Fall semester 2012

For those of you who were wondering what we are up to currently apart from our trips and adventures....

Tim has been working at his job with Morrison & Co. for a year now. He quite enjoys it. The job he had before doing taxes and audits for Matson & Isom (public accounting), he ended a week before the wedding. Now he works doing grant writing, feasibility studies for projects companies want to pursue, among other financial projects companies want assistance with. His job really gets us hooked up with most of the big, local farms and ranches. Well and widely known businesses, having amazing reputations for their great impact on the environment and economy and a good number of them pride themselves in being organic. I love it when we have a function to go to that allows to connect with these people, its so fascinating. Connections and events with the Butte County Farm Bureau, Northern California Land Trust, Young Farmers and Ranchers, Chico Chamber of Commerce and others.

I work very, very part time with a local catering company called Bacio. I help serve food at the events and clean up. This would be the same company my mom is working for, but she works almost full time and she helps with all the food preparation.
My main job though is working with kids. I am a part time nanny for several families. I work a few days for one family and different days for my other family. I have been doing this as my solid job since I moved up to Chico 4 years ago this November (next month). I love it and will keep doing it as long as it works out that way.
Last summer I took a class called "Child Development", then another in spring called "Teaching Young Children" and this fall I am actually half way through my last two child development classes "Guidance & . With having 12 units (4 classes) I can working in a preschool or daycare. I decided that it would be good to take the classes so if I wanted to get a job beyond nannying I could.

So thats about it for that.

No, kids in the works yet for us, it will be another couple years. We want to be able to make a trip to New Zealand while its still just us 2. That trip we are planning for early 2014. We will have updates for that trip when it gets closer.