Best Place to Raise a Family

This morning on the Today Show, Today 101: The 100 best places to raise a family. Since we can't live in Honolulu at least were in Billings.
1 Honolulu, Hawaii — Schools spend almost $9,000 per pupil, unemployment ranks less than half the national average, and you can play on the island of O'ahu's 125 beaches.

2.Virginia Beach, Virginia

3 Billings, Montana

4 Columbus, Georgia

5 San Diego, California

6 Des Moines, Iowa

7 Minneapolis, Minnesota

8 Madison, Wisconsin — Madison has a high number of pediatricians per capita.

9 Colorado Springs, Colorado

10 Santa Rosa, California

In Montana where there are endless places to explore
where over crowding is three people trying to reel in the catch
where your neighbor is just 5 minutes away
where time stands still
where rush hour is a little smoother
where your wardrobe dilemma is, "Which color to wear?"

Have we sold you yet? Montana....We think it's the best place to raise our family.

House Guest

He's a pizza maker, a snake charmer, a door fixer and a rock mover. Bruce's cousin Stanley Diamond. He has been living with us for the past week. He accepted a job here in Edger Montana, with Kinder-Morgan. It has been great having him here. His family will be joining him at the end of the week. We hate to see him go...We have accomplished so much while he has been here. Saturday he help Bruce move a ton of gravel next to our drive way (amazing what two men can accomplish in a morning. Then he fixed our back door that has never hung straight. You can actually close it and it will stay shut - the wind cannot blow it open now.
Sunday after church he made us home-made pizza (a family tradition that he does with his family every Friday night - which he is missing terribly right now).
Right after dinner we were blessed to find this lovely snake in our flower bed. They took it to the backyard and put it in the field so I sure it will never return. It's so fun to have family visit and we are so excited to have them so close - only 30 minutes away just Southwest of us in Joliet.The kids and Stanley saying farewell to our beloved flower garden pet.