Yay Rob!!!

Once a quarter Rob's department has a cocktail hour where the whole department gets together. Four awards are given out each quarter - one to an individual from each team. From what I understand, the awards are for the team member that the rest of the team feels has done the most to help the team that quarter. I'm sure you've already figured this out, but Rob got the award for his team for last quarter!!! His team said that the presentation he gave on how he runs his book of business (the group of businesses he is in charge of) was amazing :) I can't remember if I included this in another post, but the handout he made summarizing his presentation to his team was passed on to the managers of the other teams, who then passed it to their team members. Apparently the whole department is starting to change their approach based on Rob's ideas! Go Honey!!! You are awesome and we are so proud of you!!!

A few recent pictures ~

Beth in an outfit she put together the other day (by the way, she now wears those glasses fairly often - she wore them to Walmart this afternoon) ~



These next two pictures were taken by Beth. I wish they had been centered more as I think they are a great depiction of Jack and Simon's relationship :) Jack loves that dog! He plays with him all day and never fails to say hi to him as soon as he sees him each morning, complete with a big grin. I think my favorite thing they do together though is when Jack cow-tips him. Cow-tipping is a somewhat common youth activity in Idaho (or at least people tried to convince me it was - I never actually saw it done) where you go up to a cow, pull the front legs and back legs together and push, tipping the cow over. I don't know if it actually works on cows, but it sure works on Simon! Jack comes charging at him from the side with his arms spread wide, capturing Simon's front legs with one arm and his hind legs with the other. Simon doesn't seem to mind. I think things like that are why boys need a dog, not a cat. I don't think any of our cats would allow Jack to cow-tip them (even though Harlequin is about the size of a cow) ~





This evening Jack walked to the back door to let Simon out and let out a yell. He came running towards me screaming "SNAKE!!!! SNAKE!!!" Megan ran over, happily exclaiming "It's a worm!!! In our house!!!" Poor misguided worm who thought our house would be a good place to escape from the rain flooding our backyard. Megan carried him around for a while, explaining all about worms. Jack kept his distance. I don't think he trusted Megan's diagnosis. She tried to show him the worm, but he ran to me, grabbing my arm, again saying "Snake, Mom! Snake!" I explained that it was actually a worm. Jack got a puzzled look on his face and said "Worm???" Then apparently deciding that snakes and worms were tarred with the same brush, he yells "Worm, Mom! Worm!" I finally made Megan put the worm back outside, but she requested a picture first ~