Flat Stanley

How Cute is this ?! My little niece wrote me this letter. Her name is Kalli and she is in the first grade. I almost started crying when I read it! I will translate for those who can't read it. It says:

"Dear ant Dee

Polees take him evreewer

I will send it to

you The flat stanly

From the postofis to Dee

Please send pichrs

Tack Ken

Thank you

Love Kalli "

So cute huh!? So I get to take Stanly around with me and take pictures and then send him and the pictures back to her so that she can take him to school. How Fun!!!!

So I suck at bloggin.....

Alright.... so I was informed that I am not all that good at the whole blogging thing :) which is kind of true. Sorry everyone that keeps checking this to see what has been going on in our lives. Honestly though not a whole lot has changed since the first time I wrote on here. I am STILL looking for a job. I do substitute for one of the school districts out here when there are jobs available but that is not all that often unfortunately. Casey is still working as a machinist. He is working lots of long hours right now so that we can try to have enough to make all the payments that need to be made. Let's see.... Casey also traded the infamous truck in on a car. He finally decided that is was getting a little bit expensive buying fuel for it about once a week. So we bought an Altima. It is really nice. Definitely saves on the gas costs.
We are trying to get in the holiday spirit here. I also dicovered this year that we don't have a lot of Christmas decorations. I never realized how little we had when we were in the other house. I suppose it is because the other house was not very big so we didn't need a lot. But our poor house here is pretty bare of everything. It's kind of humorous. We don't have enough furniture or pretty much anything to fill the house! Well that is what I get I suppose for wanting a bigger home huh?
Our ward here is pretty awesome too. We both have callings now in church. Casey works with the young men.... which is kind of funny because he really has a hard time having patience with teenagers. I guess it's good for him then huh? I am in the Primary ( I know what you are thinking) and it most definitely is a challenge for me. I have a hard time with the little ones. I am good with the teenagers but not so much the younger ones. Oh well... guess I need to learn too huh? So pretty much that is our lives in a nut shell right now. Nothing all too exciting. Hopefully we will get the chance to see everyone in the near future. We hope that you all have some fabulous holidays and know that we love you all very much and we will be thinking about you this holiday season.