Joshua's Guitar

Joshua took guitar in afterschool program last year and enjoyed it. He took it again this year and really enjoyed it and has been wanting a guitar ever since last year. So we made him a deal - if he earned half the money, we would pay the other half. So he has been doing chores and saving money for several monhts. Then, with birthday money from grandparents and great grandma, he had enough. So we went up to Oregon over the weekend and got it.  Yesterday Brian tuned it and Joshua played. He's just very basic yet, but it's more than I can do! He's looking forward to practicing over the summer so that he can play real songs soon!

Grace had to get in the fun too...she's sitting in Daddy's lap looking at the guitar book we got Joshua.

Okay...where did the last few months go?

We've had  a lot happening since I last posted...Nathaniel got his tonsils out, Brian got into the RN program, we moved, tball and little league started up, Joshua turned 10...yes, that's right, we moved. We found a trailer (small, but three bedroom and 2 bathrooms) that we could afford to rent right next door to the elementary school (and across the street from the grocery store, which is across another street from the library...and the post office is less than a block away...we're centrally located!) and have been living here just over a month. We're unpacked and mostly settled, but have to reorganize our storage unit since not everything will fit. I've had to relearn how to cook on a gas stove (only other time I did it was on my mission in Spain 15+ (gulp) years ago).  So eventually I'll get pictures up and posted of our so exciting life, but for now here are just a few pictures of the kids that I took in the spring for my parents to take down to my grandparents in Arizona.