It's been a long time...

Wow. Life goes by so quickly.

Update on us...
Mike is working for K-Designers as a marketing director and it's going well.
I'm working for SensaLearn as a reading specialist for a charter school in Lehi four days a week.
Little Miss P goes to a Montessori preschool while I'm at work and is adjusting pretty well.

We've had some challenges as we've adjusted to living only based on commission (hence my having a job), but we've survived by the skin of our teeth.

At some point, we went through a miscarriage, which was interesting and sad. I've had some pretty sad days in the last few years, but going to the doctor expecting to see a moving, beating little heart on the sonogram and seeing no movement was one of the top saddest days of my life. Then, having to wait for the miscarriage to happen made for a looooong week. I also realized that just like a lot of tragedy, until you've experienced it yourself, you don't fully appreciate the depth of feelings that accompany it.

In July we spent a week camping in Sequoia National Park with Mike's family.

One of the best parts for me was walking through the Giant Forest with the biggest trees I have ever seen in my life. It is impossible to describe what it's like to feel so absolutely tiny in the midst of huge trees.

This school year has been challenging with the older kids being in two different schools. B got into a charter school and H didn't get in. Now, we spend 50-70 min morning and afternoon doing drop offs and pick ups. We always knew we'd have to deal with different schools when B was in Jr High but having school start/end times close together has been crazy. And, to top it off, the schools are in different districts, so we also have different days off for them. Example, this week H is off on Friday and B has next Friday off. Lame.

The best event so far has probably been P turning 1! We threw her a watermelon themed party at a park near our house.