Workday

We are on a roll for new things around our house. In the middle of September Chad started a new job with a company called Workday!! It was tough trying to decide what we were going to do, but after he got this offer with Workday, it just felt like the right decision. Workday is a software company that sells HR and financial software.... so this is a whole new experience for Chad! The office is in downtown Salt Lake City and after 2 weeks of making the drive from Cedar Hills to Salt Lake, he is now a pro at taking Frontrunner and Trax to the office. He is still in the orientation phase, but he's liked it so far and is really enjoying the people he works with. Ryder has had to adjust to not having his daddy around quite as much (we had him all to ourselves for 2 weeks before he started), but we are so proud of him!

Theses are some "first day of work" pictures....

What a stud!

Zoo Day

I don't know how much I've said about Chad's job situation on the blog, but to sum it up Chad is starting a new job tomorrow! He had accepted an offer with one company and then last minute accepted a job with a different company, this one in Salt Lake. As of tomorrow, he will officially be a corporate sales development representative with a company called Workday. We could not be more excited!! So, because he accepted the second offer, he ended up having 2 weeks off of just play time. Ryder man has been in heaven. Seriously, the kid is Dad-obsessed. I'm actually a little bit worried about tomorrow when all of a sudden Ryder man and I are back to our normal routine. I guess we'll see how it goes!

In the meantime, we've had ourselves a little "staycation" and done all sorts of things to take advantage of all the Dad time we've been having. So last week we made a little trip up to Hogle Zoo all together as a family and we had a blast. Apparently when you go to the zoo during the middle of the week after the school year has started, you get the zoo almost entirely to yourself. It was awesome.

In the first 8 minutes we were there, Ryder successfully got his foot hooked under the bar at the elephant enclosure, kicked off his slip-on sneaker, and had his shoe plop right in trees below. We then had to grab a zoo employee to jump the fence and save it for us.

This series of photos is my favorite... he LOVED the carousel and did not want to get off. The next 3 photos are "more", "again", and "please".

A successful zoo day if I do say so myself.

Moving Day

We moved. After 5+ years in our cute little house on Canyon Road, we found ourselves another nice neighborhood also right off Canyon Road. In Cedar Hills. Its a cute little basement apartment in a nice neighborhood with very nice landlords. All around a good situation. However, it turns out that in order to start living in a new place, you have to pack up everything you own, move it all, and then unpack it all again. Quite the process and SOOO much work. Thankfully we had some help on moving day from family and some very good friends. I don't know what we would have done without them.

that one time nana came to utah...

Turns out moving sucks. A lot. My house looks like a tornado just blew threw and its been that way for the past 2 1/2 weeks. Everyday we do a little more packing and I feel a little more unsettled inside because I can't get my house clean. Lucky for me, my mom decided to come up to Utah for a few days and help me with the whole packing process. Ryder man was in heaven. Four days of undivided attention from his nana. Oh, and then his favorite Uncle Luke came up to Utah too. More heaven.

This kid loves family. A lot.