A promotion for Brett

• So Brett was offered a promotion at work. He has been mulling it over. It means a lot of changes, the biggest being the following:
• An office, a desk and even a window!
• A salary position from an hourly
• A crazy schedule for the first 90 days

Most important for Brett, it means he is " The Boss"!

He just officially accepted the offer yesterday, so there will be plenty more details to come, but I am hoping that this is a really good move for Brett and us as a family as well. Job security for this position versus his last is much, much better!

That's all for now, just wanted to keep everyone updated, and as I said before, more details to follow!

The Larsen's go to a neighbor's party!

So as most of you know, one of the main reason's we moved out to the country was so we had our own space and did not have to be bothered by neighbors. Well, as you may have read on a previous post, we were invited to the neighbors graduation party on Saturday.

The kid's wanted to go right away when they woke up, and Brett and I were really trying to put it off for as long as we could, even trying to think of reason's not to go. We decided that we had to just suck it up and go on over at around four.

So we slowly made our way over next door, where the party was really just getting started. The boy's of course left us as soon as they had made it to the pool, we were on our own, feeling like the first day in a new school or something....

Needless to say, it did not take very long before we had made friendly, and laughed at how we had kept to ourselves ( them and us ) for the three years that they had been there!!!

So long story short, the neighbor's are really pretty nice, and we stayed at the party much longer than the two cigarette allotment Brett had set before we left! :)

Bye Bye Long Hair!

So Sunday after spending two night's at Grandma & Grandpa's, it was hot out and Andrew decided after a year of growing his hair, that it was time for a cut. So dad pulled out the handy dandy clippers and Andrew's beautiful hair went bye bye!

So Andrew's long hair is no more! As you can see, he wasn't too upset about it!

While Brett was doing his barber thing, Brandon came over from the neighbor's and said that they wanted to know if they gave Brett $5.00 would he cut William's ( the neighbor boy ) hair.

Brett told them to keep their money, that he just gave buzz cuts and he would do it. So here he is with William.

So after Brett was done playing barber, later that night we decided to have a fire and we told the kids they could make smores. This whole time we are getting the fire started, chopping wood and such, the boy's are at the neighbors. They are yelling across the yard, "Mom, can William have some smores too?" So we said that was fine, he could. The next thing we know, Brett's worst nightmare is happening.

Brandon had went and invited the whole family from next door over for smores, not just William! If you know Brett, you know that he is fairly anti-social, especially when it comes to the neighbors, and people he does not know. So after living next door to us for three years, and the kid's knowing them, and us knowing their kid, we finally met the next door neighbors!

They came and had smores with us, they brought Brett a beer when they came, so he was more than happy to take it! They stayed for about an hour, ( way too long for Brett to socialize ) and before they left they had invited us four different times to a graduation party they are having on Saturday. Now Brett has to go socialize again! I hope he can handle it!