It has been awhile since my last post. I have been terrible at this 40+ hour a week thing. I go go go at work all day and then I find that I don't have much energy for anything else besides playing with my kids, chit chatting with Mike and heading to bed. I haven't woken up early in WEEKS. I have lots of pictures and captions to share but first I will do a quick 5.
1. I am making coffee in my kitchen.
OUR COUNTERS ARE INSTALLED. Though we still don't have a kitchen faucet and there are a few more details that Luke needs to come finish up....we have counters!!!
2. The boys got so much better at baseball.
Though we surprisingly lost our first playoff game, this season it was actually fun to watch! I even made a new friend so it made the entire thing extra fun. I am actually looking forward to them getting better and watching them play next year.
3. I am liking my job.
The new gig is extremely challenging for me and tests my creative thinking, independence and judgement on a moment to moment basis. I am learning so freaking much that sometimes (most of the time) I want to slow down to have time to think through my decisions. I do see a light at the end of this crazy tunnel where I am not on full speed at all times but right now I am enjoying the ride. For the most part.
Best part -- I rarely RARELY get emails after 430pm.
**The last two are at the bottom of the post. Sorry for the break. Enjoy the pictures**
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| How we ate food for a few weeks. |
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| The joys of watching soccer. Our team is TERRIBLE but Owen is clearly the best on the team so I think he is having a blast. |
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| Cookout with old friends |
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| Jack was making sure to follow Ezra around extra closely. |
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| School work ALL day on Sunday. I was able to get another class finished. Only 4 left! |
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| I rarely do homework with the boys because of my schedule. I love sitting with them while they read. |
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| ...The night Mike got in an argument with the back neighbor.....but they made up and it ended in some YUMMY beer. **Take note -- Ivy Hills HATES fireworks** |
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| Something pierced the diet coke in my bag. I noticed it in the middle of the aisle at Walmart. Ugh. Another reason to hate Walmart. |
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| Completely, 100% out of my comfort zone at whale of a sale. Learning from the best. |
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| School picture day. He was sort of a mess about what to wear. Between the two of us we probably feed off each other. |
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When I was ordering hot chocolate for the daycare workers one morning Jack over heard and thought I ordered him chocolate milk. When I got to the window I purchased a special Friday treat for him too. :)
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| Jared's wedding. AMAZING. |
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| cleaning up trash in the neighborhood for their school project. Greg did the work with them. |
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| Micah's HUGS. We are obsessed with playing with our neighbors. |
4. Jack's clothes
For the past few weeks Jack has based his whole day off what type of clothes he is wearing. For example, today he has a dog on his shirt so he wants to watch dog cartoons and pretends to be a dog all day. He will ask to eat dog food when you ask him what he wants for lunch. One day I convinced him to wear a bike shirt. Bike cartoons are hard to find at 5am. haha
5. It's the weekend.
I want to wear sweatpants. Go to the gym, hit up soccer a few times and DO NOTHING. So freaking excited to be able to put our house back together. **So I guess that will take time** And then we will put up halloween directions. PUMPED.
