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Well, it's been awhile - yet again - and I've had a request for an update (waving to Sam) so I thought why not. Usually I don't post, because our days are just so much of the same but that aside...

First off a shout out to my pal Austin Cousino. Austin is my friend Nat's little brother and this past week he was in Taiwan competing in the junior Olympics on the USA baseball team. They won and he also got some individual awards as well and I am so proud of him! I've known the kid pretty much his whole life...I think he was 2 - so he's the closest thing I'll ever have to a little brother. I'm very proud of him!

We do have a few things going on around here. This past week I started helping out in the K-1st grade Sunday school class at my church. It's a HUGE class, so I am glad that I felt the call to help out because they need it. I think we had like 22 kids, and I'm sure there will be more next week because yesterday was the first day. I am also now the main teacher for the 4 & 5 year old class for this years Pioneer Club. PC is for kids 4 yrs through 6th grade and it's at the church on Wednesday nights. Basically we go, have dinner then my little ones will go to childrens choir practice, then from 7-8 we have class which is a bible story/lesson and a craft. I'm a little nervous about being in charge because I've never done it before, but I think it will be fun. And they keep telling me that I'll have helpers!! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that. But I've been looking around and already have some great craft ideas for my little ones, so I'm really excited for those.

Let's see. The boys are both doing great. The big kid will go back to school after labor day, so that is exciting. He's more than ready to be back and I can't wait for him to learn new things! He's reading on his own now which is really exciting. He can read most of his level 1 and 2 books by himself with just a little help from us, so that's a lot of fun. Our little guy talks up a storm, can pretty much count to 10 on his own and is learning his ABC's - although most of the letters at this point sound very much the same. But he's trying which is awesome. He had his 2yr check-up a few weeks ago and he's doing great. He's on the short side, but nothing that they seem too worried about, although it's a big change from my big kid who was (and still is) always off the charts for height because he's so darn tall for his age.

I signed up to run in the Race for the Cure again this year in October. I'm looking forward to that. It has always been a really great experience for me, and it's for a good cause. Oh and I'm doing a mini woman's triathlon this weekend. It's very non-competitive (no times or anything like that) and you even get to choose your own distance for the bike and run portion with the longest for bike being 6 miles and run is 1.5. It's sponsored by one of the local hospitals to get women involved and active. A friend of mine did it last year and said it was just a lot of fun and really cool to see women of all ages out there!

The hubby is about the same. Working hard as usual, doing really well. We still love it here in our little bubble and the time is going by way too fast. We are now under a year from moving again, which is sad, but I also always look forward too.

Okay, so this has been a REALLY long post just to get updated on some stuff, and so I guess that means that I need to post more often. I'm going to try my best. However, that being said, I started this yesterday (Monday) and it's now Tuesday morning...hope things are going well for all of you!