Breakin' out the camera phones...Can't wait to get a new digital to replace our defunct one!

Well, these kids have played so much since we moved, they don't know what to do with themselves.
They're used to being couped up in the apartment most of the day.
You know -- coloring, reading, watching Clifford the Big Boring Dog.
Now they run around the big house like a couple of supervillians.
There's also a lot of "outside" here in Perkasie.


Sammy decided to get his hair done.

That hairstyle really suits his personality!

We're thinking about doing karate this summer.

It's not our New Year's resolution, but we think it would be a lot of fun.
Now that our housing situation has changed, Leigh is going to quit working at Macy*s. As a matter of fact, her last day
is Saturday. Now she can get back into Cooking, Art, Mary Kay and Chasing the Kids Around.
We're thinking that karate would help her with all of these things in one way or another.

After I graduate, I'll probably be ready to do something besides stooping over books. I'm already thinking about getting back into weight
lifting during this final semester, but karate (as accurately exhibited above) looks especially therapeutic.

Seriously, both of us did martial arts years ago when we were young. Now that our parent bodies are all rickety and worn out,
we just want to feel somewhat young and limber again. Do all parents feel like this, or are we especially pathetic?

The cat and mole in this picture (click here) remind me of Belinda and Samuel right now when they start laughing at something. They are really funny together. Can you guess which animal reminds us of which child?

Here is the house from the air (at bottom of photo). It is absolutely huge to us, since we've been used to living in apartments for years. It has a gigantic back yard too, which we're not used to either. And this is no fixer-upper -- it's been very well taken care of:


In case you didn't know, our church bought this house. They asked us to move in so that we could be close to church and to help us save money. Super! Our youth pastor's family lives on the other side of the church up the hill. That's nice because Leigh is good friends with Rebecca, and Belinda absolutely loves playing with their daughter Syndey. They've already gotten together for dress-ups several times.


Maybe the thing that impressed is the most is the dishwasher. It's not that it cleans the dishes any better than a normal dishwasher, but it has a "Party" setting. On New Year's Eve all we had to do was push the "Party" button!


A day or so after we moved in it snowed. This is a picture Belinda and I took together looking out her window at the little side yard:


We also have a Wreck Room (not a Rec Room). It houses the toys and kids books, the TV and the computer. The kids love hanging out there a lot:



Unfortunately, our camera died. I don't think I'll be able to put pictures up for a week or so until I can get a new one. Hopefully won't take long.

Our new house is BEAUTIFUL --
can't wait to get pictures here