Hey, we’re alive!
Dear blog readers:
If it were not for your blog reader or RSS feeds, you would likely not even bother to look at our blog anymore. As it stands, I hope you’ll see this one and know that I’d like to post more. With the advent of Facebook and Twitter, it seems I can keep tabs on friends without reading blogs and anything intelligent I might want to share I can do so in the space of 140 characters. I think blogging, though, has its own appeal and I shall try to update the blog more often than once a quarter! 
Here’s a short update (more thought-provoking stuff and pictures later): We’ve moved into our first home in November 2009 and love it, love it, love it. It’s a beautiful, comfortable spot with an endless list of fun projects to work on. We also have become legit Utahns as we traded in our Scion xB for a snow-worthy Subaru Outback. Now it’s harder to find our car, but it’s nice to feel safe driving after a snow (and coincidentally after Ashley had a fender bender skidding out during a snow fall). We also, have very sadly, given our beloved dog to another family. We weren’t able to give him enough attention and walks and Ezra liked wrestling a bit too much (and pulling his ears) with him. We are convinced it was a good decision for us at this time and the family he’s now with is great — 5 kids who love on him all the time, without any wee ones who want to crawl all over him. We love you and miss you Francis! We are looking forward to visiting him in a month or so (he now lives about 30 minutes from us).
In other news, we are getting into the swing of the spring semester. Bryce is working hard with RUF, we’re having students over regularly which is fun for me and the kids, and I’m getting 2 mornings a week to work on my PhD. Ezra is in a music class where he enjoys dancing around and banging on drums and we have a lovely Mom’s group at church. Porter is at 10 months (!) starting to walk and is a delight for us with his ever-cheerful demeanor.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Welcome back to the world of blogging! I might even have to try to get back to the routine.
January 28th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Glad you’re enjoying life in Utah. Are you planning on going to GA this year?
January 28th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Sheena, I’m undecided. I’d love to go without kids but was also thinking of going to RUF staff training in July. Two 5-day trips away from Mama in the space of roughly a month I think would be too hard on the kiddos. I have heard there’s going to be childcare though at GA, so that may change things. Are you going?
January 28th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
Good to see a blog update from you. I was just going to ask if Porter was walking already. I was so certain that he would be. Wish he could come over and play with Charlotte. Keep posting!
January 28th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Thanks for the blog update! I am no longer on Facebook. I wasted too much time playing with it. Your blog is my main contact with your family. Enjoy the snow.
Sam
January 29th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
YES! Blogs have their own special joy that is better then FB or Twitter, cause I get to hear the journal and see more pictures! Keep posting, we miss you guys and love to hear the updates! (and MAN, your boys are cute!)