January Update

Howdy Y'all! Things are cooooool in TX. The ice storm chilled us last week and even shut down Austin for 3 days - which was great for me because I got to work from home for a change! It is a busy time in the project and I worked a lot but it was so nice to spend time with the family every night.
Tonight we will go roller skating again. Matt and Kayleigh broke in their Christmas presents last weekend for the first time and we had a blast! The rink even did something special for us - an "Adult" race. Me, Matt, Some dude on blades, another lady on blades and an old-school roller skater all went out there. I did not have stoppers in, so the start was quite interesting, but instict kicked in and I kept on the tail of the dude with the inline skates. We were supposed to complete two laps, but they blew the wistle after one. Everyone started to slow down, but I kept going a little. Once they figured it out, I'd passed the guy on the blades and he had to rush to catch up to me. In the end we tied! It was so much fun! I got a free 12 oz. soda. ha ha! The next couple of days, however... NOT so much fun. I was a little on the sore side! I will try to snap some pictures tonight when we go and post them next time.
Matt had two interviews this week. One was with a recruiter, and the second was with a Network Consulting company. Both interviews went VERY well. He has final meeting on Monday with the company - a casual lunch with the guys. He hopes to start right away. He said it's perfect work, and he will get to focus on more Networking and Cisco stuff.
Keep your fingers crossed for him!

Happy New Year!

It's been a rough start to the New Year, but I figure if we get all the bad stuff out of the way now, the rest of the year should be smooth sailing... right?

I left for Austin... again... on Tuesday night. Matt was starting to get something, but didn't know what and by the time he got to Kayle on Wednesday at the airport, he was sicker then a dog. His parents left for Vegas on Thursday and he went to the doctor with 101+ fever. He had some un-named throat infection and an ear infection. They gave him tons of steriods, a decongestant and an antibiotic. Kayle was great at taking care of him while I was away. He was still pretty sick on Friday when I got home so neither of us slept well. On Saturday, Kayle woke up with 101+, which quickly rose to 103.7. We had to take her to urgent care where they said she had strep throat. Now I remember how my Mom felt when Steve used to get it. I was up all night with her trying to manage the fever and at least keep it below 102 - Drs. orders. We had to use cold packs and lots of Motrin. It's still not breaking, but luckily she's responding well to medicine and is taking a nap now.

Hopefully I will dodge this one. I had to alert work to let them know there's a chance I could end up out this week. Unfortunately, it's the last and most important week of the project! Keep your fingers crossed for us!