Feeling Productive

I'm definitely feeling a sense of accomplishment this week. I like keeping myself busy with little projects aside from just keeping the house neat, going to the store, etc. That stuff gets boring after a while.

I finally got Heather & Alan's wedding video finished and to them. (Still need to burn the raw files to DVD for them, but that's no biggie.) I think it came out pretty well, especially considering that Matt and I are not professional videographers, and it was also my first time ever working with iMovie and iDVD.

I also helped Matt with some of his homework. He volunteered to be project manager and complete a design for a t-shirt that his training program had to create. No one knew how to do vector drawings in Photoshop or even draw a sketch on paper that would be good enough to use. (Matt doesn't really know a lot about that stuff either.) He's in training classes from 8AM to 5PM every day, then comes home and has 3-4 hours of reading to do. His new work load plus everything he tries to do for his Boy Scout troop adds up to a lot. So last night I helped him out by making the t-shirt design his group came up with. I had NO idea how to do this stuff, so I was reading online as I went, trying to figure it out. There are still some things that need to be added, but this is what I did so far. (And yes, they look simple, but I'm still proud of myself. I probably could've done it in 30 minutes in Paint, but in Photoshop this took me like 2-3 hours.)

(FRONT)

(BACK)

I think my next task to accomplish will be making a video of our own wedding. We had someone tape it, and people were walking around with the video camera at the reception... I just need to upload the footage and make it pretty so we can have a DVD of ours, too.

Happy Birthday, Matt!

I should probably start this post continuing from where I left off in the last one. The "situation" I was referring to at the end of my last post was a job offer that Matt had received from a recruiter at Blue Cross Blue Shield of SC. We didn't want to say anything about it "in public" until we knew what was going to come of it. They called him pretty much out of the blue saying they had three positions suddenly open up that needed to be filled ASAP, and wanted to know if he was interested. It was an entry level position for application development, and though that's not an area that was exactly in his comfort zone, we still felt like God was opening this door for us and that he should go ahead and apply/interview. He had to go in for a formal interview, followed by a two hour, timed programming aptitude test. Within a week of getting the initial phone call about the job, we found out that he'd been accepted for the position! Not only that, but he was also the only outside hire! He started there last Monday and seems to love it so far. He got a pretty substantial increase in pay plus awesome benefits, so now I shouldn't need to worry about working outside the home once the baby arrives. What a GIGANTIC blessing for our family!!


This past weekend we had a nice Father's Day celebration with Matt's family. Saturday we had a cookout/pool party at Matt's dad's house. It was me, Matt, Frank, Laura, Malcolm, Malcolm's parents, his sister Brianna, her husband, Clay, their baby, Carter, and Malcolm's brother, Courtney. The four dogs - Rita, Kandi, Izzy, and Béla - were also there. It was a full house but lots of fun and good food! I didn't know what to get Matt for his first Father's Day, nor did I have much money to spend, so I just got him a card and a onesie that says "I ♥ DAD" on the front.  :)  Yesterday we had planned to go to church, but ended up sleeping right through the alarm (the dog included). I think we were all pooped from the excitement the day before, so we took our time getting out of bed then headed over to Matt's dad's again for Father's Day lunch with his grandfather and relaxed around there for the rest of the day.


Today is another celebration - Matt's 30th birthday! Tonight we're going out to dinner downtown to celebrate with his family.  :)  


Lots going on in the last few weeks... So far the summer is off to a great start!