A new job!

Wow, isn't it the truth?  I mean, I just cannot quit getting new jobs, huh?  No, but really, I started with my "new company" last January and here I am in a new job the following February?  I am still at the "new company" - but I had the opportunity to apply for and transition into a new role, and I haven't looked back since.  

I'm fairly certain that I never talked about the job I took last January, because I basically took an entire year off the blog world, and I hate that I've missed so many memories, BUT, I'm back.  So to summarize, the job I took last year was working for the first boss I ever had.  He was a phenomenal boss, but our work relationship had been strained due to a few circumstances at the old company.  I went to work for someone new and stayed under that boss for 5 years, then my original first boss calls me, asks me to come and apply for a job at the "new company"  and I worked that job until this past week.  Again, great boss, good work, and I wasn't even looking for a job.  Isn't that when the best opportunities come to light?  Right when we aren't looking?  

So the new job is something completely out of my comfort zone, it is pushing the edge of sales and something I never imagined myself doing.  I figure, I  should try it out, see if I can handle it and if I like it, and trying it makes me no worse for anything.  I may fit, I may not, but if I didn't try it I'd never know.  I got a 2 grade level promotion and from what I can tell, my new boss is pretty cool.

That's where work life stands now.  Home life is pretty good and I hope to get some pictures of my precious kiddos posted soon.  Other than that?  Just another day in the life.

Disney on Ice!

Back at the end of January, I took Cooper and Kampbell to see Disney on Ice.  It was a great time, they had so much fun seeing Mickey and Minnie and the rest of the crew.  This was a show with scenes from many of the Disney movies, Lion King, Aladdin, Snow White, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and many more.  Cooper hadn't seen all of these movies, so there were some parts that weren't as interesting to him as others, and the same is true for Kampbell, but over all, we all had a fantastic time.  These two are at such fun ages!  Here are a few pictures!

 

 

A Few Home Improvements

In the last couple of months, we've made a few slight changes around our house.  Nothing major, yet things that make the house more aesthetically pleasing, at least to me.

First, we've changed up the pictures on our picture wall, as I do annually, and I took the fabric off of the "J" and painted it chevron.  Such a simple change, but I love it.

Second, I finally got the wall behind out couch put together, it's been pretty vacant for a few years and I'm absolutely loving the end result.

Third, Tim got our scrabble tiles made and we got them all hung in our front living room.  This room has more changes to come, but for now, this is what we've got.  I LOVE the tiles and that we've got our family name up there on the wall!

Fourth, we got a new dining table.  We had a bartop table with benches and chairs, but Katy climbed on it constantly, and I really wanted a round table, so voila, this beauty was purchased. :)

Last but not least, Tim made this awesome bed for Cooper.  Cooper's room has always had this cut out - and it was great for his crib when he was a baby, but since then, it's been awkward.  Coop has been wanting bunk beds, but we don't want two beds in there, so Tim came up with this design.  I have such a smart husband!  Cooper got spoiled even more when Tim decided to equip the bed with a slide.  Cooper's room is his favorite room in the house now.  He's obsessed with it.  His little sister is a big fan too.

Children's Museum Visit

A couple of weekends ago, we made an early morning visit to The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.  Both kids just love visiting the museum.  We have so much fun with them.  Cooper is getting more and more into the dinosaurs, and Katy is really loving the area for ages 5 and under.  On this particular visit, Cooper got to go back to the "staff only" area to see and hear all about the projects that the museum paleontologists are working on currently.  I just love these times with the family.  .  

My Kids and Selfies

My kids seem to be obsessed with selfies these days.  Here is one of Kate while we were eating dinner tonight and a couple below of Cooper when he was playing with my phone one evening before bed.

It's been too long.....

I've wanted to post, needed to post, for some time now, and it seems that I've missed the entire fall season and now we're over a month into winter and I haven't posted a single event, picture or anything that we've done.

