Hello! It's almost December and I can't believe all that has happened since we moved back to Alabama from Utah.  Jeff felt like we needed to live here in Alabama so we moved back after living in Utah for about four years.  Jeff went to work building a big house when he got here.  We now live in that house but it's not completely finished  yet.  Jeff has had a lot of obstacles placed in his path like being out of work for long periods of time!  It has been hard on me and the kids. He is trying to get back into the Alabama National Guard but they are taking extremly too long to process everything.  He tried truck driving but went with an awful company that didn't keep their trucks up and now his record is bad, they took his last paycheck and want him to pay a lot of added fees. I am blessed to have a good job that I enjoy and want to go back to school to get my teaching degree certificate back so it's not expired. I haven't had much luck with getting a teaching job so that hasen't been any fun.  I try to think and stay positive and do the best that I can.  I love the nice weather we are having and the beauty outside always inspires me.  I want to be an artist on the side and paint lovely pictures! In my spare time (after laundry, cleaning, cooking, etc.) I like to read and I have been wanting to learn programming so I have been reading up on C++ and other programming books. I want to read Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol for the holidays as well. I'm so thankful for my parents and family members and Church Family here in Cullman, Alabama.  Hopefully 2013 our family will have better luck with Jeff having some success with work and getting back to where he needs to be spiritually and temporally!