My world without internet

Our internet sucks. We have satellite because of where we live that was the best I could get when we moved. Well it has a usage limit. I get a certain amount of megabyte uploads and downloads within a 30 day period. Confusing yes. Well when you use up your limit the internet slows to a pathetic speed and I am out of luck.
I am currently at the public library to use their very fast and very free internet.
We have had some busy days and some lazy days lately. The kids have soccer practice 3 nights a week and games on Saturdays. They are doing great and really enjoying themselves.
Marshall gets more time off with this job than he has ever had before and it’s great. He works four 10s so he has one mid week day off every week. Then he has one furlough day a month…that one sucks but it beats not having a job. And then he also has to use some of his comp time, so he has been averaging a 3 day work week. What a change from the last few years! So his to do list is getting much smaller and things are getting done around here!
We had conferences last week and got great reports from the kids teachers! They are both at the top of their classes, respectful and responsible. We could not be more proud!
Our good friends Jessica and Kayla came over last week. Both girls were on our all girls wrestling team a few years ago. Kayla just had a beautiful little girl. I got my baby fix holding the tiny 3 week old. Jessica and her family moved to North Carolina 2 years ago and this was the first time we have seen her since she moved. She stayed the night and we got some good visiting in. It was so great to see them both!

Caymus with Addy, he was so sweet with her and would not let her go!

Showing Jess how much they have grown since she saw them last! It has been 2 years and kids do grow a lot!

Caymus reading to Jess and I.

Ok for the biggest news of all, Marshall and I are going to be running the Cascade Wrestling Club this year (and most likely from now on). We met with the HS and MS coaches and made the big decision to run the program. Both our kids are going to be participating and we love being a part of the local community. The decision was easy to make and it felt like the right one. We crammed the last 2 weeks to get flyers made and distributed, design and build a team website, design a logo, establish ourselves USA Wrestling as a club, recruit assistant coaches and the list goes on and on……We have our registrations this week and then practices start next week. We will practice Tues and Thurs. Then go to tournaments on Saturdays! Take a look www.cascadewrestling.com

Lucy modeling one of the childs aprons!

I will be selling them at the Craft Fair on Nov 7th. The childrens aprons will be selling for $18.00 and the adults for $25.00.
Let me know if your interested in a custom one!

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Caymus and I at the Duck Game

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GO DUCKS!

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The Newest Addition to Roachopolis!

We welcomed Houston to our family on Sunday night. She is a 3 year old Calico. Very sweet, mellow kitty. She is an out side cat....but we are letting her in the Garage and office.....
Our next door neighbors moved to Hawaii and could not keep her. The kids have been BEGGING me for a kitty for some time now and we thought that this was the right time.

The kids are totally in love with her. They have each written a few stories at school about her and were busy drawing her pictures yesterday. Very sweet.

Our farm is growing....1 dog, 1 cat, 1 tortoise, 5 chickens,and about 16 fish! Oh and 4 humans!

Cheers!

After a long hard day working in the yard, a nice frosty beer sure does hit the spot!
We had great weather today so we really took advantage of it. We chain sawed, hedged, raked, and hauled stuff all afternoon.
Roacheopolis is looking good!

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Back to Normal....

....what ever that is.

We all made it back home from the great northwest. I flew back to my parents house on Friday and spent all day Saturday hanging out with my brother, sister in law and mom while my dad took the kids to the beach. Us girls ended up spending most of the afternoon quilting. It felt so good to be crafty again! It has been to long and I really missed it.
Back at home Marshall was having his annual man game. He and some friends go to Eugene and tail gate, watch the game and then out to dinner. They ended up having a man sleep over also. So cute! They had a blast and are planning for next year already.

The kids and I drove home Sunday. We then spent the rest of the day enjoying our home and yard. Our neighbors are moving and gave us a bunch of their pond fish, and some of their pond equipment. We got that all set up and now have a school of fish in our pond.

Marshall had Monday - Wednesday off this week so he busied himself with projects around the house and yard. I worked and helped in the yard some. Wednesday we had our trees sheared. That was fun to watch. 27 guys out in the field whacking away. From the deck all you could see was blades and branched flying. We then also pruned our arborvitae that boarders our property. We started on it by hand but that did not last long and Marshall had his chain saw out and finished the job in about 30 min!
The kids are back to school and soccer practice. They are enjoying both very much.

This Saturday we will be heading to Eugene for the Duck game. Should be a great family day!

Ok now I am caught up and can check that off my to do list!

I hope I will have some pictures to post here soon! You can check my parents blog for some pics of the kids at the beach! www.beachbuns.blogspot.com