A family that PLAYS together STAYS together.

Why hello fellow bloggers and friends.

I know my post have become few and far apart but I am now a working woman! phew. I decide just to make this post a short update for my family and friends sense I've been so busy to communicate to them in person or however it be done.

I started training 6 weeks ago for Tech Support on an Internet/Phone/TV service called Verizon Fios. Utah doesn't have this AMAZING service yet. It's pretty great. Fastest way to get internet and so on. Training was hard and tedious and more stressful then I expected. We had three test for each service and it was on coding, troubleshooting and things like useful/not useful questions. Not only that but we could only take the test Two times for each test. If we failed the second time we no longer worked for Verizon.

So I can proudly say I passed EACH test the 1st time! Even if there were people in our class that were betting against me. Which is rude. However, I'm smart and I ask a lot of questions. That doesn't mean I'm dumb. Moving on. This last week was our first week on the Phones helping customers. The first day I was really excited and also hipped up on mountain dew. haha It was an alright first day everyone was really nice to me even though I had no clue what I was doing. But by the end of this week it got better and better. I'm still nervous about Sunday when I start my normal hours and also don't have our little "helpers." I think I'll do fine though and catch on to the flow of things.

Us eating Custard To celebrate me having
a job!!! sense I passed all my tests :D

I'd say so far the hardest part for me is the poor old ladies that have no one to help them and or their husbands just died and all they want is for their TV to work because it's their life support. This is the hardest part because Troubleshooting a Cable issue is very hands on and if they aren't capable of moving the box and unplugging it there isn't much for me to do for them. It's rough when they start crying. I don't ever want to become "used" to this but I know some part of me will have to for this job sense all my calls yesterday were mostly old woman.

On to happier less work related topics. It's been great FINALLY having some kind of Income. Me and Clayton have literally been scrapping away at money sense we got Engaged Last year. And when I say it's been "great" I mean it's nice to FINALLY pay off BILLS and Bank debt... haha No fun toys or clothes for us in the near future. the last 5 months any money we've got has honestly gone to food almost 100% of the time. Bills and overdrafts haven't been our main concern and it's been rough. Luckily we have some great family members in our life helping us tug along. I have NO idea what'd I do without Claytons Grandparents and the help my dads given us. We'd be in a world of hurt.

This is an Update on Pawz and Scratch!
they are best-est of friends now. more to come.

Now let me get to the topic of this post. cough cough. A Family that PLAYS together STAYS together. I know I posted on Face(tothe)book and said Clayton got me playing Minecraft a week ago. I can proudly admit I've played it nearly EVERYDAY sense I started. I haven't played a game this much sense the Sims came out when I was 12! I'm not saying it's fulfilling or any of that nonsense but it's fun to bring my creative side out after a loooong day of hearing old woman cry.

Here is my Minecraft Character
you can see in her hair she has a feather :D.
Also that's my house it's built into a mountain. 

Not only that but thanksgiving was great and we've had a lot of activity going on. Claytons Friend James who visited about 3 or 4 months ago is here again and we've been enjoying his company. My brother came and stayed a night too which is always fun! On Thanksgiving for my dad. which was Wed. We got some family photos taken and it was really sweet and Clayton kept saying "i can't wait to have more photos of us" which just makes me tingle because it's just so precious. We also got to hang out with his family on Thanksgiving day and play with my little niece Aly she's so tiny but so cute!! and his mom and her boyfriend were there. then Yesterday we had Claytons BFF come over because he just got home from his Mission last week and we all partied it up! So this week has been crazy and so much fun! I love being surrounded by  people and I hope that every one of you knows our home is always open!

This is James. He is wearing the sticker
I picked out for him at the doctors.

sorry this post was so crazy long. but I needed to post an update for all the people I loves.

Always,

      Claiming Mrs. Edgerton

Marriage.

ooooh.. Marriage.

So I got a new job about three weeks ago and everyone is mostly older than me. 24 years old-higher. And they all like to tell me how young I am to get married on a daily basis. Most of them have accepted my views on marriage and think that even though I'm young  I have a pretty level head about me.

Today.. One of my friends said to me "I know what's going to break up your marriage." I didn't really want to ask why but I ended up doing it anyway for whatever reasons.  He gave me this as an answer "When you talk about having kids." So I told him we had already talked about it and he just gave me some "facts" that show that you take what a guy says and subtract it by 3. So this went on for a while because I said clayton wanted up to 3 kids like myself and he said that means he wants 0.

Well the whole point in telling this is just to say my two cents to whoever wants to hear it. Yes, I agree I am young for being married. I'll also admit I openly told most people there was no chance I'd be married by now. I said it daily for a couple years! Yes I know "don't all girls say that?" Maybe. I do not know but I know for a fact I had some pretty good reasons. No, they weren't because of boys I'd dated.

Sorry Mom and Dad but I'll have to bring you guys into this. As almost all of you know, or at least you should, my parents got divorced when I was 18 years old. For some of you this came as a shock. For me and my siblings however, it did not. In fact parts of us hoped one day they would. I'll be the first to admit that I don't think I saw much love in our home. I'm not pointing fingers at anyone. I don't think there was one person to blame for this. But it really effected me growing up and it really influenced my relationships and the types of people I was drawn to.

I knew from my parents relationship I didn't want that. EVER. and I wasn't really dating anyone after they got divorced I had small relationships but nothing serious. Me and clayton became friends during the hardest part of my parents breakup. The period of time RIGHT before it happens. Which was around September 2008. We stayed friends during that time and became bestfriends before we started dating. Honestly, I had no idea I'd find someone as amazing as him. That he would show me how to love someone and take the time to let me realize that a relationship didn't have to be a crazy one.

I also strongly believe in spending a few years married without kids. Build a great relationship together before bringing such a huge and important life into the world. I know that my relationship is really healthy and happy and even though yes, I'm young, I strongly believe that there are exceptions to the rule. And that I did not go into this marriage blinded by love.


my two cents,
Claiming Mrs. Edgerton.

Treasures.

So every once in a while I check this little widget I have on here called Feedjit Live. Pretty much it shows you Who's looking on your blog/ when/ and how they found it. well here is a couple from recently:

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So if that didn't make sense to you. 1 of those people searched in google "Meerkat on Crutches" and Two other searched "how to shower after foot surgery"/"Showering after foot surgery."

One the meerkat on crutches is HILARIOUS. Two I'm really happy someone found my blog for a good purpose. I specifically named that blog post "showering after foot surgery" so People could find it! Because when I was in that situation I couldn't find ANYTHING useful and I REALLY wanted to shower. hahaha. So I feel accomplished that they may have found my blog post useful! yippie!

also here are the great treasures of clayton:

he is so cute!!!!! <3 

Claiming Mrs. Edgerton