Little Pig, Little Pig

Updates since I last wrote on this pitifully neglected little blog:

1. I love the Pacific Northwest (photos and stories to follow). I want to live there. I think I'll settle in Hood River, OR (the land of my Grandmother's nativity) or Bellevue, WA. Either would be fine. If anyone would like to leave me the $5,000,000 necessary to make living there possible, that would be fine too.

2. Allie turned five and Asher three. Both are exceptionally beautiful/handsome/intelligent/talented kids and would be making the above mentioned millions by curing horrible diseases, building sky-scrapers out of Lego's, writing best-selling novels and forecasting market trends if only their mother would let them work before they are fourteen.

3. Duran is gearing up for graduate school and (I think) has finally chosen the schools/programs that will make him two masters degrees smarter, four years older and forty thousand dollars poorer (I know, I know only in the short term). He's also aiming for his own brokerage in the near future, so by default I have become an office manager and have added the title of accountant to the already reluctantly acquired titles of property manager, secretary, and investment manager. I may forgo my dreams of a JD for CPA just to make my life easier.

4. We have a new baby. Actually five of them. We are the proud parents of five healthy and thriving baby guppies. I have to admit that the fish tank has been better than I expected. Duran has kept his promise to do all of the cleaning. We are now negotiating on a bigger tank.

5. We still live in Salt Lake but would really not be surprised to move soon. One never knows when a great house will pop up. And I won't be surprised if we stay here. Love grows best in little houses. Right? I can feel the love right now...and Naomi's baby stroller by my bed and Asher's Lego's in the middle of our living room and Allie's dress up clothes.....

That's a bit of where we're at. I'll post great photos of Seattle and other silly stuff shortly.