Working on the new house (no idea why it's underlining everything like it's a link or something, bear with me...

We've been spending a lot of time at the new house, and last week one night Bruce came over to help us take out a wall and put a header in so that we could open up the dining room to the living room. It makes the house a lot nicer, gives us a more open feel which is great! I think it'll be great for entertaining and should be a plus as the boys get bigger too. I also moved a closet, or rather took one out that was cramping the entryway, and put a new one in (mostly). Have a bit more putting up drywall before I can start the mudding and taping, and we're also really hoping that we can put in the hardwood floor this week/Labor Day weekend. If we can accomplish all those things we'll look at hopefully moving in the following weekend. So the pics are of the new house, working on the new house, and the boys watching some Star Wars Clone Wars cartoons (Thanks Auntie Carrie!) when it was late and they were tired of working! There's also a shot in there of the painting crew that came to help us paint the upstairs, we got almost the entire upstairs painted in one day! After the carpet goes in on Monday we should be able to at least move beds in and start sleeping in the new house:)

Thanks Dad

My dad has his own email address now. It's his first email address, and I'm not sure he's going to do a lot of responding, but it's a way that I can tell him things in the medium that I'm most used to using, I do it everyday many times. You see, my mom was always the one to email me at work and tell me to have a good day, or just let me know that she was thinking of me. She always loved to keep in touch on the computer, as her facebook page full of friends attests to.
But my dad has been right there all the time, mostly in phone conversations since we live so far apart, and always checks in to give me the score on the recent Roughriders game or talk about the Cardinals with me. My dad, my two oldest boys, and I all went to a Cardinals game late in that fateful season when they went all the way, and it is a great memory we have together.
So you know the end of this post, mom is in heaven now and we can't have those emails or phone calls anymore. I miss her so much. But my dad is here, and even through his pain, which is huge and unbearable, he's now got an email account so that he can "pick up the slack." Thanks dad, I love you so much. Mom would be proud, even if you never learn to type!:)

Learning to be big

Just wanted to let you know what I (Rhonda) am consumed with right now...we are done with diapers these days at the Bailey "house" (yes, still homeless so we need those quotes). So now we just have a little boy pooping in underwear instead of diapers. Yes, it's gross but to those of you without kids, somehow it really is progress. :-) So our littlest man is learning to be big.

I'm thinking a family update is due because I keep talking to people that don't have any idea what we're doing (and we don't either half of the time). After a really crazy hard summer we are trying to get back into our groove. Dustin is back at work now and we are planning on homeschooling our boys this year starting after we settle in the new house. I can't deal with homeschooling and potty training while fixing up the house and moving in for sure. We are supposed to close on the 28th and are trying to move it up sooner so we can bestow our love and care on our foreclosure buy before moving in.:-)

If you think of us, pray for us. Like I said it has been a hard summer and there is a lot of adjustment and sadness still in our family for sure. Even through our hard times though we have had an amazing amount of blessing from God. That has been so encouraging to us both. I hope you all have had a great summer.