Slowing Down

 I know I don't post as often lately.  I was finding that with working and two small kids I just couldn't keep up with that many posts in one week and keep my sanity.  I still take just as many pictures, but throw more of them on here at a time.  I'm sure I'll have more time this summer when I am home with the kids....I can't wait!

 Svea and Kieran were hanging out by the gate the other day.  These two are fun to watch interact with each other. Kieran adores his big sister and wants to eat her sometimes, I think:)

 Dan and I were nervous last week a little bit.  No, it wasn't our finances or a sickness. It was just that we gave up our cable! Ha!  We both admitted our apprehension and then laughed at the atrocity of being nervous about giving up something so trivial.  We did it though!  We'll be saving around $120 dollars per month and that with a few other things we are doing to cut back is leaving us in a much better place overall to save some money for the kids' accounts, our retirement, savings, vacations, etc.  We now have hulu+ and netflix, which we stream through the internet and pay a measly $16 dollars a month for. We cannot watch our favorite shows on the exact night that they are on, but have to wait one day (gasP!) until the following night.  I think I'll only feel it when "The Bachelor" is on:)  Dan has been enjoying all kinds of cartoons and I have gotten into "Downton Abbey". There is no Clifford so we had to order a DVD of Clifford to appease the big red dog addiction.

Speaking of Big Red Dogs...I've been telling Svea about the Big Brown Buffalo that lives in Jamestown up on the hill by Gaga and Grandpa Ron's house.  She talks about him non stop sometimes.  I know who we'll be visiting next time we are in North Dakota!  I finally can move my neck more normally again today after a full week of it being locked up and super sore.  I want to thank my husband for waking up with me the other night at 4 a.m. after an insane lock up that was so painful I was a whimpering mess.  He stayed up for over an hour massaging my neck and shoulder enough so that the muscle would relax enough for me to fitfully fall asleep. Thank you!!!  I WILL BE buying a "bag on wheels" next year for school.  No more carrying my 50 bags for school on my shoulders!