we've been busy

The past few weeks have been, as usual, just insane! Summer semester ended for me and we decided to take a little family vacation. We went to California and what an adventure! It was supposed to be a 13 hour drive from Vernal, but with both the boys potty trained and frequent (like every 30 minutes frequent) stops for potty breaks it took us a forever to get there!We got a new car and paid it off! WHOOT WHOOT!! Nick and I have been budgeting like crazy men to get everything paid off-- we only have the house left to pay off! And if we stick to our budget it will be paid off early too! Stryker started soccer. He is growing up so fast. I love watching him play with the other kids and he's so funny the way hangs on his coach's every word. Cute! Cute! Cute! I decided not to put him in preschool this year. We work really hard at home with teaching him the normal preschool stuff. He knows addition and subtraction and is well on his way to reading on his own. I think the only thing he might be missing out on is the interaction with other kids but he does have soccer, story time and activity days every tuesday and wednesday with other kids--so maybe he isn't missing out. A few weeks ago he told me he wanted to grow his hair out to look like Justin Bieber's because "the ladies like it"....he thinks Justin Bieber is ULTIMATE and has it in his head that the Biebs plays piano- so, now Stryker wants to play piano, which I think is awesome!! He starts lessons next week. As for sweet baby Kingston, he's just growing up so fast too! He wants to do everything his big brother does. He has such a devious streak in him lately- he thinks its funny when people get hurt and really seems to enjoy breaking things, climbing on things, jumping off of things--he's scary! Fall semester started Monday and I love my classes! Oh and Nick just got a promotion....he's going drilling! I'm so proud of him! Alright, well, enough with my novella....I guess I'll go do some laundry