Gymnastics star!

Ok, so maybe she's not a "star" yet....but Anna's doing an excellent job at gymnastics. This week they brought out some of the equipment that we all think about when we hear the word gymnastics, and it was fun to see what a good job Anna did her first time on the equipment. I hate to sound too proud, or obnoxious, but Anna is just a born athelete, and gymnastics is no exception. Basketball is the exception...haha. It never ceases to amaze me that she came from me....I am about the least atheletic person you could ever meet.

Pavan stayed home with the little ones so I could take the girls to AWANA and gymnastics, and run by WalMart to pick up a few things. He's leaving town soon for a week, so I think he's trying to soak up time with the little ones before he leaves. He always thinks they will forget him, even if he's gone for a few days. It will be nice for him to be done with the oral boards though, he's been pretty stressed out about the whole thing. He reads until he falls asleep at night, then wakes up in the middle of the night and reads, stays late at work to read. Poor guy, it's hard to find time to study around here!

It was a little bit chilly today, but once the sun came out this afternoon it warmed up to around 55. We spent most of the day outside, and Amaya got a little bitty 4 wheeler at WalMart. She was more fascinated with the Dora stickers that decorate the thing than with driving it, but Noah was more than happy to drive it around. Of course he kept driving it up little hills, and kept flipping it over backward. I think little boys can find a way to get hurt no matter what they're doing!

Once Pavan got home this afternoon, we spent some time hanging up brackets in between the garage doors so we could put up some hanging plant baskets. It looks great! DJ surprised us by stopping over to visit about our plans for the house, and it was nice to see him. I never knew it, but apparently DJ used to work for the man who've chosen to do the work on our house. He has nothing but good things to say about the guy, so that was great to hear. We really trust DJs advice, and appreciate his friendship. He thinks we can get really good money for the land we are going to sell, and is going to help us divide it into lots to sell. His aunt is our realtor, Kathy Dolch. What an exceptional family they are! They have both helped us out immensely, and we feel so blessed to have met such great people. And to think, we were referred to Kathy by our financial advisors....you see what a small world we live in??

Not much else going on around here. Kindra has been moving her things to the downstairs bedroom, and I think she might sleep in the bed down there for the first time tonight. She's been sleeping on the couch....Anna and I picked out new bedding for Kindra and she was so excited. A couple of fuzzy pillows too...very girly. I think that will get her off the couch and into the bedroom...good thing she picked now to move downstairs, hopefully we'll get construction going on the loft within the next couple of weeks.

One more tidbit for those of you keeping up with our house troubles....Bob Almekinder finally called Pavan today. He's the one who build this house, and we were hoping he could give us information about who put on the metal roof. Well, he gave Pavan some info about why the Bruds put the metal roof on, and he's going to call back with the name of the guy who put on the roof. That's our golden ticket right there! I hope he really does call back, but I feel like we're finally onto something. Maybe our luck is changing....

One more thing, I fixed the links on our homepage, so hopefully you can access this page by clicking the "journal" link. If it stops working again, just email me so I can reset the link. I'm not sure why it keeps malfunctioning.

Rebecca