WOW it's been too long!!

Holy Holy! Life got way to much away from me and I have severly neglected our blog! I promise I'll be back from now on! Well, being that my last post was in September, clearly alot of things have changed since then, and instead of writing the worlds longest entry I will try and do more of a summary. Ashlynne is now 15 months old and my oh my how time flys! She is our little defiant, opinionated, sassy pants all rolled up into a sweet, huggable, teddy bear if that is at all possible. It's been fun to watch her vocabulary grow and how she interacts with her world now, and things seem to change day to day and week to week.

Here is Ashlynne on New Years Eve :)

I know in our last post I talked about how we had all these new changes with work, Justin went to graveyards and I went to full time. Well Justin is still working graveyards and it only took about 3-4 months for us to figure out that me working was not the life for us. So as of December 15th I became a full time stay at home mom. Best decision we've ever made! It's not like we're independantly wealthy or anything, we are blessed by Justin having a good job with excellent benefits (and one that he escaped recent budget cuts on thank goodness) but we also know that this was a decision that would come with some sacrifices, in order to receive the blessings of being able to raise our child/future children first hand. Its been intersting how learning to live less friviously has made us so much happier. We learned the value of our tax paying dollar and Justin now goes to the library for books (instead of 15-30 bucks a week easily spent), we cancelled our rediculousy priced digital cable and home phone we never used anyways and instead opted for just the good ol basic comes through the wall 30 channels and the cheapest netflix package. Cancelling cable seemed so hard at first, in theory, but then once we actually did it, we noticed we dont miss it at all. It's really intersting how you can be so much happier with so much less.

So I would say thats our nutshell catch up on the last 4 months I've missed on here. We had a wonderful holiday season getting to spend time with family and friends visiting town, and are now looking forward to settling into our new routines around the house having me around full time (leaving work right before the holidays didnt' set us up well for an immediate routine, however I will say it was soo nice to be off for those couple weeks!!) We hope everyone else is doing well, and I'll update more soon!

-Beth (Justin and Ashlynne)