Sorry about not keeping up with the Joneses

I have been bad at keeping the site up to date lately, but now that summer is here and we will be doing lots of fun things, there will be more updates I promise. Just a little glimmer of what's to come....

David is Modeling! That's right... I said Modeling. He has a site at www.mychildmodels.com/portfolio/David32640 if you want to check it out. He only has a few pictures up right now and hasn't booked a photo shoot yet, but we are working on it. His site just came up this week! We are also in the process of signing him with a National/Worldwide agency as we speak. I just got his acceptance letter yesterday. They will be providing him with his photos for his portfolio, another website and they will actively seek out jobs for him. He is sooo excited. He woke up this morning saying he wanted to go model today. We practiced poses last night and he did ok, but Scooby-Doo was on TV so he was more interested in it than in practicing. Tomorrow we will be taking amature photos with me behind the camera, but if they don't turn out well, then we will schedule with a photographer to get some good shots. I sure do wish I had paid more attention in my photography class in high school.

My practice is growing steadily... but I'm just not as happy in my current location as I thought I would be when I moved in here. Many issues have come up in the last few months that have slowly started to snowball into even bigger issues and it just might be time for me to strike out on my own and try it solo again. I have confidence that success is just around the corner. It has been much harder to have a thriving practice than I had expected when I began a year and a half ago. Now I undersatnd why so many Chiropractors fail within the first year. I keep asking myself "is the stress really worth it?" then I see my student loan bills and the answer is yes... at least until those loans are paid off, and by then I will be sitting pretty anyway and I won't have this much stress any more.

Duncan's job on the other hand is doing fantastic! The branch is having a record year and it looks like we may be having a VERY merry christmas this year. They have been raking in the work and it has more than made up for the huge loss they had last year with their job at WSU and a few others.

Thank Goodness I'm a chiropractor!

Fun with Jeannie and Aaron

Fun with Jeannie and Aaron

Jeannie and Aaron came to visit us a few weeks back and here are a few photos from our time with them. I came down with Strep troat and tonsilitis so there aren't as many as I would like. We were able to make it to Multnomah Falls and the Bonneville dam fish hatchery on Tuesday before I fell ill, and on Saturday we went to the Tulip Festival in Ridgefield where we bought loads of lilly bulbs and planted them that same day in our front yard. I will keep you posted(about 3 months from now) when they bloom so that you can see how beautiful they are. We also did a lot of work in the yard this past weekend. We planted a small herb garden for me in the backyard and put some flowers in the front. We still have a lot of work to do to make the house the way we want it, but it is getting better and better every month.