We’ve been having such a ball over here! We’re very blessed with a beautiful house, great jobs, and the opportunity to raise Sterling. Andrew’s job has taken off at Scheels, he’s a specialty shop manager and takes care of the soccer/inline skates/skateboards. He manages the budgeting, inventory, and ordering for all the products in his area–pretty awesome. He was picked over people that have been working for Scheels for a year or more (he’s been there for 6 months), so when he was promoted, they felt that it was important to emphasize that he has earned the position through his hard work and sales. I wanted to brag a little. He’s just awesome.

Melinda and I are going to graduate with our Bachelor’s degrees at the same time next Spring! We’re cool like that. We didn’t even plan it! I’ll have an accounting degree finally. I’m interested in going into forensics accounting. Most companies that specialize in this kind of work have several types of work/cases asked of them, like bankruptcies, litigations, acquisitions, fraud, etc. There’s many other certifications that will help me to have the credentials I need, however, I can start interning at most of the firms now. I’m applying for two companies currently, one is right by our house, the other is downtown. I’m sure I’ll apply for plenty of internships in the next while. For accounting, recruiting time is in the fall of your senior year, which will be this fall for me. Usually you work part-time as an intern while you go to school, and if things go smoothly you’re hired on after you finish up with your CPA, which for me would be two years from now after one year of school at the University of Utah in their MAcc program. We’ll see how things go, but that’s my overall idea. 

Sterling says all sorts of crazy things, but some are at least decipherable now. He tries words if you ask him to. He loves to try all of the sounds around him: a few days ago he mimicked the sound of a car alarm (pew pew!) in the parking lot of Scheels and today he tried to sound like a flock of geese passing over our house. He loves to play with our ping pong paddle and ball on the back porch–I just bundle him up because it’s freezing!! I have discovered that he will sit in the drivers seat of the car and fake like he’s driving for well over an hour with no problem. He always has the windshield wipers on as his music and dances to their beat going back and forth! He’ll be eighteen months on March 3rd, but he seems older than that to me.

Climbing at Rockreation

That's our life in a nutshell!