Hello from Texas

Hi Family. I honestly did forget about our blog until I was checking a friend's blog just last night. Then Becky's email reminded me again. So, here I am. I don't really think I have any big news, but I will just update everyone on the Guinn clan.

Jeremy is still working in his job as a medical sales rep. He has been doing it for just over a year and seems to like it. His hours are better than they were when he worked in the lab and he has weekends off now. That is really great. We have never had every weekend together until now. One of us was working just about every weekend before, so we have had a lot more family time with his new job.

I am still staying home with the kiddos. I miss my job a little, but Sarah still works at the hospital I was at and she is good at reminding me what I am (not) missing. It's great being able to stay home and take care of things. It was really hard trying to juggle everything when I had to work outside the home.

Ashley is about to finish up her semester at school. She is in her second year of college. She is living at home and commuting now. It's nice having her home, and I think she enjoys being in the kids' lives everyday instead of just on weekends. She moved downstairs to the guest room to have a little more privacy. She likes it in her new room, but now the guests have to climb the stairs to sleep. (Sorry Mom and Dave). We haven't had any guest complaints so far, so I guess it's not a big deal.

Sarah is in 3rd grade and still loving school. She still loves to read- we can't give her enough books. She is really into reading non-viction (what she calls it) books. She has read a few biographies and she loves to tell me interesting facts about different historical characters. She is in dance and loves it. She told me the other day that she is going to dance till she can't walk anymore, then that she will probably just get a walker and dance some more. :)

Liam started going to Mother's Day Out this year. I am not sure if that is just a Texas thing, so I will explain. It is basically a pre-school that is a few hours a day, a few days a week. He goes from 9-2 on Mon, Wed, and Fri. Owen is in his class, and they think that is just great. They are both learning so much, it's like their brains are little sponges. This morning on the way to school they were telling me all the different family names they can spell and the different sounds each letter makes. They have a cute song they learned in school to practice the letter sounds. It goes "Who let the A out- aahh, aahh, aahh" - to the Who let the dogs out tune. We have to sing it all the way through the alphabet each time, so that is fun.

Austin is my little sweetie. He is full of energy and even more full of mischief! He is the cutest little thing with his white blonde hair and big blue eyes. He uses his cuteness to it's full advantage when he is misbehaving. It's hard to discipline such a cutie pie when he smiles up at you so sweetly. He has decided that he has had enough of diapers and is in the process of potty training himself (pretty much). We haven't really had to do much other than encourage him to go potty. Today is the first day that he got to go out in public in "big boy pants", so he was pretty excited.

We are still living in the same house that a few of you have visited. We feel really crowded as far as yard space- we can see right through the neighbors house if they leave their blinds open! We keep toying with the idea of moving to a house with an acre or more. But then we spend time with our neighbors (who are all GREAT!) and think we can just stay here. It's a hard decision. We are replacing the carpet (crack house carpet as Heather would call it) with hardwood floors this year. We ordered the floors yesterday and are really excited to get them in. Hopefully they will be in the first week of December.

That is about all I have to say for now. I really miss everyone and wish we could spend Christmas together. Anyone want to come visit?? We will make room for all! We love everyone and hope to be able to see each one of you soon.