Guilt

So, I'm feeling rather guilty because ever since school started we've done a pretty lousy job of keeping up on our blog. It's not that interesting things haven't happened -- we just haven't had time to write about them!
One of the most life altering items recently has been the demise of our oven. On Sunday it decided that it didn't want to shut off anymore or stop heating up. We've had to keep the circuit breaker off in order to keep it from burning down the house. The repair man came this morning and basically told Mike that it wasn't worth the money it would take to repair it (bye bye $60 for the wonderful news delivered after looking at the oven for a whole 2 minutes). So, now we have to decide what to do since we don't actually like the oven placement on our kitchen and would prefer not to spend ridiculous amounts of money to replace it when we hope to move it someday anyway. We also have to figure out when in the world we have time to go shopping for a new one! I guess for now we keep grilling and having crock pot meals -- I'll be very thankful to have my stovetop and oven back!
In other news....Annika is loving second grade and has an absolutely wonderful teacher. She's reading up a storm and finally starting to actually learn her math facts! Abby is enjoying Pre-K again and is looking forward to a field trip tomorrow and one next week Friday (which I get to go on too!). She's really much more grown up this year in there. It's fun to see! Jake is a busy, busy, busy boy! He's into everything! He's trying to say more and more words and spends lots of time pointing to things and jabbering at us with great expression trying to get us to come/go/move or in someway do what he wants us to do! Mike and I are both very busy with work (too busy!) but we both are thankful for our jobs and the satisfaction we get from them. Overall, life is moving fast, but we are feeling very blessed for our family, friends, jobs, home, and countless other gifts from God!