A little Something!

This has been a LONG week.  Ben officially completed his first week of Realty school and passed the test today!  Woohoo!  He has really enjoyed it and learned a lot, despite the fact that it's all practically a foreign language to him.  I'm so proud of him for working so hard.  He was gone for almost 12 hours almost every day just to come home and study after an hour or so with us... he's such a trooper.

Meanwhile, we've had car troubles... so the boys and I have been stuck here.  I haven't even taken them outside much because it's been 100+ temperatures!  I may be a southern girl, but that's hot even for Texas!  There have been tons of fires around the area because of the drought.  So we've been completely stir crazy! Jacob has started this licking thing... and throwing all his toys... yeah.  More on that to come!  lol.

Tonight we had a special surprise!  We got to see one of my friends I grew up with, Ricky Blomquist.  He is a missionary here in Nampa and he just so happens to be assigned to this area right now!  It was so cool to see him and catch up on old times.  You can't see it because of the angle of the camera, but we are doing a silly "flamingo" stand.  We were laughing about how Ricky used to do that all the time when we were growing up.  His mom would tell me, "Laura, go tell Ricky to stop standing like a flamingo so that people would talk to him!"  haha!  I love that family!

We are super excited for Ben's sister, Holly, to get home from her mission in just a little less than two weeks!  We're looking forward to meeting her at the airport then heading off together to McCall for a few weeks.  The last time she saw Jacob he was 5 months old... now Aaron is 5 months old!  A lot has changed!  lol.

Until then, we're looking forward to MY sister (and her husband!) coming tomorrow!  YAY!  We're so excited to see Jeff and Manda... even though I think Jeff is more excited about seeing his family... don't know why. hehe.
Ben has another week to finish the second half of Realty school.  Then in a week and a half he's going to take the state exam to become a Realtor.  Crazy stuff!  We're excited.

Anyway, that's a very brief catch up. =)

Laura