- Jeremy just returned from 8 days out of town. I thought I may not survive, but somehow everyone stayed alive and relatively functional. He went to London, England; Dusseldorf, Germany; and Strasbourg, France for work. Pretty exciting! It was a busy trip and he didn't have much time for sight seeing, but it was still pretty cool. Luckily we were able to talk everyday via skype and texting. He showed us all his pictures last night and the boys thought everything was "awwwesome". He also brought us home some yummy European chocolates. We're so glad he's home!(The Kinder eggs had toy airplanes inside of them. Those were definitely a hit!)
- Eli started school a month ago. It's going really well! I was nervous for the adjustment to 1st grade after half-day kindergarten, but he has done great. It's amazing the difference a year makes. He seems happy most days and never complains about going to school. I'm proud of how responsible he is. Jeremy says he's the most responsible 6 yr old ever. He gets himself up every morning about 6:55 and gets dressed and heads downstairs to do his piano practicing, without being reminded or asked. It's so nice getting that done before school. After school he comes home and has a snack and usually goes to his usual spot on the bean bag chair to read for a little while. I call that his "happy place". Before too long, we usually have a knock on the door from the neighbor kids and for the next couple hours until dinner, all my kids and three of the neighbors are usually running around outside jumping on the trampoline, playing freeze tag, or playing a game of baseball. It makes me so happy to have them active and enjoying childhood! Especially after being confined to a classroom all day. I'm usually able to make dinner in peace too which is another plus. :)
- Oh, this probably should have been the first update but everyone who reads this probably already knows - we're expecting baby #4! I'm over 17 weeks now and feeling good. Morning sickness kicked my behind this time around. I really struggled until 13-14 weeks and it was rough. I didn't throw up much, but I just felt really awful all the time - day and night. I'm so glad that's over!! We get to find out the gender in just a few weeks and we are very excited! Everyone in the family seems to think it's a boy (Anna is adamant that it is a boy, silly girl), so we'll see...
- I've been on a decorating kick lately. We did a ton of painting when we first moved in and then I told myself I just had to shut off my want-to-decorate eyes for a few months so we could save and budget for what we wanted to do next. Well, it's been about 6 months since we moved in (crazy!) and we started doing a few more things again. Jeremy did a couple more small painting projects and I repainted some furniture items we already had and stained and finished a new coffee table for our family room. I'll be sure to put some pictures up soon! One of my favorite hobbies is decorating and I told Jeremy it's really good one of my other favorite hobbies is budgeting/finance (I know, I'm weird), so I keep myself in check. Luckily all our projects this month were very inexpensive but made a huge difference! Next month we plan to paint the living/dining room and then everything on the main floor will be done. Woohoo!
That's about it for now! I know I need to put a lot more pictures up and catch up on a few more things from the summer, but I just wanted to get something on here to get myself going again. Stay tuned!
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