to say 'this summer has been stressful' would be the understatement of FOREVER.
As some of you know, Brandon was the ceramics teacher at Pleasant Grove High School. his students absolutely l o v e d him! He made amazing friend-ships and helped out many kids with drug addiction, attendance problems, and was just someone all his kids could go to to talk and get things off their chest. he did great things at that school. he raised thousands of dollars to get clay, throwing wheels and supplies...but unfortunately not everyone saw what brandon was doing, and also brandon didn't exactly jump through all the 'hoops' the people wanted him to. Brandon is a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of guy and it just wasn't what they wanted.
Teachers don't work during the summer, obviously, so Brandon applied at DoTerra and got a job in the call center just to make a little extra cash over the summer to put towards baby diapers(those things are so blasted expensive!). he started training for DoTerra last may, while school was still in, and then started in the call center the first of June. just a week after school ended we got a lovely letter in the mail basically saying Brandon would not be a teacher at PGHS anymore.
it might not have been a big deal if i wasnt pregnant and going on maternity leave the middle of july, or if we didn't have a mortgage, or car payments, or if we wanted to starve..haha! it wasn't good at all.
Brandon would continue to get paid from alpine school district through august and he had his call center job.. but that job was hardly enough to cover half out bills. He frantically started searching for a job because once august hit we would be SOL.
Many schools called Brandon to interview him but we were always a step behind, every school he applied to, they would interview him, having someone else in mind for the job. we were so stressed and my job at the salon had hit a slow couple weeks so i wasn't making what i normally do.
that was seriously the longest couple months of my life!
DoTerra was hiring a few positions and only offering them to employees already with the company. Brandon applied to two of them, and got called in for an interview in mid july. the lady who interview him said she was very interested in hiring him for a new position that hadn't even been made yet. when i heard that i was so worried that it would end up not working out because that how our summer had been, literally brandon went to probably ten interviews just in that month and a half and didn't score one of the jobs.
anyway, two weeks passed and we heard nothing. it was the end of july and i was done working and waiting for our baby to come. just a few days before Archer was born, Brandon got a call offering him a corporate job up in DoTerra as a Training Coordinator for DoTerra International.
i swear that is what put me into labor; the stress being lifted from our shoulders haha. it was such a blessing! He started his first day the next week and has been there three weeks now!
i am so beyond grateful for my amazing husband and all his hard work. he was so determined to give us all that we need, he was willing to work several jobs to cover our bills. this job came just in time and he loves it.
it was a stressful summer and we didn't know if we would have to sell our condo or baby (kidding) but it worked out and i start back to work the first of september! we are counting our blessings for sure.
in honor of all the kids starting back to school today, and my husband not starting back to school (which he is so grateful for now, he loves his new job!) i took this cute picture of him and his new haircut and cheetah bow tie. i love love love him so much. my sexy business man.
