Family Update

Mike and I recently bought a much needed new camera. It's a great camera and came with a great picture program. But I haven't figured out how to get the pictures from the camera to the BLOG. So, I'll just give you a quick update on the with our Family and put Mike to work tonight.

As most of you have been wondering, our house will be done and ready to move into on September 1st!!! YEAH!!! We have our new address and phone number and will send it out via e-mail in the next few weeks. We also traded our gas guzzling van with a more efficient car. We bought a new Chevrolet HHR. It's really cute and just perfect for our little family. We decided that a car is plenty of room since we are pretty sure we are happy with just the four of us, sorry all of you grandparents out there! I guess it's up to our siblings to continue providing grandchildren.

Allyson is growing up very fast, as usual! She has been sitting by herself for quite some time and it's rather challenging putting her to bed because she immediately pops back up and plays. But she put's herself to sleep. She is also super close to crawling, going so far as to take one small crawling step. But she hasn't quite perfected it yet. She even pulled herself almost to a standing position today at the doctors office. I personally think she'll walk before Emily did, but I've been wrong before! She is still a very happy baby and loves to squawk and say blah blah blah. She still isn't saying mama or dada though.

Emily is getting excited about preschool. She starts two weeks from today and has proclaimed that she doesn't need to wait that she is now tall enough to go.

The girls and I just got back from four days on the coast. My friend Jen has a girl Em's age and a baby Ally's age and we took all four girls over to the coast by ourselves. He parents have a permanent travel trailer over there. We had an awesome time and didn't want to come home. It was wonderful to get away from the 115 degree heat. We stayed very busy with the girls but overall it was still very relaxing. The four kids entertained each other so it was actually easier than being at home and being the single woman entertainment committee that I usually get to be. Then Mike and I took the girls to the Giants game on Sunday. They both seemed to have a lot of fun, and a miracle occured...the Giants actually pulled off a win.

Anyone need insurance? Mike's business is going really well. For any of you who live near here, you should come and see it. It looks really good. Mike and I have spent many hours framing and hanging pictures. He seems to really like it there, in fact so much that most days he gets ther at 7 and gets home at 7! Maybe we should use the same decor at our house! Kidding aside, it is a lot of work for him but I think he has finally found his niche in life and we are truly happy that he has had this opportunity.

I hope you have all enjoyed our long update. A lot seems to be changing and happing in our life but I tried to condense it down for you all! I'll get some new pics of the house, car, and girls asap. And in a couple of weeks a very cute little girl on her first day of preschool!