We are on the move

So we have decided it was time to move on. Paul and I are both going to go back to school and finish getting our degrees. Paul is going to get his master's in counseling and I have chosen to get my nursing degree. We want to be able to pursue our education with the least stress possible so we will be putting our house on the market and moving in with family to achieve our goals as quickly as possible.
We have been doing some project that need to be finished to sell the house. We had our agent over and she asked is we had wood floors underneath the carpet, to our surprise there was. Who would cover them up especially with dated, grey carpet? So my mom took the girls last night so we could pull up the carpet and we found wood floors in fairly good condition. To bad we didn't realize this when we moved in. It is funny I was thinking when we moved in to the house we repainted everything and now that we are moving out after two children and two dogs we are replacing the flooring. I will keep you updated with the progress and we are happy to be able to finish our education and continue on with life.

Out and about............

I don't know if you can tell how enormous this cow is, it is twice the size of a normal cow.
It was pretty much the only animal worth seeing that was left at the fair, I guess that is what we get for going on the last day.

Here is me and the little ladies on the merry-go-round.

Mama Jane wanted us to get a bike for Annika on her birthday, we thought this one would be good.

Our little cutie hanging out at Paul's baseball game.


I know it has been a few weeks since I last posted, last Sunday we met up with Nicole and Brent at the State Fair. They had just come home from a all niter at Wendover, they always are out living it up. We went on the last day of the fair, one reason for that was to go to the demolition derby but when we walked up to the gate there was a sign that it was all sold out. Nice, it didn't say anything about purchasing tickets on the Internet, oh well. We bought a funnel cake to make up for the disappointment, there was a cute little exhibit for kids call Little hands on the farm. It helps children understand the process of harvesting their own goods and the steps it takes to be able to sell them for a profit at our local stores. The girls wanted to hit the rides, carnival rides always give me the creeps but I guess it not the adult they make the money from, kids do not know any better. Paul has started his fall baseball league so we have been dousing ourselves with bug spray and love still being able to get and watch him play, his is pretty awesome at short stop.

MOMMY & ME

I took these pictures after we came home from class

She did not want to have any pictures taken of her.

I signed Sydney and I up for a mommy and me dance class. Today was our first class and she was a little hestitant at first but warmed up to the other kids by the end. At the end of class they do an activity called the Tumble Jungle, they have the girls do summersalts, balance beam, teeter totter and they have trampoline. The trampoline was Sydney's favorite she tried jumping on it but it ended up more like she was running in place, it was so much fun to have some time for her and I together. As a second child we do not get much time alone with her one on one, I think she enjoyed it as well. My sister-in-law Joanna have her little kids in the class as well it is so great to spend some time with them as well.

It is POSSIBLE!!!

Today for lunch we were having soup and with soup you usually have saltines. When we were finished Paul wanted to see if he could eat the 6 saltines in one minute. I started to stop-watch and fifteen seconds into it he had consumed three crackers so he was well on his way. He was at the half way point and he was on his fifth cracker, and with five seconds to spare he swallowed the remaining crackers. So it is possible!!!!

Have you tried the saltine challenge?

Tuesday night Paul and I were watching the Food Network. The show we were watching I think was something like "Myth Busters". Anyways there was a challenge on there, the challenge was to eat 6 saltine crackers in 1 minute. They had a fairly large man try it out and he only was able to eat 3 in that amount of time, WEAK, is the word that came to my mind. At the time we didn't have any saltine's in the house so we went out and bought some. Paul told me that he had heard of this challenge before and had tried it and he also didn't complete it. It seems simple enough, I'm sure that I could do it. The first try I had three in my mouth by 30 seconds and by a minute I was still trying to swallow. So I tried again and I had shoved five in my mouth by a minute but was no where near close to swallowing. So I want to know if any of you have tried this and succeeded, it has to be possible. I am going to continue to attempt it for some reason I really want to be able to do this, though I'm not sure why it is bothering me so much. Anyways, good luck.