family update

I'll try to make an effort to post more often. Someday I'll spruce up my blog page too.

For starters we moved out of our house on Navy base housing, but we're still in the same area. We're pretty much settled and we're loving our new house. We've planted two raised beds, two blueberry bushes and several rose bushes (we weren't allowed to do that on base). We're so excited and Brett is taking pictures every day of our first roses that have bloomed. They're so beautiful. The kids adjusted much faster than I thought they would. It only took about a week to adjust.

Brett is busy, but doing well. He's teaching two classes now so he works a lot but still manages to come home by 4 or 5. At home we're working on small projects like fixing Kirk's train set, preparing a garage sale, and upkeep our garden. Brett even built a dresser for Alex a while back and we painted it with green frogs.

This may sound funny, but I have difficulty filling up free time. Not that I get a ton of it, but maybe that's part of the reason. I've been like this ever since Kirk was born. A lot of the things I used to do don't transition very well into married life with children. So what have I done, I've turned to crafts....... For those of you who know me, I'm not a crafty person. I love to sing, dance, read, play sports, just about anything else but crafts!!! However they are growing on me. I've taken on crocheting. It takes a LOT of patience to get good at, but I'm taking baby steps lol. I'm hoping to get a piano later this year, but we have a lot of money to save in order to get a decent one. I suppose that I'm an impatient person because crafts take a LOT of patience haha. Brett tells me to keep going at it because I could use a little more patience lol! (what an understatement).

Kirk is almost 2 now and is getting so smart every day. Out of nowhere he did a summersault about a week ago. He loves doing anything active in lots of open space. He's such a joy in our home, although he can be pretty stubborn. He refuses to eat most foods unless we buckle him in a booster seat at meal time until he eats. That is definitely his mommy manifested in him for sure!

Alex is almost 8 monts old and is such a sweet spirit and very relaxed. So relaxed that he didn't roll over till 6 months and hasn't done it since. That's ok, he loves his Johnny Jump Up. I was so excited! Kirk couldn't stand the silly thing. Every kid is so different. Alex already says Mama and Dada and Baba for ball and balloon. He's definitely going to be a talker.