The First Week Of School

Whew, the first week of school is over! It has been a long one. I could not wait for summer to end and bring back the peace and quiet. What was I thinking! Our schedule is about to become chaotic! This year Sophia is attending 1st grade and had Mrs. Trahan. It loves her teacher (seriously). She came home the first day of school and was excited that she was the "nicest" teacher EVER! (For those of you that know what happened last year this is a relief to me and her.) I asked all week what she did as we are in the car line for Michaela and the response everytime is: Math and crafts! I guess we are off to a good start! Michaela is in a 3 way teacher combo for 3rd grade. Here in Crosby 3rd graders have a 2 teacher system and they rotate classes between them. Well, I requested that Michaela be place in the 3 teacher combo. Her homeroom teacher is Mrs. McKeon and she teaches Reading/Spelling, Mrs. Chapman teaches Language, Science, Social Studies. Mrs. Ellis teaches Math.. Michaela has come a long way in the attitude department since school has started so hopefully this will continue to be a good thing.! The only complaint so far from the girls is that the school cafeteria food SUCKS! Yes, that is a strong word and no that is not one that came from them. I just think they could have done a little better and appealed on a little kids taste buds than the District Boards! So all is good. Both girls are starting jazz and gymnastic classes , and girl scouts all next week on top of school so there goes my free time! Not to mention the fact that I have to chaperone them, volunteer at the school, be Michaela girl scout leader AND on the Service Unit Manager level..But hey! It is all good. I told Matt maybe ONE day I will be mentioned in our family prayers when they pray of what they are thankfull for! Until then I know that it is all for the good of our family.! In the next two weeks we are having an open house at both schools and I will take some pictures of the girls and their class space! Yes, I was not like the super COOL moms (like Kareena) that took great pictures on the first day of school .! Yikes! I need check of list like when we go on vacation! I can check off : lunches, backpacks, important notes signed, my sunglasses, my keys, my bra and shoes (oops thats a whole new story), oh and of course the GIRLS!

JellyStone Park Summer 2008

Okay this was our last summer blast before school starts! We had a blast with our neighbors! We stayed for 2 nights (not NEARLY enough time). I have to admit I was a little sad when we were packing up because of the rain. However, we got to the other side of the beltway/249 and it was sunny skies there on out! The weekend ended up beautiful! THe kids had a blast on the waterslides. (not to mention the ADULTS!) Brandi made it a contest to see who could come off the end of the waterslide into a full stand. We saw some of the kids do it and thought we had enough youth to try also! Well, Brandi was able to do it and was popping up into a surf style! I fell flat on my hind end! I came away with so many bruises I tripped and fell, fell on the slide huge bruise on the back of my leg! This just goes to show adults NEVER grow up! Really we had a great time there . WE have decided next time we need 3 nights instead.! For those that live here and have never gone check it out on the website www.lonestarcamping.com they have putt putt golf, swimming pool, waterslides,pedal carts, petting zoo, outdoor theater, fishing pond ,, tent sites, RV sites, and cabins. You'll have a blast!

Where is Edouard?

Well, Edouard landed! I think! It was not as bad as predicted (thank goodness). Edouard actually turned into a tropical storm and brought some rain and mild winds. We have couple of tree limbs that landed in our back yard. That is a relief considering yesterday I was glued to the tube watching the weatherman stating it would land at 70mph, and hurricane level 1. When Matt came home last night, I was demanding to have him tie down our swing set and trampoline to the trees. He thought I hit the hysterical state of mind. I forewarned the girls last night that our power could go out, she woke up this morning at 7:30am and was excited because she got to watch spongebob! (ha the mind of a child)! I wish I had my camera ready, the girls ran down the street about 10am this morning to go and play with friends, they were walking huddled under an big umbrella (too cute). We are all safe and dry. We were ready for anything to come our way thankfully due to food and emergency storage! I am thankful that we kept our power. I think the news said that about total of 70,000 people lost their power. Hope my out of state family enjoys the pictures posted! They know what blizzards and snow storms are not hurricanes and tropicals!

Beach Trip Summer 2008 Slide Show

Slides and Waves

We took a trip to the beach with our friends and neighbors. We first started off by going to the waterslide down on by Crystal Beach. The kids had a blast. We stayed for about 3 hours watersliding and going on the little lazy river, (and believe me it was lazy). My friend Brandi lived in Winnie, so she showed us this place and wanted to take us to Mama Theresa flying pizza, however they did not open in time for lunch. We went to their other favorite hangout called Stingree which is on the bayside! We watched some barges come through and ate awesome food! Next we took the ferry across to Galveston (I love riding the ferry!) and we saw some dolphins having fun in the water. We took a quick pitstop to the seawall so the kids could splash in the waves and collect some seashells. I wonder why kids pick up little broken pieces instead of the big ones? I have a bag full of little shells, and broken bits!Even though they had the warnings up about the high levels of bacteria I decided we were not there to drink the water it would be okay! (Geez imagine all the bacteria that could have been there when we were kids). The funny part is that Brandi's son Clay came up to us really worried because there was a spot "that was missing hair on his leg!" We joked that the 'redtide' ate it away! All in all we had a great day~I came back with my face looking like a lobster, which was understandable because I did not put sunscreen on it. But the weirdest thing is my legs came back a bit burnt. Which I did spray and they were in complete shade the whole day.! Well, below I posted just a few of our pictures from the day at the beach!