took these pictures for our moms this christmas. Years and years ago, Brittany and I had our pictures taken in identical dresses (Possibly around the age of 10)and haven't gotten our pictures taken since, so we thought it was about time for it...since its been 10 years ago!!! Here are a few of the pictures that I saved on my computer before I gave my mom the whole CD of pictures...these aren't all of them. There was a good picture of Brittany by herself like mine, but I don't have it on my computer!:(

I was cracking up trying to take this picture, for some reason my eyes didnt want to stay open because of the bright light lol....

There's a duck by brittany!! O_O

The leaves in this picture are awesome :D

This is one of my favorite ones of us <3

The Apartment

So I thought I'd post some pictures of the aparment. We're still in the process of trying to figure out where things go, but that's kind of the fun part! Its been so much fun playing house! Getting up early in the morning and making Timothy lunch and breakfast, making dinners and planning them. So much fun! Anyways, here they are!
The kitchen, not much of a theme going on here ;D

Moose living room. Lol..looks empty in here for now..no couch yet! ;) But we did just get a vacuum cleaner as a gift. I'm more excited about that then a couch! lol

Dining room....

Black and White bathroom ;) Timothy helped with this room. Picking out the colors and such...

Moving...

Six or so months ago, I wrote a blog post about trying to get an apartment with my little brother...well, after we let our credit built, we decided to apply for the apartments again. This time we got approved!! Everything is going by sooooo fast! We got a call on Monday(or was it Tuesday...?) from the apartments saying we were approved, and they said we could move in anytime this week. So here we are 2 days later getting packed and moving out. We officially have the keys to our home and are ready to move everything in tonight and tomorrow.

Already I'm being a baby about moving...seeing the bare walls and all the boxes getting packed, I'm in tears. Not because I don't want to move out, because I don't have to, but because I'll miss Poppi coming in my room each morning kissing me goodbye for the day, mom in the kitchen cooking dinner and coming in to kiss me goodnight, Jonathan in the computer room playing games...I'll miss just being with them. Heh, I knew this day would come some time, but wasn't prepared in my mind for it at all. It will be an adventure and I'm sure both Timothy and I will learn alot together. :) Can't wait!

Love you mommy, don't be too sad...I'm only a mile away. I still need you...<3

Happy Thanksgiving...

I can't hardly wait for Thanksgiving to get here! It's one of my favorite holidays because my whole family is all together all at once, and I just love seeing the faces of the people I love around the table. I know we get together quite a bit already, but for some reason this day is more special-er to me. I like to look down the table and think of why I'm so thankful for each one around the table, and what each one means to me.

And this year, we're having Sis. Carrie and Bro. Mark over for thanksgiving! (Sis. Tiffy's older sister and brother-in-law) Can't wait!

Russell, love you and hope you have a great thanksgiving! Will be thinking of you lots and tons! <3

The ball

Left to right: Kaitlyn, Ann, Brittany and me

We're baack! I dont even know where to start!!!! We. Had. An. Awesome. Night. lol! But, I forgot to take my battery for my camera to the ball and so I didn't get ANY pictures of what the mansion looked like or what everyone else looked like!! D: Such a bummer.
The mansion was gorgeous! It had christmas tree lights everywhere on it and around it. It looked amazing! They were white lights, and it had a romantic feel to it. lol.
We got there and pretty much went straight to the food since we were all starving! It was set up like a buffet and the servents and a maid stood around the table with all the food making sure that if we needed anything that they were there for us. Then we went and sat out in the gazebo which was huuuuge! It had glass all around it and lots of christmas tree lights everywhere. Later that became the dancing area for the night. ;)
After eating we toured the mansion and got our pictures taken by a professional. Throughout the whole night the photographer kept finding me somewhere and taking lots of pictures of me, lol, it was kind of funny,
Also we had someone ask us to be in a scene of their film they were making...we never asked what it was for! We're also getting put into the Portland Tribute newspaper this thursday possibly, so that's cool too! :)
Then we pretty much danced all night! It was reallllly cool! Lots of slow dancing in squares...looks exactly like what they danced in the pride and prejudice movies. ;D We all had so much fun, we were squealing all night, lol!

