A Little Bit Of A Recap Of Well.... Life

So it has been some time since I have last posted, and that is because life has been chasing us down. Well I think that things have finally caught up and maybe things will start to slow down. To be completely honest thing at the home have not been going as wonderful and cheery as I would like to say. Mike has still not found the job, there are just to many other people looking as well. He is competing with for sure 300 alone from his old company and I haven't had any luck either. No one wants to hire a new graduate but a person with background in the field. Sigh so here we sit with things inflating and are belt getting smaller and smaller. This has been causing us a great deal of stress and tension and forcing us to make some hard decisions, but some time soon hopefully something with give, or at least give before we break. We have been making sure to try to keep things away from the kids as much as possible, esp. Kain. He is so sensitive and always knows when something is up.

On the positive side Kain has started school with Mommy. We have been working a lot on pre-K things such as learning how to write his name, Months, Days of the week, Math, and Phonics. He is doing wonderful and he loves to learn. Kain has also started Soccer on Saturdays and Tae Kwon Do on Wednesday. He has to work on the listening to others a bit but I think that he will catch on pretty fast. I will have picture of this posted soon. They are just sitting on the camera and I am to lazy to up loud them. Hehe sorry.

In other news Raelyn is finally sitting on her own and getting to be a pro at standing, with a bit of help that is. She also has a pretty good nap system going on right now. Two naps one in the morning and one in the afternoon makes for a much happier and easier to manage baby. We have still been having some issues with her getting up way to much in the middle of the night. So Mike and I have been doing a bit of tough love and sleeping in the living room. Tonight will be the first night this week we will be back in our bedroom. We have gotten to her down to one feeding a night after a 8 hour sleep. So that is much better then what we were dealing with before. In a couple of weeks we will try to wean her from this also, if she doesn't do it on her own.

Other then that things have been normal, lots of cleaning, diapering, making baby food and what not. I have also been working hard on getting my store going on the side. I have put in some long hours and have quite a few new things up in my shop and more on the way. I also have some people who will be helping me get my stuff out there. Hopefully this will help and things will start to take off. We will just have to wait and see. I am excitedly going to take advantage of the up coming holiday and my cute daughter and get some spectacular costumes up and for sale. Well that is what I have been working on, along with another blog for my shop. Sigh just so much to do to keep me busy. Lets just hope that it pays off.

So in conclusion to this long post I will let you guys see some pictures of the last weeks of our summer and how we spent them. Now bring on the Fall I am so ready for hot cider, Carmel apples, sweaters, and trips to the woods and apple orchards.

Going to the beach and playing in the sand.

Going to the beach and playing in the sand, never mind sleeping Daddy in the background.

Getting real excited playing computer games.

Pondering the meaning of life.

Driving the Boat

Sitting in the sand in our underware

Enjoying the Waves

Building sand castles in our underware

Jumping rocks with Daddy

Just being cute

Chillen in the woods

Hiking in the woods because Mommy couldn't wait till Fall.

Lusting at cute baby puppies

And just hanging in our Pjs.


These are the things that made up our Summer. Summer we will miss you but look forward to the up coming new season. See you next year.