They are home!!

I would have written sooner, but I have been VERY busy! Okay, I guess you could say I had a mini vacation over the weekend, cause I was gone for over 48 hours. I left my house just after 11:30am on Friday. I drove to Denton to Heather and Cody's house and stayed the night there. Unfortunatly, I did not sleep that well that night and was almost comatose. Heather and I left the house at 5:45am and drove to Amarillo. We made great time, I am guessing that is because she drove all the way there. We ended up having to wait for Pat & Wava for a few hours so we went to Wal Mart and did some shopping. Finally they arrived, and I got to see my kiddos, which stuck like glue to me for awhile. I didn't mind really! We had fun, we went swimming, had dinner, chatted with Aaron's mom and dad, and went to bed. YEAH, I finally got to sleep and had at least 6 hours of sleep. We drove back the next morning and I actually drove over half the way home. Anyway, the kids and I finally got back at our house at almost 4pm. We were all tired that night and we all slept well!

So much to do!

Okay, we did get some things done, not a lot but some.

1. We fixed the compresser unit in the hall on our own. Aaron unclogged a couple drains which apparently are somehow connected to it.

2. The van had been having some hiccups while trying to start it. We took a look at the battery and realized it probably needed to be replaced so we went to Wal Mart to get a new one. BTW we did find the reciept for the battery but it was at least 1 day passed the warrenty so we did not even worry about it. We got to the counter in the auto section and the nice lady somehow made it so we recieved $2 and some odd sense to take the new battery. Well, now the van seems to be starting better.

3. I painted the kids bathroom. I picked out a nice light blue color and sponged it on. It only took me 4 hours to complete, but looks much better than before. YEAH!

4. I also managed somehow to get the house back in order and cleaned, still not 100% clean but what house is.

Things still on my to do list......Put up car stickers in J room, measure and order new hot tub cover, mend everything needing mended, finish bean bags for E, ok I won't bore you all but there is much more. Too much to do, so little time! I tried taking pictures of my masterpiece, but not sure how well the will show up.

One week down.....

One week down and one more to go. The kiddos will be back on the 21st of this month. I have been so busy watching others kids that I have not had time to miss them a ton. However, when I am just sitting down not doing anything, my mind goes to my kids and yes, I do miss them terribly! I am going to try to remember to call and see how they are doing so far.

Since the kids have been gone, Aaron and I took advantage and celebrated our 10th anniversary a month early. We went to Lone Star Park today, just to do something different. We sat upstairs in the counter seat section. It was okay except everytime we had to get up, we had to ask the other 3 gentlmen to move a bit so we could get by. We did have some fun and it was real nice to see the horses run. All in all a fun day except. we think that the van's alternator is going out. UGH if it is not one thing it's another.

sniff sniff

Ok, I do really miss my kids! I am not crying, but I sure do miss my hugs, kisses, and I love you mom! Aaron and I drove to Amarillo on Saturday 7am to drop off Justin, Emilie, & their cousin Cameron. The trip there was actually pretty good, it helped having something to occupy the children's attention who were by the way all sitting in the back of the van. Thank you sooooo much Lara for letting us borrow your portable dvd screens. They were a huge hit with the kids as well as the parents, who heard less noise. The kids will be gone for 2 weeks and thanks Heather and Cody for going to pick them up for home. The night before the kids were acting a bit goofy so I took a picture and told them to say cheese boogers, here is the pic! Also one other picture of Justin saying goodbye to Iris!

YEAH JUSTIN!!!

Way to go Justin! I think Justin had a pretty good year over all. Wednesday the 4th, Justin had his program, which was really cute. It was about a train full of toys that needed some help (called The Little Train). Anyway, that day he got 2 awards one was the Best Thinker/Problem Solver award and the other was the friendly visitor to other 1st grade teacher's classroom award. He got the last one, because his teacher said that he knows a ton of kids in each 1st grade class.

On Thursday the 5th, (last day of school) there was the whole school assembly. I figured it would only be 30-45 minutes. NOPE! It took them one hour and 45 minutes to get through it all and of course they did the one Justin got the very last. It would not have been a big deal except I had 2 kids with me ages 5 and 3! Most of the earlier awards were for the 5th graders anyway, why couldn't they have had a seperate assembly for them, who knows. Well, Justin recieved an award and a medal for perfect attendance. We were so proud of him!

For Fun

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 200 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

I thought this was really cool. Unlike Audrie, I guess there are a lot of me out there! LOL Although when I put my maiden name in there, it said no one else had that name. This was neat.

There are 512,596 people in the U.S. with the first name Heather.
Statistically the 104th most popular first name.
More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Heather are female.

There are 118,642 people in the U.S. with the last name Obrien.
Statistically the 271st most popular last name.
Famous people with the last name Obrien:
George O'Brien
Pat O'Brien
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