Verner Family in Arizona: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!

Changes! That's what's been going on in the Verner household! Rodney left his job at Family in May for better opportunities. It took a couple weeks, but he now has a great job as a Sales Supervisor at Macy's! He's working at the Paradise Valley mall right now. Kind of a drive, but worth it! He loves it so far- a great company, great people and he actually gets to be a manager instead of doing all those extra jobs he had to do at a smaller store like Family. I've also started a new job. I'm working in the 1's and 2's childcare at Trinity Lutheran School. I just work in the mornings which actually is perfect. Colin gets to go to the 3's room while I'm working, and he'll be in 3's Pre-School on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the school year. I also get to still do MOPS where I'll be a discussion group leader this year. God couldn't have provided better opportunities for our family! Colin seems to like school a lot. Now we'll have to see how going every day and switching teachers goes. The end of May brought some of our favorite people out West- my brother, Jason, and his family, Sarah, Katie and Brendan. We had a great few days together just hanging out at home, going to the splash pad and the Children's Museum. Just a couple weeks after that Mom and Dad came for their summer visit, and to bring us the best thing ever- another car for us! We can't say thank you enough for their generosity! We're proud of ourselves to have made it 3 years with one car, but now with Rodney working so far away we definately needed something else. We had a great visit with Mom and Dad and Colin seems to be warming up to Grandma some more too! ;) He loved their iPad and the games he could play with Grandma and Grandpa. It's always so great when we see any family. We're always prying someday to get to move back near one of them! Rodney's new job came with some vacation time already so we went to Las Vegas for about a week. As always it was great to be with the family. Colin would wake up every morning calling out "Addison! Bella!" (his cousins) and also waking up the rest of the house! We took the kids to a trampoline place to jump around and to Chuck E. Cheese and they had a ton of fun. We got some grownup time too- going out for sushi and to see Batman! It was a great trip. Enjoy some pictures!