News in a new year

So there has been a lot of "new news" going on this new year in the Mac home that i haven't posted about yet...so hold on to your hats:

New job:

In October of last year Bruce resigned from his previous job, but stayed there until right before thanksgiving. The good part about this timing was it allowed us to have 10 day vacations with each of our families over the holidays.

At the beginning of January Bruce formed his own LLC (limited liability corporation). It's called "Quebus Ventures, LLC". He has been networking like crazy, meeting with business brokers and bankers working on buying a business to run.

It's a super exciting time and he is loving the whole process. I'll let you know when his website is up and running.

New baby:
This year in July we will celebrate the birth of our 3rd child...we should find out whether it's of the boy or girl variety in about 5 weeks.

We will then discover if Quade has true prophetic skills. He was the one who told me i was pregnant before i had taken a test and he also has decided that this is a girl ("we already have a boy baby, mommy. we need a girl and we need to buy a bow")

The other great part about Bruce having more flexibility with his work is that he has been able to help me more with the boys as i haven't felt 100% this first trimester.

At the park on a Thursday afternoon, unheard of with Bruce's old work!

New degree:
In August 2005 not only was Quade born, but that same week bruce started taking classes at SMU for his masters of Accounting.

This month we received his diploma in the mail!!! (very grand graduation ceremony, don't you think?)

So here is a picture of Quade at 3 1/2 and the diploma representing 3 1/2 years of work


New faucet: In the past six months we have had a finicky faucet that preferred to leak. So Bruce and i decided to attempt a home improvement project (a brave endeavor for folks who have no experience in such things).

We are very proud to say that we successfully installed a new kitchen faucet, handle and soap dispenser! AND we did so without a single disagreement. =)

Here is Price helping with the project.