Catching Up....
| After receiving several emails from friends asking if we had indeed fallen off the face of the earth, I thought it was probably a good time to update the blog. (By the way, I don't think it is scientifically possible for JUST our family to fall off the face of the earth-- not trying to turn this into a science lesson, but I'm just saying.....) We have been so busy with unpacking, acquiring furniture (who knew that was so time consuming and exhausting!), keeping up with school and activities. The kids' schoolyear is in full swing. The older two are doing a lot of their curriculum on a computer-based program which has made it easier for me to spend more time working with the younger ones. Rob has one more class left before his degree so he will be done with school in October (YEAH!) and will take a few months off before starting his Master's. I'm still plugging away at my classes; in no rush but taking two classes at a time so I'll hopefully graduate before I have grandchildren  Just to prove that we have really not fallen off the face of earth (yes, those friends who shall remain nameless, I will tease you about that for awhile!), here are some photos: The house had unfortunately not been well taken care of by the last residents. The real estate people tried to do a bit of maintenance before we moved in but it was still in great need. The kids and I decided to tackle a bit of beautifying one day. Each of the houses in the neighborhood has a cute little light post in the front that comes on at dusk, so Lexi, Austin, Adam and I decided to dig out the mess at the base and plant some flowers. This became a two day project because we ended up needing more tools.   After a short rain storm a beautiful rainbow developed over the backyard. The boys thought we could find a pot of gold if we went to the end of it; I thought we would just get muddy shoes. I won....we don't have a pot of gold but we do have clean shoes, and isn't that what's really important?!  Back at the Berry Farm picking strawberries and raspberries:  Adam agreed to be my "pack mule" and carry my purse in exchange for a strawberry:   Poor Austin! The bees were just terrible by the raspberries. With his sensory disorder, the noise of the buzzing bees is just too much. So he spent his whole time at the raspberry patch hiding in his jacket:  Drew, Lys, Austin and Adam got haircuts this week. The boys stayed with very similar styles but Lys went for a total change. Lexi decided to grow hers out more:  The boys waiting for choir practice to begin:  Austin at bowling league. He's getting quite good and starting to put more effort into the actual bowling and not just visiting with friends:  Adam still has the "toss it down and hope it makes it to the pins" style of bowling. He's really more concerned with high 5-ing the other bowlers and visiting with his friends. But he has fun!  Drew loves being back to bowling and takes it quite seriously. Though he also enjoys the time with his friends:  Back to the lightpole.....   |
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