I promise that we didn't disappear after Halloween. Life got really busy thru November and December and hasn't slowed much since then but we are doing our best. This is actually Dan making a blog entry, my first one, so I hope this goes over alright. I'm not as eloquent or grammatically correct as Shell is but I'll just give you the facts.
The holidays were great, we really wish we could have made it out to Lake Havasu for Thanksgiving. We really miss that yearly trek and spending time with my family. I realized that I haven't seen my sister's family since we moved out here to Georgia almost 2 1/2 years ago. Fortunately work will take me out to Tempe in late March and I think I'll stay an extra day or 2 and go see them. We spent Thanksgiving and Christmas with Shell's family once again. We had a great time and the kids are always happy to go to Grandma and Grandpa's house. The kids were excited for Santa to come and visit and we were pleasantly surprised by a little extra from the UGA athletic association which made it just a little nicer for the kids. Both sets of grandparents chipped in together to buy us a swingset which we finally got together this weekend (there always seems to be missing parts on those kind of things). The kids are already loving it!
But with January it was back to school and work. I'm now heading into my busy time of the year. We had our first indoor track meet this weekend in Lexington, KY and I won't be done with indoor and outdoor track until mid June. It makes for many weekends away from home but at least it's a job and with the state of our economy right now...that isn't so bad. Shell is teaching her mon/wed night class again this semester and we're hoping the baby can wait to show up until that's mostly done. Our days and nights are very busy and we get small windows of time where we see each other so we try to make the most of them.
As for the baby, well he and mommy are doing well. For those that don't know yet we are having another boy. That will even things up at our house at 3 and 3, a nice well rounded family. We have no idea on a name yet and really haven't discussed it much. When we have it usually consists of Shell suggesting names and me shooting them down. So we've still got quite a way to go there. We are excited, nervous, a bit scared, and happy all at once.
Well I'm going to end here. We really are going to try and do better with the blog and posting more pictures also. Until later...
4 comments:
Congratulations on the new boy! Our kids kept telling me we had to have another boy to even things out too, but now that we have another girl - there is NO WAY I am going to make things even :) We miss you guys!
dan, good to see hear from you :) keep it coming!
It's great to hear from Dan- I loved this post. I could hear Dan saying it in my head. I'm so excited for you guys that you're having another boy... it's perfect. Now you're even. :)
The swingset is great, and I love that picture of Shell and the kids in the post above.
Thanks for the email alert! I haven't checked blogs in forever!
Hey Graham Family! Its fun to see your updates! Sounds like your lives are super busy, but also super blessed! We miss your family! Good luck with baby names & school & work!
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