March 2014

Plano---spanish for flat

The city's population was 269,776 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth most populous city in the state of Texas and the 70th most populous city in the United States. The city is home to many corporate headquarters: Alliance Data, Cinemark Theatres, Dell Services, Dr Pepper Snapple Group,Ericsson, Frito-Lay, HP Enterprise Services, Huawei, J. C. Penney, Pizza Hut, Rent-A-Center, Traxxas, Siemens PLM Software, and Toyota Motors USA.

In 2005, 2006, and 2011, Plano was designated the best place to live in the Western United States by CNN Moneymagazine. In 2006, Plano was selected as the 11th best place to live in the United States by CNN Money magazine. It was also selected as the safest city in America in 2010 and 2011 by Forbes. Plano schools consistently score among the highest in the nation. It has been rated as the wealthiest city in the United States by CNN Money, and the United States Census Bureau declared Plano the wealthiest city of 2008 by comparing the median household income for all U.S. cities whose populations were greater than 250,000. In 2008, Forbes.comselected Plano, University Park, and Highland Park as the three "Top Suburbs To Live Well" of Dallas.

                                          

Logan: 

  Logan started his new job on March 3rd as a Senior Credit Analyst……..(Logan will update his experience later)

Hanna:

Continue to unpack and decorate. Goal is to get it unpacked as quick as possible since we move every year; more than likely, by the time I have the place how I want it we will move again. 

Connor:

Still his happy little self, moving to a new place doesn't seem to shock him. He continues to love to explore, play with cars, and having books read to him. We are no longer experiencing the snow and extreme cold of utah. Therefore, Connor gets to go to the playground a lot more. He continues to become more and more independent. . He understands so much and can follow simple commands, and his word vocabulary continues to expands daily. 

Sharkarosa Wildlife Ranch:

When we moved here we found out that Brittany Wallentine (Moon), who we grew up with in Warner Robins, lives 5 minutes from us. Her husband is currently in Dental school and have lived in the area for 3 years and plan on staying here and practicing dentistry upon graduation. We are excited to have a little piece of home here and look forward to growing a friendship with Brittany, her husband and their two boys, Grant and Kaiden. 

We were invited to go with Brittany, Spencer Moon and their friends to Sharkarosa Wildlife Ranch.     All of us, with the kids, piled onto the safari trolley. The trolley had food buckets attached to the sides. As soon as we entered the gates the animals came running towards us. We saw horses, Z-orses (zebra crossbred with a horse), camels, emus, pot belly pigs, kangaroos, rain deers, bears, lemurs, goats, sloth, and cobra; plus many other little attractions for the kids. Connor had a blast and so did we.