Spring 2010

Mother's Day Tea with Nate <3



Fallbrooke <3
Shen, Annabel, and Nate





Nate's Graduation (I swear he looks EXACTLY like his father)

Oh Man How Time FLIES!!!

LOL, I was looking at my FB profile for the um-tenth time this evening BORED out of my ever loving mind and realized ah...duh...I have a blog and I haven't even looked at it in MONTHS!!

I'm NOT writing EVERYTHING that's happened the last however many months but I'll quickly recap and try (being the operative word)to be more diligent in my writing.

Wow, School's out for summer! I'm...egh...about 25 percent excited about this! Summer means fun, sun, swimming, lazy mornings, camp, vacations and everything else summer brings. But at my house, and I'm pretty sure most other places SUMMER brings whiny children, long HOT afternoons (with no AC), No money, and I also LOSE a large part of my mind in the process!

Ya know it's funny people always ask me: "how are you doing" and I ALWAYS respond (those people who know me can attest to this) "CRAZY!!!"

Shanendowa just finished her orientation for college! YAY! Graduated 6th in her class and is genuinely the best teenager I know!

Annabel just finished up the 1st grade! With much appreciation to her amazing teacher...she passed :)

Nathan has made the MOST changes in this short period of time! Pre-k graduation (sniffle) and he's riding a two-wheeler bicycle now! My baby is no longer a baby and I'm having moments where it saddens me BUT I remind myself he will always love me no matter how big he gets!

Jeff and I are still working hard, maintaining our careers (mines still revolves around raising my family, mostly, but it's hard work!) raising the kids and trying to find our way takes constant effort.

I have put applications in everywhere! Unfortunately, in this day and age teaching positions are few and far between...I often feel like it doesn't matter how GOOD you are it's about the people you know; and being a girl with virtually no connections I fear I'll be looking for a job for the rest of my life...but I KNOW without a SHADOW OF A DOUBT I'm suppose to teach!! Hopefully somebody will realize how incredible I am in the classroom! I can even prove it...given the opportunity!!! So please keep your fingers crossed for me!

Oh...last but not least...my high school ten year reunion is this Saturday! I honestly have no stinkin' idea how and where the time went! Hopefully it'll be fun!

I've got a few pics...