Castle... Castle!

Things have been relatively quiet since my last post. Betina is finishing up school and getting ready for her summer teaching job. This is the last week Aurelia will be in daycare, which we are extremely happy about, as she gets to spend more time with us at home. Plus, we can start saving that money for the move. Pretty much a normal ending to the school year.

Bailey is coming down from Asheville on Friday and everyone is excited to see her, even me. This will most likely be the last time we see her until Christmas time, which happens to be the subject of the title of this post. We will checking off one of our vacation spots off the list as we look to be heading to London and Dublin for Christmas break with the kids. Now you wonder how that ties into a castle. Well, Betina found this great website called airbnb.com where you can rent apartments and homes and whatnot instead of staying in a hotel. There are tons of options and the prices are really good. So as we are looking at some different places to stay in Ireland, Betina comes across a castle. Now this place isn't Camelot or anything, but it's still a medieval castle. So the plans now include renting a castle in Ireland for a couple days and celebrating Christmas there. "A castle! The whole castle!" That pretty much sums up Bailey's reaction to the proposition, as she was pretty excited to say the least.

My best friend Josh came down from North Carolina this past week for his brother's high school graduation, so he and his wife finally got to meet Aurelia for the first time, as did a lot of other people I hadn't seen in a long time. I also got to get back out on the golf course for the first time in what feels like a year. I am still pretty bad, but apparently I should be a golf instructor because I was giving one of Josh's other brothers some tips and he was crushing the ball pretty well. Better in the theory of golf than the practice for me apparently.

Also going on in my world, I've started the process of applying to Penn State to finish my degree while we are overseas. I will be looking to get my bachelors in Political Science and finally have a college degree. I also plan on getting Masters and Juris Doctor, so this is the beginning of a lot of learning for me.

Now that I've gone back and read this post it seems that there is a lot more going on than I've realized. All I can do is take it as it comes and hope for best.

And here is Aurelia just lounging.