Simon's Birthday Celebrations: Day 3

Ok the last post about Simon's birthday... I promise :). Yesterday we had my family that lives near here over for dinner along with some friends. It was a salad party... so everyone brought a salad of some kind. I also made rolls and we had pumpkin pie for dessert.

Simon told me before everyone got there that he didn't want people to sing him Happy Birthday... so I said ok... we will chant instead! I wish we had gotten it on video, it was so fun and way worse then being sung to.

Here are a few photos:

The salad spread... I made a chicken caesar

Simon's birthday pie from Costco

Jeffrey

L to R: Carson, Nikki, Jeff, and Kira (being a freak in the photo as always)

L to R: Liz, Bryan, Kate, Dalt, Simon, and Baby Eve

He blew out the candles before Dalt had a chance to get a good picture... the chant!

Simon's Birthday Celebrations: Day 2

Today we headed to the BYU football game to enjoy Simon's birthday gift. It was a crazy hot day with the highest reaching 91 degrees. The sun was bright and shining all during the game. We met my sister and her husband, baby, and his brother and Dad at about 12:45pm to walk to the stadium together. They had tickets, but not in the same section as us. It was baby Brielle's first college football game (same as her Uncle Simon). It took us about 30 minutes to walk to the stadium for their apartment. We got there about 5 minutes into the game and Virginia had already scored a touch down.

The game was a great one and Simon and I enjoyed ourselves even with the heat. We had bought a drink cup from the stadium that had unlimited refills... by 1/2 time the stadium had run out of poweraid... it was that hot. Taysom Hill (BYU's QB) definitely made it a fun game to watch. I loved the touchdown on a 99 yard kick off return. It was awesome. Here is a short clip highlighting it in case you missed it.

I actually got burned on my face pretty badly (well badly for me... you whities out there would think I am weak). I even had to take some excedrin tonight. Ha. Anyway, here are a few picts from the day.

On our way to the game

Baby B showing her BYU pride

Mama bear with baby B

Game

See that sun!?!?!

1/2 time

On our way home... passing by Y mountain

Simon's Birthday Celebrations: Day 1

Simon's birthday was yesterday so we did a little celebrating. He isn't really a huge birthday person, but I like celebrating people's birthdays so we just did some small stuff. We started with a Jamba Juice and then went to the outlet mall up in Lehi because Simon has been wanting a blue pair of pants. We found some at H&M. Then we went out to dinner at Malawis and walked around the Riverwoods shopping center and then came home and hung out. Today we are going to the BYU football game and tomorrow we are having some friends and family over for dinner.

Here are some pictures from yesterday:

I couldn't wait and let Simon open one of his presents the night before... BYU football tickets

Jamba Juice

The blue pants he got at the outlets

Salad at Malawis

Salad and their mac & cheese is to die for... yes it is worth paying for this mac & cheese

Looking at stuff in a consignment shop... we loved this map

Chillin

Outside the Riverwoods

His gift

Oh tissue paper!

BYU tickets, t-shirt for the game, and blue pants

Work Life

I have officially survived the first 4 months at my new job. It has been somewhat of a roller coaster. It has been difficult for me to go back to working 9 hours a day after not working for 8 months. Ha. I know tough life. Things have picked up since I started though (I was really bored at first because I didn't have enough work). Now I report to 4 executives instead of just 2. I now have the Head of Marketing and the Head of our Support team on top of the other 2. They have definitely helped increase my work load.

I do a lot of random stuff in my job. Some business related and some personal related. I book a lot of travel, do a ton of scheduling, plan events, come up with new business ideas, help with recruiting, help get employee discounts, arrange budget materials/financial reports, attend meetings, lots of research, and a ton of other random stuff.

Some pictures from our company party I helped with (I was mainly in charge of tickets):

We brought Jeffrey along b/c we thought he would love it

Getting Batman on his face (he wanted the Hulk but the line was too long)

Playing in the bounce house

Happy kid

Donuts from one of the food trucks

Me and Simon enjoying the food

I also get to do random personal things like take one of my bosses dogs to the groomer and vet, meet people for furniture or car deliveries, help with videos being filmed, and other random stuff (some things would crack you up).

Meet Barnaby the Labradoodle

Barnaby on the way to his weekly groomer appointment

Meeting the police department at one of my bosses' house to do a VIN inspection on his new Tesla

Filming a video with all the office dogs

Filming

When I think of my job I think of it in 3 terms: glorified gopher, jack of all trades, and gatekeeper. I definitely want to go back to school at some point in my life because I don't want to do this forever and I don't want to manage call centers either. For now, I consider myself blessed to have a good job, good pay, great benefits, with some excellent bosses.