Thompson Family: Family, Travel & Fun

We’ve had a whirlwind two weeks! I’ll start with the most exciting news: Mike got a job offer from McKinsey & Co. as a management consultant! The office he’ll be based out of is in Dallas, Texas, so next summer we’re moving to Texas. In addition to finding out that he got the job, they told him that the coming weekend they we’re having a “meet & greet,” and it would be great if he could come and meet everyone at the office. We were all supposed to fly to Portland that same weekend for a job interview at Intel but had to change plans since Mike wanted to go to the meet & greet as well. Mike still flew to Portland and interviewed but took the red-eye to Dallas, so he could enjoy the fun-filled weekend that McKinsey had arranged for their offerees. My original flight to Portland had a layover in Salt Lake City, so I just changed my ticket so the kids and I could go see my parents in Park City while Mike was in Dallas.

It ended up being a great decision for a lot of reasons, one being that I got a 24-hour stomach bug; thankfully my parents were able to watch Noah and Amelia. I don’t know what I would have done if I’d been by myself in Menlo Park while being that sick. Noah had a great time because his cousin, Kai (my brother Jared’s son), who is almost 4 got to come over to spend the night. It snowed 12 inches overnight, so Noah had a blast playing in the snow!

We flew back from Utah on Sunday and met Mike at the airport; we weren’t home a full 24 hours before we repacked up and headed to Orange County to be with Mike’s family for Thanksgiving. We had a wonderful time, since we finally got a chance to celebrate the job offer together and spend some great quality time with his parents and grandma.

Here are the pictures from the last two weeks: