Monday, March 31, 2008

Decisoes dificeis

--update: this post was an april fools joke---

(Eu estou escrevendo em Portugues porque eu nao posso falar essas coisas em Ingles, porque tem pessoas no trabalho que leem meu blog)

Lembram como eu falei que nos iamos procurar trabalho no Arizona? Comecei fazendo so de brincadeira, mas, eu acabei achando um otimo trabalho. Eu faria coisas parecidas como eu faco agora, mas com menos programacao, e mais gerenciando. Parece que eu vou ter um groupo de 8-10 pessoas abaixo de mim, e eles vao ser programadores tambem.

E uma decisao muito dificil porque nos gostamos muito da nossa casa e de nossos amigos em Utah mas parece que a decisao certa e aceitar este trabalho. Vamos ver, nos temos um tempinho para aceitar.

Peeps results!

Danica and Dad ended up taking 3rd place! and I got an honorable mention, so our displays did very well. Thanks for voting everyone!


In case you missed it, here is the final post.
http://www.heiselt.org/liz/blog/2008/03/results.html

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Big Birthday!

Marcia's birthday was yesterday, and it was very excellent. I surprised her by taking the family to a nearby horse farm first thing in the morning. I had gone around earlier in the week and knocked on the doors of our neighbors who had horses running around in their yard, and asked if I could bring my wife by and let her ride. The people I talked to were nice, and the lady you see in the picture was super excited that we would even ask to ride her horse.


Marcia had no idea what the surprise was :) The first picture is her in a "perplexed and curious" mode, when she was worried what in the world I was getting her into.

When we arrived and Marcia realized that we were going to ride horses, she calmed down a bit. She rode a horse called LD, and then we got to feed the horses some treats. Sam loved it, and Marcia enjoyed it as well. Sam was making horse sounds the rest of the day.

After riding horses, we spent a few hours at the mall, looking for birthday clothes for Marcia. Sam rode the carousel, and wanted to be like mom, and ride a horse.

After the mall we went to my soccer game, and we won! It was 7-0, and very fun. It was a good close to our season.

After the soccer game, we went to dinner at Shoots with the Runyans. Mmmmm, lettuce wraps.

Finally when we rolled into our driveway late that night, we put Sam down and played DDR for a while.

It was a great day. Oh yeah, and Lucas smiled for the first time as a nice bday present for Marcia.