Goodbye Facebook, Hello Blogger.

Does anybody read my blog? I doubt it, however I don't care. My blog will be my main internet presence.
I'm done with Facebook, every time I get  on Facebook I am disgusted with the selfish inconsiderate posts. I end up playing the compare game because so many people are "fakebookers" what I mean is they make their lives seem completely different then whats really going on, very few people are truly genuine on Facebook, however on Blogs people seem to open their hearts a little more.

No I will not completely leave Facebook, as much as I would like to shut down my account and never go back, I do a lot of business through Facebook, I plan on keeping that form open and will pop my "face" in every now and again.

I do tweet. follow me @ishigotsch I like to tweet, the idea that someone important somewhere may read my thought is kinda exciting.

Point is, I'll be blogging my opinions, pictures and stories way more often then I am sharing them on other social medias.

So back to my original question does anybody read my blog? I guess if they/you are curious what is going on in my life they/you will, that or call me or better yet stop by sometime I'd love to catch up, but if your life, like mine is super busy, I understand if you're keeping up with the Gotsch's through blog!

So a few things for those of you who are not familiar with my personality or writing style. I am sarcastic, I will be honest, I do get sappy, I do/will make typos ( I try not to, but when I only have 5 minutes and I want to vent, well... it happens.) and finally I will NOT cover it with pink daises to make you feel better, if its shit, I'll say it, if I'm sad I'll share it, so naturally when I'm happy, its truly happy.

Looking forward to blabbing... I mean blogging.

ONE LAST THING- for those who only stay in contact with me through Facebook...
(You know who you are!).... I will post that I updated the blog so you can see, maybe not every time but occasionally.

Dear Grandpa.

Dear Grandpa,

I love you so much. I will miss your stories, your facial expressions and your wisdom. I will always remember the way you treated the earth with such love and kindness. I will teach my children the importance of all living things because you taught it to me. I will look for the beauty on earth and rejoice even in the smallest rock. 

I know you will continue to watch over me, and when God see's that Ben and I should have kids you will watch over them as well. 

I'm no longer afraid to speak my mind and to let my light and knowledge grow and shine, you always shared how you felt or what you believed and I hope that I can too.

When you were in the hospital and I saw you there so weak. I could look in your eyes and see the strength that you had always had was still in you and you weren't weak you were humbled before the Lord. I know you have a greater responsibility in the next life. I am in awe at the peace that I have and the comfort the Savior has given me to know that I will be with you again, that I will get to feel your scratchy beard on my cheek as you hug me once again. 

Thank you for the many things you did for me that I'm sure I never even knew. Thank you loving my Grandma and Mom. Thank you for being a Dad to my Mom so I could in turn have an amazing Grandfather. 

Thank you for teaching me how to work hard and help others enjoy their families. Thank you for the jeep and the blessing it was for me to have a vehicle down at school. Thank you for bailing me out in hard times without me even asking, and helping me find my path. Thank you for believing in me, from the time I was a baby to pageants to college and finally when I decided to marry Ben.

I love you. I miss you. 

Love your higamire,

Ishi. 

Fact and Crap

wow! I think this the longest I've ever gone without blogging. I love blogging and happy my life has slowed down enough to find a minute to express my feelings and life experiences from the past few months!
I guess I can start with a Fact and Crap session (Crap is not necessarily a lie just stuff that has happened I think is total crap.)

Fact
I opened a studio with a business partner
Crap
People don't just line up at the door to try a new business
Fact
They will because we have a good product and great service

Fact
I went to illinois for a week
Crap
All Ben's Friends now live there and we are here.
Fact
We Miss Them.

Fact
I am currently in a bunko group
Crap
Not really any crap here I really LOVE it.

Fact
I still work for Valley Mental Health
Crap
We don't get as many days off as we originally had been told.

Fact
Its summer
Crap
NEED MORE TIME OFF TO GO PLAY:)
Fact
I still plan on playing as much as I can.

Fact
My hair is very short
Crap
I miss my long hair
Fact
I get a lot of compliments on the short hair

Fact
I have sat close enough to hear the ball hit Yadier Molina's glove
Crap
We missed Matt Holiday's home run.
Fact I made it back in tie to see Yadier Molina's home run
Crap
The Cards Lost due to some really bad calls
Fact
There was a streaker

Fact
I'm still and forever will be married to the most AMAZING man in the world
Crap
That means house guests
Fact
I have anxiety with house guests

Fact
I am tired.
Crap
I'm REALLY Tired.

Thats a quick update. I'll post some pics from the game it was SO fun. Hoping to take another adventure soon, even if its just an overnighter. :)

2011 A year of change.

2011, What can I say? A year of change. Two Thousand and Eleven has been a year of change. Yes that sums it up.

We started the year living in North Salt Lake, I was working as a bus driver for Valley Mental Health, and Ben well didn't have an "official" job, he was on admin. leave with the police department and we didn't know what was going to happen. With Faith we moved to Grantsville, feeling like this was where we were suppose to be, it didn't make sense why, it was 30 miles farther from our jobs, and going to cost a little more money which we really didn't have at the time, but we moved. Immediately we began to question our decision, Ben was let go from the police department and our income had just been cu

t into 1/3 now we had more bills and less money. Ben had been looking for a job and had a few prospects. He worked about a week at a food storage company, he seemed to like the job itself but I kept getting this sick feeling every time he went to work. I don't know what but something wasn't working. My anxiety became to much and he quit that job.

