Gatorland

I posted a couple of pictures of gatorland in the 2nd blog I just wrote. A couple that we knew at the singles ward and was married right after us, we were able to finally get together with them and able to head to gatorland with them. We had a great time and nice to spend time with a couple without kids!! We needed that and hope to have more great times with them!! They are an awesome couple that we can get together with and not too far from us :) Here are a few pictures

The white gator was the albino one and it is no longer there.. They looked kind of creepy. The one with the man in the picture holding the tail he was wrestling the gator and it was funny.. the Gator he was doing in this show was hissing up a storm.. He was one angry gator!! The two gators were really cute together and looked like they were posing. It was a really cute picture!! 

Honey

Steve and I have started selling honey on the side as a started business.. We will see how it goes... so far it has been going pretty well we are now going to be trying to expand outside of the church people. We are doing it to have a little extra money on the side but also my husband has his own passions that he would like to sell honey and so we are doing so. We have all types including: Orange Blossom, Saw Palmetto and Wildflower. We also have Tupelo which is a unique flavor, more expensive because trees are only found in certain areas but a very yummy honey. It also has a lower sugar content and very unlikely to crystallize which is nice for the food storage reasons. We are looking forward to getting this started and have a flier right now and then hopefully in the future have a website for our honey also. We will see what else happens but it is cool to see what kind of things we can do to have a little extra money. If any are interested let us know and if we need to ship it to you than we will have to calculate that in too. 

Tinae's new jobs

Well after figuring out what I need to do in this world.. I have finally found it and wish I started it up a year ago.. didn't know i could actually teach music but i can.. I am now teaching clarinet and piano lessons at my home or their home and enjoying this. It is wonderful to something to do and right now have 2 students and possibly another one to do also. So that is really exciting and grateful to know that there are people still looking at my ads and wanting me to teach their children. I love teaching right now and it is quite a bit of a challenge but want to keep doing it and helps me learn how to teach better. I look forward to having more students and its wonderful because I still have the day available to help those around the ward that might need babysitting every so often and then I work at night. Its wonderful and we are doing well. The honey is helping too to help us out of the house and to our own place. We look forward to having our own place more than ever. 

Honey

So Steve had this ambition a few months ago that he wanted to sell honey. I thought maybe it would pass by but.. now a few months down the rode we are now selling honey. We have a case of orange blossom creamed honey right now but are selling all types of honey and flavors and have prices we could send to you guys if anyone is interested. If you want it shipped than we would have to add on the shipping and figure out that price. We can sell gallons and 1/2 gallons, have orange blossom, tupelo, which is a unique flavor and more expensive because it comes from a special flower found only in certain areas. Its pure honey and not filtered or processed in any sort of way. Our other flavors are: Wildflower, Saw Palmetto and then again the orange blossom. So let us know if any are interested!! We are enjoying our new thing of selling honey and will hopefully get a website up and when we do we will let you all know. Right now we have fliers we are sending out to people. 

Hope all are doing well!! 

God watches out for those that are faithful

You know i have always heard that and believed that but I believe right now that being married in the temple and then being faithful afterworths and trying our hardest to be faithful is what the Lord wants us to be like. I know we aren't perfect not saying that but we have been blessed. 

For instance: We were house sitting and watching kids and such for almost 2 months before we moved in with my parents. Now we are blessed with my parents having us there with them and we are able to just live there and get our feet on the ground. It is a blessing and so worth it to grow together and to get a strong hold on things before we start our lives with no money. 

We also have been blessed with friends that gave us the opportunity and the blessing to receive some extra money. We also have been blessed in small ways. 

Steve still has a job and that is a blessing with all the hard times coming around we are grateful that he has a job still! 

The even smaller things. Tinae has not been given a job yet. But has been working for the last year with a company doing freelance graphic design and able to do that. She is also able to watch children when needed and be free to do that. She is able also, just started for $5 each time i walk this dog too. It is only a couple days a week but so easy to do and it is helping this family and helping us! So be faithful and believe in the Lord and trust him! Trust him and pay your tithing and all things will work out :) 

Tinae will hopefully receive an interview from Kaplan University also which would be great and not great hours but will I think prepare me also for the crazy hours that children bring to the world. It is all great right now and believe that this is all from the Lord. 

He really does watch out for everyone :) 

Love you all and hope that you are all doing very well! 

Tinae

New Hair

So Chandra and I decided that it was time to get rid of our long hair :( Ours were both past our shoulder blades and ready to come off especially after the wedding and now don't have that to have pretty hair for, I was ready. Florida is nice but it is SO hot and I see why SO many ladies here in the ward have short hair. It is easier to take care of also :) 

So enjoy!! Chandra and I donated our hair to Locks of Love. It feels SO good to serve and grateful that we did!! I love to serve and grateful for this opportunity to give up my lovely hair to such a great donation place! 

Chandra cut off 10 inches, and I cut off 10 1/2 inches so if you can kind of see what it loooked like before too. The pictures might be sideways.. couldn't get them to switch over but enjoy!! 

A new update

Well, After steve and I were married we were going to house sit for 6 weeks which we did and that one OLD dog was VERY good practice for having kids haha!! We then were going to move straight into my parents house.. b

ut the Lord has blessed in multiple ways!! We then were asked to watch 2 kids, last week one the age of 2 and the other was 4 and had them for four days, on top of that we then moved to another families house in the ward who asked us to watdch their 3 kids and for two days we had 5 kids with us. Wow how we moved from a dog to kids.. hmm.. someone posted on our wall saying that dogs are good practice for kids.. well us watching that one dog was probably preparing us for these upcoming weeks!

We survived that and we had a great time with all the kids. It was wonderful!! Well it is now like 8 weeks that we have been married, well I guess almost 2 months and haven't spent more than a day or two at my parents house. We are now watching a little dog and a cat. It has been wonderful. We have had a great time. it has been wonderful having houses to bump back and forth from. We thought about opening our own business bouncing from houses haha!

So that is our update. It has been wonderful! We have been blessed in multiple ways! Hope everything is going well for eveyrone else. School starts back up for Steve I am still looking for a job.. It is so hard now but even the little blessings of helping with kids and such is wonderful. I have been looking everywhere including Sea World and Kohls and other places that are not in the major but it hasn't worked out.. we will see.. I am hoping something will happen, let me know if you have any ideas for me!!

Oh I have been helping out in primary and am teaching 6-7 year olds it is great right now! I have been enjoying that and a break from Relief Society, the kids are SO smart and that has been so much fun too.