It's Official...

I am definitely tardy on my posting lately & missed writing about a lot of activity in the last month. I would say that I have fully recovered from my surgery & I am working my way back to a normal life again. However, on the return to normal we made a BIG change in our household.

On April 20th I returned to work & on April 21st I told them that I quit. I gave lots of notice, but effective July 16th my career at TU ends and I begin my next career- a stay-at-home-mom. This is an idea that Brad & I have talked about at different times over the last couple of years, but there always seemed to be a reason to wait. Being home recovering from surgery was a bit of a test. I know that I wanted to be home & stop missing all the stuff that I miss by being at work, but the question was- could I handle it? I quickly realized that there really was not that much time between when Sydney got on the bus & when she got off. Next year when she goes to a new school, she will only be there for afternoons & that time will go by like a blink of the eye. I may only have one more year before both kids will be in school full-time (if they do full-time JK in 2010), so if I am going to do it I want to do it when I get the most time with them as possible. So, I am very sad to leave work & not see my friends on a daily basis & will miss the different challenges that I face there- but I am really looking forward to the time I will now have with the kids & the opportunity to be more involved in their school life & get them involved in things that we could not do if I was working.

So that is the biggest "new" thing, but there were lots of other fun things that have happened like:

• Easter egg hunts
• Family gatherings
• I climbed a hill without getting winded (yeah!)
• Got a swing set for the kids
  
• Went for a hike with the kids to a waterfall & Jason told me afterward "that was fun Mommy" (next time we need to take the camera)
  
• Brooke & Bailey came for a visit
• Gramma had her 65th birthday & we decorated her lawn with homemade clocks (even though there were 65 real clocks inside their house that we could have polluted the lawn with, but thought we might get in big trouble for that

Lots of other fun things of course have happened, but those are the main markers. Here's some pictures from the last month.

Easter

Thanks Sandi!

Just for Fun

Darn stones!

Brooke & Bailey

How long before Sydney learns how to pump on the swing?

Happy Birthday Grandma!