Mood:  lazy

So it's been a little while since I updated everyone.  Nothing much has changed.  My Uncle Rusty turned the big 50 yesterday!!  So I guess that has changed a little!  We'll be going to see them in less than a month, on May 23rd, so we're all excited!  Jake and Blake espically 'cause they get to play golf as much as the can handle it!  My mom is also flying into Columbia on the 23rd.  We'll pick her up there, then come home on the 25th.  Our dear TMO friends will be here with moving trucks for the next 3 days, one of them being Jake's birthday, and then we'll clean and check out of housing.  Jake's heading off to Free Fall school a few days before we take off for Alaska. 

Our plan is to take the northern route, around the 1st of June.  We'll be stopping in Jersey (Robyn!!), MI (Amy & Taylor!!!), ND (Lys!), ID (Jake's Grandma), and WA (Jake's Mom), then heading to Alaska!  I'll be there until Jake meets up with me after his school.  We'll probably be leaving there right after the Anchorage Bucs 4th of July game, and then spending some time in WA until we hop on the plane to Japan!  That's the way it's looking right now anyways, all of this is probably going to change at one time or another. 

We're doing well here.  I've got most of the bedrooms sorted through and I can honestly say that S&S's room and Blake's room are ready to go.  Our's is almost there, but all the stuff to go to the thrift store is sitting in the corner so that makes it look worse than it is!  The laundry room and garage are on the calendar for this weekend.  Then it's mostly done.  We'll be getting rid of our couch in the next few weeks (like 2 weeks from now), our futon will take it's place for a few weeks, until we move.  We'll also be getting rid of our 2nd kitchen table, extra computer monitor, and probably the washer and dryer soon too.  I'm keeping the trampoline in storage with the motorcycle and garage shelving that we just shelled out a bunch of money for...  The kitchen table and beds are going with us.  That's pretty much it!!  lol  The cats go in for their blood draw on May 15th, however we're still not 100% sure they are coming with us....  We'll see, at least everything will be prepared for them to come.

For those of you on our myspace, we completely re-did our page yesterday!!  It looks really good, check it out.

I haven't really taken any pictures of the kids recently.  We've been busy outside and taking walks...  I'm up to about 6 miles a day, 10 some days, on the bike or walking.  Jake's been biking to and from work (13.8 miles one way) for the last few days.  We're trying to get into shape for the time that we will spend on our bikes in Japan!  It does feel good and I can see and feel the definition coming back to my legs!

Here's a scrap page some of you may be interested in.  The other kids are my best friends children!!  They belong to Taylor, Alyssa, Gwen & Amy, the only one missing is the new Amy baby, due in December!!!

And here's the kiddos Mamas!!  I'm going to have to re-do the map in a few months and move my picture all the way across the world!!!!

Okay, I'm off to shower and take Blake into the doctor.  He woke up at 2 am and then again at 4 am complaining of his ear hurting...  I can practically sense an ear infection coming on.  Go figure, the girls STOP having them and Blake gets one!!!  Bummer!  Oh, well, now I know how my mom felt when I had ear infections all the time!!!  Hope everyone has a great day!

Rae