2007 has been an exciting year full of changes for me and the family. We’ve bought 2 acres of land a couple of miles outside the city that we are planning on build a new house on in 2009.
I left Tone Brothers, Inc. in December of 2006 and started working for AOL. So work has been completely different for me this year. I went from a 70 mile a day commute to working at home. I went from working in a manufacturing environment on an iSeries server to working on the Navigator browser using Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux. This has been the most fulfilling year for me as far as work goes in a long long time. The announcement on December 28th of the EOL for Netscape client side software, it looks like I’ll have lots of changes in 2008 to keep me going.
Noah turned 2 in August and Wyatt turned 1 in November. We have had Noah learn to talk and talk and talk and now going through the terrible twos. Wyatt has learned how to roll over, sit up, crawl, and then walk. Noah had a case of hives that lasted for several weeks and we never found the culprit. We had some serious scares with Wyatt and his deformational plagiocephaly which hasn’t been any problem since he seems to be developing right on schedule. We have had a ton of bumps, bruises, good days and bad. I am so lucky to have found a job where I can be home for all of it and love watching every minute.
Rachel and I celebrated our 9th anniversary this year. Its crazy how fast the time goes by, it seems like we were newlyweds only yesterday. I have the most wonderful wife in the world. She is a wonderful mother to our 2 boys and she has been extremely supportive in my decision to change careers at such a crazy time in our lives. We have our moments, you have to remember that we both are at home all the time now, but I fall in love with her more everyday and I can’t think of another person I would want to spend the rest of my live with. We both quit smoking in October of this year.
This has been a wonderful year full of changes, I hope that 2008 will be the same.