Yes we are still alive!!

Okay, sorry about the length between posts. Life has gotten the better of us lately. For now it is just text, as I do not have my camera with me. I promise some pictures soon! What has been going on in our lives? First and most changing I got a job. Yes, I know a job, me!! It is okay. It has caused us to do a lot of adjusting in our lives however. I really do miss all the free time that I used to have, and now I have no time to do anyting. That's what I think anyway. It is sure that the computer has been one item that has had to go by the wayside. I am working at our local Farm Bureau Insurance office as a Sales Associate. Technically, I won't be an associate until I pass my licensing tests which are coming up at the end of April and beginning of May. I will then be licensed in Property, Casualty, Life and Fire in both person and commercial lines. Yea! Other changes that have been forced then are that the older three kids have to go to the after school program and Carter is going to daycare. I got a really nice lady from our church who has been doing daycare for a long time. He absolutely loves it there and adjusted really nicely. The kids like the activities at the afterschool program and they never want me to pick them up until it closes at 5:30 even though I get off at 4:30. Laundry is more of a challenge as are getting meals ready but we are managing.

Another change has been that we moved the bedrooms around in our house. For those of you who have been there you will understand. We moved all three boys upstairs into the giant bedroom up there. It is really almost like two seperate rooms and we are eventually going to put a wall up and give Michael his own room. For now Jack and Michael are very cute because they treat it like two seperate areas and they consider them each having seperate rooms. This however made a need to paint in our house, especially since Jason and I moved into the Nascar room the boys had previously been in. We also needed to paint the room that we use for Carter's toy room and the living room needs to be repainted too. So a few weeks back we re-started our repainting project that we started last year when we redid the bathroom and kitchen including floors and painted the dining room and hallway. The toy room is now painted and our bedroom is now painted and the living room is scheduled for this weekend. Hopefully then all the little stuff will get finished like the fact that we have no base trim anywhere in our house.

Michael also recently competed in the Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby. He came in 5th in his group which wasn't too bad. It was better than last year. He and Jack also just started soccer, and they really like it. This is something kind of new being offered here this year. Olivia declared it a boys sport and is happy just sitting on the sidelines watching.

Carter will be 17 mos old tomorrow and I don't know where the time has gone. He is very mischievous and into everything all the time. He also seems to be afraid of very little which comes in very handy with his need to climb everything. Still not a lot of hair on top but he is working on a nice mullet.

Not much else to report now. Thanks to all who bought GS cookies. Olivia sold 100 boxes. I am her troop leader and all together the seven of them sold over 700 boxes so good job to my girls.

I will try to keep up better now that our lives have taken on a new busy nature. Hope all our friends and family are doing well.