Jobless

Larry worked at the Kennedy Space Center for a company called United Space Alliance. He was hired as a design engineer for space shuttle support equipment, but for the last year or so most of his time was spent on designing modifications of the existing launch tower to accommodate the new space program, specifically the Aries 1X rocket. He designed the latch that kept the rocket in place until it was ready to launch. It then swung out of the way. On October 28, 2009 they had their first successful test launch. But, in the beginning of 2010 President Obama canceled the space program and is funding private companies to research and develop a new program. This meant Larry was eventually going to be laid off. He most likely could have kept his job until the last shuttle launched but to be proactive Larry started job searching in February. After much prayer we decided to take a volunteer lay-off and October 4th was his last day.

Raelyn

A friend recently gave us a dress her daughter out grew.  I thought it was so beautiful, I took some pictures of Raelyn in it.  Thanks Amy!

Cruise to the Bahamas

Larry and I were able to go on our first cruise in Septemeber 2010. (Life has been so exciting I am just now catching up on past posts.) Larry's angelic sister, Faith, came and took care of the kids for us. We left on Thursday afternoon and cruised to the Bahamas. We got back early Sunday. It was hard to leave the kids (I cried after saying good-bye), but it was worth it. We had a great time!

While Caden is not in the game...

Caden played soccer this last spring and when he was not in the game sometime the kids would get a little restless.... It's a good thing they had thier Dad!

Caden plays soccer!

Caden loves soccer, especially the games.  He played for the 3rd time this spring and had a great time.

Homeschooling Megan

Megan wasn't that happy at school in 3rd grade.  And, Frankly I wasn't very happy with the situation either.  After much prayer and consideration, we decided to pull her out at the end of the first semester and homeschool for the second semester.  We had a great time.  Megan wrote two really great books, got to go to a birding festival, got way ahead in Math, studied US history, and had a great time in science.

Raelyn speaks remarkable well for her age.  She doesn't turn two for another month and a half but she speaks in complete sentences and pronounces her words quite well.  Sometimes I take it for granted but today she was pretending to be a baby.  She was talking in simple sentences and mispronouncing words on purpose.  It made me laugh so hard hearing my baby talking like a baby on purpose.  It made me realize just how good she is at talking.  Then again today we were driving home right before nap time and she must have realized it was that time of day because she said, "Mom, say no nap!"  When I missunderstood her and said, "No, snack"  she said, "Mom, say no bed."  I just laughed.  When we got out of the car she thought of a new aproach to get out of naptime.  She said, "Mom, I'm going to lay down in your bed with you."  When I told her I didn't think that was such a good idea she told me that Caden's room (she share's a room with Caden)  is too messy.  She'd better lay down in my room and not in her crib.  I love the logic!