Jon and Julie were awesome hosts and planned all sorts of fun things for us to do while we visited Seattle. One day we went over to the Microsoft main campus and toured a few of the buildings. We had lunch in the cafeteria. Now when I say cafeteria, think your mall food court times four. It was pretty cool. Then we did the Microsoft store, and the X Box building as well. Jon works at a different campus but he did take us to his actual office another day. Colin touching a touch-screen. Jon touching a Colin...???Microsoft had bunches of perks. One Colin and I enjoyed in particular, free soda everywhere! Colin and I posing in the Microsoft museum. They had a bunch of really old electronics and showed the progression of technology in the past few decades, pretty neat stuff! Colin bought two 12 month subscriptions to XBox live while visiting the Microsoft store, among other things. Julie and Violet. Colin and I posing in front of a picture of Bill Gates and co, back when he was a wee lad. Colin playing with a giant Microsoft Surface. I played with it too, pretty cool!
Jon and Colin posing with the master chief. This was a count down to the release of Kinect. This was a cabinet full of all kinds of X Boxes throughout the years. Some of them were covered in signatures so I assume they were from the people who helped in the developing or something.
This is Colin standing outside of the X Box twitter team. They have a twitter account that is dedicated to customer service. So, if you need some help with your X Box you just send them a tweet and they tweet back the answer. Colin decided it would be fun to take his picture there and then tweet it over to them! They tweeted right back that they were indeed already over at PAX.
I went with a few friends on a mommy-field trip to the Spode Dish factory in Malaysia. We had the best time and it was an experience I won't soon forget. We met at Becky's in the morning and got our three car caravan ready to go. We said a prayer, did a cheer and were off at about 9 am. We crossed the border without any issues (except for toll top-up cards) and hit the road. In about an hour we arrived at this little side-of-the-road pottery market. It was typical of a third-world place. True Outlet shopping. There was a nice aluminum roof and some big fans to keep us cool. The plates were very dusty from being outside so long but there were so many lovely treasures. We all had a good time just wandering around searching for new dishes. I was looking for a set of every-day dishes and anything else was a bonus in my mind. Spode is a European brand that outsources production to Malaysia. Their retail cost is pretty high but we got some amazing deals. After we had
The nurses from Alta View called me yesterday to let me know that my c-section was scheduled for 7:30am, and that we needed to be at the hospital by 6:00am. So much for sleeping in! Grandma and Grandpa took Ryan last night so that we wouldn't have to drop him off before the crack of dawn. We arrived at the hospital this morning at 6:00 as directed and got all admitted. At about 7:00 they let us know that we were being bumped because of an emergency c-section that they needed to do ahead of us. At around 8:00 they took us back to the operating room. The anesthesiologist came in and did his thing. Colin was great to help me through the whole surgery process. Our baby boy was born at 8:26 am. He weighed 8 pounds 10 ounces and was 21 inches long. He has dark hair but not tons of it and it's probably curly, I would guess. His name is Evan Miles Dean. We are both doing well and there will be more pictures to come! me- last day of pregnancy Jen waiting to go into surgery Colin wa
Our sweet Evan turned 10! We had his birthday party for friends and family at Obstacle Warrior Kids in Sandy. It is a new place and the kids had a great time getting their warrior on. I think the crowd favorite was "the wall" and they all tried to get to the top many times. I'm pretty sure they all conquered the wall at least once. On Evan's actual birthday we had birthday waffles, dinner of pancakes (he likes breakfast I guess) and dessert at Last Course (another new place) in Draper. We sure do love you, kid!
Jon and Julie were awesome hosts and planned all sorts of fun things for us to do while we visited Seattle. One day we went over to the Microsoft main campus and toured a few of the buildings. We had lunch in the cafeteria. Now when I say cafeteria, think your mall food court times four. It was pretty cool. Then we did the Microsoft store, and the X Box building as well. Jon works at a different campus but he did take us to his actual office another day. 
Colin touching a touch-screen. Jon touching a Colin...???
Microsoft had bunches of perks. One Colin and I enjoyed in particular, free soda everywhere! 
Colin and I posing in the Microsoft museum. They had a bunch of really old electronics and showed the progression of technology in the past few decades, pretty neat stuff! 
Colin bought two 12 month subscriptions to XBox live while visiting the Microsoft store, among other things. 
Julie and Violet. 
Colin and I posing in front of a picture of Bill Gates and co, back when he was a wee lad. 
Colin playing with a giant Microsoft Surface. I played with it too, pretty cool! 
Jon and Colin posing with the master chief. 
This was a count down to the release of Kinect. 
This was a cabinet full of all kinds of X Boxes throughout the years. Some of them were covered in signatures so I assume they were from the people who helped in the developing or something. 
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