So we will see how many of my followers find my new blog minus our last name. Here is another update on our lives.... Mike's day's off just switched to tuesday/wednesday. Sad for me because now we don't get days off together and I have to teach primary by myself! I'm hoping the kids will have pity on me and be angels but I don't have much hope for that. But at least if there are no fires Ian & Eliza can stay home with him and only go to the babysitters 3 times a week.
Some of you had questions about my job.... I work at a new long term care and rehabilitation facility in town (which I wish to remain annoymous) where I am the Head of the Dietary Department as well as their Clinical Dietitian. So I am in charge of the kitchen, overseeing staff, purchasing food as well as doing clinical assessments on all the patients. It is fullfilling and it keeps me busy.
A few weeks ago we had a great visit from our old friends Brady & Annalisa. We had tons of fun and stayed up way too late.
This weekend since it was our last weekend with a day off together before Mike's schedule change we decided to go camping. We found a great area less than an hour from our house. Any locals have any guesses where we went???
The kids loved it.
We only had a bit of rain during the night but woke up to a sunny morning.
And what do you do with a little girl who dresses herself? And she won't dress up in cutesy girly things. I bribe her to get a skirt on most sundays. She loves dressing up in her brother's clothes. Here she is wearing Pirates of the Caribean Pajamas with a Jedi robe on top. This is a girl who has watched more Star Wars than any Princess movie. Partially because I'm kind of anti-Disney Princess. She still loves to play mom to her dolls and dresses the dolls in her cute clothes.
Thanks for following me over to this new blog. Everybody who reads this needs to comment so I can make sure who knows and doesn't know about the move!
Eliza insisted on wearing her new pink flip flops from Auntie Cris, brought all the way from Brazil. They clashed terribly but she loves them!
Ian was a good sport but extremely bored during all the picture taking and waiting, waiting, waiting.
The little girls had a ton of fun just scrambling around on the rocks. 
Ian climbs all the way to the top of this rock cliff. He really is good and can climb harder things, wedging his little feet into cracks. He climbs up up up and only slows down when coming down, we have to keep reminding him to keep his bellybutton toward the rocks. We also had a nice 4th of July, this is the first 4th of July in four years that we actually got to spend with Mike. It's also the first 4th of July since about 2002 that I've actually bought fireworks! We had barely shot all of ours off at 7:00 pm when a huge rainstorm hit, which ended up flooding quite a few houses in the neighborhood. At times like this I enjoy having a 2nd floor apartment. 
I hope everybody had a wonderfully independent 4th of July!