It is November!  Wow!  Where is the time going?  We are busy with band competitions and getting ready to move.  Yes, we are moving to a little bigger place.  We will have more room and a yard for the kids to play in.   We will still be renting but hope to maybe buy the place down the road.
We are in band competition mode.  Brynne is a freshman at San Marcos high school and they have a really good band.  She plays the flute and we are spending all of our time at competition helping and watching.  We have already gone to 3 and have 1 more before State Competition on December 1st.  It is lots of fun and very exciting to watch and listen.
We are waiting the arrival of my parents to help us move and enjoy Thanksgiving with us.  They are coming over for a few weeks and will be here to watch Brynne and see the kids.

Hopefully this finds you all well.

October 2012

Wow! It is October already!  We have celebrated 3 birthdays.  I had a birthday September 29th, Whitni had a birthday September 30th and Torey had his October 7th.  We get a break from birthdays until December.  We are enjoying high school football and getting ready to go to our first high school band competition.  Tomorrow is homecoming and then we load the semi truck and leave early Saturday morning for Royal High school in Simi Valley California.  Then we start our Special meetings on Sunday.  It will be good to sit and listen and be silent and renewed.  Life is very busy for us.  Brynne is keeping us very busy with the football games and now with band competition almost every Saturday.  Then we decided to add moving to a bigger place in November.  So we will be moving around Thanksgiving.  I can't wait but it is hard to pack when we are only moving less than a mile away.  Will just throw everything in the truck and Sequoia and move it.  Morgan is also addiing to our busy times.  She decided to join La Colina junior high drumline and is a little bass drummer.  She is having fun and really likes it.  This Christmas parade will be fun.  We will have 2 kids in the parade in the bands.  It makes life more fun.  At least we are not bored.  I can't figure out what being bored is.  That will be all for now.  Hopefully I will update in November.  

LIfe in Santa Barbara

Wow!  I forgot about the blog.  I will see if I can update it.  We are in Santa Barbara, CA and have been living here for over 2 years this November.  I can't believe how time has flown.  Mark is on his 2nd job here and likes this job.  That is good because there aren't too many jobs for him in this town.  I am working as a Special Ed aide in an elementary school and like it.  It keeps me busy and brings in a little extra.  Brynne is starting high school in a few weeks.  I can't believe I have a Freshman in the house.  She is in marching band and has spent all summer at marching camp and doing her volunteer hours at the Natural History museum.  Morgan will be starting junior high.  Torey will be in 4th grade and Whitni will be in 3rd grade.  They start school in 2 weeks.  It is about time.  We have spent our summer riding to the beach an 8-10 mile ride round trip. Then we do crafts or go to the museum or hang out at the beach.  Life is real rough.  We live about 1 mile from the beach walking or ride to another beach.  We are enjoying it here very much.