Some pics....

Ok, promised some pics, so here they are...

Here are the girls on their first day of school, Kayla now in sixth grade and Maddy starting kindergarten.


This is Maddy in her karate outfit - not Halloween...both the girls go to Karate lessons for afterschool care.

I missed taking any pictures when both girls had a board breaking excercise. For the record, they both were able to break the boards.


And here is the production line of pumpkin cutting creations. I will post a night-time shot once I take one.


Just in some other recent news, Kayla received her report card today, she made A/B Honor roll - all A's and B's. We will get Maddy's at the end of this week, but she has two more days to get stars for every day in the month of October. That just means she has behaved and been good and done everything she is supposed to in class for the day...so that is a whole month, pretty good accomplishment for the kindergartner.

That's all for now, I will get pics of the girls in their costumes and lit up jack-o-lanterns shortly.

5 months in the sun...

Ok, sorry for the delay.

We have now been here for five months and I think we are all doing quite well adjusting. Of course that depends on what 30 seconds you happen to talk to the girls. They both go through their minutes when they miss NJ and the family there, but then they also remember us being home a lot more and having six friends in the neighboring two houses.

Both girls have been doing well in school. Kayla had all A's and B's on her mid termo progress report. Madelyn has been getting stars everday in her class, currently has not missed one day this month. Kayla has started in band this year, clarinet the chosen instrument. She still needs some practice, but then again she has only been playing for a couple months.

No news on the house in NJ at the moment, hopefully something soon.

Not really much going on the work front, its going all right for both Laura and I. I'll definitely state again, really enjoying the short commute after the years of 160 miles of daily parkway traffic.

Not really much else at the moment to report, I have some more pics but on this machine at the moment, so I will post them as soon as I can.

Just note we are all doing well and thinking of all of you!