Jacob's Birthday is today.

I'm glad he was born so that I could love him. Now that I have acknowledged that, onto other things. Our anniversary is this weekend, being the romantic people that we are I think to celebrate Jacob is going to work overtime and I will stay home with the kids. Do we know how to party or what? Seven years on Sunday. Ten total. A decade of living with his bad jokes... totally worth it.

The job is going well. It's stressful dealing with some of the kids that I know will not pass no matter what I do to help them, but rewarding in that I am already seeing improvements in some of the others. One day I'll find I job that my whole heart doesn't go into, though I ran that theory past Jacob and he doesn't think it's possible.

In other news, I haven't blogged about this because I tend not to blog about stuff that is very personal to me, other than my kids of course, but I have to tell you this news to tell you other news. (Did you follow that? Could that have been the worst sentence structure you have ever seen?) Jacob and I have been looking for a new church for a while now. The details don't matter, suffice to say that we still very much love the people at the last church but felt the need to move on. End that story, begin new story: Sunday we attended a church that we hope will become our new church family. I am very excited as I intensely dislike being "homeless". I am praying that this works out.

Other random news:

Jacob got his GPS in. We programmed it to talk like Beavis and Butthead. It. is. amazing.

He also got a bearded dragon. It's cool. We named it Johnny Five. He hangs out and basks under his heat lamp. Jacob likes him because he is cool looking. I like him because I don't have to clean up after him or feed him. Okay, and he's pretty cool. To be really honest I think he's awesome, but I'm still not going to clean up after him.

The construction is totally done. Mike and Jacob finished up the siding two weeks ago and Jacob got it painted over the weekend. It looks great and we are thrilled to have it done. We went over budget a bit (what project doesn't?) but I don't think it went badly at all. Personally my favorite part was watching Mike and Jacob work together. Jacob's dad died when he was seven, and I think that Mike kind of fills that gap. It's sweet to watch them together, they are great friends but I think they get more out of their relationship than just friendship. They will probably both deny this vehemently because they are much to manly to admit all of this, but really I think they probably love each other. Girls notice this sort of thing. It's a bro-mance.

There really is a lot going on, I think that with the new job I have just been finding other things to do besides blog. In fact, if I were to honest I've been a terrible blogger for a while now. Maybe cooler weather will force me indoors more to blog, but for now I'm just not feeling that compelled.