Nine o'clock church is SO much better!

Obviously blogging was not involved in my New Year's resolutions this year! Sorry it has been so long since my last post. Andrea gets the credit for prompting this one since she mentioned it to Elizabeth in an email.

I don't have any pictures to post yet this year, but it's not because the year started off slow. I returned to work after about two weeks of holiday vacation on January 2nd. The next day I made a trip to Baltimore for work and flew back on Saturday. For both of my flights out to Baltimore (connected in Detroit) I had the worst seats ever. I thought I was doing so good because when I checked in online and noticed they had put me in aisle or center seats, I moved myself to a window seat. Unfortunately, I moved myself to the last row which has the windows covered anyway because the engines are right outside. I couldn't see out any windows at all and I had somebody sitting next to me on both flights. I'm not a very claustrophobic person, and I'm not afraid of flying (I did take flying lessons after all), but they were the worst and scariest flights of my life. All I had to go on were my sensations to try and figure out what was going on with the flight. Anybody that knows anything about flying knows that these sensations are wildly unreliable when you have no frame of reference (such as the ground) -- that's why instrument pilots require so much training. Anyway, on the flight into Detroit we had a really rough approach for landing due to gusty winds. We were flying along in what I thought was a relatively hard right back when all of a sudden the engines cut off and then there was this loud thump. I about had a heart attack thinking about all of the things that could have just happened to the plane when I realized that we had in fact just landed. The reverse thrusters confirmed this fact to me within just a couple of seconds of touching down. That was probably one of the weirdest things I've experienced. I don't know why it felt like we were turning. The only thing I can think of is that it was an optical illusion due to there being two seats on one side of the aisle (my side) and three seats on the other. Anyway, enough about that...

I am still settling into my new job (and also doing several parts of my old job). I have an internal position posted to backfill for myself, but I haven't had anyone apply. The last time we posted a position in our group we interviewed four people. I don't know what the deal is this time. Hopefully we'll find somebody soon, otherwise I think the workload will crush us this year. I have to admit it is a little weird being in charge. Everybody is being really supportive though, we have such a great group!

Our ward switched to nine o'clock church for this year. The first two Sundays have been SOOO much better. The babies are in a much better mood. They sleep a little bit while we are there. They take great naps when we get home. I can't say enough good things about nine o'clock church.

We celebrated my mom's birthday yesterday. We went to Stir Crazy at the Greenwood mall. Despite the name, I wasn't "crazy" about it, not being a big fan of Asian food. It wasn't bad though and it was fun to spend time with my family.

American Idol starts Tuesday! This is where the Hi-def DVR pays off!!