Last day of paid work tomorrow

I was teaching ESL for the past 5 months and I really enjoyed working and making a few extra bucks. But the time has come for Jeff to make the bigger bucks and for me to take care of the house and kids. Jeff, bless his heart, has done an 'okay' job at being Mr. Mom, and we're both ready for the switch. I miss the kids terribly and Jeff misses, missing the kids.

Leanna took this photo of Joseph and I. She's got talent. She loves taking pictures and we let her take as many as she likes. Joseph is starting to walk now and it is so cute. What's equally as cute are how the rest of the kids get so excited when Joseph takes a few steps. They count his steps and then announce to the rest of us!

Living WAY out there!

Because of the real estate slump, the beautiful house that Jeff designed and built hasn't sold and so we moved into it. We absolutely love it out here! It's 20 minutes to the grocery store (which is actually far...considering we lived about 30 seconds from one before), and 30 minutes to any other kind of shopping. Anyone that knows me knows that I am not a shopper at all, so that doesn't bother me one bit. We have one really nice family that lives next to us and that's about it. The other neighbors keep to themselves and it's really, really quiet. We have the luxury of hear birds chirp and the wind blow. We live on high bank waterfront and that picture above is our backyard view.

Last weekend we made a fire pit and made s'mores and it was so fun. Brandon, the sneaky boy that he is, ate half of the chocolate all by himself. Everyone had too many marshmellows, and fortunately between our family and the neighbors, we finished them off. Too much sugar!