Nelson/Urnezis Wedding

Since I haven't posted pictures from the wedding we went to in Chicago, here are a few. We did not get a lot of pictures since Chris and I were both in the wedding. My mom flew up and had her hands full playing nanny. Here is a picture of me in my dress though, and a great picture of the bride.

Me and my friend Emily. Yes those are a ton of curls in my hair.

All dressed and ready to get to the church. 

Hokey Pokey

At daycare A has been learning the Hokey Pokey. Every day they say she really enjoys it. Other than dancing daycare was an interesting week this week. She managed to have a child bite her on Friday, as well as fall off a table onto a chair. She has a raspberry looking thing on her left cheek, and I think she had a bloody nose when she fell. She has been climbing fearlessly for a long time now, I'm honestly surprised it took this long for something like this to happen.

Video of the Hokey Pokey:

At work this week I passed gown certification so I get to go into cleanrooms and actually assist in manufacture of the drugs. I get to go in for the first time on Monday and will spend a good chunk of the day in what looks like an astronaut suit. Who knew that I'd find a job that required me to not do my hair or make-up every day? It is actually illegal for me to wear make-up or any hair styling product in the clean room. I also can't have fingernail polish, fragrances, or anything like that in the cleanroom since it might contaminate the product.

Chris wrapped up his last week of summer session this past week. He is looking at having about six weeks of work with no students. He is going to work on some of his larger projects and is probably going to take a few days off here and there to spend with A. He gets a lot of vacation time, and the state legislature gave him five extra days this year.

Anyway, I went for a run this morning and made it up "Stadium Hill". I've been working on it for months now and have mastered it once. Hopefully I can repeat it. The hill came at the end of a five mile run, so my legs were kind of tired to begin with. Since I'm working on training for a half marathon, it is good practice. I'm definitely doing the Route 66 one, and am contemplating one here the end of August. I don't think I'll make it though since it is the beginning of August. Off to shower. I hope the cooler weather that we are having is also making appearances in your neck of the woods, if not, then stay cool!

The New Wonder Woman

Hands on her hips and everything...

I'm having trouble with orientation, but I think you get the idea.

Hitting the Ground Running

Well life is busy as we know it. Our trip to Chicago ended well. The wedding was a lot of fun. Getting back was an adventure. We had some minor mishaps along the way, but made it home by midnight and then got up and went to work. Last week was busy too. Now to settle down a bit and see if we can get a semblance of a routine going. Unfortunately I didn't take many pictures of our week away. I posted the one on blackberries almost 2 weeks ago and that was one of the better pictures. We had fun with the bachelor and bachelorette parties. Nothing super crazy, but super fun.

One of the most memorable things of the trip was the Nerf guns. Linda and John wanted us to have a Nerf gun war when we took pictures. They had semi-automatic guns and gave each of the bridal party members a gun as well. We played with them at their house most of the week. A loved retrieving the darts and putting them back in the guns. She would run away when she had two left though. It was entertaining for all most of the week. Then during the pictures, she got out and started picking up the different darts as well. Pretty entertaining and I think the photographer got some good pics of it. Since it was my birthday they did sing me Sweet Caroline. During dinner at the reception the waiter quickly learned who I was. When I asked him what was in the tomato basil soup and he responded, "Tomato and Basil, Dude" I knew I was in for a time. He quickly shaped up though (especially since I'd been talking with the wedding coordinator since May about my meal and such) and wouldn't let anyone else try and serve me.

Well, I need to go get the diapers together so I don't have to do it in the morning. Hope everyone has a good week.

Blackberries

A has decided that she likes blackberries. She must feed them to herself, so we strip her before letting her loose. It is warm enough that she is lucky to only wear a diaper. She will grab one in each hand and then smash it in her mouth. Towards the end she was picking up individual kernels and eating those.

Yay for Freedom!

