A Rather Long Quick Update

Life has been flying by, and crawling at the same time. I can't even believe that we are a mere 2 days from October, I swear September just started! But, I also collapse into bed every night and I feel like my day was so full and I couldn't quite get everything done.

In lieu of my blogging hiatus from anything significant, I am here to give you an update on all things Walsh's... well at least all things Autumn Walsh.

Since I don't really know the best place to start, I'll start at the beginning.

1.) We are still living in Allen! We are working on building our ministry team before we are able to return to SFA. I can't lie, I am starting to get a little "homesick" for Nac. Of course I have been missing all my dear friends back in Nac, but its becoming more than just that. We are still really enjoying it here, but I do miss being able to get anywhere in town in 10 mins, being surrounded by beautiful huge trees, our church!!! All that said, We are still happy to be here, and working on our MPD as much as possible!

2.) Now a Gap Kids and Baby employee!! After a few week at the Gap Outlet, I asked to be moved to the Kid store. Not what I had originally been thinking, but I did my training there, and worked for a day over in their store (it's a few shops down from the "big Gap") and I LOVED it there. I can't get enough of the tiny tiny baby clothes. The socks for the newborns are not even as long as my pointer finger! I just really loved the environment, and of course all the adorable babies that are proudly paraded around the store. It takes all my control not to ask to hold some of them! Well anyhow, last Monday I started my first official day over there, and now I feel happily settled into my new "working home." Everyone kept asking me if working there was going going to make me want a baby. The answer? No. Don't misunderstand, the kids are tickle-their-cute-tiny-tummy adorable, but, after hearing a baby scream for the whole time, or seeing crazy children pull things off the shelves and climb on the counter tops, and can we even begin to talk about how expensive kids clothes alone can be? WOW. So in summation, i moved to the new store, am loving it, and am still not ready for kids. Joy!

3.) I am WAY behind in my class. We are taking a New Testament Survey Seminary class as part of our new jobs as full-time staff, and its all online lectures and then lots of homework. By I am way behind, I mean there are 20, 1 hour lectures to listen to, and as of now, I should be on lecture 14. I just finished lecture 4, and as i was doing that I was getting caught up on all my blogs that I read. Yeah. The lecture is actually enjoyable material, but just sitting and listening with nothing to look at for an hour kills me. Not to mention that nothing is easy about the "getting ready to listen" process. First, you cannot save the lectures, as far as I can tell, and so you have to listen to them while it streams. Living out in the country, this is a very difficult task. Oh and you can't pick where you want to start listening to the lecture. So when the stream freaks out and your lecture stops 12 mins in, you have to restart. When it stops 33 mins in, you have to restart. When it stops 47 mins it, you have to restart. Are you starting to see why I am only on lecture 4? They should pay me more to do this. Better yet, they should pay me to re-do this, I would even make everyone else a CD to listen to also if they only gave me the chance. All this is extremely significant because it is mandatory, and get this... has to be submitted complete with a proctored final and all by Dec. 1. Good grief. I have lots of catching up to do.

4.) My puppy is crazy. That actually is nothing new, but there have been some funny things happening lately. And because I have no "real" children, I use all my "kid" photos for my dog. First, Jonas is almost one, Oct. 12 is his birthday! His Cowboys jersey was his actual present, but I also found some really cute toys for him. I can't wait. Also, he still hasn't managed to control his happy peeing, and Vince has had enough. We priced how much it would be to get puppy diapers, and it was a shocking $27 for 30 diapers! Well that is just ridiculous, so we priced, and bought some baby diapers, and just cut a hole out for his tail. Apparently kids and dogs don't wear the same size of diapers according to their weight. Unfortunately, when we put the little baby diaper on Jonas it didn't cover..ahem.. his "man" parts, and therefore didn't fix the happy-pee problem. But, it was hilarious, and humiliating to Jonas, and he hated every moment, of which I took lots of pictures. He was so upset he wouldn't look at me. Ha!

In that last shot Jonas had ripped off his diaper, and he was attacking it, which was pretty funny too. I think he knows when we are making fun of him.

Also we were carrying him around in one of my Gap bags. It was too funny, and He actually really liked it. psycho.

5.) We are going to Oregon in a few weeks! We have a MPD follow-up conference to go to in Oct, and there were 4 locations to chose from, but none of them were anywhere close to us! Fortunately, there was one in Portland where my dad and family live, so we are taking a trip! We will be leaving Oct 18th! The countdown begins! I am pretty excited for a few reasons. We get to see amazingly beautiful Portland and the coast. Vince has never been out there, and I can't wait to show him all the places that I love. Also, we get to see my family, which will be great. I haven't seen them since the wedding, and it will be nice to catch up and visit with the family. With that, I have set a goal for myself to bring all their Christmas presents with me so that we can save the crazy postage rates for holiday delivery. So far the plan is working. I'm really excited to go and see all our new staffers at the conference too! It is a really fun group of people, and I can't wait. But I can't lie, I am super sad the Reece's won't be there. (Emily change your mind, get Sam to come to Oregon! Kelly and David and the Cooleys and the Barron's will be there!) We are also combining the trip with celebrating our first anniversary, and we are staying at these really cool places along the coast. I will post lots of pictures of our trip when we get back!

6.) And the rest! Few other random things. Sunset finally came out, so I tried to reserve it at the library. Apparently I should have done this sooner because by today, I was number 39 to reserve the book. So maybe by next September I will finally get to know what happens to the Baxter family! Or I could just break down and buy it. Ehh. Also, I cannot wait much longer for the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 to come to the dollar theater. I think the day it gets there I am going to go!

So there you have it. A long-quick update.