Jackson has skills...the guitar and singing kind.

Jackson has skills...the guitar and singing kind. from whitney Balls on Vimeo.

Jack got out Jason's guitar and has been serenading us all night. He wrote the song himself. 

The quality of the video is not so good I took it on our webcam. 

 I had to get this recorded.

He is saying  I don't know when the turtle comes again  over and over and then the turtle in the river and then something about baby turtles if you can't understand what he is singing.

Our New Place

Here is the one picture we have of the new apartment.

This was taken shortly after we received the keys.

Jackson has broken our camera so it might be a while for more pictures

. That and it will take a while to get this place in order.

We really love our new place.

Now if we (mostly me) can just get a huge energy boost to tackle all that we have left to do that would be just perfect.

Hip Hip Hooray!

Guess who just completed his first year of PA School!

This guy!

Can you see the relief in his eyes?

We are so proud of him he has worked so hard! 

Jason is officially done with classes now on to rotations!

We love you Jason.

Congratulations!

House Sitting

Mom and Dad are in Utah for the Brenchley family reunion and to see the new baby. Jack and I have been housesitting for them.  We made the most of being so close to a pool and spent time out there every day.

Pepi knows how much Jack loves watermelon and had one cut up and ready to eat! Jack had watermelon juice all over his face and running down his belly. He ate it all by himself.

 Jason was able to come for the weekend and we had some quality family time in the pool. It was bliss.

Gotta love the classic Jason squint with his farmers tan from his cycling this summer.

We even brought Jack's basketball hoop. We spent a lot of time playing.

Playing as in Jack shooting and me on ball retrival. That kid wore me out.

He got really good with his snorkel.

I really love when he has that thing on. It makes me laugh he is so cute in it.

We had fun with all of Nana and Pepi pool toys.

He spent a lot of time with all those boats. Taking turns taking each of them out to sea.

We did do other things.

We read a lot of the fun books out of Nana's library.

We indulged on some tv watching. Something we can't do at home.

 Jack even got into watching cooking shows with me. Now whenever I am in the kitchen Jack asks if I am going to do a show for him.

All of this was fun but the main thing we did was give Sheldon lots of love and attention. Oscar our family dog was put to sleep on Tueday, the night before we got here. Poor Oscar had lymphoma of all things and was very sick. Sheldon and Oscar were buddies and always together. There is such a void without that sweet dog and we all felt it. We were more than happy to give him some loves.

Jack was good at being Sheldon's buddy.

The parents come home tonight and we go home tomorrow.

We are anxious to get done packing and to move into our new place.