Friday, July 30, 2010

Work Life Balance

I love my job! I know a lot of folks can't say that about their job, but I really do love what I do. While I travel some for work I'm not required to travel a lot which is a nice balance. It means I get out of the office often enough to keep it fresh and interesting without being burdensome. This past week I was sent to PA and NY with a couple of coworkers to check out some of our eastern facilities. We had a few hours to kill before our flight so we decided to check out the Finger Lakes area of NY. It was amazing! If you ever have a chance you must go. In fact I would love to go back and spend a week there. In our short time all we got to do was have lunch and do a quick hike to a waterfall in the area. I took some pics of the waterfall hike. They do NOT do it justice, but I thought I'd share.

I loved the way the water had cut through the many layers of rock. It made for amazing visuals.


I loved this step waterfall because it looked like something that an architect would put in the lobby of a modern hotel or something, but it was all natural! God is a pretty good architect!

The waterfalls fell into these amazingly deep pools which were crystal clear. I'm sure they were at least 50-60 feet deep.

Unfortunately my point-n-click couldn't do the area justice but it was a nice way to cap off a a work trip.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

A Few of My Favorite People

I am so blessed to have made wonderful friends in undergrad who I still call my dear friends today. A couple of weekends ago we had our annual get together. This year was a bit different from previous years. Sarah gave birth to her second baby, Kole, a few months ago and Shelley is pregnant with her second (a baby boy who is yet to be named) and is due in September. So we had to try hard and squeeze in a visit between the births of both babies since it's so hard to travel with a newborn and Shelley wouldn't be able to travel after a certain point. Keeping this in mind we decided, at the last minute, to meet at Sarah's house and spend a short (very short) day together.


Here's Arwen and Kase giving me their best smiles. You can see Kole in the background wondering what in the world is going on!

The Smiths! Unfortunately we were rushed taking pictures and I wasn't thinking about lighting... so this is what I got.

The Ecks! Gotta love that goofy girl's smile.

My girls! What amazing friends you are :)

While our visit was WAY too short I was thankful just to get to see them this year.

Love ya girls!

Monday, July 05, 2010

Welcome to the World Grace Inez

My sister, Alyson, gave birth to her second child this past weekend. Grace Inez Klein was born July 2 and weighed in at 7 lbs 1 oz. Congratulations to Alyson and Jim! Welcome to the world Miss Grace. You are well loved :)

Miss Grace

If you'd like to read more feel free to follow the adventures of Alyson, Jim, Lily, Grace, and the Nuts here.