Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Work Friends


I've been lucky in the month of June to have 2 meet-ups with co-workers! My role now at my company is virtual with my team living all over the country {and with some changes coming, I'm about to work with a lot of people in India so really all over the world!}, so it isn't often that I get to see my team in person. 

One of my co-workers, Angela, just moved to the area from California and her kids are the same age as Drew and Paige, so we had a great play date at a local watering hole and just let the kids be kids and we got to gab. It was so great to meet her after being on a team together for almost 2 years.

Angela and Allena

Sassy 3-year-olds

The cool 7-year-olds

She's holding a snake!!!

Girls are just the sweetest

I also got to spend time with my friend, Cristee. She is still in Audit where I used to be within my company - I started in September 2003 and she started in January 2007, and we've been friends ever since. We went to her wedding in Las Vegas when I was 28-weeks pregnant with Drew, and her son, Jalen, and Trent share a birthday. I hate that my role change means we don't see each other often, but I am vowing to do a better job of getting us together!

It's hard to believe we've been working together and friends for 13+ years given we just graduated from college last year, ha!

I love when kids get to just be kids


The park we went to had walking trails, bike trails, a creek, playground - it was great!

Nice to cool off in Texas in June!

One of my favorite memories is waking up on Trent's first birthday to a picture of a naked newborn on my phone - Cristee had been at Trent's birthday party the day before and went into labor in the middle of the night and had Jalen in the wee hours of Trent's birthday 2 weeks early.

I love working for such a great company that has given lifelong friends to me.

Monday, June 15, 2020

Tie-Dye Fun

This time at home has me doing all kinds of crazy things. It's nice to have more time as a family...but kids get bored! So here and there we've been doing little 'extra' activities - you guys saw the bounce house we got, we have busted out a slip 'n slide we've had for years and never used, we've baked...all sorts of things. 

Well, a couple of weeks ago, I bought a tie-dye kit and white shirts for the whole family, and we tie-dyed our own shirts! The kit I bought had super easy instructions to follow {I mean it's really not hard in the first place} for what 'style' of tie-dye you want. We ended up mostly just bunching the shirts up and spraying away. It was super easy - even Paige could do it - and we had a lot of fun!


See? Just scrunch up your shirt and spray! Super easy.

We attempted the spiral design for Drew.
In hindsight we didn't use enough dye, so we just ended up scrunching hers too.




 

I still plan to get a picture of us all in our shirts, but it hasn't happened yet.
But how cute is Trent in his?!?!