Time Flies...

I can't believe how fast time passes. My mom informed me that I needed to update my blog, it seemed as though I just had but as I look at it, I see, it's been nearly a month. This picture was taken on Ryker's 6 month birthday. I was in Rochester, MN, so my mom took it and sent it to me. I can't believe he's 6 months already. We had to go get immunizations last week... YAY us! Ryker finally hit 15 lbs, 15 lbs. 5 oz. to be exact and 25 inches long. He is growing so well. He is so smart and alert and can hardly sit still, the last few Sundays I would swear I had a two year old on my lap... up and down... back and forth... it's fun though. We've started feeding him baby food, he makes the funniest faces but with practice, he's started understanding what it means to push it back instead of out. I can't even remember what life was like before him, he has brought so much love and excitement!! Ohhh, I know what else is new... Ryker is learning to clap. It cracks me up. We say 'clap, clap, clap' and he'll spread his arms as wide as he can and swing them both in just as hard and as fast as he can... he'll clasp his little fists and get this really excited look on his face. If I can ever learn how to upload video, I'll add it.
This week finds me in Seattle, Tacoma and Portland. I was so excited to get up this way. I've never been here before. It's absolutely beautiful. I have a lot of work to do so it doesn't leave much time for sight seeing. I did see the space needle as I drove by on the freeway. I'm hoping i'll finish up a little early tomorrow and maybe i'll be brave enough to venture out. This is my first trip alone, so far, so good.
Not really much else is new... or exciting. We are trying to get ready for Christmas at our house. We took the easy way out again this year, instead of buying a tree we opted to use our little decorative trees that are in our family room all year long. I did, however, put lights on them... and decorations. They look really cute. As I said when I started this post, time flies... I feel like it was just the 4th of July. Where does the year go?? I can't believe the holidays are upon us.
I hope everyone has as wonderful of a Christmas as we will at our house. Happy Holidays!!!

Our First Tooth...

I can't believe it! My little man is growing whether I want him to or not. I have been travelling so much the last month, the first week in Phoenix, the next two in Orange County, this week in St. Paul, Minnesota, it's hard being away from home, but last night Scott gave me some crazy news over the phone. We were talking about our day and very casually, Scott tells me that he got bit. I wasn't sure what he was talking about, I said 'you got bit? by what? a dog? a spider? what?' He then told me 'Ryker'. I wasn't sure what he meant because when I left, Ryker was gumming his binkie. He informed me that Ryker had a tooth coming in... I am so excited to get home and see him. It's amazing how fast things happen. He's only 5 months old, how can he be teething? Maybe he'll just get one little tooth and we'll have to wait a long time for the others... I'm not ready for him to have teeth... I love his little gumline. Huh... I can't get over it. As soon as I get home, I'll take a little picture and post it.

Thought I'd take a second and tell everyone that Cazley got all A's in her classes this last semester. She was pretty excited so we took her to see Madagascar 2 last Friday. She is such a smart girl, her teacher told her mom that she is at a fourth grade reading level. She loves her school and loves that she wears a uniform but can wear whatever shoes she wants.

MY LITTLE MONSTER...

Quirky Me...

I just noticed that my cousin Chrystie tagged me in one of these crazy 'tag' games... I have to list 6 quirky things about me... is she hinting that she thinks i'm 'quirky'??

1. I am a check book balancer fanatic... I can't stand to have the ledger not balanced. I check my online account nearly every other day... I don't know why, nothing changes.. money doesn't 'just appear'... but I watch for it.

2. I set my alarm for almost an hour before I have to get up... just so I can snooze a dozen times with out running late.

3. I like to seperate the silverware in the dishwasher... I have 8 compartments for silverware: steak knives, butter knives, big then little forks, big then little spoons, then any misc. utensils then bottle nipples... don't know why, I guess it makes it easier to put things away.

4. I NEVER develop film. I just barely took my digital disc in to have it put on a CD, ONLY because my camera said my disc was full. I am proud to say that I will now have another 375 something photos to add to my collection... (REALLY??)

