First: I'm hating on Blogger right now. The new text editor has no great way to add videos (if you know of one, please pass it on) but the old one won't let you change your font. Awesome job, guys.
The reason I'm mad is that I have a really cute video of Mim "dancing" (bobbing up and down and swaying back and forth) to a little song one of her toys plays. We discovered her little talent on Christmas Eve while we were visiting my parents. It's so cute.
So, here she is in a super cute outfit., with super cute pigtails. I love it.
Nate and Ki and their kids came into town on New Year's Eve, and the next day we all got together. This is Grandpa with his traditional picture of him with all three little ones.
Grandma's turn. I love that Will is patting Mim's head.
My new favorite picture of Grandpa and Mim. She's yawning.
This picture is so cute. Mim is doing her new squinty cheese face for the camera, and Arie is doing a face that is very...Arie-like.
We all got sick in January- I probably got over the worst of it the fastest, so I went to church one week and left Mike home with Mim. When I came home, Mim was dressed in a Halloween costume.
She didn't mind, though.
Other than that...
My grandpa went in for heart surgery a few weeks ago and is still recovering. He's made a lot of progress and we're all cheering him on.
Mim has 5 teeth. One of her top fronts came in all alone and the two on either side of it came in at the same time.
We're still a little sick (just me and Mike, not so much Mim, which is good)- this is the cold that just won't go away.
Mike and I are enjoying our jobs. I'm still at UVU, but teaching a lecture this semester instead of a lab.
We'll hopefully be headed out to Philadelphia to see Ki and Nate during the summer, I plan on booking the tickets as soon as we get our tax return.
This happened awhile ago...
Mike came home from work and said that two really cool things had happened that day. Then he changed his mind and said one really cool thing and one kind of lame but cool thing happened. The two things were that he was now the backup guy for when the FBI calls (a little background- the FBI uses the software that his company supports and they have a special number that they call when they need someone; they complained that they couldn't always get through, and thus Mike is made the backup guy, which I think is pretty cool for his 3rd week of work) and the second thing was that Costco came with a truck and delivered around $1500 worth of food to their break room. I celebrated with Mike (read: we did some kissing) and then said, "Wait, which one of those is the kind of lame thing?" You can probably guess. I was thinking the Costco truck was not as cool, but of course that was the undeniably awesome thing that happened, in Mike's opinion. Awesome.
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!
That's what I call Mim. The other day I thought the tea kettle was whistling and had a moment of intense confusion, because I didn't remember turning it on. Turns out it was Mim, being high-pitched and very quiet (we were in her room and it sounded like the noise was coming from the next room). She was just playing. She also screams when she gets mad, like earlier today, after she poked herself in the eye. She also screams at the cat. See below.
