Poor Gracie is a pretty good sport for the month of May, but all these birthdays are really wearing her down. It's hard for her to understand why she doesn't get presents or a new dress, bike, and pretty pictures of herself. Rock's b-day was May 03, and Alice's b-day was May 18th. Their b-days kind of last the whole month of May because of getting pictures before hand and then picking them up, then their actual b-day, and all the grandmas sending presents in the mail that don't get here until after the b-day. It's kinda stressful for Grace. I told her that she gets the new baby for her birthday, and that always makes her happy. Anyway, Rock and Alice really enjoyed their birthdays. Rock really loves horses so we got him some little animals including a horse to put on his cake. He got a little people barn set. He loves it. Alice got a Hannah Montana cake and a new pink sparkle princess bike. She loves it and she learned how to ride it on the first day! Grace was happy to inherit the old bike but she has to fight Rocky tooth and nail for it. He's a brute. Usually he'll let her have it once I show him that he can tow his trucks behind the little scooter bike.
So our new plan is that we are not going to come visit in June anymore because we are moving to San Jose, CA in July. Ryan decided at the end of the day and at the last second before he couldn't change his mind anymore, that he wanted to go to CA rather than stay in NC. The new SAC (I don't know what it stands for) program that they're launching is based in CA, so he wants to be where all the action is so that he can further his career by being around all the right people. We're way excited but we have made a lot of good friends here in NC and we will miss them. There's really a lot of good people here and good members of the church and that will be hard to leave them. We are nervous about the cost of living also. We are thinking that the job will go virtual in 6 months to a year and then we could move back to Utah but who knows? Anyway, that's the new plan for now. Knowing us, it will change in a couple of weeks!:)
Oh yeah, there's pictures of Rocky and daddy on their first father and son's outing. They went camping and had a blast while I took the girls to the new Hannah Montana show. I had to spell it out to the girl when I was buying the tickets so it wouldn't give it away. It was a big surprise for Alice. They both loved it. They danced throughout the whole show. Grace liked it but she would have been more excited if it were something like Dora.
Sorry I never post anything any more, but life has been pretty crazy lately and I've been too worn out to do anything extra. Ryan has been working hard on finishing up all of his certifications for Cisco. He finished his NP and his DP this week (whatever those are) but I am really happy for him that he finished all the required certs for this training program that he's been in this year. We were planning on moving to Virginia but because of the economy, Cisco had to reassess all the alignments. Ryan was going to take a commercial sales position but I guess that commercial sales aren't doing so hot right now. He had already met the team and really liked them. His team really liked him and pulled all the strings they could to get him to still be able to move to Richmond with a Public Sector team instead. That was all in place butjust before it was all decided they placed a new decision before us. Cisco had a new oppurtunity for 15 people to learn more about a new way of doing things on a more virtual level but it would require 10 weeks of intense training and 3 more certs. We decided to try for that and he got it. This new postion had the option of staying in RTP or moving to San Jose, CA. We decided to stay in RTP because we have low costs right now and we wouldn't have to move in the middle of a pregnancy. Yea!! After 6months to a year we can probably live wherever we want because Ryan could do his work from home. That was pretty exciting for us that he got into the new program. The one thing we are thinking though is that his intense training might get to crazy toward the end, so we're thinking that me, and the kids will come out to Utah for 2-3 weeks and then Ryan will come out and meet us and visit everyone that we can before Ryan starts the real job after all the training. Oh yeah, and more exciting news is that we are having a boy on October 13th (around there anyway) We can't hink of any names though, sad. Any suggestions?
