The Bates Family: new house

Okay so I haven't been on the stick and updated my blog for a couple of months so I decided I'd better catch up! The last couple of months have been extremely crazy and busy! With school starting in August, I've had to adjust to the early mornings (I'm so not a morning person). On top of that, I started watching two kids in the mornings to help their mom out so she could go back to school to finish up her degree. They've been a lot of fun! But to be quite honest, this month has been a little rough for me. We are coming up on the one year anniversary of when we lost Gunnar so I've struggled a little bit. Anyway, here is what we have been up to the last couple of months! CAUTION: THIS POST IS VERY PICTURE HEAVY!!!

In July, Eric's family had a huge family reunion at Riverdale that lasted almost a week. One of Eric's cousins owns Riverdale so they were nice enough to host it and cater it. Since they were having the reunion there, I decided to get Rohbi into swimming lessons that week. The reunion was a ton of fun and I enjoyed meeting some more of Eric's extended family and spending time with them! Rohbi enjoyed staying in Eric's parents camper and playing with her cousins. Rohbi enjoyed her swimming lessons and come to find out, Eric's cousin was Rohbi's swimming teacher. I was very impressed with her. Rohbi has been very scared of the water and putting her face in it and by the end of lessons, her teacher had her jumping into the water over her head and she was loving it!

Eric happens to share a birthday with his sister. They are exactly a year apart. This year, their birthdays happened to fall on the last day of the reunion. His parents decided to treat them to a day at Lagoon so after all the goodbyes, we headed down to Farmington. Well...since Eric is such a party pooper, he wasn't there to enjoy the fun. We had a ton of fun and appreciate his parents inviting us to come along!

Rohbi learned a few lessons along the way. I needed to head to the post office one day for some reason so as we were headed out the door, Rohbi decided to sneak up on our cat who happens to have very sharp claws and is very jumpy and was asleep. Let's just say that it wasn't a very pretty scene! I don't know if I've ever seen that much blood all at once except for maybe on TV. I know that facial and head wounds bleed a lot more than normal wounds but it was very bloody!!! She freaked out and I about puked! Anyway, she ended up with about a 1/2 inch gash on her temple. She was so scared to go into the doctor's office because she didn't want to get stitches. Once we got in there, the doctor took a look at the scratch and said that they would just glue it. Thank goodness for modern technology!

We've had a very busy couple of months and a lot has changed with us! We started looking for a house to buy and finally found one and put in an offer. It took a little longer than we had hoped but by the middle of August we finally finalized things and became "official homeowners"! We're excited and have enjoyed the new house even though we've had a few bumps. We've got a lot of work ahead of us on this house and it needs quite a few updates. We had to do quite a bit of work just to be able to move in. Once we moved in, we made a few changes and Eric has been working himself ragged trying to keep on top of plumbing leaks and leaks from the outside of the house in. Now that those things have slowed down, we've been able to enjoy the house a little bit more! By the way, I LOVE MY KITCHEN!!!! (just had to throw that in!) Eric put in a water softener and Rohbi has had a ball playing in the box!

In the second picture, she is trying to look scary but she just looks scared! :)

On August 19th, Rohbi started her first day of 1st grade! I can't believe she's that old! She's enjoying it. It's been an adjustment for her going all day but she has progressed so much and has learned a ton! It's fun to watch all she is learning as she brings home all her work that she has done at school. She has excelled in spelling and doing very well with her reading but she is struggling a little with math and paying attention to her work. It's all a learning curve and hopefully eventually it will come for her!