For all you non military folk--PCS--Permanent Change of Station(although there is nothing permanent about it) :)
I wanted to update everyone on our adventure to England. We got the extension we were hoping for and now won't have to leave until the end of school. We should be flying out of Grand Forks around the 24th of May, 2008! That sounds so weird, 2008, but it will be here before we know it. We did have sad news with our move coming up. We decided the money it would take to fly Dakota(our dog) over was not in our budget. It is a little insane what they want for that. For the curious it was $1200.00. Anyway, we already found her a home here in ND. She lives on a 25 acre farm now and has chickens and pigs to play with. We were sad to see her go, but we will be visiting her before we go to say our official good-bye. Carter just thought it was really nice of us to share our dog with someone else. :) Mason was very clear how he felt about it--not happy at all!! I don't know that Taylor has really noticed after the first couple of days of signing 'dog' around the back door. We feel we made that best decision, and that is all you can do I guess.
We are looking forward to our adventure to Utah this December to help celebrate in Chelsi and Kasey getting married. Although Mike and I are the only ones making it we are excited for the couple of days we will be there. Mostly I think we are excited about having no children for a couple days. What is that like? It will be our first overnight adventure alone since Mason was born in 2001. How crazy that will be!!! Our very good friend Beth is staying here with the kids and so i know they will be be in great hands.
I better sign off so that the pile of laundry can get folded. That is one thing I really do not enjoy to it!! I don't know why, but it is highly obnoxious to me.
Have a wonderful 1st Day of November!!
Children are truly oblivous to cold!!! Carter insisted that we needed to go outside and play in the fresh new snow. Well, if only negative 2 degrees(feels like neg 16 with wind) meant something to him. So bundled we got!!! It took us longer to get ready than to actually play in the snow. I think he wants to go out so that when we are done he can have hot chocolate. Little does he realize I would skip the cold and go straight to hot chocolate. :) Although I love that he wants to play and have fun. It is fun having kids who do want to be active. That was Carter'sface of, "mom, hurry I am freezing." My response, "if you are going to make me come out and freeze I at least get a couple pictures."
Taylor did have a grand time standing in one spot and playing in the snow. This is really her first year of playing in the snow. She LOVES to watch it snow. We sat over our vents last night with blankets over us watching it come down. She thought that was great. As you can see, our effort to get the toys put away before we got hit didn't quite work out. Well, it is now complete by mom, the cleaning and freezing..so fun! 
