The one with all the Candy...

it all feels so busy, but what is there of substance to actually tell? do you ever feel that way? that you are spending a lot of time, but not on anything worthwhile? I've been feeling that way lately. At work I feel like I spend way to much time in the office rather than building relationships with people, rather than in prayer, rather than going to the high school.

On the plus side, we've come to a good rhythm at home where I think our family gets to spend a good amount of time together - and for that we are very thankful, b/c that's way more important than my job. We have been busy over the past couple of weeks though.

I finally mowed my lawn for the first time ever... the lawnmower we bought with the house broke. for good. so I never got to mow the lawn with it. I'm not sure how i'm going to dispose of it though. I think I will just dismantle it a little bit every week and throw the parts in the trash until it's all gone.

so I had to get keys from my dad's house to get into my grandparents house to get keys for the pickup truck parked in their backyard. Then I could take the truck & get the lawnmower from my dad's & mow my lawn. Which I finally did. I had other things to pick up at my grandparents though, so it was a worthwhile trip. We still had our freezer over there full of Jonah's milk. I actually loaded & unloaded that thing into the truck by myself. Which makes me either a superhero or slightly stupid. Either way, Jonah gets his milk, I guess.

So I got to watch Isaac watch me to yard work outside all morning on Wednesday & watch me stain our deck. it was cool to watch him (and Jonah, with mom's help) watch me out our window - it was one of those little things that make me feel like we have a "home"

cindy & I were talking recently at how at "home" we are feeling. the house is wonderful - and it's amazing knowing that we are not just staying here until something else comes along. My job at Fair Haven feels like I've been doing it for years and that I'll be here for a long time. We haven't gotten to enjoy that feeling in two years. So it feels pretty good and stable for us right now. We're thankful for our kids to get some stability too!

Isaac is still refusing to walk. He can, he just doesn't want to. he's also refusing to let us feed himself sometimes. I think it's because he is wanting to do it himself more and more.

Jonah gave us his first giggle yesterday - I missed it but Cindy says it was great. He's rolling from his front to back now, smiling a lot & definitely interested in the world. They grow up so fast:)

We're in a pretty good rhythm at home now... Cindy & I are usually coming out of seperate bedrooms at the same time after putting each of them to bed... I don't know what we'd do if we had 3 kids & they outnumbered the parents! Jonah's sleeping pretty good now too - the last 2 nights have been 12 hours in a row!

Isaac went out trick or treating this week too. Cindy would stand him on the porch & ring the doorbell while he held on to his little bucket. At first people would hold their bowl of candy out & he wouldn't do anything. so they would drop some candy in his bucket. After a few houses Isaac would grab the candy out of his bucket and put it back in the bowl. And then he would start taking candy for himself out of the bowl, put it in his bucket and then pull it out & put it back in the bowl. He had a great time & Cindy & I get to eat his candy!

here are some recent pictures