Another week down and closer to school

Another week has gone by, a busy week, and now I find myself closer to heading back to college.  Seems like I get more nervous about it with each passing day.  But I can make it! haha...  I have enough people around here at work and home that claim to be able to help me through it, so I should be good.

Randi and I are still trying to get over our allergy attacks and am finally maybe seeing the end.  Randi was really bad off, but she got the doctor in time to get some antibiotics and stuff so she is feeling a lot better today. Kaitlyn is still battling her little cold, but she is even doing better too, so I guess that is a good deal.

We are heading to Stillwater tomorrow for Great-Grandma Moffat's Christmas and then Grandma Ann's birthday party.  So I should have some pics to post sometime next week.

Also here is a little "shout-out" to Grandpa Stan.  He has really been layed up with his medical stuff here lately.  Hope you are getting better dad!!  We all love you!

Jake's new CD

While up at Stillwater last weekend, my younger brother, Jake, gave me a copy of 6 songs that he has been working on. I thought I would put them out there for everyone to hear. I think they are good for simply writing them and then recording them in his bedroom.

So go to the Jonathan's Radio.Blog link under Music to the right.

You rock Jake!!

And that is Christmas

Well, we hope that everyone had a great Christmas, we sure did. It was great to get to see everyone and the food at all of our stops was great! We would like to also thank everyone again for the great gifts. Kaitlyn has been pretty much playing non-stop. Her only problem now is, what to play with! haha.. She just sort of goes from one thing to another. We will try to get some video of her enjoying her new toys

As for my dad, Stan... Well dad.. We hope you get better soon. We missed not having you out there with us snapping the great family shots that you do. I tried to keep up with everything, but I'm sure I missed some stuff. We love you dad, get better!

I now have all of our photos online for you to view, there are about 108. They are in our Photo Gallery, and they are the 3rd album.

Now we look forward to the new year and also my mom's (Ann's) birthday. See you all then!

New Pics

Wanted to let you all know that I have put some of the extra photos that we had made when we were doing our Christmas pics. Just for you viewing pleasure is all.

Cool CD

I wanted to send a "thank ya!" to Philmo for the awesome CD!! I guess with age, my musical tastes have started to vary to stuff I would have never dreamed of listening to, but as some of you might know, I have recently discovered how good jazz is.

Well, my good brother Phillip happened across a jazz "gem". It is Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall (live). Man, that is some awesome sound!! If you haven't given jazz much of a chance, give this CD a try. It gets my 10 stars!

I am going to get it ripped again and I will put some of it on my MP3 player on here for you all to listen to. You have to be opened minded and just give a try. Just close your eyes, image that it 1957 and that you are in the glorious Carnegie Hall listening to 2 jazz greats nailing song after song.

Just wanted to share this with everyone, and Phillip, thanks sooooo much!!

New start

Well, Randi is 2 days into her new job, and she is really enjoying it. It is bookkeeping like what she did for the oil company after Sykes closed down. A lot of work with Quickbooks and stuff. She is working for J.B.'s Welding Inc., which does work for PowerLift. J.B. and the owner of PowerLift are brothers, so they are sort of in together in a big area of Ada.

Randi is really happy to find out that most of the people there have been there for 15+ years, so this is something she should be able to stick with for a long time.

Well, I'm hanging in there still, not really that much going on with me. Just trying to learn some new software that we are installing to build a newspaper website with at work. Other than that, just learning more about budgets and strategic plans.

We had a co-worker of mine take some family photos of us last weekend at the park in Ada. He did a really good job! I am going to try and put some of them online maybe tomorrow.

Kaitlyn is doing better. She still has a nasty cough at times. Her darn nose just won't stop running, but other than that, she is into everything and running faster than her daddy! haha.. She has been doing well at day care and getting to eat all sorts of new things. She likes it so much that the other night when Randi went to pick her up, she kept reaching for her teacher instead! haha..

Jonathan hard at work

Well, some people really work hard at work. That is a good thing.

