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Side note - we are moved in and getting boxes unpacked left and right... more to come about that later. Have a great week!

I am here still! Just not getting to my blog nearly as much as before! I have posts to do - to catch up, and thought I would do that tonight but I can't get pictures to upload at the moment. With Thanksgiving Weekend coming up, I might have a bit of time between 5 kids, Elijah's birthday party, turkey dinner...etc to update! I hope so!
Stay tuned! :)

we're moving -

This past month we've sold our home and bought a house! Ya, nothing out of the ordinary for us to be doing, we know! After Fran and Amy leave, we'll have about 1 week to get everything packed up and out of here. Here's a picture of our new house:we are excited to move in - and do have a plan to stay closer to 10 years!

Where the Wild Things Are

...in the middle of a city?! LOL. We basically live in a downtown area and so you would think that it would unlikely to find "wild things" in our area. We have lots and lots of birds (they like the red berry trees, right Teresa?!), a number of squirrels and now apparently racoons.
On July 4, in the evening when Kurt and Dana came to meet Gabriella, we heard a whole lot of racket out back. We looked out to see why the birds were being so loud and there in the corner was a racoon!Unreal! And then this morning when I was up to feed Gabi I heard some rustling in the backyard again. I peeked out to find a or the racoon! Crazy! Who'd a thought?! (no, I didn't go and grab my camera for a photo this morning, this was taken on the 4th) And hey, Sarah has a Racoon Story on her blog too!


So Gabriella almost slept "all night" (according to many, to sleep through the night means sleeping 6 hours consecutively)!!!! She went 5 hours for me! Hooray! I didn't have to get up with her until 4:45am (going to bed about 11:30). Sweet! I've heard Girls are better and faster at this nighttime stuff. Let's hope she continues. Although her regular self up until now hasn't been bad either. 3-4 hours, I can live with that! (of course, I was up last night with Samuel before I was up with Gabi, but such is life! I don't mind.)

And I see I haven't updated my sidebar yet. I thought about it on Sunday and should have just done it. I will get to it soon. Today I am working on getting the Girl's bits and pieces out of "their" room so that the Student we have arriving tomorrow has the room ready for him. Yup, we have a Japanese boy, Hiroki, coming for a short trip to Canada, only 11 days.
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Anyone???

ok, so does anyone have a 10 year old year old GIRL out there???
If so, please leave me a comment with some ideas of what this girl does or likes to do! I'd appreciate it.

Our Changes, changes, changes are about to take place! Tomorrow (Wednesday) is Jayden's last day with us (after 2 full years, yikes) and then Thursday our 2 Chinese Students arrive.
We are set up for the Girls to arrive now and very excited to share the next 5 months with them in our home. We'll keep you posted with the transition period for them and us in our home...

Thanks! I've also got 2 new posts done today too... keep reading below.