Sunday

Yesterday and today were very relaxing days. Yesterday I got all my house cleaning done.. Today we went to church for the end of VBS celebration. It was so cute, and I can't believe I forgot my camera. Luckily, I sat next to Cristi and she took some. I got to see Ryan in a hula skirt, that was so funny. After the waterfest of VBS teachers getting wet, we went to El Saltillo with Chad, Kristen and some new friends. Chad told the waiter that it was Ryan's birthday, so they came out with a hat and a dessert. It was so funny cause he had no idea what was going on. Then he tells Chad,...you do know my birthday is in December right? It was so funny.
Then we came home and planned to complete the touch-up paint but instead decided to take a nap. The kids took a long nap today too... we must ahve all been tired.
Today I have felt extreeeemly blessed to have the best husband ever. I am so greatful that he got to teach VBS. I truly pray that someone he meets will reach him with Christ. On another note, Zoe asked Ryan if she could go up to the altar during VBS, and when he asked her why she said "I don't know"... I think she is getting closer everyday to making a decision for Jesus. YEAH!!!!

more pics

The living room/kitchen


The kitchen


Zoe's room


The living room


Thomas' new room... I am so proud of the work we did!





My husband studiously trying to fix the fuel line on the weed eater


Our new rental house


Zoe and Lindsay


Zoe learning how to take pictures of herself

Some recent pics

We have been SOOO busy. I will recap soon.. but for now here are some pictures...

Long days long nights

Well, since I last wrote, we have moved our entire house 15 miles east. It was a tiring and exhausting process. Mostly because we rented this house under the pretense that the people before us somewhat took care of it. They did anything but that. They had pets and smoked in the house. Every door and painted wall had damage from the smoke and/or pets. Can anyone say NASTY? I scrubbed on Friday, the entire day. The carpet guy came, and worked miracles on the carpet. By Saturday morning, there had been a rag rubbed over every part of the inside of this house. We worked Friday night till 4 am, painting, hanging borders (of which I will now only ever endorse the stick kind... the pre-paste kind was not nice to me.) We got some volunteers from church to help and I had to pick them up at 8am Saturday morning. We were all moved in by Sat at 1200, and we have been unpacking ever since. Hopefully I will get the remainder of the unpacking/organizing/de-cluttering/hanging of curtains tommorrow. For now, I think I am going to sit back and watch some tv.

Long day

This morning started at 0445. I showered, and dressed for work and was there barely by 6 as usual. Thanks to Ryan I had lunch packed and Thomas ready in 45 minutes. What an amazing man I have!!!! Work today was reviewing, and all my students passed block III test yeah!!!! After work, PT in the HOT HOT HOT 94 degree sun and then off to the new rental house. I got the two bathrooms clean, but I still need to mop one bathroom, and clean the baseboards and fans. We will defintely be getting new toilet seats from Lowe's in the next couple of days. These people were SOOO dirty. I don't think I have ever seen that much hair in my life. And I still have the urine smell in my nose, 3 hours later. I have a headache and my eyes burn, but that could be from being tired. So more tommorrow, if I don't go to the Stevie Nicks concert. I have Friday off, praise GOD!!!!
.....more to come on the house day by day.........

Time flies

Thomas my little rock star


Zoe and the beauty queen wave

Wow!!!! Where did the last week go? What did I do? whew!!! I had to read Ryan's journal, and even then, it's sketchy. Today I am immensely excited to tell all the world that Thomas learned to spit today! Okay, I know it doesn't really sound that great but I am talking about spitting in the sink, while brushing his teeth with big boy toothpaste. He was so excited about finally using the Dora and Diego toothpaste that Zoe got. I showed him one time and he was on it! I just hope he does not use his skills anywhere else. He was so cute he says "Daddy I PIT!!!!!" and we tried to get him to say sssss-pit to no avail. Children are so cute and innocent sometimes.
So lets recap the last couple days....

Tuesday
When Zoë woke she and Ryan spent time on finetunes.com creating a play list together. She named the songs and I would type them into the search bar. After breakfast they wanted to go to the beach so they walked bar foot along the shore and found alive a hermit crab that was sheltered in a sea shell. They also found boxes for our move. It has been decided that we will go with the Curious George theme for Thomas' room so I took back the things we bought the day before and ordered the new borders and stickers for his room.



Wednesday

The packing begins... although I went straight to bed. Later that evening Zoë and I went to a dinner for a someone in my ofice that's seperating and Thomas and Ryan went to band practice.

Thursday

Zoë and Ryan packed her room.

Friday

We all went to Dora at the Lynn Meadows Discovery Cener. Thomas loved it. The rest of us were very disappointed. What can you expect for $2!! Good thing we didn't go during the day show or it would have been $9 a person!

Saturday
I took the kids to Bram’s birthday party and Ryan stayed home and practiced the Vivaldi Concerto.

Sunday June 1st, 2008

We went to church this morning to see the Bird Songs. They do some real nice bluegrass and modern rock. We liked it so much that we went back to see them again for the evening service.

Thanks to Ryan for the recap.... where was I last week? wow!! My brain hurts just thinking about it. Hopefully I will be more in control this week!