Current Happenings...

Happy spring! Well, almost. Sure feels like it today.

Long time no blog huh? We've been pretty busy, as usual.

Just last week we started house hunting again. Last Sunday Jason and I drove around and scoped out 16 houses! Of the 16 we found 4 that we will be looking at with a Realtor. Thursday evening we looked at a house that some of the guys I work with own. It was nice, but we don't have anything to compare it to. Monday afternoon we're looking at 3 more. It's pretty exciting!

Cait's basketball season wrapped up a couple of weeks ago. Their team didn't do so well overall, but the girls were great and had super spirits. I was a little disappointed because the one time I did bring my camera I forgot to use it. They were suppose to have a tournament where I would have taken pics but that was cancelled because of snow. :( Basketball took up 2 evenings a week and every Saturday afternoon, so a little of our running has been temporarily relieved. Softball starts in a month or so, so we'll be right back at it. But that's okay-I'm glad Cait is involved. Last week we went to a meeting at her new school. I can't believe she's starting junior high already!! The meeting was for band...and she has decided that she is going to play the trombone. A girl after my own heart. :) Even better, we have a trombone...just have to retrieve it from my dad's house and get it all shined up. She was also busy with her Girl Scout cookie sale. She managed to sell 184 boxes this year. That's the least amount she's sold in all of her years of scouting. We weren't too aggressive this year. Unfortunately she's losing interest in scouts and probably won't join next year. I think she'll have enough to do with starting middle school, basketball, softball and band. Other than that she's doing well...she's spending more and more time at friend's houses (or friends here). She's a well-rounded girl, that's for sure.

Jason found out Friday that his temporary position will become permanent. What a relief! He's been job hunting and there's not much out there right now. He likes the job he's at, but he's not paid as a social worker. We'll manage for now. At least it's permanent and will be full-time with benefits. Benefits are key! I have benefits at my job but when we got married we couldn't afford to add him for health insurance--it'd be an extra $200+ per month! The only other downfall besides the pay is that it's 20 miles from home. We're taking that into consideration in our search for a house too. I'm thrilled that he'll only have 2 0r 3 more Saturdays to work at his other part-time job. Monday through Friday...finally! :)

This morning I did some work in the garage-cleaning. My cousin Karen introduced me to Freecycle (www.freecycle.org) on her blog (www.karens2cents.blogspot.com). Yesterday afternoon I posted a message and within hours I had several replies. This morning someone took 2 of Cait's old bikes and someone else took our non-working gas grill. That's a lot of bulk from our garage that left nice open space! Freecycle is great...I've been running through other things in my mind that I'd like to get rid of. We have a couple of old T.V.s in the basement...hopefully they'll be the next to go! It would be nice if we didn't have to move that kind of stuff.

All for now. I've got to get some laundry going and such. Cait will be home soon so I'll have to fix lunch. Today is Nikki's birthday-she's a friend that was in our wedding. Later on we're meeting at Cancun-a fabulous Mexican restaurant-she and I and some other friends/family of hers. Will be fun.