Sunday

OK so I was so excited about my $40 that I forgot about today. My family got together today for my Dad's b-day we had a really good time and very little melt downs from the kids. We decided after dinner to play out side with some stuffed tigers and a parachute the kids loved it, we would make the tigers fall off and they had to get them. We hide under it and just had some good old fashion non electronic fun! Lots of laughter and the best part was all 6 kids could play!
Then Jaxon and I went to our first of many parties at Jump n Jive. I was talking to a mom and come to find out she was my student teacher in English when I was a Sr at McKinley! Thank goodness she did not remember me. It is just funny how 18 years ago she was my teacher and now we have a child in the same class. I thought she looked familiar but never in a million years would I have guessed that!

weekend fun

The weekend is over and we had a blast with this one. Friday my dad turned 61 so me and the kids spend all day with him. We helped him pick-up some of the trees from the storm. KK was so cute helping MaMere load the mini truck. We went to Chris' Speciality Meat and got the best meat and chicken. I was really happy with the food we got, I am looking forward to trying everything.

Saturday The kids and I went to see Tommy play soccer. The kids enjoyed being out side. We went to the Jr. Leagues Christmas Shopping thing and left very quickly - 4 kids and breakable things just do not mix - what were we thinking. We then went to the swamp on ULL's campus and watched the alligators, fish and turtles for a while.
Then we went and relaxed at Hallie's house. Hallie and I took the first step in our journey to the Dallas 3-day and signed up. So I am ready to fund raise $2300.00 so if anyone knows some one who wants to sponsor me or buy some of the things I am selling to raise money let me know. I am going to sell the key chains and little girl purses. I have already made $40 (actually it was $25.00 in sales and the rest was just donated) so I am really close to my goal, OK not really but I did get really excited about my first $40!! I'll post pictures soon so if you have a B-day party or a girlfriends party you need a little gift for. The key chains also make great teacher gifts!!
Once I learn more about the website I will share my site with everyone. But now it is time for bed since tomorrow starts week 3 with out Erik (hopefully he will be home Friday). I need my sleep!

funny

TKD testing

Jaxon tested out of his white belt yesterday. Here are a few pictures:


getting ready

jump real high

block

punch

stands still for 30 seconds



We had fun watching. My mom and dad came to watch so he was excited about that. But sad that Erik missed it but happy that my mom made a DVD of it. On Thursday night we go to the awards program and get his new belt.

Things are good

People have been asking how me and the kids are doing. We are fine. Erik has already said that the project is going to take longer then 3 weeks so it is now really an open ended trip. We have not changed much of what we did before just missing one person. Oh I have not cooked a full meal but we have been eating dinner just quick things the kids like - mac and cheese for example, I think we may have Tacos tomorrow. Jaxon has gotten 3 supers this week so that has been great. He is also testing out of his white belt this Saturday and is really excited to move up to the yellow. KK loves her dance class.
The neighbors have been great - earlier this week Eric cut the grass and today he was teaching Jaxon how to golf. Misty and I have just been watching the girls fight, I mean play. We did decide to put up a gate between the 2 yards but have the handle low enough that the kids can open it.
I talked to Megan and they are doing good. Ready to come home but they still have no power thanks to IKE. They are staying at a friends house on a ranch. Today they went to a drive through animal park. They plan on coming home Saturday since the insurance guy will be there and Megan has to work on Monday.
I'll update later.

Carpool lines

Ok I have a rant and I could go on for hours about how stupid people are in the car pool lines at each of the schools I have to sit in line for!
1 - KK's MDO school has a simple map - you go in one driveway then turn down the 1st alse, then turn down the part of the parking lot that the other entrence turns in at and go around the parking lot, keeping our cars off the road where many many other people are trying to pass but instead of going to the right entrence these people have to turn in to the wrong one and block the street. Those of us that can read and follow simple direction go to the right entrence and then have to wait while those fools feel like letting us in or there line ends. Today I had one of those fool tailgate the car in front so I could not get in and we ended up in the same group for loading the kids - so why was she such a bitch and why did it bother me???
2 - Jaxon's school has a no cell phone in line rule - for the safety of the kids and teachers. People can not follow this rule and they don't even try to hide it! Once again why does that bug me? Oh because they can not follow simple rules!
3 - back to KK's school - they ask if you don't want to use the carpool line then park on the other side of the church and walk to get your child. They have stressed many many times that they did not want you to cross the line of cars by yourslef and especially with your child - saftey of the children come fisrt. Since we have been doing carpool (1 week) I have seen no less then 4 mom's a day break this rule. Now I am not saying I follow every rule out there but these are simple and some of them could use the walk from the other parking lot!
4 - Back to Jaxon's carpool drama - ok drama was too big of a word to explain but it is crazy none the less. We line up in 2 lines in the parking lot the right line turns right and the left lane turn left when you exit the school. Very simple right. Wrong once again everyday there is at least 2 cars that are in the wrong lane and if you are behind them you have to wait to see if someone in the right lane will be nice enough to let there dumb ass in. The thing that bugs me about this one is - no matter which way you turn you end up on Airline Hwy. One is a longer street but faster light other shorter street but slower light - same amount of time!!!

OK I am done. I did not go back and read this so it may sound confusing but then you would get the idea of what carpool is like!

Happy Birthday to me!

Here is a couple of pictures from my Birthday - 35 already! Oh well it was a great day and night. I'll upload some of the kids later!

little dancer

Did you think I wouls leave KK out of the dancers in the family - here is here little outfit she loves it and her class is so cute and small 6 little 2 years!! She had her 1st class wednesday!

I will be glad when life goes back to normal - no more storm watching!

I have an order in for 5 key chains so I will be able to start fund raising for the walk! Yeah!!

Stormplus.com

http://www.stormpulse.com/


cool website for tracking the storms!

Thank you for your help (not the picture)

I took this picture off High Speed days blog (which has more pictures) This is my parents house.

I forgot to say Thank you to Bobby (my borther) for getting me much needed supplies.and Thank you to Jerry (brother) and my Dad for picking up a AC unit for Us!!

I was amazed at how helpful peopel were - not family but in the neighborhood. 4 neighbors went to help Paul across the street when he was out fixing his fence - in the middle of the worst part. ANd neighbor Eric helpd my Erik with our fence in the middle of it also! Then afterwards we were giving juiceand other drinks from another neighbor because her work gave her more then they needed.

a little update

I have a few minutes but wanted to let you know that it was more then a little rain. The wind was pounding the house and we lost power at 11:00 on Monday and we finally got it back Sunday around 1pm. We had rain coming in 3 windows and the front door. Thank goodness we were here to put towels to stop the rain from ruining our carpet and Katie's bed. That was about it for damage. Our fence did fall down in 4 places but we can easily fix it for less then the deductable. We became really good friends with our neighbors over the past week with sharing food and cooking duties - which the men mostly did on the grill. We stayed up late most nights playing board games. Now everyone is in the cleaning mode. The last night with out power we hooked up a window AC unit in the down stairs bedroom and had our first full night sleep. Humidity sucks! But over all we did very well. Now we need to shop to replace everything that went back. But my poor parents did not do so well. They had 1 tree go into their bedroom, 2 trees fall on their fabulous patio cover, and 1 tree on the fence. But with lots f help from family their yard looks so much better but they still have a long way to go!

Just rain

It is 10:30 and it is here well not really but we are getting the start of it. It started really getting winding around 7am according to to Erik - I was sleeping -
So far my Parents lost power but we are doing alright. The trees are going crazy but little rain. We still have a while to go so I will let you know how things are going....
Happy Labor day!