Some wonderful changes!

Happy New Year! Here we are again, starting a new year and some new adventures! I have decided to stay at my current job, which is medical billing for Orbit Medical, instead of taking a job with Valley Mental Health. After many talks and some demands were met, I realized that this is where I needed to be. It' s nice to know that I have a company that appreciates all of my hard work and that I can really feel apart of. So thanks to the raise, Mike and I can finally start paying off some bills and try to get ahead of life. Also, Mike is starting to get more jobs as a substitute teacher which is helping a lot. Unlike most people, I am excited to get started on the taxes this weekend so that we can begin to apply for financial aid and start school again in the fall. Thank goodness!
Just as a silly side note, Mike and I have now been married for 7 months and four days. But what is really exciting is that we got engaged on January 10, 2008. We are now celebrating other silly little things. Mike proposed to me on the back road above the Salt Lake Cemetery. Allow me to explain! The year before, I had taken Mike to this spot. It was my thinking spot while I was attending the University of Utah. There is a wall all around the cemetery and I would go sit up there and look out over the entire Salt Lake valley and think, pray, cry, or whatever.
So Mike decided to take me up there and that's when it happened. I was pretty sure that it was NEVER going to happen because he has asked my dad for my hand in marriage almost a month earlier. But he did it! He kneeled in the snow and all. I was so excited and started crying. I couldn't quit hugging him. He had given me his grandmother's wedding ring that was left to him after she died. It is a beautiful 1940s two-toned ring. I couldn't be more excited. He has since then bought me my own diamond ring, but this ring is very special to me.
That is the newest update from the Rohde clan. We are still standing and still very much in love.