Since it has been a whole week since I blogged, I figure it is time. We've had a fairly laid back day and it promises to continue in such. We woke up on the "late" side, with late being all of 715 or so. While laying in bed we discovered that A has her two top pre-molars in now. This has happened in the past couple of days, so go baby girl! She still only has 2 teeth on the bottom, but that will change soon. A has been kind of grumpy the past couple of days and we thought she was getting in her 2nd set of front bottom teeth, however, she got the pre-molars. Now she can really chew stuff up.

After we got breakfast we went to the park. I got to go roller blading while Chris and A played. Apparently A didn't really want to do much without him, so he got to go down slides (she wanted to go down the big ones) and swing for a long time. Now we are just relaxing some more.

Chris's second summer term started yesterday and they will do the first lab next week. Hopefully it will go well, but we won't really get a chance to see it until after we get back from vacation.

Work for me is going well. I've gotten to see a LOT of the manufacturing process and at least observe everything to some degree. It has been interesting and fun. I'm also starting to get to the "core" of what I will be doing there. I think it will be fun, and I enjoy going to work still. At work things are kind of slow since we are between big projects.

Tuesday A was very "clingy" when I dropped her at the daycare, but she had a good day anyway. They tore up paper for a craft and she had a ball with that. :) Her routine of "screaming" at me for a few seconds when I pick her up continues. It is a, "I'm happy to see you but where have you been all day!?" type of scream/cry. Then she promptly falls asleep on the way home. She's also not going to like going back to daycare because I'm off until the 16th. Hopefully we will go to the library tomorrow and then go for a run. We will have to see what happens though.

Hope all is well with you and that you are enjoying the day off in the middle of the week. Hope the rest of the week doesn't seem to long.

There is a SOP for SOPs? Really now?

So today started work for me. I got in and got a nice tour of the facility. It is nice and should be fun. I met most of the people and decided that most of the QC group did in fact interview me. Since I didn't actually end up in the QC department this was an interesting move. After my nice facility tour I got to start reading "Standard Operating Procedures" or SOPs for short. They are incredibly boring and basically tell you have to get things done. Naturally there should be a SOP for how to write a SOP, but it just seems a bit redundant. I can also only ready 5 of the buggers a day, which is a horribly low number. That's to help "retention" because since legally they have to keep all the stuff in binders having it all in memory serves you better. I got to watch videos about manufacturing practices and read about operations.

During breaks from watching videos or reading, I talked with a lot of people. Everyone wanted to know about the food I was eating since they heard I had weird food allergies. They also wanted to talk about different things and apparently the supervisors had a debate about which department I would end up in. Hopefully I will like this QA bit, but so far so good. Tomorrow I get to go get crocs for work for my cleanroom (bunny) suit. I also get to learn how to go into the ante-chamber to do the cleanroom gowning. Since I'm in QA I get to have a hand in just about everything! At least it promises to not really ever be boring.

This was also the first day for A in dayschool. I took her in, put her down and off she walked. I turned to explain a bit about the diapers (which the teacher thoroughly loved!) and then I couldn't get a good-bye wave or anything. When I went to pick her up she was still in the same outfit! Go Teacher who hasn't ever used cloth diapers before being able to put her in cloth diapers so well that she doesn't have red marks on her legs and is still in the outfit I dropped her off in. :) I saw the teacher outside when I was going in to pick her up and the teacher said, "She had a GREAT first day." She played well with others, napped well, cooperated and basically did everything well other than eat. She can't be perfect, right? Anyway, as soon as she saw me, she yelled at me which amounts to crying for about five seconds really really loudly. Then she was fine. She also napped on the ride home and was ready to play with Chris and me once we got dinner ready. She even ate quite well, so hopefully she doesn't eat breakfast well and dinner well and leave off lunch. I'll send her with lunch tomorrow to see if that helps.

Overall, it was a good day I think. A liked her new friends, I liked my new friends, and Chris continues to like his friends. This may be a good situation after all.

I need to go do dishes since Chris cooked. Hope all is well with you. Pray for us this weekend as we have horrid high temps and no ac...