Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but work has been keeping me extremely busy these last few weeks. A lot has happened since I last posted...

Me & baby Mason

Last weekend I made my way up to LP to visit the family and also to take The Mrs. up for my younger sisters baby shower! The shower sounded like a lot of fun - the place was decorated nicely, the apparently played a few games and baby Mason was so cute! While the shower was going I headed over to Dad's place to watch a little football and have some lunch - lunch was great, but the football sucked...yep this was the 31-3 loss to the Packers :(

Since last Friday I have been training in a guy from India who will be taking over part of my current job since I will be rotating into my new position at work by the end of the year. Training in this guy has been both fun and stressful - our time line was short not to mention I had to work with him all day which left no time for me to do my other job duties...it was worth it though since now I will be able to focus more on learning my new position! So this India guy...this was his FIRST time out of his country and his FIRST time flying! Could you imagine never flying before and then taking your first flight from India to the US?!?! His flight was 24 hours! What if you got air sick and you didn't know?! Crazy! Not only that, but this guy had never experienced snow before. So not only did he get to experience our cold weather, but he got to see the snow from yesterday afternoon, but also the ice storm this past Sunday! He definitely got to experience it all!

Well...today is Thanksgiving so I need to start getting ready for the day and relax a bit! Have a great Thanksgiving everyone - I'll update tomorrow and get back to the Friday 5!

Weekend in Rewind: 10/8 - 10/10

Yet another fast-paced and fun weekend has come and gone! Aside from Sunday afternoon football there wasn't a whole lot of down time all weekend!

Friday: This past Friday started out low-key, but ended up being more exciting than I had planned. The Mrs. and I went to P.F. Chang's and had a very filling dinner - lettuce wraps, hot & sour soup (absolutely nasty - smelled like barn), a chicken entree and a small dessert! Great stuff. The plan after dinner was to go back home and catch up on some DVR'd shows from the week, but my friend, Matt, was having a bonfire at his house - see above actual photo of the event - Yes...that is Dan in the middle. The Mrs. opted to stay back and work on homework for the evening as she was a little behind from her busy week (such a fun Friday night), but I decided to go and have fun for both of us. The bonfire was a blast - it was great to catch up with friends and have a few drinks in the process!

Saturday: Saturday was family day! Woot! My Mom, sister (and her two kids) and brother & his wife all stopped up in the Grove for the afternoon. Since it was such a gorgeous day on Saturday we took the kids to the park to burn off some energy - probably could have stayed another hour or two to burn off some more! I cannot believe how much energy kids have...I wish I had half of it some days! Anyway, after the park we all came back to our place to cool off and relax a bit. We played a really fun board game - The Settlers of Catan, which is sort of a Risk-esk type game. We never did finish it since we had to go to dinner, but in hindsight it was probably a good thing since I was getting owned :(  Dinner on Saturday was at Broadway Pizza - they have such amazing pizza and an even better dessert - the deep dish cookie! Mmmmm! If you are ever in the Grove and craving pizza you have to go there...and invite me! After dinner we got to relax a bit and catch up on our TV from the week --- "The Event" (on NBC) is getting really, really good!

Sunday: Sunday was very typical for The Mrs. and I - she worked pretty much all day on homework and I watched football (I was hoping the Chiefs were going to upset the Colts) and putzed on my computer a bit. We took a few breaks and stopped out at Target and walked around Arbor Lakes for a little bit - it was so nice out again on Sunday that we had to enjoy the weather a little bit! Sunday evening, of course, we watched "The Amazing Race" and went to bed a little early since The Mrs. was feeling a little under the weather and I was getting frustrated at watching my Fantasy Football team lose...again :( Dang Sad Panda's beating up on my Swamp Donkeys!

Hopefully everyone was able to get out and enjoy the nice weather this past weekend!