Home Again...

Jenny and I spent our Friday evening packing up a POD with all of our stuff. We've moved in with my folks for the next couple of weeks until our townhome is finished. If you aren't familiar with the POD concept, they drop off a container at your house, you load it all up, they pick it up and store it for you until you are ready to move in. Then you call them, they drop it off at your new place and, voila, you're all moved. We will be spending the better part of next week cleaning up our apartment so our landlords have no excuse to deny us our deposit. We brought our beds and clothes and a few other essentials with us to my parent's where we'll spend the next few weeks. I owe a gigantic thanks to Matt, Adam and my dad for helping out Friday night. The roll-top desk would have been a permanent fixture in the apartment without them.

The new job is going well. There is a lot to do. I am helping with getting one of the clinics started from ground up. Another office lost its entire staff a couple of weeks before I started, so I am working on filling up the positions there. We are looking to expand the other office next year. Our budgets for next year will be due in the next few months, so there is a lot to keep me busy in addition to figuring out the ins and outs of Intermountain.

For the benefit of Sean, I will elaborate a little on my review of Iron Man. As I was walking out, I commented to Jenny that it had the feel of the original Batman with Michael Keaton. You wouldn't expect Robert Downey Jr. to be a good superhero, but he plays the role perfectly. Gweneth Paltrow is good as well, but the real suprise performance comes from Jeff Bridges in a role that is completely opposite anything he's done before. There is a great mix of action and comedy and I didn't feel the effects distracted at all from the story. This will be a movie that I will buy and watch again and again. For your reference, other movies like that for me are Batman Begins, Transformers, and the Bourne series to name a few.

I am really looking forward to a day off tomorrow. I played only my second round of golf yesterday and found I have a long way to go to get up to speed. We are playing again tomorrow and hopefully it will be better than yesterday.

A busy couple of weeks...

Things have been pretty busy. I'm sad to admit that I would usually write entries on this blog at work. With my new job, getting oriented and trying to figure out what I've gotten myself into, I have not had any spare time at work to write a new post. Overall, things are going well. I am managing three offices on the LDS Hospital campus. One is a general surgery office with 5 surgeons, I have 2 GI docs in two small offices and will be managing a urology office that is in the works. It's a bit of a change of pace, but should be exciting. It's definitely weird working for a large corporation again. There are so many resources to go to for help, always someone to call with a question, lots of people to meet. I'm really enjoying it so far.

We also found out today that we should be able to move into our townhome the second week of June, around the 9th. Jenny went down there today and the carpet is all in (I can't tell you how excited I am for some shag! I hate berber!); the flooring in the kitchen is in, too. Just a few more fixtures, cleaning and closing. While I'm still losing sleep over the thought of a mortgage payment, I'm really excited for some room and our own space.

We had a long afternoon Sunday trying to get up to Heber to visit with Jenny's brother's family. We got diverted half way up Parley's at Lamb's Canyon. There are only 2 other options to get to Heber, and we chose to drive down to Provo and head up Provo Canyon. We didn't find out until this morning that there had been a high speed chase and the suspect had died in a nasty accident with an Ethanol tanker. They were still cleaning it up on our way home at 10:30pm.

Jaegan has an appointment tomorrow to have his eyes looked at. We're anxiously hopeful that we won't have to put up with booger eyes for much longer.

Boston is getting good at riding his bike, even though it's about 3 sizes too big. He's ridden it to and from and all around the park a couple of times.

Me and Jenny are making an effort to get in shape to run a 5k on the 4th of July. We attempted a long run on Saturday that was almost 3 miles. We need to improve our time, but we're getting there. It feels good to run again.

Oh, and we saw Iron Man! Freeeeaking Awwwessomme!!

Mother's Day

Happy Mothers Day to all, I hope that you had a great day. Mine started off rough but ended well. Ben made yummy breakfast of Breakfast Burritos. ( One of my favorite) Then both the boys had royal melt downs, We took pictures because it was so funny. Ben and I was laughing ta them, so I decide we should all go back to bed and start our day over. So we put Jae in his crib and Boston in bed and I went and jumped into bed, Boston thought that was funny so he came and was playing with me, so I thought we could start over. Do we started to get ready for church and I got the boys ready and went to get myself ready. I heard Jaegan start to cry and could tell it was a hurt cry. Ben went to find him and found his hand shut in the door. His little finger was stuck in the hing side of the door. So Ben comes bursting into the bathroom saying Jae has broken him finger, we need to go. Boston is crying because Ben got mad at him for shutting Jae in the door. So we went to a Instacare but it didn't open til 1:00 so we went to the ER. An hour and a half later, we left with no broken finger, just a badly smashed one. Thank goodness. Boston felt really bad though. We were sitting in the waiting room, and someone asked us what happened, and Boston just kind of whispered "I did it". We reassured him it was an accident and it was okay. So all in all it was a good day.
Ben gave me a running stroller for Mothers Day about 3 weeks early so I can run the Kaysville 5K on the 4th of July. I make Ben come with me and he kicks my butt. I have been running for about 3 weeks and can go about 2 miles, and he runs one day with me and could go much rather much faster, It makes me so mad. But I guess it makes me push myself. If anyone has any running tips I could use them.
Well I hope that everyone is well, and will keep posting, I love to read them.
See ya.
P.S. Ben starts his new job tomorrow, so keep him in your prayers

Pictures

Here are some pictures from the last couple of weeks...