My blog hates complaining posts...

I wrote a rant on technology not working correctly this morning... for my blog to totally screw up when I posted it. So I had to delete it.... ironic

Update.... again.

Well things here have been a little crazy, good crazy this time instead of bad. Well most of it good.... there was that little thing with Gabbi in the hospital but all is well with that now and hardly seems worth mentioning. I have completed my Algebra 2 class with a B, which is so much better than I ever dreamed that I would get, so WOOT WOOT for that. Danny is now back on first shift as of this morning!!! Life is better that way, we were actually holding hands shopping for index cards at 4:30 this afternoon. I have successfully started both my medical terminology class and my human resources mangement class, both look so fun after taking algebra. My brother and Bess, all of the girls (including Chelsea) came and visited. It was super great, all of my children were on their best behavior, and for that I am grateful. We had a great time although I didn't get the opportunity to do all of the things that I had planned. All of the ladies had their photos taken together in the dresses that I made. It would have been better if I had the opportunity to fit them first but it worked out fairly well. We all spent the night and then ate breakfast. Wil and his family left early Sunday and made it home safe and sound. It was kind of cramped in the truck though so I don't know how sane they were after the ride... or before the ride... anyway, off topic,lol. Here is a slideshow of the photos that we had taken. Thank you again to Wil and Bess for coming to visit, hopefully we will be able to do it again soon.

A break....

I spent Saturday and Saturday night with my brother and his amazing family. Mom and I went up and had a great time playing and talking, and eating... there was a lot of that,lol. We stopped at Aunt Carols on the way up and her yard, the garden, the pond all looked so delicious that I had to take pictures. I thought that I would share.

Fishing Pics from the Dad and Kid Fishing Trip

She MADE IT!!!

A great big thank you to all of you who kept Miss Gabbi in your thoughts today!! She wasn't nervous and did a great job. So here we go again, 8th grade cheer!! She has made it all 3 years of middle school now, I am hoping that it works out in high school too since it is her incentive to stay out of trouble and keep her grades up!!!

Shhh... Do you hear that???

My amazing husband has taken the children fishing, and I am here ALONE!! So imagine what it is that I hear.... NOTHING, isn't it beautiful? I hope that they catch a ton of fish so that I may post pictures tomorrow, oh and so that they don't want to come home for a while.

So I have been informed that it has been entirely too long...

So I read over the last entry and noticed that it was a long... long... time ago. I am currently taking an Algebra 2 class that is just now starting to make sense again. I can't believe that I took this class 20 years ago and didn't have an issue with understanding and now, that I am paying attention and trying... I struggle. Go figure. The kids started back to school this week which is a prayer answered (thank you God). We are still struggling with bills but who in this country isn't. My husbands constant obcession is with moving to Perth Australia since he found out that he can make over four times what he is making now and do the same job. We got new family pictures taken in June before my oldest son left for boot camp, so I posted it... I miss him more than I can even describe. My oldest daughter has decided that she hates cheerleading this year after years and years of devoted practice, competitions and friends. She has not replaced it with anything other than this amazingly terrible attitude. I do hope this is just one of those stages that I always hear people talking about. Jonathan is determined to do much better in school this year as he is required a specific GPA in order to fulfill his plans...we will see, he always starts off well, it just doesn't last. Gabbi and Lexi are inseparable these days, I hope that is a good thing and they are not plotting new ways to get in trouble or determining the best ways to not get caught when they see one of the other kids get in trouble. I don't know how many more years of this teenagers thing I can do. For as much as I complain, they really are great kids. I don't know what I would do without them, my guess is make terrible cookies,lol. Board games just wouldn't be the same and I couldn't ever enjoy a scary movie again without making someone scream in the middle. Yes, they do serve a purpose, all of them. So I have updated for now and I will try as hard as I can to make sure that it isn't ever that long again.