The First Day

Hi, everybody. After a lot of thought, we decided we would start a blog together. Both of us have MySpace and Facebook accounts, but 1) they've been individual accounts and 2) neither one has ALL the stuff we want (blogs, pictures easy to upload, stuff like that). So we're together on this blog thingy, and hopefully we can keep up with this at least once a week so you all know we haven't fallen off the face of the earth.

The first act we wanted to do on our blog was apologize to the friends and family we haven't been keeping the greatest contact with. This past year has been insane. For a while there, we were hardly seeing each other, much less family and friends. Jen was juggling two jobs and working over 50 hours a week, all 7 days. And Jeff was working crazy shifts at Jamba Juice while trying to finish up with school.

But all that has changed, and we're still going through the changes.

At the end of the summer, Jen left behind most of her families and duties at Easter Seals and was hired on to work at Stanford University. There, she is a research assistant in the Pediatric Endocrinology department, doing research studying Type-1 (Juvenile) Diabetes. Starting summer 2009, after taking a nice long break from academia, she plans on enrolling online at Utah State University to get a second bachelor's degree in Speech Pathology, with the intent of getting her master's degree in 2010.

As for Jeff, he recently left Jamba Juice, and is currently seeking out other job opportunities. So far there have been plenty of interviews, and hopefully he will be accepting a new position in the next few weeks. Next semester he too will be giving the online educational world a shot and enrolling at a university. The school has not been decided, but once the acceptance into a program is finalized, we will let you know.

We also are in the middle of another potential move. After living in our apartment in Fremont for a year and a half, we have decided we've outgrown our apartment and want to move into a house. We are currently applying for a home in Newark in the Lake area, a nice 3-bedroom where we can settle in for a while that will accommodate our growing family.

Well, we have some more paperwork to fill out for school and work. Hope everything is going well for you all. Hopefully this weekend we will be adding some more photos and such to our blog so it's not so dull.

With much love, Jeff and Jen.