As promised! Halloween pictures!

Coming soon!

I am going to have the girls try on their costumes for Halloween. I'll take pictures and have them up here today or tomorrow. :) No worries.

In the meantime, and update on the family. Jamie is doing wonderfully in school. I couldn't ask for a better students. She's thriving at Quatama. Faith is getting a lot of help at school and I look forward to seeing her grow this year. She has started to play the recorder and loves it. Maybe I can get her to play the flute. Speaking of music, Jamie has started with piano lessons again. She loves it, and so far her teacher seems like a great teacher.

Joe is working those wacked out shifts still. It is crazy! He is working around the clock shifts and only 3 or 4 of one shift before he switches to anther shift. Poor guy. Thank heavens to Niquil.

I am working 2-4 days a week as a sub. It is challenging and interesting all at the same time. Middle schoolers like to push buttons and see how far they can push their sub. But the elementary students are gems. I love subbing for the elementary kids. My Master's program is wrapping up. I'm so excited to be almost finished with it. We're going to party here in December, that is for sure! :) Graduation isn't until May though. So we'll have a big party at our house in Meridian then. It is empty so there is plenty of space for anyone to sleep if they want to come to my graduation. :)

Thanks for stopping by and reading!

The rain has started!

That rain has started and should end in March or April. :) The girls love it! They were out with their umbrellas earlier. I had to make them come in since Faith is still sick. We are going to look at rain boots today when we go to Target.

Jamie is going to cook dinner tonight. She has been missing Papa and his cooking. He always let her help cook with him. I make easy dishes, so there is less opportunity for her to help. But she picked out a recipe for tonight that she is going to make mostly by herself. I'll have to help her with the gas stove, of course.

Faith is getting better. She seems mostly back to normal. No fever, just an annoying sniffy nose and cough. This makes me very happy because I was pretty worried about her on Monday. Jamie is 100% better as well. :)

Today we have parent/teacher goal setting conferences at school. They are today and tomorrow with Friday off. So the girls have a 5 day weekend. I could have worked today, but we have the conferences so I turned down the job.

Thursday I have to go see my dentist to get a filling repaired. He is in Seattle tomorrow. He is my dentist from Boise. So that is closer, but in unfamiliar territory. I have a good friend up there that I haven't seen since high school, so I'm going to hook up with her. That should be fun, and make the trip up there worth it. :)

Sick Girlie number two!

Faith is now sick. :( She is just coughing so far, but that is how it started with Jamie. Later after an appt I have, I'm going to get them both Jamba Juice again. They can use all of the fruit and vitamins they can get. Me too, because I sure don't want to get it!

Poor sick girlie!

Jamie is at home today with the flu. :( She started losing her voice a couple days ago, now has a cough, runny nose, fever and a headache. So being the good mom I am, I went a picked up the flu essentials at Walgreen's, along with Jamba Juice. She's happily sitting on the couch now with her Jamba Juice and a movie. :) Well, as happy as one can be while sick. When she gets better, I'll have to take her to the doctor to get a flu shot. Of us girls, she is the only one not to have the flu shot.

Shopping with the girls

We went shopping today on this fine fall day. There were a few clouds, but no rain. :) It was nice to be out with the girls instead of watching football at home. hehe!

The girls needed some pants. Last years are too short, of course. And it is now too chilly in the morning to get away with shorts, even on the warmer days. So Jamie got some jeans, and Faith got some stretch pants. She loves comfort, that one. :)

I made pork loin and butternut squash the other day in the crock pot. I liked it and Joe liked it, but the girls didn't. It needed something. I'll have to experiment to see what I can add to make it taste better.

I joined a gym and hired a personal trainer! I need to get serious about my weight and doing it by myself hasn't been working so well. I'm just getting bigger and bigger and bigger. I've met with my trainer twice. He kicked my butt last night! Wow! It was hard, but I felt stronger for doing it. :) I also swam for 30 minutes on Thursday. I felt good about that too. :)