Friday, August 23, 2013

Working Girl

Today we went to pick up Lyssa's final paycheck and have her turn in her uniform pieces.  She had the opportunity of working at her very first non-babysitting paying job!  She was able to work in Food Services at Hogle Zoo this summer.  She had a great experience there.  I am grateful to her Young Women's President who told her about the job and put in a good word for her during the interview process - and who gave her rides periodically!  She was able to reach her goal of earning enough money to purchase her very own laptop!


Last day of work at Hogle Zoo

 
Turning in her uniform pieces and picking up her final paycheck.  We went directly from Hogle Zoo to the bank and then to the store so she could go home with a new laptop.
It was a good experience all around.  Here's looking forward to another good job experience!
 
~Bobi


Friday, August 16, 2013

25 Years?!?!!!!

Sooo....

Bobi and I were reminiscing about our day 25 years ago and she said she wanted to scan in some pictures and post them so we could all enjoy them.  Well she is lying down at the moment and I wanted the first opportunity to post.  She will probably do so later and correct some things I might say.  I scanned 2 of my favorites and, oh boy have things changed, and some have not.

I had hair, I was thinner, I look like a kid, not a 24 year old who is starting a family.  These things have changed.  What is the same is that I look happy and she is beautiful.


Now I am not so thin, but my hair is, and much grayer too.  I look much older and am sure that I know a bit more and am better prepared for life than I was then.  My family is here and mostly grown, the kids that is.  Bobi and I are moving into a new period of our lives.  If I could snap a picture of that person - the individual who is embarking on this new period of our lives, I expect he would look much like the man in this picture, young and excited but a bit scared and unprepared.  With Bobi by my side then I made it through the new experiences.  With her by my side now I joyfully move forward into this new opportunity.

She was beautiful and breathtaking then.....

 

And she is evermore so now.

~Brian