Anyone Seen Peter?

I haven't Either.... i think he might be actually working during the day or something .....




So life has been crazy--- but things are well. My new job has been great-I haven't been able to blog as much because of it, but I have been learning a ton and am definetly enjoying the new responsibilities.


As a Recap--We were given an Awesome swingset for the kids. The only caveat was that we had to transport it.... which is not as easy as it sounds ;-) Here's the before picture.....

And.... After

The trip took the oldest U-haul i've ever seen and a great group of my family members, but i'm glad it's done with.

We Also have been watching the kids learn a TON of new things---This 2.5-3 yr old time is turning out to be a great learning time for them. I'm constantly amazed at how they keep looking more and more like little people all the time. I love watching how much they absorb.

Our Church has finally moved into our new building :-D we are stoked about all the great stuff for the kids. We've had a great turnout for our first few weeks in the building--- they're still working out the parking craziness.

OPC has a grand opening weekend that was totally crazy... the Free Press wrote up a nice little article

I hope t0 make it through the upcomming holiday season without too much hassle, and then shortly after the newest addition will arrive :-) --

I've thrown up some more pictures over at Flickr ... so check them out!

Who likes dell?

I do....


and i always like it when other people provide clearcut reasons for me to continue liking them....


Like Jason Powell--- Jason has a quality Church IT blog, and does a nice comparo on dell vs Apple vs Lenova (for pricing)


Check it out, and as you'll guess-- dell comes up on top :-D

Combatting a Bad Day

One of the blogs i keep up with here and there is the positive sharing blog, written by "the chief happiness officer". Not sure where i picked this one up, but it got added to my blogroll, so i read it occassionally.

He has a post on combatting a bad day at work that i think is pretty applicable to all kinds of life. anyways, check it out

Growing too fast

If you didn't catch it, Check out Nicole's Post with some recent pictures of the kids. You can see Uncle Danny in full Novi Varsity Football Garb-- which has resulted in the funniest reaction to any green uniformed football team on TV from Matt.

It goes something like this


*GASP* FOOTBALL!!!! HIKE!!! OH YA BABY--YA BABY GOOOO DANNY YA BABY!!!


In case there was any doubt.... i'm pretty sure Matt will be playing football as soon as he's big enough ;-)


Anyways--- i have another crazy work week-- I spent the week before last in indianapolis learning about one of the IP phone systems we sell at work (check em out www.inin.com) and am now an official "CIC Support Professional". That marks my second certification since starting with allcomm-- my first was also for a VOIP phone system ("ATSA" - Adtran certifiede support associate). I have one more training to complete this year and i will add "EIC Support Professional".

I had a professor at phoenix who listed all of his certifications and degrees with everything he signed his name.... we guessed that some of them were made up, but i think i'm getting to the point where people would say the same about me--- somehow i still don't feel any smarter ;-).