Family Pictures

About a month back one of Mike's friends from high school took our family pictures. I think she did a great job, here's a few of our favorites:








She looks so big to me in that 3rd one down; it's like my brother said, "she looks like a miniature three year old." Anyways, we love the pictures, thanks to Amber!

New job

So, a few months ago Mike asked his company for a raise. He's one of the top guys in his position and we were thinking we could do with some more money, what with a baby being more expensive than we had planned. His manager and boss had already been looking into it, actually, which was neat, but they were running into problems because there's a company wide salary freeze. Well, Mike applied to some other places, and none had really gone anywhere until last week. One of the companies he had interviewed with had Mike back for a second interview before Thanksgiving and offered him the job this last Monday. Super exciting day, because not only did they offer him the job, they offered to pay him about 20% more than he had even asked for. Mike's boss tried really hard (he really wanted Mike to stay with the company) to get the bigwigs to match it, but they weren't willing to. And so, on the 14th, Mike will start with this company in Lindon. I'm so proud of Mike for being such a sought after employee. Mike's boss, after getting word that corporate wouldn't approve the counter offer he wanted, basically said it would be their loss (talking about the company). They understand about Mike leaving; his manager said it would be ridiculous for him to stay when he could be making so much more somewhere else, but Mike will miss it there- he's been there almost 2 years and made some good friends, not to mention he knows all about his job and like I said before, is one of their top guys.
We've never made a decision like this as a couple, one that we've really had to weigh things and figure it out. Moving to this house and deciding to have a baby were both no-brainers, really. Even though those decisions were bigger than this one, this one was much harder and we've learned a lot. So, here's to a new year and a new job!