Good News All Around

We had our first parent-teacher conference w/Ryan's 2nd grade teacher yesterday. She had nothing but good things to say about him. He is doing really well in all areas & she says he is "such a joy" to have in her classroom. She says he's a great kid. He got his report card; this is the first year he's had number grades. He had two 93s, one 95 & one 99; all Ss in special areas (P.E., art, music, health) & no Xs in behavior. He is reading two levels higher than they are "expected" to be at this stage. We are so proud of him! Then, last night, he got a two run homerun in his baseball game. He was so excited! It was definitely his day!
In other exciting news.....
We are buying a house!!!!! Yes, we're finally getting out of the shoebox & into a "real" house. We meet w/the builder sometime this week & framing should begin in the next couple of weeks. They are looking at completion mid-January, weather permitting. We are so blessed to have this dream come true. We never thought we'd be able to get a house like this one. It is about twelve miles from where we are now. It's enough out to get a little bit of a country feel, but still close enough that we can get to a big city quickly. Ryan is excited that we will finally have stairs; he's only been asking for a house w/stairs since he was about three. We are excited to have a fenced backyard & garage!! Will keep ya posted on the progress. For now here's a couple of pics; I know they're more exciting to us than to y'all!

Our lot!

SOLD!!!!