My Favorite Place

Picnic freak

Everyday we have a picnic. She loves, loves, loves them.

Sugar, Sugar

She loves making sugar cookies!

New House

 

If it's not an early 1900's house then we like them to be ranches apparently. We tried to find the perfect house, but it was almost impossible with our deadline (and budget - even this one forced us to go a little higher,) and the early 1900's one we did find was further away from Mom and Dad West than we wanted to be. (Plus, there was no cell signals within 2 miles of the home.)

 

 This property is a bit more narrow than we'd like, but it met all of our requirements (except garage, but it has a shed) and is within walking distance to some conveniences. I'll get more photos when we get down there next week.

 

We looked at a lot of houses. There was a 1920's home that was PERFECT for us...well, except that it was only .35 acres of land and had brand new subdivision homes built on either side  and behind it...??? (Who does that!?!?)

Most entertaining game we've played!

SO...every time she does this, she talks real loud and describes all the steps...until you get the camera out, and then she's like...crickets....It starts with 1) a little jump, jump, jump, 2) Spin around 3) Touch the ground 4) Roar like a dinosaur 5) Fly like a bee. She had mommy and daddy both doing it... and she filmed daddy, but it's on his camera.

Ninja Turtles

We have crossed 5 turtles on the road this month...any superstituons for that?

Playdate

Love watermelon.

Little Engineer at work

Rock Climber

A Happy Beginning

When Chris hear that several employees would be loosing their jobs, he volunteered to create and teach a class that would teach them enough of the compressor that they would be able to apply for jobs with distributors and customers in the area. Several of the employees took him up on the offer and attended the class after work, unpaid.

Chris is a happy guy today because he was just informed that one of the guys let go was able to get a job with a different company working on the portable compressors. =D

Recent Reads

 

Writing a short for an upcoming competition, and needed some details of the life that followed the survivors. I originally was just going to skim through this, but it was so amazing and interesting that I took my time getting through it instead.

 

 

Another for the project. This book is hands down an enjoyable and engaging read. Really helped bring certain aspects of the story to life.

 

 

I know I dogged the last few Sookie's terribly, but I just can't stop myself from giving once favorite authors another try. Not a terrible story, but not really exciting or thrilling. It took me almost a month to finish this one. It was mostly boring with one storyline that kind of hooked me, but I would have been fine closing it and never finishing it. (But I'm loyal like that.) =/

Almost Homeless ;)

The only thing we know for sure is that the movers will be here on the 25th, and we hand over the keys to the house on the 26th. We're busy weeding through the basement in an attempt to reduce the amount of junk we're paying to have hauled away. We figure we've been out of the Sharpsville house for seven years and in this one for four...any box that is still sealed from the last move (and is not memorabilia I'm too attached to to get rid of) is a good candidate for tossing out. ;)