New Car

Now that I have a job where I have to use my own car we purchased a 2005 Scion xB. The xB gets good mileage and is fun to drive. I know some people don't like them but I do!

The best part is that Amber can drive it so she does not always have to drive the Mazda. Also if I need the van for a scout outing she is not stuck at home with no car.

WATER FIGHT!!!

Laurel pouring water on Josh

Lawrence about to get mom

Last Friday Azaria had a friend over and they found a package of water balloons we had never gotten around to using. They nicely begged for me to start filling them up as they had tried themselves and had very little luck. I found some buckets and sat down by the spicket and began to fill about a hundred water balloons which my fingers got very tired of tying. A few escaped my buckets early as the kids had to see just how well they would pop and a few got overfilled so I was wet before the balloons even started flying...lol

The neighbor kids saw what we were up to and quickly joined in on the water fight. I think the balloons lasted about 5 minutes tops before they were all gone. A few kids didn't even get to throw any as they didn't get over to our house soon enough. That didn't stop the kids though, they just took to filling up the buckets and soda bottles with water to pour on each other. The wagon was used to transport the water buckets to the next person to be doused. All the kids had a blast and I enjoyed watching it. We love our new neighborhood and all the friends on the block. We've already bought a few more packages of balloons from the dollar store and are going to get some other moms to help fill the balloons so this time all the kids will have some to throw and be able to have fun keeping cool in the heat.

Back to School!

The kids were excited to head back to school. Lawrence is now in 3rd grade and Azaria is now in 1st grade. They were so enthusiastic to get going the first day they were up by 6 am when school doesn't even start till 9 am. Lots of kids from their old school moved to this school when it opened last year so Lawrence now has two of his best from first grade in his class this year again. Azaria has a few girls from church in her class so she already knew some people. Their teachers have both told us how well behaved in class they are. I'm glad they save any bad behavior for me at home :)

Azaria had such a great day last week the that the stuffed monkey in their class named Marley came home to tell us all about it. If Marley comes home with your child though he likes to be read a bed time story and you have to do something fun with him also and write about it in his journal. Zari decided since he is a monkey he would like to play at the park so off we went to monkey around with Marley.

Alan's New Job

I started my new job this week with Perkinson Reprographics in Phoenix. I will be still working wth KIP, HP and Canon printers. Now I will also be working with OCE printers and a few new software packages for job tracking and billing. Also I will be taking the roll of Manager in the future. I am very excited to be working for a larger company that is growing. The very best part of this job is that I will not be driving all over Arizona to support customers. There are only three customers out of the Phoenix Metro area. Closer to home is always good.