more fun than you could imagine!

We headed to the Chicago area to interview for a few job possibilities, visit with family, celebrate Caleb's birthday, and go to my best friend from middle school's wedding!! we stopped in South Bend Indiana to visit our good friends the Walatka's! We had a blast!!


here the the walatka kids and are kid's, Micaiah was sleeping!

now here they all are!

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the supper table at the Walatka's!

we made blueberry cobbler with fresh picked blueberries, the kids loved it!

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Caleb and Hunter playing in the sprinkler

Elijah and Ben riding bikes

Micaiah and Anna, aren't they cute!

Micaiah and Ben, she is trying to convince him to go further down the block than he is allowed to go!

we went to the Michigan Dunes...

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HERE THEY ARE... the Walatka 7 ! They used to live down the street from us in Cincinnati, Caleb and the twins Tommy and Hunter are only 2 weeks apart. We have been friends since they were about 6 months old! Joseph and Ben are adopted from Ethiopia, we went through our adoptions together, although they started after us and brought their boys home before us :o) Joseph and Elijah are the same age and Ben and Anna and Micaiah are all close in age! They are all becoming great friends! Were at their home from Tuesday evening through Thursday afternoon, without a single fight or even whining about what another one was doing. WE HAD A GREAT TIME! thanks Walatka's for hosting us.

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guess what?

okay sooo,

we SOLD OUR HOUSE!!!!! we close Aug. 1! it sold in less than 2 weeks, buy owner for the perfect price! yeah GOD! it's so good to be homeless while we are jobless....speaking of...we have a few opportunities in the Chicago area, we are interviewing some of them, and some of them are interviewing us this weekend!