So we're licensed! Jaime received the daycare license in the mail toward the end of June and we already have a little one signed up (a newborn, so McKenna will have a friend!) starting mid July. We're very excited to finally start after a long time in the planning stages.

I finally finished up the storage bench project in the kitchen i've been putting on the back burner now for a few months. It turned out pretty good. Jaime made some nice cushions for the top and it's actually pretty comfortable to sit on.

We got my mom all moved over (whew!) and she is settling in slowly but surely to her new place in the basement of Shawn & Karen's. We already had the biggest UHaul the made, filled it to the brim and ended up renting a trailer to make everything fit for the trip over from Moses Lake. My sister Sue (along with Jared and LaVar) came over yesterday from Utah and they will be renting a UHaul to take back some stuff that mom gave them, so that should put a pretty good dent in everything currently in storage in Shawn's garage and back deck. The basement remodel project turned out really well, and I think she really liked what we did.

If you haven't visited our main website lately, we got some more "professional" pictures of McKenna done and I've been posting monthly pictures of her as well.

Mom was kind enough to babysit for us while we finally were able to take our Hot Air Balloon flight. It was pretty amazing, very peaceful and relaxing. I got to help with the blowing up and taking down of the balloon as well, so it was very interesting. We took lots of pictures as well..

And just yesterday we had a BBQ for some family and friends at our house. It was pretty fun, with LOTS of food and people. The BBQ we got from mom got lots of use, as did the old BBQ we already had. The weather was favorable with a little cloud cover for most of the day. The neighborhood kids have been making huge homemade firecrackers for the past few days and it seemed that they didn't stop setting them off until about 11 or 12 last night. McKenna slept pretty well through it, all things considered.

Well, best be off for now....Hope all is well. Drop us a line if you have a chance.