Ryan's First day at CarMax

all dressed up in his shorts and polo for day #1 of the greatest job on earth

Ryan started his NEW JOB on Tuesday. We have kept it kinda quiet so we didn't jinx anything but...we're stoked!

Ryan started interviewing over a month ago now. On the first day of interview Ryan met with three different people and each interview went great. The final guy wasn't in the office yet and Ryan had to head to work so they said, "we'll get in touch soon"

Well, a week later Ryan went back to meet up with this guy, Andy, interviewed with him and the rest of the management staff, so by the end of day two of interviews he had met with everyone at that store. And it ended with ,"we'll get in touch soon". Seriously? Talk about a lesson in patience.

During this interview process it turned out that we didn't even know what position he was interviewing for. This mystery went on throughout the whole process too...more patience.

On Friday of that same week we got a call last minute to come in on Monday to interview but we were going out of town so it got pushed to July 6th. Ryan was interviewing with the regional VP. To this day we still don't know why he had to interview for the regional VP, but he did, and it went well, just as the past 8 interviews had gone ;) Instead of a job offer at the end, it ended with, "we'll be in touch soon"

Finally, on Thursday the 8th around 4pm we finally heard that the job was officially being offered to him! We were so excited for Ryan. He needed this job and he needed to get out of his old job.

Well, Ryan put in two week notice Friday morning at 7:30am and his looser of a boss had him leave the office by 9am. This guy summed up how ridiculous these past three years have been by not even shaking Ryan's hand. The boss guy (Tal) walked out of the room as Ryan walked in and hand his supervisors tell Ryan that he was to get his things and leave. The only good news is that he will be paid through the 23rd since he put in his notice how he was supposed to.

Papers were signed on Friday at CarMax and we spent the weekend searching for khaki shorts without pockets that weren't too short and plain polo shirts since his size is back ordered....but come Tuesday we were ready to go and he has loved it every day since!

Hoping this is the company we can stay with for a loooong time!

Growing Boys!

We just went to the Dr. this morning for Jake's 15 month and Tyler's 3 year appointment.

Jake measures up at

31 1/2 inches (50-75%)

22 lbs (10-25%)

Tyler is coming in strong at

39 1/2 inches (75-90%)

33 lbs (50-75%)

Both boys had to get shots today. We weren't expecting Tyler's but he didn't even flinch! So proud of him.

Jake got his two shots and cried a little but once a sucker was in his mouth he was fine.

A Busy Saturday

Painting, swimming, and playing :) Doesn't get much better!

Playing with Grandma & Grandpa Denos in Vegas

Cute little Boys

We got some new matching shirts (thanks great-grandma) and had to try to get some pictures. Nothing worked super well with grumpy boys...but they sure are cute still ;)

I take it back...

so I may have a mild case of bursitis in my right knee from my measly three days of jogging.

guess my knee wasn't quite ready yet.

oops!

Surprising myself

the past three mornings I have been able to get out for a walk at 7:30 am.

the first day I knew I wanted to try to jog (b/c I'm sick of the "last 15lbs." I still have to lose from Jacob)

my goal was to make it down to Mountains Edge Pkwy...about 1 mile.

I got there and by the time I did I was in a rhythm so I jogged another 1/2 mile on the way back and finished with a walk.

The next day, I jogged the first mile and walked the second after Tyler kept telling me to stop running because he didn't like going fast- random.

Today we took a different route, I got to jog some and walk some but I've done it- 3 days in a row eventhough it's at least 90 degrees by the time we get started!

I plan on keeping this up- here's to tomorrow!

Saturday and Sunday with the Grandparents home

We spent the weekend at home for the most part. We played at the park, in the pool, and Ryan and I got to go out to lunch all by ourselves!

Jake enjoys his PB&J just a little ;) He devours those things in his very own way.

More fun playing in the pool. We were in the pool at some point almost every day.

Tyler has loved these waterfalls since he was a few days old. Back then, the noise helped to soothe him as a coliky baby. Now, he can swim over to them and likes to let them crash over his head.

What better way to dry off after a good swim? I love how Tyler just adores his grandpa. They were pretty inseprable the whole week we were there.

Sunday

Eventhough it was fast Sunday, my dad sacrificed to make us his world-famous eggs benedict ;) Oh, and it was his birthday too! Here is Tyler enjoying the fruits of his labor.

Another favorite for Tyler lately is getting out board games and taking out every piece. He fell in love with Mouse Trap and thought it was so exciting to make the net fall down over the mice.

It was a welcome break to have Tyler's attention diverted. It was also nice to get to sit back and adore his cute little face, his infectious laugh, his excitement for anything and everything. We are so blessed to have such incredible grandparents on both sides who spoil these kids rotten with love and affection. Thanks for helping us teach them how to love and be loved.

We had to leave Sunday morning to get back to good ol' Vegas. We even got to cheat and bring my Mom back with us to stay with Heather since she will (hopefully) be having her baby boy any day now....more on that to come (???)

Great-Grandmas

Jake went to bed early this night, but Tyler got to enjoy being with both of his Great-Grandmas, Hammerschlag and Denos.

Grandma and Grandpa Denos were able to take a short break from their mission duties to come join us for dinner. They are currently serving their third mission as a senior couple for the Carlsbad, California mission.

We loved seeing so much family while we were on vacation.

Friday - Discovery Science Center

Friday we were looking for something fun to do. My friend I grew up with, Kelly, is the PR/Marketing person for the Discovery Science Center and she hooked us up with free tickets for the day.
The day that we went they were opening up a new exhibit about rockets! Tyler and Jake were excited, especially Tyler. He's been into space stuff lately.


I found Kelly while she was working and she showed us around and even snuck us into the exhibit before it was open to the public. While we were there a photographer from the OC Register took some pictures of our family and we made the OC Register website (not the actual paper though).


Those boys were so excited about every little thing that we hardly stood still for a second. We let Jake walk around too. He was pulling me one direction and Tyler was dragging Ryan another.

I had fun catching up with my friend as we experienced air and water rockets, simulated blast-off, earthquake simulators, grossology, driving a zamboni, hockey "games", clouds, tornados, and tinkertoys.

Thursday - Newport 56th Street

Thursday was supposed to be the warmest day at the beach. It was supposed to reach 80. Of course, the day we had set aside to go to the beach Jake decided to wake up super early and take an early nap so we had to head out the door by 9am. We were at the beach by 10 am and it was still incredibly overcast and chilly.

The cold didn't stop these boys! We started off digging in the sand a little while. We made some fun sand castles and dug a big hole.

there was a tractor making paths at the beach and the boys loved watching it work.

The sand only sufficed for so long, then the boys wanted to play in the waves. Surprisingly Jacob loved being in the water! He got so sad when we took him out...once his lips were completely blue.

running from the waves!

Wednesday - Hanging around the house

Tyler turned into a little fish while we were at Grandma and Grandpa Denos' house. Somehow Grandpa taught Tyler to swim! It must have been the goggles ;)

jumping into the pool

swimming!

pirate Jake. "arrg!"

early morning coloring