He had another job in his back pocket, working for Quest, as technical support. He began working and seemed really excited about the job, he was excited for all the money he COULD make and I think just excited to be working. The job ended up being a Sales position and there was a lot of dishonesty in the company, Ben kept pushing through, because it was a job.

Meanwhile I had gotten very busy at my job. I was covering for one of my coworkers who was out on short term medical, I went from 32 hours a week to 45+ the extra money was great and I was enjoying staying busy. I started working as a temporary counselor and loved it! The extra money I made in overtime made up for the money Ben wasn't making at

Quest. Things seemed to be working out, but we still questioned our moving.

My mom began to get sick, she was bed ridden for about 2 weeks. She'd try to go to work, but most days she couldn't even walk. When we'd go see her you could see how much pain she was in. My mom has always been the one to take care of others, and does not accept being the one who needs taking care of very well. It was very hard to see her struggle and feel like there was nothing I could do to make her better. I stopped questioning our move, I knew that for my own sanity I needed to be closer to my mom just in case something happened.

Back to Ben he had worked at quest for about a month maybe two when he called me. He called and said, I hate this job, I can't take it anymore, I'm going to quit. I was at work and went into panic mode, telling him not to quit to stick it out, everyone has bad days etc. He agreed hung up and called me about 5 minutes later, saying he had quit! I was so mad, before the anger could wear off he called me back saying he had a job interview with "Boart Long

year" on Tuesday.

We had planned a trip to Colorado that weekend to see the Cardinals play. We considered canceling but I'm very glad we didn't considering it could be the last time we ever see Albert Pujols as a red bird, and the last time to see Tony La Russa Manage. When we got back from Colorado life began to fall into place. Ben interviewed and was hired as a Temp to hire with Boart, where he is still working and enjoying. My Mom was able to get medicine to feel better and my family began to plan a family vacation to Disneyland.

Over the summer I took one the role of counselor full time, even though I hadn't been officially hired to the position, I was doing the job. I spent the summer, rock climbing, taking pictures, roasting marshmallows, canoeing and mainly hanging out with some rea

lly awesome teenagers. When the school year started there was a lot of Change at Valley, we were going through our third layoff and a few people were quitting. I officially moved to a counselor position and started teaching. I LOVE MY JOB!

We took our family trip and I fell in love with Disneyland. I can't wait to go back, and am making plans to go very soon. The end of the year has been pretty stable, we are trying to buy a house and its a very up and down game, I know we will find what we want, but right now it seems like we might build. Still haven't made a decision. My photography business is doing rather well and I'm really excited for its future. This year has truly been a huge change, from where we live and what we do to even my hairstyle, much is different. As for Ben and I, well how lucky are you when you truly marry your best friend. Ben is my sunshine, everyday I spend with him is a day at the beach, and life is good at the beach.

Vacation, Anniversary and World Series!

Great things have happened and are going to happen. We just came home from our family vacation. I had a lot of fun. I LOVED Disneyland! I could have split my time between Disneyland and San Diego and not done anything else. Everything else was fun but Disneyland took the cake.

As many of you know I am very afraid of birds, and they were out to get me this trip. 2 years ago when we went to SeaWorld the birds didn't seem to bug me as much, this year the story was different. It made it hard to relax and enjoy the parks, but it was still a lot of fun seeing all the different sea animals at SeaWorld and the African Safari was really neat we even saw a baby Gorilla- MOnroe. Monroe was a cite little guy and made fighting with all the birds worth it.

Universal Studios wasn't what I expected but it still was cool. I will warn you the King Kong 3D tour is gross, very great technology, but gross.

For our anniversary we went to a resort in San Diego, right on Mission Bay, we rented a corvette, and a boat, played all day either cruising in the car or speeding on the water in the boat. That night we went to Ruth's Chris for dinner, it was great! The food is amazing and well worth the wait and price, I recommend it. It was the perfect way to end our vacation.

Also the Cardinals made it to the world series, that makes Ben pretty happy! Its been exciting following them this season and I have to say GO CARDS! For those of you who follow the Cardinals on twitter, I think Torty is good luck ;)

The excitement is KILLING me.

I'm so excited!!! We leave in just over 5 days.

Just stopping by and blogging.

I really have become terrible at blogging. I feel like all I do is updates and nothing truly fun! I'm trying to set a new goal of posting "Wordless Wednesdays" and blogging about the things that really have struck my interest lately.

BUT....today I'll start off with an update.

Ben and I haven't been up to much traveling, we took a mini trip to Las Vegas in July, other then that we've been home counting down the days until our big DISNEYLAND vacation... It will be with the entire family and I'm sure will have a TON of pictures to share and many many funny stories to tell when we get back. We don't leave until October so I'm getting antsy.

Ben is working at Boart Longyear a company that makes drills. He really seems to love it. I got promoted at work and am now a councilor who CO-teaches. I have a really interesting job. I have my own classroom and work with a lead teacher in making lesson plans and teaching kids 12-17 all subjects! It's pretty hectic yet extremely rewarding. Teaching these classes has sealed my decision of becoming a teacher and I will be back in school come January.

Ben and I are still looking for a house, building is becoming more and more intriguing, but buying is so affordable right now. We love our apartment so we surely are in no hurry to move and we will wait until we find exactly what we are wanting.

Ben is officially a Ute. I'm very proud of him, and now having a real Ute in our house makes last night's VICTORY that much better.

That is really all that is going on, it doesn't seem like much but it keeps us busy.

PS. Keep your fingers crossed, the Cards are cutting it close and we'd love to see them in the playoffs.