Update

Well, yesterday we went to a Moose Lodge event. Mom and Dale volunteered for a March of Dimes charity thing...I helped by taking my jewelry making supplies to keep the kids entertained. We had fun..there was a TON of free food and a live band.

We also joined our local recreation center here...they have an indoor pool, jaquzzi, raquet ball courts, a game room for the kids equipt with Wii's, playstations and more. This place is absolutely HUGE. They have an indoor walking track and gym, and hopefully I can get Joey to go with me and walk sometime. This rec center was one of the biggest reasons that I wanted to move here, but we didn't join it until just this weekend (we have been here a year and a half already!) Talk about procrastinating a little, lol.

We have been trying to get our yard under control....2 1/2 acres catches up to us pretty quick, and it gets away from us even faster...I really didn't want this much land, but Joey wanted to feel like he was "in the country". (sigh) Like the 120 acres he has near Boswell wasn't enough "country" for him....we have that up for sale, though.

Other than that, we are counting down the days until summertime!! I am getting ready with my sunscreen, new chairs for laying out, our water toys for Skyler and even bathing suit shopping...I need new clothes now too, since I lost so much weight....Joey threw all of my old clothes out last summer, because we thought that I would NEVER fit into them again......They are all out of style now anyhow, lol....(good excuse, right???)

Dating in school!

Sooo, Skyler is in the 4th grade now, and I am SHOCKED by how "old" these kids act.....they are even saying they have "boyfriends/ girlfriends" and some have blogs on "Bebo", and know how to do all of the blogger stuff, etc.

Last night Skyler wanted to "blog" to a girl he likes from his class. I set him up a little page, but he doesn't have full access to it, without me being there...he can't log in himself, nor does he have his own e-mail....I have to be the one loggin in, and doing the typing, etc. That is just the RULE in our house.

I am just shocked at what some of the parents let their children do online....these little kids are on there talking about who they have kissed, etc.!!! I didn't kiss a boy until I was AT LEAST 13 or so...nor did I have any interest in kissing one....they still were GROSS back then.

Am I behind the times??? I am going to watch his online use because of the obvious reasons...but I am still in shock at what kids are doing today.

Reponses....

I am glad that we are able to stay in touch this way, this is pretty cool! I still am not sure how to respond to the posts that you all give me...right now I am just posting a comment within my blog, back to you, etc...This is still more complicated than my other blogs....but I will get the hang of it ;-)

Land Run Pictures

He is at home here

This was lunch on the land
Starting line for the land run...stake your claim~!
She is trying to make it to the line before they start!

The Land Run was fun! I let the kids make jewelry at my table, they had a BLAST ;-)

Land Run

Skyler had a little school event called "The Land Run". They all got dressed up and had to run out and "stake their land"....

I was in charge of jewelry making...(it was a HUGE HIT!) and the kids pretty much stationed themselves there for most of the day, lol.... They ate hotdogs, cookies, chips and had to go to different towns and do different things like watermellon spitting, horse-shoe throw, obstacle course, croquet, cow patty toss, etc.....

They had their OWN covered wagons and spent about 3 hours outside, eating, playing and making jewelry.

I tried to post pictures, however it didn't let me..I will try again later....I guess there is some problem with the site....

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY DAY!!!!

I think tommorow will be the BEST DAY since I bought my house!!!

Don't know if any of you heard the story of my ever-gross messed up septic system, but we are FINALLY getting the stupid thing fixed FIRST THING TOMORROW!!! YEAHHHHHH!!!! We have had problems with the stupid thing since the FIRST TIME I ever ran the laundry right after we bought this house....

Had some estimates quoted at $5000 to repair it, etc....Finally, we got a guy to come out and he quoted us $1800 to fix it!!! OH YEAH!!!!! I pulled the permit from the city last week and now we will be able to have the problem fixed!!!!!

I am soooo excited I could....uh....never mind ;-) You get the point!

First Sleepover...

Well, I survived our first sleepover.....Skyler got through the night and had a ball....I learned that he is growing up and will stay the night over at his friends' houses, and will make it back in one piece in the morning.....

I didn't sleep very well last night though....I am not sure I like this "growing up" stuff.......

It gives me gray hair.