Still Alive

Hey,

We are still alive and kicking, just bad about keeping up with this for some reason!!! Oh well once a month is something to look forward to right?

So the most recent news as of yesterday is that we are finally truck owners again! No more borrowing a truck from friends (that can wear out it's welcome very quickly, even though we have had some awesome friends to help us out here and there!) We bought a 2002 Ford F-150 crew cab (4 door with tons of leg room in the back seat) FX4 (off road package with 4x4). Of course it's not new but its a nice truck. We had to seach high and low for a nice one. Donny went to a ton of websites and we met with a few private parties and of course visited a lot of dealerships... That got exhausting! We ended up buying it from a private party in Austin. Really nice guy that seemed to take good care of it! All in all we now have 2 reliable (knock on wood) vehicles and are set there for a few years. Our camry is sort of a mom car, but its really comfortable and gets great gas mileage so we have no complaints at all!

The house is still a work in progress as I am sure it is bound to be for a few years to come... Right about time to sell right? lol I did some accent wall painting and I am really happy with the results. I went BLUE! If you know me somehow this wont shock you! I LOVE blue and black. Don didn't like it all that great when I first started, but he is coming around and is starting to like it more and more. We got some decorative curtains up that are really nice looking! All in all it is starting to feel more and more like a home and not a used furniture store! We still have not done out tile in the kitchen or bathrooms, but that will come in time. We have however picked out the tile that we want to go with! We replaced all of our white appliances with black (thanks to an awesome friend of ours that gave us all of his minus the fridge!) We love the way the black looks and were able to sell all of the white for just about what we paid for it 6 month prior! When Ken and April were here back in January, Ken help Don mount the LCD onto the wall and string our surround sound into the walls and it looks and sound great! I think thats all the news with the house for now!

Spring Break is in a week and a half and we all can't wait. My parents are coming down for the week from WA. Trais will be out of school so we will get to have some good visiting time with them. My Grandpa Al and Grandma Sharon are going to come down for a couple days from Ft. Worth too visit too! (This gave me a good excuse to buy a really nice futon to keep in our bedroom until we are in need of another bed! Who knew that one guest room would not be enough?) We LOVE to have company down here to stay with us so we can't wait. My parents haven't been here since Avery Layne was first born so they are in for it! She is MUCH louder now... hahaha! Hopefully while they are all here we will be able to get in some good visiting! My Dads B-day is during that week that they are here too, and he asked for some good Texas BBQ for his bday! We have been asking everyone thats local what they like best and will get to try them out when they get here! We here the best you can get is in a town called Lockhart which is about 45 mins south east from us so we will be going for a bit of a road trip! It should be worth it though from what everyone says!!!

We are all doing great! Trais has been still cruising right along with his school work and is making some good friends. He has been working really hard on his talking during class and it is coming along!

Avery Layne is sitting up now! She laughs (especially at Trais) a lot and is becoming a much happier baby! I am sure that she will be crawling here in the next few weeks.

Donny and I are of course doing great!!! I know I say it all the time, but I can't help it... He is my best friend in the whole world and can't imagine spending my life with anyone else. He makes me so happy all the time that it's almost disturbing! hahah just kidding! We both seem to rely on eachother for everything and I am perfectly ok with that!!!

I am watching a 3 month old baby 2 days a week now! It's only about 5 hours a day, so it's not much, but it is fun! She is a really easy baby and just goes with the flow. Avery and her could spend hours just staring at eachother. She is a super cute little thing and her parents are both really cool. The dad works full time and mom is going to school to be a rocket scientist... crazy huh? We seem to be getting along great though and it's working out for both of us.

Well. I better get going. I will sign off with a promise that I will write again soon, but you know how it goes and I hate to make an empty promise!

Love ya all!