Happy Fall To All

Weather is getting more pleasant here and we are still hanging on. We are going on our third month here it seems like a long time but it's going bye fast. We are still homesick missing our home/yard, family and friends.

Our home in California hasn't sold (you Californians know what we are talking about with the market so messed up) so we are still in temporary housing which I think hasn't made us feel settled here in North Carolina. I think this is the hardest for me with the Holiday's around the corner. It's amazing how much empathy I have for those that loose everything in natural disasters it's really different starting over and without your belongings.

The little things I didn't think to hold out were our recipes and some of the normal can't live without kitchen gadgets but we wouldn't have had room to squeeze in another thing into the truck for those of you that saw us off driving away from our home you know how packed in the truck we were. We are hoping the weather doesn't change to much too quickly we have only the duffle bags we left with and all our warmer clothes are pack away somewhere here in Charlotte. Although the kids are growing like crazy in such a short time Morgan and Bradley are getting taller and Zachary is still about the same size. I think next year we will see him sprout taller looking at the difference between a 7th grader and 8th grader. This is the age were the girls start to get taller than the boys.

We found an Apple Hill like area of North Carolina we are going to see next weekend. We haven't seen a ton with Mark being on the road so much but it looks like he has one other trip to Texas and he has closed the Sacramento call center so no more trips home for him. I think he is ready to just get everything on a routine for a while, having traveled a ton this last year opening the new call centers for McKesson.

I have scouted out some of the stores but just window-shopping at this point. Miss having everything so close to home like Morgan says everything is more driving to get to.

Our laughs this week were Bradley; Mark kept asking him at dinner the other night if he wanted some meat (he was beyond tired)! He stood up on the chair at the Table and said with his high-pitched little boy voice, "You keep saying do you want meat, do you want meat, do you what meat, well if I wanted meat I'd tell you I want meat!" Mark and the kids just rolled I was out for a ladies night at church! Then he fell asleep across the chairs at the table without finishing dinner. You can see who is trying to run the house here! He is so funny our cheap but priceless entertainment!