The Garnica's Visit

Also about a month ago, the Garnica's came to town from Denver. We had a great time talking with Robin and Fred and even got to see them again a couple day's later at Grandpa Dixon's birthday shin-dig. Shawn now tolerates me which is a huge improvement. He even let me play cars with him.

Reese is now about what 3 months old and I was able to teach her how to walk while she was here....look at her go!

The Dixon Family Came to Town

If you read my siblings blogs, you'll realize that like most of our past posts, this blog is about a month behind normal time...so...a month ago, my older brother Bren, his wife Elise and their two kids Brenna and Eli came to visit from Ohio. It was great to see them. Ryan made some Penne Pasta, salad and rolls for dinner which were all very tasty.

We had increased our toy collection from just a horse name Glad to the horse, a pink pompom and a bunch of boxes inside each other (we thought those were just a decoration, but found they were actually a good toy too). Brenna is just full of personalities, and we got a somewhat honory one that day. She was just a little on the tired side. The funny thing was that when Ryan pulled out my big TV pillow and turned on the Care Bears movie (we get it free through Comcast's free movies), Brenna plopped down just feet from the TV and was glued to it. She watched the whole show, which ended right when they needed to leave and even shed a few tears at the end.
We came up with a pretty good idea...all the married siblings should ditch their kids with our parents in Washington and then go on vacation. I even talked to Mom and she said to just let her know when....just something to keep in mind. We loved having them visit. Here are the pictures of us all together:

The new job and more

I think what we just experienced was some blogger burnout. Really, at the end of the day, blogging is pretty much the last thing I want to do, so it doesn't happen.

I've decided I'm not quite sure how people do everything. I mean, I think I have a pretty simple life, and I still don't get to it. I get up at 6:15am, workout from 6:30am to 7:30, shower, get ready and leave for work at 8am. I get back from work around 6pm, talk to Ryan, make/eat/clean-up dinner (ryan helps with everything) and we're already up to 7 or 7:30. That leaves just 3 hours left in my day before I want to be asleep so I can get 8 hours of sleep. In those 3 hours, there is family and personal scripture study, FHE, Temple, VT, friends, TV, looking for deals online and just relaxing...so pretty much blogging doesn't happen very often...

So now since I have gotten to it today, I'll tell you about my new job. I started working at Omniture on May 5th. I'm a Technical Consultant in the Financial Services Vertical. I basically help clients actually decide what it important to track, design and deploy. I have been learning a TON...honestly, way more than I ever learned in school. From what I've seen so far, I think I really like it and will love it once I'm over the initial ginormous learning curve. Oh, I guess I should actually tell you what Omniture does as a company...it provide clients with software tools so they can optimize their online business.

Overall, life is going pretty well. We'll see what I think about it a week from now when I finally start the biking portion of training for the STP...oh...anyone know anything about road bikes?