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Is anyone else wondering where the summer went, yeah…me too.
Once school got out in June, I was really kind of hoping for a nice calm summer, but that was just not the case. 
The kids got out of school, we signed papers on our new house and immediately got to work at moving in.  Moving is hard work and trying to do it and hold down jobs and keep obligations is a juggling act that can be quite harried. 

This is our new house.  I am truly loving it.  We have an acre, which we are taking great advantage of with a garden and berries and eventually fruit trees.  I should take a more current picture, because our yard does not look like this anymore, because T has worked his green magic on it and it is lush and very green now.  We downsized 1000 square feet, but I am not missing it.  There are plans for a shop in the future, for T to tinker in and storage.

M and J went on the youth trek this summer.  Poor M got heat exhaustion and severely sunburned.  She had to ride in the wagon.  The doctor just told her last week that once you have gotten heat exhaustion, you are more susceptible to getting it again in the future. Her sunscreen just was not effective for her.   J came back no sunburn but very dirty.  They had a great experience.





  They were home for a week and then we went to girls' camp.

We went to Alturas where we repelled and canoed.  I went on the second-year hike with J.  It was nice to spend some time with M and J and all my girls I am over at church. 

M got her driver's license and it has been the greatest blessing.  We have been grateful that she can run errands.  It just in time for the craziness of this fall. 

We had cousins come to visit, but we are so involved in 4-H and swimming lessons this year that we did not have as much time to be able to spend with them, but we did get some time in. 

M went to EFY again this year. I love to hear the daily reports of what went on and the spiritual growth that comes from this experience.

Now, here we are almost to the end of August, and things have changed so much.  T is working hard and has been busy preparing for the winter.  He just built our woodstove hearth.  I will put a picture up of the finished product after stove is intstalled.
I just got a job at the hospital, which has been one of my goals since we moved back.  I start my phlebotomy course next week.  If I get a certain grade in the class, the hospital will reimburse me for it.  This next semester will be so full.  My class is one semester, but it is M, T, Thurs, and all day Saturday.  Then I will be working 20 hours for the hospital and whatever I can with my transcription.  Let's hope I can put an update on here once in awhile.  We are busy with 4-H and preparing for the fair.  I was hoping for a nice slow week before school starts, but that is not to be, because my garden has just gone crazy and I have some canning to do.