August in a nutshell

We spent August mostly without a car. We enrolled the kids in school and met Risepa at the front desk. She guessed that we were LDS, and offered to drive our entire family to church for the next few weeks. She also loaned us her van for shopping trips once a week until our car arrived. Meeting Risepa was a huge blessing to our family.

We hung a clothesline, and the girls were very creative in hanging things to dry.

We love our huge open area behind our house.

We met some of the local wildlife. These vultures found some roadkill in front of our house.

The kids started school! Bailey is in fourth grade. TJ is in first grade. Joey is in fifth grade. And they were in the local paper.

The kids finished our summer reading challenge. They earned a trip to Legoland, tickets to a major league baseball game in Atlanta, swimming, ice cream, and lots of personal satisfaction.

I discovered downtown Columbus. And Erick and I started cycling there regularly. It is a 23-mile ride round trip from our house. It is also beautiful.

Our friend Eric graduated from Career Course. We love living close to such great friends. Bobbi and Eric have been so fun to hang out with.

We are enjoying our community pool.

We got all of our furniture back, mostly in one piece. We tried to make good use of the space that we have.