1,219 days later

Justin here,
Here we are, in the future.
Where's my flying car gorram it?

Life at Carriage House has been plugging along since our last update. The girls are almost recognizable as those 2 young kids on the homepage up in the corner and have grown into two amazing young girls.

Morgan plays soccer now and is in her second season. This year's team is bright green and decided to call themselves the Zombie Babies. Their team cheer is "Zombie Babies Zombie babies Brains! Brains! Brains!" and is very adorable when 12 or so 7 year olds shout it.

Eliza took up ballet this year, or what passes for ballet for 5 year olds. She starts Kindergarten at Antioch Charter Academy, a Montesori based school, the same one Morgan attends, this week and is beyond excited. Speaking of Montessori based, I don't understand it but it's amazing how Morgan took to it like a fish to sand paper. If you don't understand that metaphor you need to offer your fish more sandpaper. She came home from kindergarten over a year ago...kindergarten remember...and told me that our shower door was translucent because light went in but you couldn't clearly see through it. Thre may not be desks and spelling memorization but damn, it works.

Kim has taken to very part time work during the girls' formative years and I think that sacrifice has paid off in spades. Not sure what that means exactly, but since we live in the region where gold was found in the 1840's, lets pretend we earned a bunch of shovels. The girls drive her insane on a regular basis but, like I said at the beginning, have grown into amazing young girls.

Morgan reads far above her grade level and is rarely without a book. Eliza has chosen to be a late bloomer when it comes to reading, but she is more like me anyway. Stubborn, funny and adorable.

Oh, and we got a dog. her name is River and she's a beagle/Pit Bull/Bull mix. She got all the best qualities from each breed and has fun with the girls and eats everything. When I say everything I mean everything. Like anything, everything.

Summer has come to a close and we've been relying on the Facebook to send out updates and the like, but a quick photo and a comment doesn't seem to capture what we've been going through here and how the girls have grown.

Perhaps we'll update this more often, perhaps not, but here you go for now.

And that's the word from Carriage House.