This last weekend had a lot of family time with Kaely’s family. Friday night we had a “camp out” in their back yard. My in-laws, Scott and Leanna, setup their camper and brought out the fire pit. We played Pictionary, Catch Phrase and sat around a camp fire and ate smores. When it was time for bed, Kaely, Noah, and I went home to let Scott, Leanna, their two daughters, and our two cousins from Arizona go to bed in the camper. Overall it was a pretty entertaining evening.

So this last weekend was the 4th of July. Which marks Noah’s first 4th of July. We woke up Saturday morning to beautiful weather, and a great weekend ahead of us. We were going to take Noah to his first water park, have him enjoy or hate his first experience with fireworks, and just spend a weekend away from home. We also got a a great surprise this weekend.

There are a lot of things in life that make me happy, one of those being a long weekend. I decided to take a vacation day because it was burning a hole in my pocket, and I could tack it onto my already 3-day-weekend to turn it into a 4-day weekend. So today Noah and I took a road trip up to see Kaely at work so she could show all her co-teachers how much Noah has grown in the past three months. It never gets old showing him off! On my way home I decided to surprise Noah’s grandpa Scott at work, which happens to be at the same place I work, so I got to show him off some more, and hopefully make Grandpa’s day a little better as well.

I have always been about the music. I grew up singing in the school choir, show choir, and I also played the violin for a number of years. I have always categorized events in my life to what was on my playlists. Colorado in the summer of 2004 was the Mr. Deeds soundtrack (I recommend that soundtrack to anyone). Sophmore year in high school was plagued with The Killers. The list goes on and on… The most current event in my life is the birth of my son, who will be three months old on June 30th. Time flies when you have a bouncing baby boy around. Anyway, the main group I have been listening to has been Tenth Avenue North. This group is a newer Christian rock band.

After being at my current position for over two years, I have gotten myself a promotion. The cool thing is, it is in something I never thought about doing professionally. My new role will be a Technical Procurement Analyst. What this means is I will be processing all hardware and software orders for the I.T. Department at HNI Corporation. There will be a lot of learning that I will need to be doing, but I am definitely looking forward to the challenges this position will bring. I am good with hardware, and building machines which hopefully comes in handy in this new position. Along with hardware and software puchasing, I will also be in charge of all managing our asset database for the company. This database is huge, ranging from desktop computers, laptops, printers, to production hardware, and packout stations.