The Shine Family

The Shine Family
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Sunday, February 27, 2011

A Very Full February

February was a big month for us. We started it out cheering the Green Bay Packers in for their 4th Super Bowl win on Feb 6th. For those of you knew me pre-Shine days, let me explain. Every Shine I know is a Packers fan. No, no, not just a Packers fan, a SHARE HOLDING PACKERS FAN. Yep, even my sweet little girls became share holders in the GBP on the day of their births. In fact, I am pretty sure I am the only person bearing the name of Shine without stock in the team. I better remedy that before I am kicked out of the family.

Then we had Uncle Jimbo from Anchorage come to visit. He was here only 5 days, but they were days full of snowball fights, puddle jumping, Sushi and wine tasting. Jimbo made quite the impression on Jael, for she now refers to him as her “Big Huge Best Friend”.

Every puddle jump needs a running start. (notice: no matter the outfit, the crown never leaves her head)
Because every party needs a little lego rock band.

February 14th- Jael and Coco’s 1st Princess Tea Party. The girls had so much fun (okay, so did the moms) that we decided that this will be an annual Valentines event.
Princess Coco Princess Jael All the princesses using their royal manners Scarf dancing
On February 17th, Jon was named 2010’s Impact Player of the Year at Intermountain Community BanCorp (parent organization for all of PSBs 19 branches and executive offices). This is a pretty big deal and we are extremely proud of him (although not surprised at all!) Here is what was published about him by the CFO when he was presented the award:
Jonathon’s last name truly exemplifies his performance for Intermountain. For several years now, Jonathon has been the key manager, organizer and integrator of the Jack Henry core system. Under his control, we’ve continued to see strong improvements in up-time, consistency, and service and product enhancements. It is a very rare occurrence that we experience connection problems or down-time with Jack Henry, and Jonathon has built and led a strong project team to manage this system and its upgrades.
Over the past year, Jonathon has led an exciting new program which is just beginning to yield tremendous results for the organization. Jonathon is leading the charge in pulling all the information we gather from various systems into one central area and creating a new report system to sort and present this information in much more useful, efficient, and meaningful ways.
Our credit teams were the first beneficiaries of this new program, and it’s made a tremendous difference in the quality, efficiency and delivery of information needed to effectively manage our loan portfolio. We’ve received numerous accolades from regulators, independent loan reviewers and others about the quality of the loan information we can pull and how rapidly we can create it.
President’s Day Weekend- We have a bunch of friends out in Seattle who get together every year for a weekend of skiing, shooting , boozing (not really. Okay, kind of), food and fun and we convinced them to come out here this year. It was a wild 3 days with 10 adults, 3 kids, and 2 dogs all under 1 roof, but so much fun. It was sad to see them go, but we are excited for when we can all get together again (hopefully in June when Jon runs the Seattle Rock n Roll marathon).
See note above
Jael has been busy this month polishing her artistic skills. It is so fun to watch her paintings take recognizable shape.
my favorite of her work so far. "Chinese Dragon" "Jellyfish" and "Simon's Cat"

And Coco has accomplished the roll over and survived her first cold (although a very mild one, praise the Lord!)
That is that for the month of February. And so, I will leave you with this last little story:
Jon was making coffee one morning, Jael was painting at her table and a friend of ours was holding Coco. Then Coco, with a loud grunt, proceeded to audibly fill her diaper with her morning BM. Jael, without looking up from her work, simply stated “present for Daddy.” I love my girls.

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