Well, I like to "hardly work".. haha.. Actually, my boss, after blessing me with extra work like maintaining our department budget, creating and maintaining our strategic plan, and trying to manage all the projects, decided that she wanted to kick my butt at ping pong. Well, she did pretty quick, so then I thought, "hey, I got an idea"... I'll play with 2 paddles! haha... Probably not the best idea in the world, but I wasn't any worse.. lol...

Awesome new google program

Well, you know me, I am the techy guy. And while looking for stuff for work tonight, I came across an awesome new program by the high tech folks at Google. It is called Google Earth.

Check it out at http://earth.google.com.

You do need to have a high speed connection to use this. It utilizes the Google servers to pull the images and 3D graphics as well as it has Google search capabilities built in.

Watch as you install this though. It, like all Google toys, tries to install the Google toolbar. So if you don't want that, be sure to watch for the spot during installation that asks if you want to install it, and remove the checkmark.

Once you get it installed, try some cool searches. I was playing with ones like: Washington DC, Mount Rushmore, Dallas TX, Empire State Building, and Will Rogers World Airport.

Some new goings-ons

I wanted to let everyone know that I have, and am still, uploading all our old photos into our new photo gallery. I have a few new galleries so far. I have Kaitlyn's 1st b-day, her first trip to Stillwater after being born, and then photos from Austyn's 5th birthday. I have many more to go, but it is slow since I am trying to do as I get time.

Also, RANDI GOT A NEW JOB!! Her current job is just running her down and they are, and have been, very unprofessional with her. Luckily, she knows people who know people. So now, this next Monday, she starts as Bookkeeper for J.B.'s Welding (along with PowerLift) in Ada. She interviewed this afternoon and got the job, all at once! I'm so happy and very proud of her!

This job will ease some of the workplace stress she was under. No dress code, 8-5 instead of late nights, and the place is just really laid back. So she is really looking forward to starting.

Just rolling along...

Well, things are just sort of moving along here. Randi is still working, however, they are making it hard for her. More on that later. We had a great day in OKC last Saturday celebrating Randi's 29th b-day. Randi, Kaitlyn and I left our house at about 60 degrees, and hit Johnny Corino's in Norman at about 48 degrees. Bit a change for a little over an hour of driving! But we had a great lunch followed by some shopping at Crossroads Mall. And talk about a small world, we ran into Randi's cousin right off the bat, and then Randi's folks later that afternoon. After Crossroads, we hit Sooner Fashion Mall and did a bit more looking around and shopping. That was all followed up with the "traditional" dinner at El Chico's and a big birthday song! I actually tricked Randi and she didn't know anything about them singing to her, until they came out clapping and singing.

My boss has now made me jump in head first into the world of management. She handed over the department budgeting and expenditure tracking, and strategic planning creation and tracking, to add to my project management, and my own projects. haha...

So as if I wasn't stressed enough over going back to school!

Kaitlyn is doing better, but making Randi and I turn grey early. She has been doing good during the day at day care, but she wakes up about 2 or 3 times each night for the past 5 nights. She just wakes up crying her heart out, so we get her up and give her a bottle. She will then go back to sleep, but you can bank on it only lasting about an hour or 2 and she is awake again.

Randi was looking though, and saw some teeth trying to come through in the back, so if those will just come in, maybe we can sleep again. haha..

Happy Birthday Randi!

Happy 2# birthday Randi! haha.. I hope you have a great day, and that we get to eat some good food!

Happy birthday honey. Kaitlyn and I love you very much.

I hit my goal!

I am so happy to let everyone know that I did it!! Just a short 15 weeks, and I have hit my first goal weight! Man it feels so good!

I have lost 26 lbs total so far. So now it continues... I have updated my weightloss chart with a new goal now, to get down another 10% or to 205. That one, I have a feeling, will take a while. I have already noticed what others have told me, that it is easy to loose at first then harder as you go. Well, that is for sure.

Anyway, I know it doesn't mean much to anyone but me, but I'm happy, so I thought I would share it.