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> We have been so busy, we can barely keep up with our blog anymore, but we’ll get it. We hope you are all doing well. This is an excerpt from our March newsletter… It’s hard to believe we have been here for almost 3 months. There are moments when we step back and can’t believe […]

>Ok… I’m sure some of you have wondered maybe, what do we do exactly on any given day. Well I am going to walk you through my (Kristi) day. 6:15 Good Morning song on my phone goes off… I push SNOOZE. 6:20 It goes off again… I push SNOOZE… (alright I will jump ahead, I […]

> Wow! Our first week at NTBI is over. Mike and I have had an awesome time starting our classes and getting to know more of the students here. It is quite an adjustment getting used to three of us in the family doing homework in the evenings! I’m sure we’ll get into the swing […]

> It snowed about 12″ last week. This view is outside one of our windows. The brown building holds the garage, maintenance buildings, and carpenter shop. The grey building in the background is staff and student apartments affectionately named “The Blues”. Nicole’s class couldn’t play outside at recess this day because it was zero degrees […]

> The kids and I took Kristi out to lunch to celebrate her birthday. Afterward she enjoyed going to Target and using gift cards from her Mom and Sister to buy this rug for the apartment. It really warms up the industrial tile floors. That evening we went to Jim and Millie’s (the couple who […]

> We left St. Louis Missouri at 7:30am on Saturday, January 2.  It was 7°F outside. When Jesse got into the car after our freezing photo shoot he said, “I think I like Springtime better.” Classic! We arrived in Waukesha Wisconsin at about 2:30pm. Everything in the PODS survived the journey. Not a single thing […]

> We love getting State-line photos.  We put the camera on top of a trashcan and set the timer for this one. It was hard to get the lighting right.  Better luck next time maybe. Some of the rest-stops in Missouri were really nice.  This place had an indoor rest area, full staff, playground, clean […]

> We woke up to another light dusting of snow. It continued to snow for the next 2-3 hours so we put the MPV in 4-wheel-drive and took it slow. Not true for the trucks though. Those big simi’s just plow away at 80mph as if the conditions were perfect. We enjoyed our hashbrowns smothered and covered at […]

> Nicole wanted to send out a few postcards this morning. We stopped for an hour at the Dinosaur Museum in New Mexico. We all get our shoes muddy every time we stop for our state line photos. We ate good ‘ol fashioned Texas style BBQ in Amarillo. Our PODS arrived safely at NTBI today. […]

> The kids (and their parents) enjoyed waking up to a 1″ dusting  of fresh powder. About 5 miles off the I-40 we stopped to see the meteor Crater. We wondered if our PODS was on this truck?  I think we creeped out the poor driver because we took so many pictures and kept passing […]