We have a beautiful family of four (soon to be five)! This is the story of our life and our many adventures!

Saturday, September 27, 2008

House Hunting

With the current housing market, it is such a great time to buy right now.  Derek and I were originally planning to wait until next Spring to start looking for a house, however, we've seen so many low-priced homes due to foreclosures that we have decided it wouldn't hurt to take a look at what's available in the market right now.  

Most of the really "cheap" homes found in the suburbs are fixer-uppers, so we would have our work cut out for us if we went that route - our first priority is that we definitely want to buy a home in a good school district though.  We recently found one home that is bank owned (aka "fixer-upper") that we are going to check out.  It may be something we want or it may not work out at all - we're not in a rush, we just don't want to pass up a good buy if it comes along.

Please pray for us as we look and try to make a good decision.  We definitely don't want to end up in a money pit, so we're asking God for guidance through this process.  If we don't find a house that works for us right now, we will just wait until the perfect home comes along!  

Sunday, September 14, 2008

2008 Summer Pictures

Logan's 6th birthday pool party with homemade Spongebob cake...
We went to the Clipper's baseball game....
Derek & Logan playing baseball at the park...
Logan giving a gift to cousin Cody for his 1st birthday...
Playing on the slip n slide at Chris & Wendy's house...
Logan & Paisleigh playing Wii...
At the Ohio State Fair....
Mindy & Derek at our friends' wedding...

Logan's cool 24 hour Mohawk....
At Madison's 10th birthday party...
Derek & Mindy at the air show in Cleveland...
Logan in the AWANA Sparks class at church...


Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Our Weekend in Cleveland

The three of us drove to Cleveland for Labor Day weekend to visit our friends Marty, Kim, Avery, Mack, and Cam Miracle.  We played travel Bingo during the 2 hour ride up, which Logan really enjoyed!  He had to find things outside, such as "a bird on a wire" or "a water tower" or "gas station", in order to mark them off on his Bingo card.  Derek called the first Bingo, Logan called the second Bingo, and Mindy called Bingo on the cover-all.

On Sunday, we spent the day at Geauga Lake's Wild Water Kingdom waterpark.  It was such a beautiful day!  The kids all had so much fun playing in the wave pool, in the splash landing kid's play area, and all the water slides!!
On Monday, we went downtown by the waterfront to watch the air show!  Wow!!  It was such a neat experience to see the different stunt planes, Air Force jets, Navy jets, the famous Blue Angels jet team, and the Army parachute team.
Logan was so excited to find a Chinook at the air show that we were able to walk through!  His Papa works on them at Boeing, and he wanted to take a picture next to it!
We had a really nice weekend and we loved the opportunity to spend time with our friends!  Logan is already saying how much he misses Mack and Avery, his buddies!!