Sunday, October 2, 2011

Starting out!

       Since Justin and I are starting our new lives as adults (I guess we were before but now we have careers and not just jobs). A few weeks ago I was offered the job to be the band/general music teacher at the Gateway Preparatory Academy in Enoch Utah and of course I accepted. Hey.. someone wanted to hire a first year band director with only student teaching experience... of course I was going to take it  :) But that meant that we had to figure out how I was going to get down here. The school needed me as soon as I could get there, so I packed up what I needed and moved down here to Cedar City, UT while Justin stayed in Shelley with his mom to finish packing the apartment. So I was left with the daunting task of finding us a place to live! I think I found a house that we are going to move into for a few months until we figure out where we want to buy a house. Can you believe it... We're going to buy a house!! We were pre-approved for a loan but we are going to wait a few months before we decide how much we want to take out. Luckily Cedar has a ton of nice foreclosures that we are looking at! (Hey why not get a nice house for a 1/3 of the price!)
       Justin will be down here in a couple of weeks and he will (hopefully) start working. There is a hospital that email Justin about hurrying up his application so they could push the paperwork through for him. Sounds like they want him to me! It would be the first time in our lives together that we will have two steady incomes coming into our family at once.
Needless to say we have list of things that we want to buy!
  1.  Another TV
  2. A couple of recliners
  3. A new couch
  4. A nice Sleigh bedframe (well that's what I want)
  5. Saving for a down payment 
  6. Is there anything else that matters??
Work is going well. I've been at it for a whole week now and it's going great :) I teach 2 band classes and 3 general music classes a day... maybe a kindergarten class thrown in here or there. I have a beginning and an advance band with both about 12 students in them. Oh boy... the previous teacher left me with a mess. The students are no where near where they should be. So I have to basically start from the beginning with both bands. General music is fun! I have never taught this before so it's quite a new challenge but and exciting challenge.

                                                           This is the school I work at!

The house I'm looking at renting is cute.. oldish but quirky and cute.There's a tree growing in the house! It has tons of kitchen, living room and dining room space so I was instantly sold on it. I can live with the brown carpet for a while :)

 


Well that's all the pictures I can add.. The rest aren't loading properly! But yeah.. I think its a cute home and it will work until we find a house to buy :)

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