Jana's Family has things going on! What's wrong with the rest of y'all!?!

Here is an email sent to me via Celeste, from Jana. Jana's Husband Steven is the one who wrote it, so here goes:
I don’t normally send out regular updates, but there have been some exciting things happen in our family recently. Some of you are already aware of these changes, but I also attached a couple of pictures with this email that you may not have seen.

I recently resigned from IBM and start my new job at Raytheon Missile Systems here in Tucson on Monday as a Radar Signal Processing Engineer. I’m very excited (and a bit nervous) about my new job. The opportunities for advanced learning and challenging projects are more likely in this new job and the environment seems to be a little more family friendly, based on discussions I’ve had with people I will work with. They work the 9/80 schedule, meaning that will have every other Friday off, making it easier to do a little more camping and other short vacations than we have done recently. They took it pretty hard at IBM that I was leaving, but hopefully in the long run this will open a few ey es and make it better for my good co-workers that I left behind.

The other big announcement is that we have a new addition to our family. I know the last time I counted the truck as a “new addition” but this time I’m not joking. Her name is Daisy, yes another girl, so I’m even more outnumbered than I was before. She is a very cute 3 month old Yellow Labrador Retriever. Although very apprehensive at first because she was a very large puppy, the kids have warmed up to her well and she is now a part of the family. Weighing in at 30 pounds at 3 months, she is going to be a very big girl when she grows up. I’m excited to have her as a hiking companion, she will do very well with that type of activity. My dad and I took her down to the Chiricahua Mountains last weekend and she loved it, especially playing in the snow for the first time.

My last day at IBM was on Wednesday of last week, so we went camping for a couple nights at Rockhound State Park in New Mexico. We often seem to pick the weekends of not so optimal weather, but despite some rain and strong winds, we had a great time. It was good to have a little break before I start at the new job. The attached picture of the girls was fr om our trip.

Love,

Steven and Jana