Catching Up

Brandon's parents left last Monday. We getting back into a routine after having too much fun.

Thanksgiving was nice, especially since we had family for the first time in three years. We ate a lot, talked and played games. Felt very much like it would at home :-)

We bought a new camera thanks to Jolene killing the last one. Due to the fact that we seem to be going though cheap cameras rather quickly we decided to upgrade to a Cannon SLR. I am enjoying playing with it. It is so nice to have a camera with a quick reaction time and no delay between shots. The colours are so much better as well.

This is one of our busy weeks. Brandon has something on Monday - Thursday. Thankfully the off weeks are not too full for him.

Our garden is coming along nicely. So far we have been able to harvest rocket (I love this) and spinach. We will have a ton of tomatoes soon. As well as capsicum (peppers) and zucchini. It will begin to get more challenging as far as watering, this summer is going to be pretty dry. Of course we are still in the drought so our stage four water restrictions have never left.

I having been doing a bit of "school" with Jolene over the past few weeks. Gideon and Adele take their naps around one which gives me a bit of free time to spend with Jolene. Right now we are just learning how to write all of her letters in lower case. She is always excited to sit down and do some work. I am hoping that we can start reading next year. She has the willingness and the maturity so why not? This morning I caught her and Adele sitting on the couch looking at books together. Jolene was telling Adele the correct colour names that went along with certain objects. That was very nice to watch :-)