Some of you may have noticed that our site has been down-ish over the last week. Well, fear not because we got our kinks ironed out and we’re back in business. Hopefully nobody changed their bookmarks, but if you did, you can change them back now.

There are a few updates I’ve wanted to make to the site for a while now, but until today I haven’t really had time to work on them. Well (as you can probably guess by this post), I finally got some time to get them built in. It was a bit more effort than I had anticipated, but I think these updates make the site look a little better and make it a bit easier to navigate.

The first update is the transition from the old right-hand navigation links to a new tab setup up top. I prefer tabs to links in most cases for blog sites cause it just seems easier to keep track of where you are in the site. Plus is looks better as well. The second update is located up in the header as well, but it’ll take you a few visits to figure out what it is. It will also become more obvious as I add additional… “options” for this update to take advantage of. Check back often to see if you can figure out what it is.

Yesterday was Mike’s 31st birthday.  We are so lucky to have him.  He is a great husband and a wonderful dad. I don’t know what I would do without him. We met each other 9 years ago on a blind date. I was with his friend and he was with my friend. The next weekend he asked me out and we have been dating ever since. He is my opposite in many things and I think that is why we work.  He balances me out. I truly need him. In these 9 years I have learned many things about Mike so in honor of his 31 years on this earth here are 31 things you should know about Mike…

1. He loves his Jeep 2. He likes anime movies 3. He still wears his favorite Nikes from high school (gross) 4. His favorite  ice cream is Breyer’s Mint Chocolate Chip 5. He always has a pocket full of Gobstoppers 6. He can fix our broken down cars 7.  He once bought speakers from a guy in a parking lot (they were probably stolen so don’t ever try that) 8. He secretly wants to be a rock star and practices Guitar Hero all the time 9. Loves his music 10. Loves computers        11. Has half a basement full of computer parts just in case he ever needs them 12. Still has his jelly bracelets from the 80’s  13. Owns a sea foam green leisure suit 14. Won’t kill a spider (not  because he thinks its wrong!) 15. Has the Training Table menu memorized (he proudly worked there in high school) 16. Has learned to like driving the van  17. Eats the same lunch every day, peanut butter and jam sandwich, Lays potato chips and a ding dong. 18. Hung his deer antlers in the garage for me (until the basement is finished) 19. Changes diapers (unless they are really messy) 20. Thinks The Office is a funny show 21. Eats Skittles by sorting them into colors and eats them in a certain order 22. Asked me to marry him on Easter 23.  Hates Hates Hates  mornings 24. Has the drive to Bear Lake memorized 25. Loves my family 26. Loves his family 27. Has to sit down to hold both the babies! 28. Holds me while I cry 29. Knows how to relax 30. Calms me down 31. He loves me!

I love you Mike!

It’s kinda been a busy week, but that’s really no excuse for this post being late. But since Mallory can’t read yet, I don’t think she’ll really mind.

On Thursday Mallory turned 4 years old. Which is odd because she seems older than that to me. I think it’s just because of the fact that she tends to play on Hailey’s level a lot so it makes her seem older than she is. She was excited for her birthday and for all the presents she expected to get and I’m pretty sure she wasn’t disappointed. She got lots of good presents (with more to come on Sunday) and she even got to go get a Frosty with Nolan for lunch on Thursday. She was apparently expecting decorations to be put up for her “celebration”, but the fact that we didn’t decorate didn’t seem to effect her much.

Anyways… Happy Birthday Mal!! Only 1 more year till she’s school age (yikes).

Another year has come and gone and you’re one year closer to the end…

Just kidding…

I just wanted to let you know how much we all love and appreciate you. All growing up I had a healthy respect (fear) for you and I thought I appreciated everything you did for us. As I get older though, my respect grows as I come to realize how much you sacrificed and gave for us. I think of all the evenings at football practice, all the weekends at Lake Powell, all the days we went skiing. The list goes on and on and I just wanted to say thanks for that. I just hope I can be as good a Dad to my kids as you were to us.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!