Our Little Graduate

Today was Dane's school train trip and little graduation ceremony. 

We officially have a kindergarten bound kiddo!

Fishing!!

The never ending winter seems to have finally ended so we are taking advantage!! Dane has been waiting semi patiently to go fishing. We changed Kale's pole so it actually has a hook and he caught his first fish. A big large mouth bass! Dane caught 2 little blue gills.

All my boys fishing.

 Kale's first fish!

 Kiss the fish!

 Dane's blue gill.

School Pictures!

School pics!

Visiting Cameron at the new office

Last Wednesday we went to visit Cameron at his new office. The boys had been asking about it and Cameron's commute is pretty long now, so we visited to break up Cameron's long week a bit! We got to meet a few of his coworkers and see the space where he spends his days. Then we went to Ed Debevic's for dinner.

Waiting at the train station:

 Our train ride:

 Salesforce.com headquarters:

 Funny hats at dinner:

Our little dancing machine:

Like father, like son on the train ride home:

Swimming Lessons

The boys started swimming lessons a couple weeks ago. They are such water bugs. Dane is doing great. Unfortunately, Kale is so excited about being in the water that he continually jumps in even when he is supposed to be sitting on the step waiting for his teacher. So last week he swallowed some water and puked. Fun times! The bad thing is, it doesn't phase him. He still has no fear. Our hope is that Dane will be swimming this summer without a life jacket.

Kale:

And Dane:

Viva Las Vegas

On Friday, March 14th, I woke up to Elvis singing "Viva Las Vegas" from Cameron's phone. This wasn't his normal alarm. I quickly found out that I had an early birthday surprise coming that day. We were heading to Vegas for the weekend. Cameron's mom came over to stay with the boys and a friend of mine had come to pack my bags the night before. We did Vegas in a much more relaxed way than we had done in the past. Nice dinner, couples massage and the "Rock of Ages" live show....throw in a little black jack and a couple hours by the pool and that was our weekend! 

 Ran into my all time fave in Old Vegas:

 Dinner Friday...we should have taken the picture before we ate the cake! 

 Our view...looked awesome at night:

 One of my favorite movies is now a live show!

Changes

I am very excited to announce on Cameron's behalf that after almost 14 years with Intercall, Cameron has accepted a position with Salesforce.com. He begins his new adventure on April 7th. Change is always hard...especially after 14 years. Intercall has been amazing and it's incredibly hard for Cameron to walk away...we've made great friends through Intercall and it will forever be part of our life. We are so very proud of all of his accomplishments, he works very hard for our family and he deserves this!

I think this email from Cameron's boss is a good indication of how respected he is and how much he will be missed:

"Mrs. Jennifer Hatten –

It is with deep regret that I deny your husband’s resignation!  Due to his many years of success and hard work I don’t feel comfortable releasing him from InterCall. And since both you and I serve as Cameron’s current bosses I thought it only fair to notify you directly of my un-acceptance of his resignation.  I’ll expect him in his seat on Monday, April 7 or there will be a severe pay raise!!! 

Seriously though, I’m going to miss both of you a ton.  You are part of the InterCall family now and forever.  Good luck to you and the three boys!  Don’t be strangers."

Kale's big boy room

Kale has been in a bed since last summer. We finally got around to decorating his big boy room. When Kale was born a dear friend gave us a quilt that had a surfer / Hawaiin theme. We loved it so much that we themed his room after it. So...almost 9 months after putting him in a bed, we finally blogged about it! 

From baby bed....

 To this...