I desperately want to catch up, but I also don't want to miss what is going on with us now, so I may not ever go back and post the past, but it's time to get back to blogging, I've missed it and want to come back.  Our lives are too important to be left undocumented.

So Happy New Year, Hello 2015 and here is to a new season.

Our Summer...... (Part 5 of 5)

This is last month of the summer series....  Then to catch up on October, maybe some day...

September was a fun month.  So many fun things.

1) Cooper has been loving Legos the last few months, so he's been wanting to play with them all of the time.  We have bought several of the little $12 and $19 kits to build a specific thing with the legos, and we both have a great time building them.  Well, the first weekend of September, we happened to  be at my mom's and she gave Cooper this huge tub full of legos.  Cooper and I built a helicopter (pictured below), then we started sorting.  We probably sorted legos for an hour but got a lot of them organized.  

2) Cooper officially had his first day of preschool!  Such a big boy.  Here he's pictured on our front porch, in front of his school and with his teacher.  I cannot believe he's already in pre-K!

3) Katy all dressed up in a ruffle-y outfit.  Had to get her in it once before she got too big!

4) The kids had grandparents day at their school - my dad got to come up and you can see, Katy wasn't having much fun.  Poor Papaw having to wrangle these kids.

5) Our church had a night of praise and Cooper and I went.  It was such a good time, He and I sang our hearts out for the Lord

6) Another weekend, we were visiting with family again and Dad, Gwen and I took the kids to the zoo.  It was a good time.  We rode the train, visited the animals and enjoyed ourselves very much.  

As you can probably tell, Cooper still enjoys sticking his tongue out quite a bit.

7) Next up was Steph's birthday.  This is the cake I made her.  A funfetti cake from scratch from Sally's Baking Addiction.  I think I tripled the recipe to make a three layer cake.

The 25 year old! :)  I forgot the candles, so this would have to do.

The girls and I taking a selfie.

8) Soccer pictures and lots of soccer games happened in the month of September.  Here is my cute boy and his dad with the entire team.

9)  Apple orchard time!  We like to visit Anderson's apple orchard to get our fill of honeycrisp apples, cider slushies and their home grown popcorn.  YUMMY!

Katy had fun jamming her face through the play structure.  Silly kid.

The must have token picture of the kids with the huge pumpkins.

10) You can never go wrong with playing in the neighborhood with the other kids.  This girl has a blast, and so does her brother, if we could only get him to slow down long enough to take his picture!

Here he is one evening - he decided it would be a good idea to climb up on the dash of the van.

11)  Olive Garden family dinner.  Once the never ending pasta bowl started, we had to visit at least one time! :)  The boys were doing the seek and find on the kids menu while Katy decided to light up the room with her sweet smile.  I love these kids.

Our Summer...... (Part 4 of 5)

August.  I'm falling behind on posting these and keeping up with our lives right now.  UGH - so much going on and so little time I seem to take to actually blog.  I must get my stuff together!

Anyway, here is our month of August fun.  Camping was a great time - if only for one night! :)

Kids selfies with mama.

Jamberry.  I finally bit the bullet and ordered some nail wraps and I loved them!  They lasted an entire week, and that my friends, is amazing for me and anything on my nails.  Now, if only I can find some more time to do them again.

Our beloved Indiana State Fair!  Here is Cooper fishing at one of the agriculture exhibits.  He just loves this one.  Maybe we should take him fishing for real someday.....

It was a cool day at the fair, so Katy had her blanket to keep warm.

Cooper just hanging out in a big tractor.

Riding a pony at the fair.  He wasn't too happy at first, but then loved it after he got started.

My babies posing for a picture before school one morning.

The next few are a trip to the children's museum.  One of our favorite places!

Our grandson was born!  Rhys Lowell Bramlett! :)

Cooper starts soccer and Katy is goofy during his games! :)

That pretty much wraps up August.  One more month to go! :)