Tulips and daffodils

This past weekend, my parents and I loaded into the car heading towards the Tulip Festival up north. We were told that the daffodils were all gone, and that the tulips were late to bloom this year. So really, I wasn't expecting all that much. But it was gorgeous!

Check out the photos:

Dad's bday

On April 8th, my dad turned the big FIVE-SIX. Isn't it amazing how quickly parents grow up?!

To celebrate, my mom, two sisters (and their families) and I all chipped in to replace his GPS, which had been stolen out of his car earlier in the year. Out of everything that was taken, he was by far most heartbroken about losing his GPS. It pretty much meant the end of geocaching for us for a while. Plus, he used it a lot for work, going to and from meetings with clients.

So we decided it was time to replace it, and with an even better one than he had before. :) You should check it out:
When he got home from work, Mom and I presented him with the printout of what we bought. (It hadn't yet arrived in the mail because UPS lost it. sigh) And then we went out to dinner with my grandmother to Ciao Bella. YUM!

Happy Birthday Dad!

From all of us. We love you! :)

I'm the big stuff now

I realize that I took a long hiatus from the blog for a while...and for that I apologize. But a lot of my life/upcoming decisions had been, in some way, focused around one event that hadn't been finalized, and therefore couldn't be discussed.

But it's now been finalized...so I can finally discuss it! :)

The big news: I GOT A PROMOTION! My old title was Resource Development Administrative Assistant, and my new title is now: Office Manager / Volunteer Coordinator. It became official last week. I have been doing the Office Managerial duties for a while now, under the guise of an Admin Asst. ha! So it's certainly nice to be recognized for what I have been doing. My boss is really great at that...recognizing you for what you actually do, not necessarily just what your job description says you are doing. And I will also be adding the Volunteer Coordinator position on top of it. One of my co-workers will be getting married in July and moving to California. *tear* I'm still secretly, and extremely selfishly - yes I realize that fact - hoping that they will decide to either postpone the wedding or have her fiancee move up here instead of her move to CA. preferably the latter, for their sakes. lol Since neither of those look possible, it has been decided that I will be taking over her role with all of our amazing volunteers. If you want to volunteer with Medical Teams International, let me know!!

And now I can start making other decisions that I've been putting off....like apartment searching, vacation dates, etc. I am now once again starting the process of moving forward. *sigh of relief*

decorated snowmen

I've been slacking. It's time to begin blogging once again. :)
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Over the Christmas holidays, a volunteer came in to decorate our reception/lobby area at work. She's really very good at making the space classicly Christmas. While she was sorting through our stash of decorations, she came across these really cute bobble snowmen characters. They definitely became a fun talking point around the office as we'd walk by, tap them on the head, and bobble bobble bobble.

Once Christmas was over, noone in the office wanted to put them back into storage. So we decided on a solution: we would decorate/dress them up for each holiday. We started with St. Patrick's Day. And this was the result (sorry about the poor photo quality. this pic was taken with a co-worker's cellphone):


And then there was Easter:


Soon it will be Cinco de Mayo. Stay tuned. This one's gonna be good!