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Addison, who usually likes to do this




and Wyatt, who usually likes to do this




have both signed up for this!






They're terribly excited about it. They've been online looking up equipment, rules, and any information they can get their hot little hands on. I hope that it lives up to their expectations since they are so excited. However, it does make me a little nervous because it has the potential of bringing arguments between the kids to a whole new level. LOL!! Although, Wyatt already participates in this




(that's not him in the picture)




so I guess it really should be safe. 80)


Hope everyone has a great Labor Day weekend. We'll be going to my nieces 18th birthday party. I can't believe she's already 18....it's like she was just born yesterday. Where does the time go?

And they're off....

Today was the first day of school. My gang is in the fourth grade now!! Time goes by so quickly. 8(

They were so excited though. Yesterday I gave them all of their school supplies and they spent quite a bit of time rearranging them in their backpacks. They got right up this morning and were ready in record time. They started telling me it was time to go about 30 minutes before it was actually time to go. I hope they have a great day and can't wait to hear all about it when they get home.

Swimming Fun

I took the kids to my parents' house this weekend. They're staying with them this week and will be doing some back to school shopping and lots of other fun things. I had to take these pictures of the kids in the pool.


Now, could my Mom have bought goggles that looked any dorkier than this? rofl I laughed at them so hard - which of course puts me in the running for Mother of the Year.

I also met a friend of mine (and her family) for lunch at Landry's on the Boardwalk in Kemah. It was only me meeting her because nobody else would go with me. The kids wanted to be in the pool and Dax had to work (or so he claimed ;0) )It was great to get to see her again and spend time with her family. It was a nice time, but then I had to hit the road for the long drive back home.

I decided to take the even longer way home so that I could stop and shop in some of the small towns on my way home. I take full advantage of these times in order to shop at the kind of places I like to go into that the rest of my family hates. lol Well, by going this way I went about 2 hours out of my way and I'll be damned if not one of the shops I wanted to stop at was open. The only stops I made were at two gas stations. Once to get something to drink and visit the lady's room and once to actually get gas. I was pissed to say the least. I'm still trying to convince myself to look on the bright side and think of all the money I didn't spend. Whatever!! I wanted to shop. *pout* I guess I'll leave early when it's time to pick the kids up and see if that works out any better for me. rofl!

Birthday

Yesterday was my birthday. I just love how excited the kids get just to be giving presents. I'm the same way. :0) I just love giving gifts to people and I'm always a little hurt if I feel like they don't like it. kwim? Anyway, it was a good day and the kids did great on the gifts they picked out. And the cards were all so funny too. They've got great senses of humor. I would post pics of the 'party' but I don't know how to get them off of the camera Dax was using. We just did the family thing because somehow as the number goes up it just doesn't seem like as big a deal to celebrate. lol I have to figure out how to get the pics though because you have to see the candles on my cake. The package of candles had melted together so it was all one big glob which created quite the inferno. lol

Skating

I took the kids roller skating yesterday so that Dax could get some work done without the almost constant interruptions. I got a couple of pictures before the battery in my camera died. I'm certain there will be a lot of bruises and sore bodies this morning.


Addison


Wyatt

They beg to go skating, but once we got there and they kept falling, they remembered what they don't like about it. lol

It was a good weekend, though. They've started keeping lists of the chores they do and then at the end of the week we review the lists and decide how much money they've earned. I'm loving all the things that I don't have to do at the moment. I just need to make sure that we come through with enough $$ that they'll want to keep doing it. *giggle*

They are all ready for school to start. I think mostly because they want to go pick out backpacks and they get lockers this year. The girls have already been going through stuff picking out what to hang in their lockers and how to decorate them. It's pretty cute.

In other news, there's a tropical storm/hurricane (don't know where it's at today) that should be coming through our area sometime late tomorrow. I'm actually kind of looking forward to the rain. We need it. :0)

Snow cones

While Dax was transferring the tapes this weekend, the kids spent much of their time watching. (They're very taken with themselves. :0) ) On one of the tapes Wyatt saw that he got a Sponge Bob snow cone maker for his birthday. He spent some time yesterday going through kitchen cabinets to find it but eventually he did. They spent a lot of time last night making (Wyatt) and eating (all of them) snow cones.


(Oh, and Kirsten is pretending to have a broken hand. She's bound it with ribbon for a cast.)


The girls are desperate to have a turn at making some and Wyatt is well aware of this. So last night when it was time to 'close up shop' he went to the sink and cleaned it up, and then took it to his bedroom with him. LOL I guess he's going to sleep with it until either he or the girls lose interest. As you can see, Addison is not happy with this at all.

Nothing really

That's what went on this weekend. We offered to take the kids to a movie but they didn't even want to do that. Go figure!!

Dax spent a good part of the weekend transfering videos from when they were babies so that he can burn dvd's. Just looking at them back then and how cute they were made me want more. I mean, just look at them!!!!



But then, they'd come in and start fighting or complaining and that notion would be gone in a flash!! *giggle*

It's Friday

I always love Friday mornings. Dax and I get up early and go to the cafe to have breakfast together, just the two of us. I guess we have a date morning instead of a date night. The office is closed on Fridays so we get to take our time and don't have to feel rushed. It's just such a nice start to the day and to the weekend. *sigh*

On another note, a friend of mine (on-line) wanted to see what my house looked like from the road. So the other morning when I was heading into the office (I woke up early and couldn't sleep so I just got up and headed into the office since I have so much to get done.) I took this picture for her. It was still pretty dark out so you can't see much. But, from the road you can't see our house. *giggle* All you can see is the gravel driveway up to the gate. It was also raining so I didn't get out of the car to take it.



I guess if this is the best I have to offer up then things haven't been too exciting at our house, which is just the way I like it. :0) We don't have any big plans for the weekend because I have to work on getting quarterly payroll reports completed.

Almost fainted

When I got home from the office last night my kids were cleaning!! There were two of them out in the horse pen cleaning, one in her room putting away clean clothes, and the other had swept the house for me!! Who's children are these?! Was I lost, at the wrong house, what was going on?!



(note: these are pictures of the same two with the ponies much earlier in the year. It's far too hot to be wearing jackets right now.)

As it turns out, they want money. lol But hey, if giving them a little money keeps me from having to do all of those things, then I'm all for it. (The hardest part is not going back and re-doing it all the 'right' way.)

On another note, hurricane Dolly should be hitting the Texas coast sometime today (I think). We're hoping for some much needed rain from it (as you can see in the photos, we have no grass. That's still the same). We'll see what the rest of the day brings.

Class Reunion

Well, the class reunion was a blast. We went to the mixer on Friday night and from there went to a pub called Baker Street.



We had a really good time. I had to get up early on Saturday to go get the kids from my Mom's house. That was tough!! Saturday night was still enjoyable but with the amount of 'spirits' from Friday night, it was much more mellow. But that didn't stop us from going back over to Baker Street on Saturday night too. lol I think Dax had a really good time and goodness knows the kids were wonderful through all of it. We couldn't have asked for any better.



When I checked emails after we got home there was one for my 25 year reunion next summer. WooHoo! Guess that gives me a year to recover. lol