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Ethan’s 9th Birthday

We celebrated Ethan’s birthday a couple of days late this year. We had our Girl Scout troops investiture and rededication meeting on his birthday. I know, I’m the troop leader and it was bad of me to schedule something on his birthday, but we did have it scheduled for Saturday and not everybody could come so we adjusted it.

So at nine years old he is in the third grade. He finds the work too easy, and is quite bored most of the time. He almost never practices his spelling words and will usually miss only one or two (just think if he actually practiced he wouldn’t miss any!). He doesn’t do his homework but always does well on the tests in school, so it’s obvious that he knows his stuff (takes after his daddy, Kyle was just like that too, drove his teachers nuts…). Ethan is totally into legos, and that’s usually what he’s messing with when he’s supposed to be doing homework. He is also in cub scouts and now that he’s nine, that means that my little wolf has moved up to bears:

Tooth fairy’s last visit for 2011 and first for 2012

The tooth fairy made her last visit for 2011 to come and collect Ethan’s tooth on Dec 31.

And now, one week later has to come make her first visit of 2012 considering Tyra lost a tooth too. Ironically they both lost the tooth from the same spot, the one just to the right of their two front teeth. Unfortunately I failed to get a picture of Tyra with the new hole in her mouth.

Maintenance

Please excuse the messy state of our blogs and photo gallery at the present time. We’ve had some things just stop working and so Kyle is working on fixing those things and updating everything. He’s got the blog back up to the point where I can use it again, but he still has to fix the way it looks and all that jazz. Hopefully it will all be working and looking nice again soon. 🙂

10 Years

Ten years ago we looked like this:

Today Kyle celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary! We didn’t really do anything today but stay home and work on cleaning out the basement. But that is because we have some money saved up for the two of us to go away for a weekend and we knew we weren’t really going to do anything ON our anniversary. Of course we still don’t know WHEN we will go away for a weekend. But we’ll be sure to do that sometime soon.

In the past 10 years we have lived in 2 houses and 2 apartments, 4 different cities, and 2 different states. Kyle graduated from Fullerton community college with an AS. We raised some bunnies, they were my babies before we started having babies. 🙂 Kyle has worked for 5 different companies, sometimes working more than 1 at a time. I haven’t worked in an office since the very beginning of our marriage although I am technically making some money babysitting right now so that brings my job total for the last 10 years to 2. I have been privileged to be a stay at home mom since before Ethan was born. We have bought a house. We have welcomed 6 children to our family.

We started out our marriage with a purple Kia Sephia and a minty green Ford Escort. Then we upgraded the Ford to a Dodge Grand Caravan before Jeremy was born. Then Kyle’s Kia was totaled and we bought a used Mercury Sable with the insurance money. However when the repairs required to make that car safe enough to be registered were just too expensive we decided to just buy a new car and that is when we got the purple Hyundai Elantra. Some time after that we upgraded the mini-van to a 12 passenger Chevy Express which we refer to as the Mega-Van. So we have been through 6 cars in the last 10 years.

Kyle is afraid to count the computers we’ve gone through in the last 10 years, but we are working on our 3rd digital camera and 2nd digital video camera. 😉

Over the last ten years we have accumulated and overcome quite a bit of debt (of course looking at the list of cars above that was a good portion of it). In addition to the car debt there was credit card debt and a mortgage and a second mortgage. We have paid everything off but the Mega-Van and the house (small second mortgage is gone so it’s just the main mortgage left).

We have come a long way in the last 10 years. Here’s to looking forward to another 10 and beyond! Love you hunny. 🙂