5. I WILL not eat meat on the bone, steak, chicken, ribs, whatever... if it is on the bone, don't put it on my plate.

6. For the longest time, I wouldn't make left hand turns unless there was no other way to get to where I needed to go. I would take as many right handed turns as necessary to avoid a left hand turn. Especially when I worked at the clinic on Washington Blvd. Instead of turning left (south) to go home, I would right turn, drive half a mile up the road, right turn into the grocery store parking lot, right turn again, and again, just so I could make a safe, comfortable, left hand turn at a light. (Hello... waste much gas).

Hehe.. hope this was as enjoyable to read as it was to write...

Now, I want to 'tag' Kathryn K. (I'm excited to read yours)... Jyl... and Sheena S. along with anyone else who wants to actually think this hard about themselves for a few minutes....

Travelling...

I actually have time to think about my blog, to update my blog, and to read everyone else's blogs. Being on the road leaves a lot of time to do.. well, whatever.. I spent last week in Phoenix and it's surrounding areas. It was my first week really working in my new job. I liked it pretty well. We spent the week visiting the WIC offices in the area and updating the software on their Hemocue equipment. It was a good way to break me in. This week I am in Lake Forest, California, this is where our U.S. office is located. It is a small office, only about 40 people actually have an office there. I've been spending the day in appointments with a bunch of different people and learning what they do and how their role supports my role in the company. Everyone is so nice and very excited that i've joined the team, that makes it nice, I feel very welcome. I have had a hard time being away from Scott and Ryker though. The good thing is my mom is cell camera crazy and she sends me pictures of Ryker nearly every night before I go to bed, that really makes me feel better. I couldn't believe how much he changed in a weeks time. I'm excited to get home this Friday and dress him up for Halloween, even though he is too little to 'get it', it'll be fun to put his little monster costume on him and drag him around and show him off.

I don't want Scott to feel left out on the blog because I never have much to say about his life adventures so since we've got a momentous occasion, I'll take a second to touch on it. I wish I had a picture, but Scott shot a deer this season. (About time). He hasn't killed anything since before we met so I had almost given up hope. Scott and his best friend Brady spent some time in the hills around Bear Lake and both came home on day 2 of the deer hunt with a buck.. YAY! I'm so happy for him. I don't know who was more excited... Scott, that he finally got his kill... or Grandpa Nay, that he'll finally have meat in his freezer again??

Here is a sweet picture of my little man that my mom sent last week... no wonder why I miss him so much eh??

I love this picture of Ryker...

Things Change...

I can't believe as I look back over the last year how things have changed in my life. Obviously having Ryker was a major adjustment and going back to work after my leave was a very hard decision. Do I go back full time? Part time? Not at all? Because I carry the insurance I needed to go back and it wasn't worth the money to go only part time so I dove in, full time. I had only been back to work for 2 days when I received a call from a friend of mine that I met through his company, Hemocue Inc. He wanted me to apply for a position that had come open through this company. The position was for a 'training specialist'. When new accounts buy the point-of-care equipment for their clinics or hospitals, the training specialist would go to the site, get everything set up and teach the team how to use the equipment and software. I told him he was crazy because it involved travel and Ryker is still so small but after I decided that i'd really give it some thought. After a few months of back and forth with the supervisor of the position, I said I'd give it a go. Leaving North Ogden Clinic was the hardest thing i've ever had to do... my coworkers there were closer than family and I loved having everyone around me all the time. This week was the first with my new job, it's been nice because I work from home part time and travel the western U.S. part time, luckilly this week has been spent getting my computer up and running, getting things lined out for the next few weeks.. which has been nice because Ryker and I have both been down with the cold. Next week will begin a new adventure.. I'm off to Phoenix because their WIC department uses the machines and the company is in the middle of a huge software upgrade, so I get to go be trained there, then the following week I'll be off to the U.S. corporate headquarters in Lake Forest, CA. We'll see how that all goes.. I'm pretty excited but nervous at the same time.. leaving Ryker and Scott for 3 or 4 days at a time.. traveling alone.. driving in new cities (I barely can find my way from my front door to Primary's)... I think this will be a good thing for our family. Change is always hard but I think this is a move in the right direction.