So here are some of the pictures after the ball....
This is just a close up picture of our hair. Mom did both of ours! <3

Finished

Last night Brittany and I dressed up early so that some of our family could see our dresses before the ball. Since they wouldn't be able to see us during the real dress up. I'll post more pictures in a few days of the actual getting ready and having our hair all done and make up on and what not and pictures of the other girls. We'll see if I can sneak a camera into the ball and take pictures of other people. ;) Also, Sister Dayna made our fans for us so that they'd match our dresses. Too cool, huh? Thank you sooooo much sister Dayna! :D And thank you Sister Dayna and mom for helping Brittany and I learn to make our own dresses. Next year its YOUR turn to come with us to the ball ;D

Alllllmost Finished!

Alrighty, so here's the almost finished project! There's still a lot more to do, but its starting to look like a dress...yay! Thank you mommy for your help, even when you had a massively bad headache! <3

Its not the best looking picture, but it'll have to do. The top isn't connected to the bottom, so that's why its on the ground and not on me...;D

Ball gown...

So, this is how far I've gotten. I've got almost exactly a week left until the Ball, and I'm starting to get nervous!! But it'll get done hopefully this weekend! I've gotten the elbow gloves for my dress and now I have to get ballerina shoes, and I need to figure out how to put my hair up...somehow with peacock feathers, lol. There's lots to do before we go!! Can't wait to see the finished project and to see Brittany's dress. We aren't showing each other until the day of the Ball! :) Although we've both have seen our fabrics for the dresses. lol.

I'll post more pictures tomorrow when I've done more to the dress..;)

Halloween

Me and Abigail. She was dressed as a Lady bug <3

Some of the sisters come over with some crazy looking socks, so we took some pictures of them

I'm dressed as a fairy...

Left to right: Amy (My friend)is a cat, I'm a fairy, and Brittany is Little Bo Peep <3

A Ball

Sorry its been so long since I've written on this, but not a whole lot has been going on in my life. I'm happily boring at the moment. :) But I thought I'd write about this: Recently I got invited to go to a Regency Ball (With Brittany and her friends) on Nov 15th. For those of you who don't know what that is, its basically an excuse for people to get dressed up in pretty Jane Austen dresses (And tuxes...) and dance the night away!! :) I'm super excited, because this is my favorite time era, and I've always wanted to dress up for the fun of it! So, for the next couple of weeks I'll be working on sewing a dress for the ball. I'll be sure and post pictures for you all to see. So, that's what's new here! =3 Best get myself moving and off to work!

Ooh, I forgot to mention its a GRAND Ball...that means everyone is going all out on fancy costumes. =3 SO fun! Can't wait to see everyone dressed up ^^

Tea Party!

This was the "Master Sheet" of all the ladies tables, showing where they all were supposed to be seated.

Yesterday was the Tea Party, it was a crazy party this year, but sooo much fun!! We had (I think) a little less than 100 women this year. The largest group we've had in the 9 years we've done the tea party! The guys were such a big help this year!! In the past, Brittany and I would serve all the ladies by ourselves, but the last few years, we've grown in the amount of women we get each year, that we need the guys to help. This year they did all the serving and we helped in the kitchen with our mom's, and set up some of the games. Over all, the party turned out really good we all had alot of fun! ;DI love that the guys get all dressed up fancy. Soo handsome! :)All the servers back:Branden, Jason, Timothy, Jonathan, and Danny. Front :Brittany and I. :)A little 'behind the scenes" pictures of us all crowded into Sis. Dayna's kitchenMe and my sistas <3
Our turn to rest...And eat <3

Thanks to the sisters that stayed and served us tea! We love you all <3