Major Changes

It has been awhile since I last posted on here. A lot of changes in our family have taken place since. We now live in Queen Creek (soon to be San Tan Valley) which is east of Phoenix. We moved into a really nice 3 bedroom with den and a loft, 3 bathroom house thats 2500 square feet. We will need all of that room in July as we are expecting our second child!! We had our first ultrasound last week, and I will post the ultrasound pictures as soon as we get them scanned. It was so neat to see the heartbeat and the little girl or guy moving around. It's still hard to believe we are expecting since we have been trying for so long and at one point thought we were only meant to have one child. We find out the sex at the end of February/beginning of March. We are hoping for a boy, but will love and cherish whatever it is. Janessa is SO excited to be a big sister. She always tells me that when the baby comes out (she knows she isn't allowed in the delivery room) to tell him or her that she loves them. That just about brings me to tears. This little girl has wanted a younger sibling for so long and now she finally will. Speaking of little girl, just this past week she lost her left front tooth and the right one is ready to come out any day. I will have to post a picture of her cute smile, IF I ever get the digital camera from Caleb I have been asking for. There is Christmas and my birthday, so hopefully I will score a camera during one of those. I am still working in Chandler at Parc Place. It is going very well and I still love my job. Caleb has attended a security guard training class and now he is certified with an AZ Guard Card. So he has been looking for a security guard job. There are a good amount in this area, but finding them is the key. We are a few days away from spending Christmas in our new home and we are very excited for it. Have a Merry Christmas everyone and a safe New Year!

Now to find a house....

Great news, Kendra has got a job. She is working in Chandler at Parc Place which is a facility that houses troubled youth from ages 11-17. She does the medical billing. She started on 8/24 and absolutely loves her job and all of the people she works with. Her supervisor is the nicest lady ever and she really feels at home there. Right now she is staying with Larry & Leann until we find a house and get moved in. We will be saving up money for the deposits, moving truck, ect. So we are probably projecting a move around the end of October. She drives to Phoenix on Sunday and stays until she gets off of work on Friday. That isn't much time to spend with your family, but it is something. We are looking in the area of Queen Creek to rent. We know it is further out of town, but the sizes of the houses are really good and the price is even better. We have already looked into a Charter school for Janessa. It is Benjamin Franklin Charter School and it ranks in the top 10% for testing level in the state of Arizona. So anywho, that is what's going on with us now. Now Caleb just needs to find a job and we will be all set!

Getting closer!

Hopefully we are getting closer to living in the Valley of the Heat. Kendra had three job interviews the week of August 10th. There is one she is really hoping for but won't find out until 3 weeks if she got it or not. Please keep your fingers crossed. Until then we are still applying for jobs. In this economy you never know and you don't stop until you are finally employed and start your first day of work. So in the meantime we are enjoying quality family time. We are quite amazed with Janessa and everything that precious brain is learning. Earlier this week when Kendra picked her up from school, she stopped in to talk with her teacher. She said Janessa was a joy to have in class and always cracks her up. And when she tells Janessa that she cracks her up, Janessa responds with "You crack me up, Ms. Bernardo." We notified her of our intentions to move to Phoenix and said we would let her know when we are finally moving the wheels. She said she will really miss Janessa. I'm just hoping she gets into a good quality school like the one she's in. We heard Phoenix has the best Charter schools, so we are hoping to get her enrolled in one since that is the atmosphere she is already used to. She is well aware of the plans to move, but is excited to meet new friends. Normally a parent would worry about their child in a new school, but normal parents don't have an amazing child like Janessa. She meets friends very easily and fits in really well. There aren't any kids I know of at the school that she doesn't get along with. She is the kind of kid that will find another student playing alone and invite them to play with her, while still maintaining playtime with her usual friends. There is a bully that is in school and she really likes Janessa. Janessa doesn't allow her to push her around and yet at the same time realizes that everybody needs a friend. So she befriends her so the other girl has someone she can call a friend. We are very proud of her.

Job Hunting

This past year has been quite interesting for the Wildberger family. In January the shop where Caleb worked closed. He decided to join the Army, and after going back and forth through the process, it was discovered that with the economy, it isn't as easy to get into the military as before. Since he had a level 3 waiver, they wouldn't accept him until entry into the Army slows. By what we have been told, that probably won't happen until the economy gets better. This wasn't discovered until late May. So 5 months were waisted, but valuable life lessions were learned. In June Kendra was laid off from her job due to the economy. At that point we decided that moving was our only option. Sierra Vista is a beautiful place to live, but our career paths don't fit the job openings this town offers. After throwing around a few ideas, we have decided on going back to Phoenix. Kendra has gone on a few interviews, but nothing promising as of yet. She has put in quite a few resumes to places and she is getting a lot of response, so we are hoping it isn't long. Caleb has put in a few resumes, but there isn't as much in Phoenix for auto body as was before. The economy has done its number on that field as well. We are hoping to be in Phoenix by mid August as Caleb is wanting to enroll in the EMT courses offered by colleges in the Phoenix valley. Most of them start around that time and go until the beginning of December. Upon completion of the course, he is hoping to get a job with as an EMT. Then he will go through the rigorous application process to become a Phoenix firefighter.

Janessa will be starting school in Sierra Vista since we won't be moved to Phoenix until after the school year has started. School starts for her on August 5th at the Charter school. She is going into the 1st grade. We have been working with her for the past few weeks on reading and math. She is doing alright in reading, but excellent in math. I know they won't be teaching math for quite some time, but she already knows addition and subtraction very well. We bought her some workbooks in Target the other day and she is just about all done with the math ones. Once she completes them, we will get her the 2nd grade math books and see if she can do that. She's like her mom and loves numbers. We might have a future accountant on our hands! We have been trying to teach her to ride her bike without the training wheels, but that isn't going so well. But it takes some time to get used to balancing since she is still so used to the training wheels doing that for her.