Its Official!

I received an official offer from the company in MN! Everything looks good, so now all we have to do is figure out how to get there. They want me to start August 1, which doesn't leave much time to get the house ready to sell and get our stuff ready to move. I'm meeting with a real estate agent this afternoon to see if we can get our house on the market before we leave for vacation on Monday. If the house is able to be shown while were away then I won't be as worried about things. I hope it doesn't take too long to sell. So, it looks like July is the last month we'll be living in Massachusetts. We'll be sure to keep everyone posted on how everything is progressing.

Getting Closer

I received a call from the company in Minnesota yesterday and they said they want to "proceed" and asked for some references. I believe that this is the final step and I should be hearing about an official offer soon...I hope! The references are just a formality to make sure that I'm as good as I said I was. :) The people I've worked with like the work I've done, at least I think they do, so I'm not worried about anything falling apart. If everything does work out as planned, then we have a lot to do between now and when we move...and we'll be in Michigan for the next two weeks!

Welcome Jacob!

Well, Welcome to the family Jacob Garland LaVigne! Nicole and Jason have their 3rd baby as of 9:17 yesterday morning. He weighed in at 7 pounds 8 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long. They tell me he looks just like Nicholas did when he was born. Nicole had a rough day yesterday, but she is feeling great today and expecting all the visitors. It will be fun to hear how Elizabeth and Nicholas take to their new brother!

We will be there is less than 2 weeks now. We can't wait for Payton to meet her new cousin!

Goodbye Gummy Grin!

Well, Payton's gummy grin is no more! She is popping her first tooth! I thought I would be sad when it happened because she will never go back! But I am looking forward to seeing that little tooth! She doesn't seem to mind one bit either. Thank goodness! She actually has been napping more lately since she started to crawl. It is a lot of work crawling around apparently.

Other news is that we are anxiously awaiting news of my sister Nicole's new baby. She is having a scheduled C-section as we speak! I'll probably be back later with all the stats and the name! They too have been keeping it under wraps!

Hot Hot Heat

The weather has been brutal the for the last week. I think it has hit 90 five days in a row. Now, you desert dwellers can hold your tongues for a minute... I woke up this morning and it was 80 at 6:30 with 75% humidity! I'll take a dry 100 any day over 90 and humid. We had central air installed last year using the excuse that Tina was pregnant. I tell ya, it is one of the best things! Nothing quite like leaving the hot, sticky, sweaty outside and entering into cool, dry bliss. Unfortunately AC is one of those things that once you have it, you can't go back to not having it...you know, like a dishwasher.

I'm Back

I got back from MN last night around 10:30...long day! I thought the interview went pretty well. There weren't any technical questions (they did that last time) and I thought I did a decent job with the "Quality Assurance" questions. They explained the job in more detail and I was a little surprised that I would be doing quite a bit of technical troubleshooting...which is a good thing. I thought that I might have to leave the technical world behind to some degree. There is a little bit of travel involved, but not too much. A good way to rack up frequent flyer miles to take the family on vacation. All in all I think it is a good job at a good company in a good location. I'll be sure to let everyone know what their decision is.

Finally...

Well, I finally decided to write a little something. Don't expect it often:) Brian is in MN right now hopefully getting a new job! I talked to him earlier today and it seems to be going good so we will have to wait and see. Payton is keeping me on my toes here. She is EVERYWHERE! Once she realized that she could use her legs to help her along when she is on her belly she was off! Now she is always underfoot saying dadadadada. I can guess what her first word with be! Well, Brian will be back tonight and hopefully you will be reading a post soon saying that we are moving back to the Midwest.

Sudoku

I recently came across Sudoku and have found it quite addicting. It looks like a crossword puzzle, but with numbers. Since Dave was reminiscing about the daily crosswords in high school I thought I'd mention sudoku. The object is to insert the numbers in the boxes to satisfy only one condition: each row, column and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 through 9 exactly once. All puzzles can be solved using logic...no guessing needed. Check out the link to the Daily Sudoku site and clear some time in your schedule. The harder ones can take some time!

Waiting for Vacation

We have an 11 day vacation planned at the end of June that can't come soon enough. We're heading to Michigan to stay at Petticoat Lake at the "camp" my parent bought last year. We have lots of things planned so there will be a lot of running around, but I'm sure we will be able to enjoy the lake. Tina's sister Nicole will have had her third child by then, so we'll take the three hour drive to Appleton to see them. Friends of ours (Dave and Sarah) will fly out and join us for the last week. We plan on showing them the bustling metropolis of Marquette for the fireworks. We'll also take them to Mackinac Island and meet up with Amy, Olivia, and maybe Mark. Its still over three weeks away, but mind is already in vacation mode. I'm sure all of grandparents are going to go crazy over how much Payton has changed. She's becoming very mobile and will most likely be at a full crawl by then. We're about to get very busy!

Back to MN

I'm heading back to MN for another interview at the same company but for a different job. I fly out Sunday and come back late Monday. There are actually two positions that they are considering me for...Quality Engineer and Systems Test Engineer. They both sound interesting, but would be a bit of a change from what I have been doing. Not necessarily a bad thing. These positions are much more general and could be applied to many different engineering fields. Right now I'm pretty much limited to Radars which there aren't many jobs in the Midwest. Hopefully they will be a little more prompt in letting me know their decision.