DTales

So, we had an AMAZING time visiting Jerry’s never-before-met extended family in France for the first two weeks of October.  They showered us with food, cheese, and kisses.  Then, we ate dinner…

Seriously, they took us all around the countryside where they live, near Riems, and showed us the sights, intruduced us to more family.   Each stop brought more food, and of course more champagne, since they live in the Champagne region (like a state).  Then we spent the last 4 days of the trip visiting Paris, or at least what little we could get to in that short time.

We’re all back and adjusted, and Jerry survived his first week back to work last week.  Busy as ever, and trying to get more things posted.  Shutterfly has the top 300+ pictures of the 800 we took in France.

Baby girl update coming next.

Here’s a fun unprotected post for people too lazy to ask me for the password. =)

We’ve been slowly working on the house to get it into better shape.  Jerry built a beautiful retaining wall for the front steps, to keep the sidewalk from getting buried in mud.  

Wall

We also rearranged (swapped) our living room and dining room.  We didn’t lose any seating for the living room, and the new dining room is much easier to walk around without tripping over the table.  I really like the new arrangement, it is a lot better.  As soon as we (I’ll help, at least with moral support) get an overhead fixture installed in the (new) dining room so we can see what we’re eating, I’ll get before/after pictures of that up too.

Hi y’all. I updated our shutterfly today, so check it out. I’m obviously keeping very busy, but I’m going to make it a point from now to post at least weekly. I’m even putting it on my weekly things to do list.

One of the fun things we did recently was make some tasty swirled rye bread. Enjoy these pictures, and I’ll have more to come, maybe even before next week! Must go wake up the sleeping one or I’d type more. I leave you to enjoy these pics…