This is for Julie

I had a friend tell me she found my blog and she was excited that she could keep up with us, but I haven't been updating. So this is for you Julie and I will try to get back in to better habits.
We have been busy, in the past couple of month we have been cutting 15 trees cut down (rather we had some else cut them down), redoing bedrooms, watching Kirsten's dramatic reading in which she memorized several pages of script in one day, visiting Pittsburgh twice, playing soccer (all 4 kids are playing), and replacing our pressure water tank (that's the controller pictured). Everything takes much longer to get done than expected. The floor picture is of the orange rubbery carpet pad that stuck to the wood floor after many, many years of being in contact. I had to scrape and scrape and use a heat gun and serious arm muscles to get it off the floor. The yard is looking less like a war zone, so we are making progress and hope our house will look less like a war zone when we get the next bedroom done.