8+ months

We've been pretty busy the last couple of days. I (Tim) have one of our (ADP) largest client's to upgrade from one version to another version of the product that I deal with most of the time at work. This leads to working with all sorts of technology, processes, politics and personalities. Client wanted the upgrade by Thanksgiving of 2011 and we'll finally be done by the first week of April. Along with that, I've taken a different role with work that will likely mean more travel and more Sales Engineering than what I do now. Well, I kinda do that now, just going forward, it'll be more official.

Jessica has been doing well. Staying pretty busy with David and helping to plan a soon-to-be sister-in-law's wedding. I've made her a publisher for the blog, so hopefully she'll start posting updates of what we are doing.

Together we are getting ready for a busy spring and summer. Going to try to take the camper out for a dry-run for our now annual Orange Pocket Knife campout. We want to get the kinks out of our process in a controlled environment. Probably sounds over the top, but now that David is more mobile than he had been in the past, we need to get our game together.

I have a couple of modifications I want to make to the camper that will make it nicer to live in for a weekend or more. Simple stuff. Built-in LED nights near the floor to provide some low level light. Installing some usb ports in front and back to charge cell phones near you as you sleep instead of towards the middle of the camper. Some backup lights so you can pull in at night without the need for  flash lights all over the place. (Dad would call these "docking lights") Also have plans for a set of yellow lights under the camper that lights up the ground on the door side of the camper. We've been doing with with a rope light the past couple of times which works well. It would be slick to just flip a switch and they turn on while being built in. Plus I need to finish up my new radio/CB install that I started in the fall. I took out the crappy radio that comes with the camper and put in a nice head unit, plus the CB Radio that came out of Dad's truck.

David has started crawling. Holy crap is he all over the place. He has learned how to climb up furniture to start standing. He's not self standing yet, but he's getting close.

Here's what you've been waiting for. Some pictures of the kid. Thanks for reading through my diatribe of the last couple of months and what we have in the future.

(psssst.... Jessica turns 30 soon!!!)

DR's crawl position. Probably day 4 of not-staying-where-you-put-him.

4 second exposure of him sleeping. It was pretty dark in his bed room and I had to use the tripod to get this shot.

Might have a future in football with this stance.

Kid and Dad watching the rain come down. Lucy wasn't dig'n the rain as much as we were.

David gets a taste of Cisco PIX documentation.

Mom and Son. Can't get any better than that.