We are alive!

Contrary to popular opinion we are alive. The summer was very busy with the new house, vacation, and just the day to day routines. Tommy and Matthew enjoyed their vacation and Matthew is very sad the Tommy is gone during the day at school and he is "lonely."

Here are a few pics of the new house. Better late than never.

Guess what? This is the front.

And this would be the back.

The back also includes the patio that Tom and I built over several weeks of the summer. Not too bad for amateurs and we figure doing it ourselves saved about $10,000.00. DIY here we come!

The house sits in the middle of about three acres of land. It really is nice and quiet here. Trees, deer, and other assorted critters and creepy crawlies share the land with us. The weather has prevented the grass from growing well and we are expecting the builder to come back one more time to get it straight for us. That and the driveway needs to be finished off. But it is home sweet home.

I'll try to get something to post in the next few days. Thanks for stopping by.

Quick Update

Things are busy now. We have just moved into our new house and it is GREAT! The boys are enjoying having their own rooms again and they especially like the basement area that they have been allowed to convert to GeoTrax land. Tommy is doing great in school and Matthew is always on the go. Energy know no bounds with him.

Hard to believe that Tommy is almost finished 1st grade. Matthew will be going to pre-school in the fall at Tommy's school and he is excited. I think.

We actually moved into the house the weekend of February 15th and we are still unpacking it and making it ours by hanging pictures and making sure furniture is where we want it. One thing is certain, there is so much to do and so little time each day to do it.

However, it is nice to look back at the past year and a half from selling the old house, renting a house while ours was being built and now having our new place and see that God had his hand in all of it. While we had many human issues with people and their personalities (landlord's agent and landlord in some cases), monotonous issues with the mortgage companies and the builder's agents, it did make us wiser and stronger I think. And now we have our home. A place to rest and a place to enjoy. Sounds kind of mushy now, but I and my family are truly thankful for all that God has done for us!

I give up

I will never again state that I am ready to post something new. Every time I do, I don't come back to the site for two months.

So if anyone even ever looks at this blog, I apologize and I make no further promises. Stop back in if you ever feel like it and if you don't, I do not blame you.