Curves

Neal and I have decided that I should work a few nights a week again. So a couple of weeks ago, I went to the Curves here in Norman. Unfortunately they were not hiring. So, I drove up the road about 10 miles to a town called Moore and popped in at the Curves there. They lady was thrilled that I was interested in working there and that I had experience at Curves before and I was hired the next day. During the summer, my work schedule will be sporadic, but I should have a normal schedule when school starts at the end of August.

This Curves is much smaller than the one I worked at in Lubbock. It has half the members and 9 out of 13 machines. It is only 2 years old and the manager is fairly new. She has already questioned me a lot on how we did things in Lubbock and I am hoping to help her grow this club. She was glad that I have taught the nutrition class before and will probably have me teach the one in the fall. She has also given me free range of the "boards". These are dry erase boards on the walls around the club used to market products, let people know of the specials, and write out inspirational thoughts and thought provoking trivia. They really can be revenue promoting tools and I plan to use them to their best advantage.

I have to admit, that although it is not ideal that I have a part-time job, I enjoy working at Curves. It is a great, encouraging environment for women. All the employees here are Christians. Most of the members are Christians. Also, it is a chance for me to meet other ladies in the community and have some adult time. In addition, I get to work out for free! Neal also enjoys the time he spends with the kids while I work. This is time he would normally spend working.

I am thankful for this opportunity here and am looking forward to another fun year working at Curves.

OK

Yes, I am finally posting something......hey, give me a break, we MOVED to a new state!

The move went relatively well. After packing up the house in Lubbock, Neal and Bruce drove the U-hauls and unloaded everthing here in Norman. Unfortunaltely the people that we are renting the house from did not pack up their belongings, so my mom and I had to do that before unpacking our stuff! However, it only took about 4 days to get this place looking like home and starting the settling in process.

We have visited many of the parks around town and have enjoyed this nice historic neighborhood via walks and bike rides. We like it here.

Last week we took a quick trip down to SA visiting for 3 days with the Judisch family and 3 days with the Hawthorn family. To all our friends out there who did not know we were in town, SORRY! We knew that we would not have time to see anyone but family, and hope to catch you all next time around. It was one of those really quick, "I guess we will go now" kind of trips with not a lot of time to prepare.........

All in all we are doing well and I hope to keep everyone better informed as we settle in here in Oklahoma!


Here are some swimming pictures, we did a LOT of that last week!


Aidan loves the water and worked on perfecting his belly flop in Gran's pool.




Bathing beauty........



Evelyn is sure not to drown!