What Was Old Is New Again

When we were first married Tara picked out a dining set that included white padded chairs and they were beautiful until we had kids.....after kool-aid spills, torn plastic and crayon marks, we decided to cover the chairs with some $8 covers from Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

The covers looked decent, if you can get into a sort of lime green theme in your kitchen.

I did some searching and found a local upholstery shop in Round Rock by the name of Mr. Stitch. He recommended that we use Marine Vinyl so that it would have the look and feel of Pleather, but hold up to three growing boys!

He did a wonderful job on the chairs and now they complement the dining set we have in the formal living room. I am sort of mad at myself becuase I did not take a before picture of what they chairs looked like with and without the covers so you can make a comparison.

Lucky Number 7

For our anniversary this year, I was able to break away from work and take my lovely bride of seven years to our favorite spot for lunch.....Fogo de Chao

Cinderella's New Slipper's (and Bag to the Ball)

A little combo Valentine's / Anniversary / Just Because Gift for Tara!

Zion's First Soccer Team

Shriner's Circus

We have made it a family tradition to visit the circus each year. Normally we are patrons of the Barnum and Bailey Circus held at the Irwin Center in Austin during the summer months, but starting last year in January we were able to pick up really cheap tickets (free child with each adult purchase) to the Shriner's circus in Cedar Park near the house.

Merry Christmas

My New Adventure

Started working for Dell today in a professional position as a Business Systems Analyst for IT on the Unifed Sales Plaform....thanks to my AKPsi brothers, Scott and Jamie, I have a new place to work with true opportunities for growth.

I did a quick scan of my Outlook Contacts and I have over30 follks that I know who work there (AKPsi, LDS, TSU-SM).

Let's hope and pray that I am successful.

Bittersweet Day

My mother and father inlaw flew back to Oregon after a five week visit.

We loved having them here and being able to enjoy spending time with them. All three boys especially loved having their grandma and grandpa here with them everyday for dinner. They were here to spend both Halloween and Thanksgiving and saw Phoenix perform in his Primary Program at church. Phoenix loved the fact that they were able to come up and visit at the school and Zion and Exodus were showered with love every minute of the day.

It was nice having my father in law fix all the broken things that I just couldn't find the time since returning to work and were were able to get up most of the Christmas decorations before he left. My mother in law was a great help around the house lending a hand where ever needed especially in the morning when I had to leave early for work. Plus she is an expert whipping up a feast with nothing but leftovers and some yeast bread dough.

We had such a great time, we are already planning on having them come down next winter if all goes well.

Dell Offer

Received an offer from Dell this morning for a permant professional position. The job comes with great benefits, opportunities for overseas travel, and training opportunities.....can't wait until I start on the 6th of December. Will have to let my training managers know in Sales what is going on.

Dell Sales - (Magrabbit Temp)

Started training for Dell Sales today. Reached out to my AKPsi brother Scott, who commented that I would get worked like an indentured servant (not his words...smiles). The pay is a bit better and there are opportunities to go from temp to perm....so things are looking up work wise.

The only other thing to report on is that I have been sicker that a dog and they said if we miss more than four hours of training that we will get booted from the training program....so I am going to have to wait until we start working night to get to the VA one morning on standby.