Catching up

Now that our internet is so much better (faster, more reliable) I'm catching up with some posts I was not able to post due to poor internet connection. This one is from last year, probably November, at Splash, a fun swim park.
Our Micah coming out of the big water slide with our friend's son, Micah (He's 12. It's Big Micah and Little Micah when we're all together.) Little Micah LOVES the big water slides. His only complaint is that it's dark in the slide! I actually went down both slides with him (one is closed [in the pic] and the other is open) and they are sooo fun!

Micah floating around in the little kid pool.


One of lifeguards took to Micah and actually gave him a 20 min swim lesson! Of course, he wanted us to pay for official lessons and come twice a week. I would like Micah to have more lessons but I'm waiting for it to warm up. The water is really cold!



Micah going down the smaller water slides. He loves the water! I think we're heading into cool, cloudy weather though so it may be a while before he gets back into the water!

It's the little things...

Last Sunday I got a new stove! Let me rephrase that - a new-to-me transitional stove. It is a loaner from IS Housing. I wish I had taken a before and after picture so you could really understand why I'm excited about a new loaner stove.

The one that was in our house when we moved in - also a loaner - is pretty small, only one gas burner worked (I also had 2 electric burners), the oven knob was upside down and had single digit numbers (I never knew to what temp I was setting the oven), I could only use the bottom rack or tops of whatever I was baking would burn, and it only fit very small cooking sheets which meant I could only cook 6 cookies at a time! Imagine that!

This stove is much larger, the oven actually has a temp dial and a heat location indicator (bottom, top, or both) and it has an ignition button! No more matches!

The reason I call it a transitional stove is that we will be purchasing our own new stove soon. We have already gone stove shopping and picked one out. We had have to stagger our large appliance purchases because they're pretty expensive!

Another reason I may be so excited about this stove is that my stove & oven at home is from the 50's!!

Catching up with pics

I've got soooo many pictures of our time here. I need to catch up so this post will be mostly all pictures and some explanations. Enjoy!!






Micah, Isaiah & Caleb playing with squirt guns.







While shopping at Nakumatt (large grocery store) Micah always asks to go see the bikes. This trip I decided to let him try them out as well!

Watermelon delivery down the side of the road.

After the dedication of the 2 new planes, I was searching for Micah in the hangar. I heard him call out, "Mommy, I'm up here!" "Here I am!"

Jerry Hurd, an AIMAir pilot & mechanic brought his family & Micah into the DC-10. A boy's dream come true!!