After Alyson's luncheon, we took the kids to the Farm at Thanksgiving Point. They were so excited and asked all day when we were going to go. They loved seeing all the animals, and Drew loved to put his fingers through the holes to try and touch them. We kept telling him not to do it that they would bite him, but he didn't listen. The first time, a chicken got to it. This did not phase him though, as you can tell by the phrase: the first time! The last time, he put his fingers through the goat gate and a baby goat bit him....hard. He didn't bleed, but it was pretty close. Needless to say, he didn't do it any more after that. Alexis was sufficiently scared as well, she would stand back about five feet and yell: "get away, they'll bite you!" She got better, but it was funny! Last year Alexis loved riding on the horses, she couldn't get enough. This year, Drew was our little cowboy and Alexis was borderline terrified. She was afraid she'd fall off, it didn't matter what we said. It was a lot of fun see them having so much fun looking at the animals and making the sounds they made.

Today was cousin Alysson's wedding!! It was so fun to see her dressed up like a princess, Alexis loved it! She looked so beautiful and they were both so happy! While we were outside taking pictures we saw this cute old man dressed up as a chauffeur standing next to his old car. It is tradition in their family to take the bride and groom from the wedding in this car. He's done this for 20 of his grandkids, only has two more to go, and then he said they'd start on the great-grandkids!! He was so adorable.

Fire Trucks

We went to a Firetruck parade Saturday, to celebrate the 100th year of the fire department. They had almost fifty firetrucks there and they were all honking and sounding their sirens. The kids loved it, our ears did not love it as much!! Even though it was chilly outside, we had a lot of fun with our cousins and grandma's!

Funny

We thought this sign at Wal-Mart was a funny typo...er...blatant myss-shpelleengh.



Alexis and Drew were fighting over an old Salt Water Taffy bag. I decided to cut it in half so they could each have a half and they would stop fighting. Their little creative minds took over and next thing I knew they had invented some new hats for themselves!




Last week one evening I was feeling so sick all I could do was try to close my eyes on the couch. Tiffani was at school so I was watching the kids until bedtime. I must have fallen asleep because the last thing I remember was Alexis begging me to help her put together a puzzle she had gotten for her third birthday. It is one of those 24 piece oversize jigsaw puzzles. I told her I felt sick and couldn't help her. I dozed in and out and must have fallen asleep for a few minutes because when I looked over to check on them, Alexis had put the entire puzzle together all by herself!! What a little brainiac!

Jobless and Jobfull all within a week

Last Thursday I got laid off from my job at Provo Craft. It was a horrible experience. Management called a meeting and my immediate boss told me to go wait in the conference room while everyone else met in the design center. When I got to the conference room, there were about 7 other people there, all with stunned looks on their faces. We knew this drill, but this time it was our turn....Corporate downsizing. They called it a re-alignment of resources but in reality, it was probably just about a shrinking budget in our precarious economy. I had always considered my position to be fairly safe since the company had repeatedly stated that their goal was to focus on tools and technology. (Why fire one of only two mechanical design engineers?) Anyway, they carried out individual interviews and were ALL BUSINESS- very straight faced. There were no thank you's, no "we appreciate what you've done", just simply, a "you're dismissed today. pack up your things please." They wouldn't let me talk to my immediate supervisor either. Very strange. So anyway, at least they gave me a two week severance and Tiffani and I had enough savings to last us a few months. I had no work on Friday, so we had Mom and Dad Wadley watch the kids and Tiffani and I went to the temple to ponder what to do next. We wanted to keep all of our options open whether that meant looking for jobs out of state, looking for teaching jobs, or possibly commuting to Salt Lake. We felt prompted that whatever was supposed to happen, things would kind of fall into place as we proceeded forward.

On Monday afternoon I received a telephone call from the owner of local Industrial Design company asking if I could come in for an interview! I hadn't even sent out any resumes yet and I hadn't made any phone calls.... He contacted me!! This is a guy that had worked a lot with Provo Craft as a Design outsource company and he had actually seen some of the CAD designs I have done, so he felt comfortable offering me a job. He also liked the fact that I had experience running both SolidWorks and Pro/Engineer programs since he uses both in his company. Today, Tuesday, He offered me a great salaried position. The company is called Rocketship Design. You can see more info on them at their website. www.rocketshipdesign.com

So as you must guess, we were pleasantly surprised that things fell into place so fast. We were worried about having to potentially sell the house, and move all while being 7 months pregnant. Phew!! So yes, this week has been a busy busy week. I have a nice polished resume now that I didn't even have to send out to anyone! I guess it's true what they say... it's not about what you know, it's about WHO you know!

Little blips

Drew's favorite thing to do is lift mommy's shirt and put his little head on her belly. When the baby kicks him he'll look up smile and then go right back to it.






Alexis built herself a little tower. It didn't take her long, because mommy didn't notice until Alexis called her over!! It's a little precarious and after it was recorded, she was told that it was very creative and fun, but too dangerous and never to do such a thing again.

John is in the championship in his fantasy basketball league. He's very excited since he almost didn't make the playoffs. He's had a great time following the stats this year and learning about players other than the Jazz. Although John's been with us physically during this time, he's mentally been gone for much of it with checking on scores, trading guys and talking smack with others online. Come Thursday he'll either be a little depressed or very happy, but we'll mentally have him back again!! (It wasn't THAT bad. I've heard of others who are a lot worse! I'm sure their wives were very excited they didn't make the playoffs.)

Tiffani is still pregnant. The baby dropped this last week which is great because she can breathe again, but now she's got the third trimester waddle going on. Only 11 1/2 weeks to go!!

Mr. Sneaky

I think we have a binky addiction on our hands. Drew was caught on film stealing one binky, and another for the road.



Alexis doing the picture taking.



Bun in the oven is growing! 26 weeks along.



We live in a cardboard box.