Hello again, I’m your friendly slacker blogger Phil. I’m the guy that’s been posting once a month on average lately. Many apologies for that, and I can honestly say that it’s not because there’s nothing going on. A lot has happened recently so let me share what’s been going on.
I have to start by sharing the good news that I am getting another promotion! Just a few months after getting promoted for the first time, I’ve been offered another position as a Site Supervisor. It’s my first job in management and I’m very excited. There are many things that I love about this new job, and many of them have to do with the fact that it’s not my old job. It hasn’t been the smoothest 9 months of my life, but this is what they promised me when I took the first promotion so in the end I’m happy. It will be some more money too, which is always nice when you have a car payment every month.
We did get a new car a few weeks ago. We got a 2005 Chrysler Sebring and it’s very nice. As I said in my post a few weeks ago, we decided that it was not in our best interest to lease a new car. It all worked out well and we’re very happy with the car we have. It’s a very cool color which I haven’t seen before. I guess the best way to describe it is that it’s a graphite/metallic black color. My favorite part is that it has green and purple flecks in the paint that sparkle in the sun and make the car look maroon. It’s pretty awesome. I’ve attached a few pictures of the car for your enjoyment.
We also got a really great deal on a Nintendo Wii off of Craigslist. I’ve wanted one since it was known as the Nintendo Revolution long before it was announced to the public. Now we have one and it’s awesome. Cassie and I play against each other all the time and she’s getting way too good at some games. I still kick her butt on Wii Sports.
Lily is still growing and developing at breakneck speed. She’s talking so much now and she’s also got a new love of singing. Watch for yourself.
Things are good in this Hull house, but the rest of my family is struggling right now. Both my dad and my sister need new jobs and my mom is having knee replacement surgery soon. Please pray that my dad finds work before she goes in for her surgery. They are terrified of being without an income for six weeks or more. God will provide, but it won’t hurt if everyone prays to remind him. Angela also needs to hear about a job at her church that she’s been waiting on for years.
It’s 4th of July weekend and I’m going to go have some fun now. (I take that back, it looks like I’m going to go clear out the closet in our bedroom.) I am ready for some fireworks tomorrow though. I love me some fireworks.
I know I’ve been writing a lot lately about our quest to become much more healthy and fit, but there is more going on with my life than just my diet.
I am constantly amazed at how fortunate I am with the family that God has blessed me with. Cassie is such a wonderful partner and friend, I can’t believe how lucky I am that I get to be with her the rest of my life. I wrote last week about my absent-mindedness when it came to our anniversary, but she hasn’t used my mistake as a club to beat me with. She’s a wonderful, gracious, loving, and sweet woman and an outstanding mom. If you don’t know Cassie that well, I can tell you that you are missing out. She brightens the life of everyone she comes into contact with. We’ve been together for almost ten years now and I am amazed to see the woman she has become. She has grown so much and it is a blessing to me to have been there to watch it.
Now if that wasn’t enough, God has blessed us with the most wonderful child that we could have ever hoped for. When you dream about your children before they are born, you want them to be smart, good natured, happy, and loving. Lily is the child that parents dream about. It’s not that she does no wrong, just spend an hour with her and you’ll see what kind of disaster she leaves in her wake, but she is wonderful. She is so observant. She sees and hears everything that we do and she can imitate it so well. I love the fact that she can communicate now.  And I’m amazed how I can talk to her and she seems to understand what I’m saying. I just love being around her, even though there are times when she doesn’t want me around. (Usually after she’s been put in time out.)
I also have an awesome family. We were lucky to spend a lot of time with my parents and my sister over the holidays and I realized how much I miss them. And I realized how much I miss my brother, because it wasn’t the same without him there with all of us.
I find I am much happier in my new position at work that I began in November. I think the change of scenery has been very good for me and I enjoy my new job. Right now I’m on a long-term assignment at one site that doesn’t seem to be ending any time soon, which is fine with me. I’m biding my time until a management-level position opens up and then I hope to move up the ladder a bit.
I think the best thing is that I’m happy. I love my life and I’m thankful for all God has blessed me with.
Hi there. I just looked and it’s been a few days since I’ve posted anything here. We’ve just been enjoying the holidays and our extended vacation. Unfortunately, my extended vacation is over and I’m back to work tomorrow. We’ve had a good time these past couple of weeks and I’m definitely feeling well rested and ready to go back to work. I’ll probably feel that way until midway through the day on Thursday when I’ll be sick of work again and wishing I was still on vacation.
My parents joined us for the holidays, which was nice for us. They weren’t thrilled about leaving sunny Florida for frozen Michigan, but Lily provided the necessary motivation.
Lily really enjoyed Christmas. She wanted to unwrap all of the presents herself and she ended up “helping” most of us unwrap our gifts. She got a big pile of stuff and we enjoyed watching her play with her new toys. After we opened presents, we left for Grand Rapids for a few days. We stayed with Angela because her house was empty and there was a lot more room than our tiny two bedroom apartment.
I would go into more details about the past few days, but I’m tired and the alarm is going to go off in the morning for the first time in nearly two weeks. I’m uploading almost 200 pictures dating back to Halloween to my Flickr page, so go there and check them out.
We leave to go to Florida tonight and this day seems to be dragging on. I have 3 more hours to go and I can go home, but it seems like an eternity. Tonight is going to be Lily’s first airplane ride, so I’m also anxious to see how she does on the plane. She’s so well behaved normally that I’m not worried about her screaming the whole time. The only difficulty I can see is that she’s at the point where she wants to be standing and walking around all the time so I don’t know how she’ll deal with the confined space.
We’re going to be pretty busy the next few days so blog posting may be a little lite. I will try to post a little bit over the weekend and maybe we’ll get some pictures up of Lily’s first time swimming in the Gulf of Mexico.
So I almost pulled off posting every day while I was out of town, but yesterday was too hard. We spent most of the day in the car and I couldn’t find a stop that had free WiFi to connect my phone to the net. I know that Cassie’s family misses us and that they want us to come to Chicago more often, but it’s getting more and more difficult to travel with Lily and all of her stuff. Plus, Lily can’t sit in the car for 5 or 6 hours at a time, so we have to stop every couple of hours for her to get out and move around.
We had a very good time in Chicago and it is nice to be able to spend time with Cassie’s family. I know it’s hard for them to only see Lily every couple of months, but it makes me happy to see how much they love her. She is always the center of attention and that’s the way it should be.
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