A Little Update...

So I just thought I would update you all on the CRAZY life at the Cingolani household where it is seriously never a dull moment!

1. Thanksgiving was great! I hope everyone else enjoyed theirs as well! We went to my parent's house this year. My sister and her husband and their little boy flew in from Texas, both my grandmas were there, and my little brother was there too. This is the first year in about 4 years that we have all been together for Thanksgiving. We had a ball and found out that my sister is expecting their second baby in April! This is so crazy and exciting because only my parents knew, so I walk in the door and there she is standing with her 5 month old belly! Too fun! I seriously have a lot to be thankful for this year, but I will save it for another post maybe.

2. Justin started back to Sunroc. This is a good/bad thing. The good thing is we now have health insurance, and some money. The bad thing is the fact that they are not busy enough with work and decided to not have him work today, and we are worried about this happening over and over in the future. So that means today was unpaid. Not a good thing when you have financial obligations! He is interviewing with a different company tomorrow. (no not Questar, they were nice enough to send him a letter saying they found some one else for the position. RATS!!) This job pays really well and is very stable. It is a lot of hours, but we are thinking that it might be worth the sacrifice to get ahead right now. I will update you all on how that goes later on.

3. We put up our Christmas tree on Thanksgiving night and Jaxon has decorated/undecorated it about 100 times per day! This is fun to watch until about 5:00 p.m. and then I just want to take the dang thing down! Justin and I are working on having patients with him about it. If that is not a full time job, I don't know what is! Seriously though, I love this time of year. Ask my husband, next to my birthday, this is the best time of the year! This year though I have had a hard time getting in to the Christmas spirit, I think with everything going on, but I just keep reminding myself that it could be worse and that we are not alone in this boat.

I think that about brings you all up to speed on the Cingolani household. Look for more updates to come!

THANK YOU!!

Just wanted to post a quick THANK YOU to all of you who have left such sweet messages about Justin getting a job. We so appreciate everyones thoughts and sweet words at a time like this. Also a HUGE thank you to two of my best friends (you know who you are!) for their support for us. What they did for us means more than they will ever know! Anyway, thanks again guys and we love you all!!

FINALLY!!!

So after hours and days and weeks with little or no sleep and a lot of stress and applying to jobs...Justin finally was offered a job and he took it!! It is back at Sunroc (yes, the same company he was laid off from) only in the insulation plant, and not the lumber side where he originally was. So, he goes today to fill out some paperwork and get the ball rolling and hopefully by this next week he can start working again. This is especially a good thing because he will get his medical benefits back immediately, which is great because neither Justin or myself have been covered while he has been off. We have some reservations because of the way this job pays its employees, but anything is better than where we are right now.

The funny/crazy thing about this happening now is on Tuesday night he was looking at the DWS website and there was a job for Questar for a meter reader postition. Naturally it paid well, was close to home and comes with great stability and future growth. So he applies for the job, we fax off the application cause it had to be there by 4:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon, and then last night Sunroc calls and offers him this insulation job. So, in the meantime, we are crossing our fingers that Questar does call and maybe offers him the job with them, because that would be more ideal for us, but we will see. It just never fails, our timing for these things is always off.

However, I am just glad that we have something now, besides lovely unemployment and I know it will make Justin feel better to be back to work. I have to admit I am also looking forward to not having to stress so much and maybe the headaches and sleepless nights will go away!

Cinnamon Rolls...YUM!!!

So this morning my lovely husband informed me that he thought Cinnamon Rolls sounded really good. Well, they obviously were not on the grocery list, as we are on a tight budget with Justin being out of work, so I decided to see if I could make some. So I get out my trusty cookbook, and low and behold, I just happen to have everything on hand to make these yummy treats! So we went to work, and by we I mean mostly me, but he did help a little. You see last week I tried to make bread and both loaves came out rock hard, so I was a little nervous to make Cinnamon Rolls, as the making of the dough scares me. (BTW if anyone has a good and simple bread recipe, please pass it along!!) Anyway, as you can see these came out beautifully and tasted delicious! Justin was making fun of me when I told him I was going to blog about my Cinnamon Rolls, but I am sure that someone out there will appreciate this post, even if he doesn't!

Happy Halloween!

Ok, so I thought I took more pictures of Jaxon in his monkey costume, but this is about the only decent one. He is really in to Curious George right now, so the monkey costume worked out great and he thought it was really cool! He even thought the banana was a phone and kept trying to talk on it! All we heard all day yesterday was Jaxon saying "haween" (halloween). He just kept repeating it over and over.

We took him to a few houses and to Grandmas (where the good stuff is) and he seemed to have fun for the most part. The only melt down we had was when we told him he couldn't have any of his candy because we hadn't had dinner yet. We really aren't cruel parents, it was just my parents were taking us to dinner after we had gone trick or treating! Hope everyone else had a fun Halloween!

Carving Pumpkins

On Tuesday afternoon we decided to carve the 2 pumpkins that Jaxon got from his Grandma's this year. Justin cut the tops off so Jaxon & I could clean them out, (funny how he got out of that messy job, right?). I was trying to show Jaxon how to clean them out, but he wasn't too sure about it.

After a few minutes of watching me, he decided that it was ok and dove right in. It was fun to watch him with the seeds and the stringys. He either didn't like the strings on his hands, or wanted to eat the seeds. YUCK!

Then, the next night (cause we forgot the night we carved them, I know horrible parents!) we lit them up! Again Jaxon wasn't too sure as to why we were outside in the dark past his bedtime. But once we lit them all we heard from him was "hot, hot!" It was the cutest thing!

Here is our pumpkins all lit up!

And to finish it off, here is me trying to get Jaxon to look at the camera for a family photo in front of our pumpkins! This year was so much more fun than last year!

Lazy Sunday Afternoons

So Justin woke up Sunday morning and told me that his foot was really hurting but he didn't know why. So, being the good nurse wife that I am, I said take 2 Ibuprofen and let me get my foot soaker. I think he thought the foot soaker was a little girly, but as soon as he put his feet in it he couldn't stop telling me how good it feels. (I love when I am right! :)) So of course Jaxon had to be right in the middle of it and was fascinated with the bubbles. We let him have a turn with Dad, but I didn't grab a photo of it. So needless to say, while watching the Nascar race, Justin and Jaxon were relaxing it up by soaking their feet!