pay check

I got my first pay check today in almost 4 years - Ok so it was only for one day. It was a whopping $33.
Erik laughed at me.
But I have 2 more days lined both in Katie's class so that should be intresting. Tomorrow I am not going in till 12:00 so she will be asleep but on Monday I will be there the whole day as the Asst.
I also just added a day for Katie - her teacher let me know that Wednesday was open now and not to wait till January because people were asking for that day so we went ahead and added so now she will learn to skate - I can't wait to see that!

Halloween weekend

Here are some pictures from this weekend. We went to a Halloween party, boo at the Zoo and the our annual carving party. Fun fun weekend.

more pictures

I love photobucket! So easy to use ya'll are going to get sick of seeing pictures of the Kids!

The ones of Jaxon and Katie are really to show Mara how cute Mya's clothes look on Katie - Thanks Mara!!

Then Katie's halloween dress. I just love that dress style.
and then the kids trick or treat bags. I had fun making those.

I forgot to tell ya'll I finally worked at the kids school as a sub. It was fun - a little over whelming at first - 12- 2 year olds that don't know you and the main teacher was who I was there for. We had some moments like when we did not know if we could give a child something because of his allergies and was crying because he wanted what everyone else had. Anyway it all worked out in the end. the kids liked me so that was good.

Anna-Karin's pictures

Ok so you can go to
http://www.annakarinsphotography.com/EZPhotoSales/
go to swanson
the pasword is Katie

Let me know what you think - which one is your favorite.

I also have it set up that you can click on the title and go to the website.

pictures

here is the link to the photographer that took Katie's 18 month pictures - My high school friend Vonnie gave me the session as a gift when Katie was born. I can't wait till the rest are posted! I'll let you know so you can go look at them.
http://annakarinsphotography.com/blog

and here are some more pictures from this weekend.

busy weekend

Here are a few pictures from this weekend. I tried to upload more but there was an error so I gave up.

The first one is from the maze in Port Allen and the second one is from Boo at the Zoo - which I so did not know was going on. But we had a great time anyway.

fun at home

So I got my Mom to play the Wii - I think she had a really great! She may have stayed all night if she didn't have to get Claire & Emma before 5. The Wii will eat your time if you let it!

She was playing bowling here.

She was really good at that one!

Jaxon and MaMere played a few of the games she did the best at bowling and the shooting ones.

Ok so both Hallie and Hillary's blogs made me cry! You both ROCK 3-days 60 miles and over $6200 between the 2 of you all for Breast Cancer!!

Here is a sneak peek of Jaxon's Halloween look! He looks so cute! I tried to uplaod another picture but I gave up since I got errors twice.

picture of the day...

Just wanted to share this picture with you! Gotta love photoshop!

after the kids go to sleep

OK so I went a little crazy last night with the Halloween ribbon! I was playing with different was to make the ribbons - I even made a Halloween ladybug (is that possible?)

I have to let everyone know how proud I am of Hallie - she is doing the 3-day walk for breast cancer tomorrow. 60 miles in 3 days - why to go Hallie you inspire me! Full time mom and full time worker and yet you found the time to raise or $3200 for breast cancer! WAY TO GO HALLIE I am so proud of you!!

Since Hallie has successfully met her goals she inspired me to set some. I have my sight focused on doing the walk with her in 2 years. I have talked to my PT about getting my back ready for this. We have started to build our team - everyone is welcome so if you want to walk let us know.

I have started doing WW again . I believe the more people I tell the more motivated I will be. Then it because something I have to stick with and be accountable for.

so once again I am so proud of Hallie and send her lots of best wishes and prayers!! GO Hallie and Hillary - you make of proud!

Magnolia Mound Plantation

We went to Magnolia Mound Plantation today to take some pictures for Katie - Thanks Vonnie for the gift cert for the pictures - once they are online i will put a link so you can see them. These are a few I took after the session was over.

It was a really pretty place so I would love to go back and take more pictures.

It was hot! Jaxon found a frog so Anna-Karin got a lot of pictures with him playing with the frog - should be super cute.

I also went to the open house for St. Theresa's Pre-K . It is werid I almost feel like I am cheating on Jaxon's school that he is in now since I am looking into another school. He can go there next year but I really want to get him in for K so I need to start now. enough babble for now

slow people

today I was checked out by the slowest woman in the world at Target. I was so upset with her. She was sooo slow - I had 20 minutes till I had to pick up Jaxon and it takes 15 minutes to get there, yes I was cutting it close but I did not get to my car till 3 mintues till - yes it took that woman over 15 to scan all my items. Crazy. Thank God Jaxon's school knows me and and we have a good realtionship so being late was not that bad. But come on that is too long to scan all the products.
Then I hit every red light on the way there. oh well lesson learned!
He was already in the gym playing when I got there and he did not want to leave. And I was afriad he was going to be upset I was late - silly me