The Discovery Center

No pictures of the girls, they moved from display to display too fast. :)

The girls and I went to the Discovery Center Science Museum today. The girls had a ball playing with all of the displays. They have a "Good Vibrations" area right now. It was pretty neat. They even have a piano display that is just the insides of the piano so you can touch it and pluck the strings. Pretty neat.

Afterward, we headed to DQ for lunch. The girls love going there. They get an ice cream treat for dessert. Now we're home, "freezing." The girls are freezing, but it feels good to me. We have a cold front here right now and it is only 69. I can only imagine how chilly my Phx family would be if they were here right now. :)

I am kind of aimlessly wandering around my life right now. With not major school project to work on at the moment, I am restless. I'll get used to it. :) I took up a cross stitch project that I started last fall before Christmas. It says 08 on it. OOOPS! I think I'll just leave it. I started it then. When I sign it, I'll put 09. :) Or 10 if I put it away again. :)

I hope all are well. I miss you all and would love to hear how things are going on in your neck of the woods.

My thesis is done!

My thesis is done! I handed it in. Baring any major mistakes, I should get a good grade on it. My professor said it was a great paper, so I don't see that I'll have any trouble with it. What a relief to be done with such a big project. Whew! This fall should be fairly easy. So no worries there. Then I'm done in December. :) Wahoo!

Statistics!

I have too much information for my Master's Thesis and am totally confused on what to do with it. I gave up and e-mailed my statistics professor and asked him. I just am at a loss on what to do.

Joe is working on his Mustang trying to get it to work. He had to put his old heads back on because the new one is warped. :( As long as he gets it running, I don't care. I don't think it will come to Portland, unless he parks it on the street. We only have a 2 car garage.

The girls are playing nicely together, whew! I don't know how I would have gotten through this master's program if they didn't play well together. It would have been a nightmare.

Do you snore? I snore and am wondering if I need to see someone about it when we get to Portland. I know I need to lose some weight, but I snored when I was in a size 2! So that can't be all of it. Sometimes Joe doesn't know how I don't wake myself up.

Well, that got random. :) I avoiding going back to my paper. I'm stuck and will probably have to wait until I can get help from my prof.

Oh yah, BTW!

By the way, Joe is home! I did take one picture of the girls holding a sign for him. But there was too much hugging and kissing to get a picture after he got home. We are very grateful to have him home. We've been cleaning the house up, and relaxing since he got home. I have time now to clean, until I start working on my paper, which I will do tomorrow and Sunday. I want to have it turned in by Monday.

We are going on a house/apartment hunting trip on Tuesday for four days. I hope we find something in that time. We are torn on whether to find a house this size and move all of our stuff and rent this one out. Or leave 1/2 of our stuff and move to an apartment for less rent. Depending on how well renters take care of our yard and house, both options would be about the same money wise. Plus we'd probably go with a rental company to rent the house, so that takes a chunk out of the rent.

See, JOe and I haven't been up to much since he got home. Nothing exciting for me to write about, today anyway. I'll write about our anniversary on Sunday. Our anniversary is tomorrow. :) 17 Years.

New Bike and New glasses

Jamie was riding a little girl bike and it was getting too small for her. So we went to Walmart and got her a new street cruising bike. She wanted a bike that didn't have hand breaks. So we got her this cute bike. :)



And here are Faith's new glasses. The ones she gets to take home. :) She looks so cute. I hope they help with her reading.

Zoo and Glasses

The big news is that Faith needs glasses! She only needs them to read and may outgrow this need, but currently her eyes are working too hard to see the words so she has to wear reading glasses. If you know her parents, you know she may be in for a life of glasses.


Here are the ones she picked out.

Now for the Zoo. We went to the zoo yesterday and saw the new, well new to us, Africa Exhibit. There are lions, giraffes, hyenas, and warthogs. The new Lion exhibit lets the lions go right up the the glass so you are less than a foot away from them. So neat! I love that. A lioness was sleeping right by the glass. They have huge paws! :) Here are some pictures from the zoo.


The girls in front of an Elephant statue.



The lioness by the glass.

Less than three weeks!

Less than three weeks until Joe comes home! Wahoo! I'm so excited. Yipppppppeeeeeeeee!!!

Today was part 2 of 3 of dentist appointments for me. My dentist wasn't happy with how an inlay (inner strong filling used to replace using a crown) was looking. The margins were weak, so he decided that he'd replace it with a crown. It was originally supposed to be 2 parts. Well, during part 1, they did an xray and found that my tooth is dead and there was an abscess. I didn't even feel it. So I had to have a root canal. No biggie, it is my second one. That made my dentist experience last 3 parts instead of 2. Today was the crown preparation. Next will be the cementing of the crown. What an ordeal! At least I had the girls in VBS, so I didn't have to find somewhere to take them. Whew! Part three will be after Joe gets home. Joy! :)

The girls are having fun playing with friends, and going to VBS. Fun, Fun! We might go bowling on Thursday, and the Zoo on Friday.