So thing have been going around here. Nothing too exciting but stuff is a happening. The pictures will help me tell all the events.
I got my hairs cut last week. Of course it looks great in this picture but I haven't been able to get it look anything like this since. The bangs are fun though.
Well the septic tank has been acting
ummm "funny." After pumping it out TWICE, we have figured out that our drain field is not draining the rain water when it pours. It just POURS right back in. It seems to just been an issue during the raining season though. We are sucking it up and not getting it fixed, so that means we are saving water as much as possible. And one way Derick is doing that is to take showers outside. (The water goes on to the ground not the septic tank. )
Yeah, that's not bath water!
Aww this picture is better. Lena pushing her car on a walk around the neighborhood. She is getting big. Tall and heavy.
This is a picture of her taking a picture of herself. She was having fun playing with her mommy's "apple." At first i thought she was calling my phone that because she has a game on it that has an apple on it, but someone pointed out that there is an apple on back that she sees (it is an iPhone.) So now it is mommy's "apple." (yes, she does know what a real apple is.)
Another very exciting thing is that she got her own new potty!!! She has been practicing sitting and reading her books on it. She gets a sticker when she sits. She actually went pee-pee the other day!!!! I was so shock and excited that I scared her. She is working on it at school now too. We may have a potty trained girl here soon!
So Derick left me for TWO WHOLE WEEKS!!! He went
prairie dog hunting with his dad and brother in Colorado. He did have a blast but I think he was glad to come home. We missed him terribly. Me and
O'lena really just got to know each other while he was gone, but we were very happen when he came home. Here is some pictures that I got from him from his trip. I have played this one up from my phone. I love that app.
He is actually talking to me on the phone right here. He is looking cool in all his hunting gear. I might have to talk him into posting about his trip. From what he told me they had a good time, only one run in with the law, one crazy-almost shot someone shot, and several hundred dead prairie dogs.
Mommy and
O'lena. She was eating her dinner, if you cant tell.
Brannon turned 18!!!!!! Can you believe it?! I can not. I remember when he was born. Spaghetti dinner at Rosemary's was a blast. Brannon and Bryan has both started at
FGCU. They both are enjoying at much as they possibly can. I think Brannon has realized that there is a lot of girl drama in college.
Our friends son had his 1st birthday a couple months back. She was wear the sponge-bob hat. We thought it was cute.
This is a picture of
O'lena actually being good during church. She is getting better and better. Well except for a couple of weeks ago where she got fed up and ran to the door and started banging her head against it, then wailing because it hurt. All this DURING SACRAMENT!
I am trying to think of anything else...There is always stuff going on, I just cant remember it when it is time to write it down.
I am actually enjoying my job right now! I have a second teacher this year and we have been able to split the students up into a high/low situation. I have the high, Eva has the low. Now when I am talking high, I mean the higher students who are reading about 1st grade (I teach middle school) can add, and are able to write some. They are not up on grade level, but they have some academics. This year has been great because I am not feeling guilty that the kid who is "high" is not being ignored because all my attention need to go to the "low," behavior students. We have done so much already! It is awesome for both groups. Now if my school would shape up, I might not want to leave any more....right...
What else?....
O'lena moved up at her school. She is now in the two year old room. She moved up last week. I have started to see a change already. Some for the good, some for the bad. She seems to more whiny than before. Well I think so at least. She is talking and copying like crazy. She is showing more preferences and she is understanding a lot more. The girl doesn't forget either. "Out of sight, out of mind" doesn't work for my child.
Oh man! Have you seen the new fall line up. It is the first time in years I actually want to watch TV. There is something on every night that I want to see. So much for going to bed early any more. Yeah that reminds me too... I was being so good with my P90X. Up every morning at 5:30, working out. I even did it every morning while Derick was gone. I was just seeing results....then....Derick came home. For some reason, and I am not blaming him, after he came back, I seem not to be able to get myself out of the bed any more. It was a fight before but I had some will power and motivation, now nothing. I just don't care nor want to. It was weird. Maybe next week....
Oh, fun kid story....so on Friday last week was BB King's birthday, right. The reason why I know this is because they did this big thing on the announcements that morning. Well come to find out one of my students, actually it was more but one just spoke up, thought it was Burger King's birthday!!
hahahahaha That is the difference on what they hear and applying their background knowledge. Okay so it is probably more funny to
DHH people than normal people but it made us laugh. After my comparative lesson I bet you my kids know who BB King is now!!
That's it for now. :)
Here is Jimmylee trying to hang with the boys....
Family photo opp
Yeah...I think she might have had something to with it. Yeah, he likes her.
So stinking cute!
Self portrait on the skinny boardwalk . Kind of scary with the kid. Especially when on the bank across the way is a big alligator.
Dude, I just realized my head look huge.
So cute in her chair.
Everyone hanging out.
So funny...Mom, O'lena, and I went biking and what do we see...Ricky Raccoon! A very talented Ricky. When we first started watching he was eating a piece of bread on the fence and then he jumped on to the dumpster, lifted the top, jumped in, got another piece of bread, then came back out and ate his meal. We couldn't believe it. Very talented!
