Work and Play

Summer is in full swing, and it's consisted of work and play. Mostly work for Ben and mostly play for me and Sophie.

Ben has been busy at his new job, working full time. When he's not working at his official job, he's been helping to renovate two rooms in his parents' house, doing other odd and end jobs around his parents' house, and working on both his car and his friend Caleb's car. Once he's done working, he's pretty tired... so his "play" usually consists of watching TV and sleeping. Needless to say, we haven't seen too much of him.

Sophie and I have been doing lots of fun things since being home. We've gone to the park at least once a week to play, use the stroller, or go to the splash pad. (Sophie's) Aunt Brianna has come along several times :). We've gone to the mall a couple of times, and (Sophie's) Grandma took her on the carousel once. We've visited lots of friends, just to hang out and catch up. We went to a 31 bag party. We went garage sale-ing. Sophie got in the kiddie pool once. But mostly we just go outside LOTS. And Sophie's favorite thing to do outside is to play with all of the animals and particularly to visit the goats and kitties. We play lots.

As a family, we've gone to church (so glad to be back at CCC!), visited some college friends for dinner on the grille (yum!), hung out with our new mentor couple from church, checked out our new apartment that we'll be moving into in a couple of weeks, and hung out around the house and in the pool.