I thought you might like to see where I'm working at the moment. This place is called Keele Hall and is about 10 minutes from our house. it was built in around 1850 but in the old gothic style and is a cool looking place with hundreds of acres around it along with the whole of keele university.
we're just remodeling some of the inside to make a bigger place for weddings and events but it's nice to have something different along side of just remodeling the student blocks all the time.
The other picture is of the new "potter's wheel" nearby at Trentham Gardens. it's a half size version of the "london eye" at 60 metre's (yes thats how they spell metre?!)
It's freakin COLD here now! the weather reports for the first two weeks of 2009 say we will have wind chills of minus 7'C!! my mother visit's us at the end of Jan into feb and I told her it wont be thats cold....oop's.

we feel lately that we are really settling in here. It was a year on december 27th already. we do wish we had more room or at least a garage to put all our crap in but we have more than most do so it's ok. The boys are doing good though Devon will be the death of us both. He still hardly sleeps. He usually goes to bed around 10:30 to 11 and is up most mornings before 8 - sometimes by 6:30 when I leave for work. so in hopes of making him be good and start to listen to us, I apoligise to all those I was bad and evil to when I was little and I hope this will be a short lesson in paybacks for me as stace is having to suffer for my wrongs as well!

Mason on the other hand is fine. He is doing very well with his school work and is still WAY ahead of where he should be. He has a spanish teacher come to the house once a week and is doing good with that too. He does say he misses some of his friends from Florida but of course we all do.

sorry for the spelling....i've been on the whiskey...