Grandparents Day

Today was Grandparents Day at school. Braxton had quite the turn out. They had to write a story about their grandparents to hang on the wall. He had written one about my dad. He was feeling really bad that Randy and Teresa didn't have one and that my mom didn't have a story about her either. He was so upset about it last night that he cried. So I told him to just write one for all of them. He wrote one about Randy and Teresa and then one about my mom too. He had 3 stories hanging up on the wall. He is such a sensitive child. I am glad that he wants to treat all of them the same but at the same time I don't want him to fret about.

WOW!!!!

Everyone really needs to go to the following site and watch the two videos of Adam Bender. It is so amazing! I cried while watching it. It will make you stop and think about sports and how you treat your child!

Thanks dad for sharing this with me.

http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/05/31/adam-bender/

craziness

the craziness is about to begin for this month. jared found out yesterday that he is going to be leaving on the 11th for Louisanna. i think he is excited to go. he knows it will be a lot of work but then again he is a hard worker. so that will leave me without a husband for 10-12 days and leave the kids without a daddy too. we will manage just fine. i have done it before and i can do it again. i am glad that he will get good experience along with good money:) he is going with a good group of guys so i know he will be in good hands! the only thing that stinks is that the next 2 weeks are going to be absoulutely crazy!!!!! while he is gone we will have 3 soccer practices, 2 soccer games, 1 flag football game, 2 nights of sonlight, numerous nights of getting ready for our garage sale, garage sale, homecoming, relay for life and 5-6 times of curves! whew...... it is so funny how you take someone (like your husband) for granted and then when he is going to be gone you wonder how in the world you will be everywhere you need to be and get everything done!

i leave on monday for kansas city. i won't be home until wednesday late afternoon. then jared will leave on thursday. he was going to go with me but decided to stay home and spend some time with the boys before he leaves. i don't blame him for that.

tonight we are headed to kirksville to get jared some essentials for his upcoming trip then back to queen city for the football game. tomorrow we have a birthday party and several other little things we need to get done. sunday i am going to the christian church with andrea as her "friend" b/c it is "friend day". i am excited to try her church. i have just started helping at sonlight and really like the programs that they offer to the kids. so hopefully the kids will like it too and maybe we will become members someday.

hope everyone has a good weekend. i plan on sleeping in this weekend. if i wake up before 5 like i have the last 2 mornings i am going to scream, ok maybe i won't scream b/c i really don't wanna wake the kids, but i will be very frustrated. i never would have thought i would be an early riser like this. i never could understand why my grandpa got up so stinking early, but now i can understand it a little better. speaking of sleeping, the following picture was of braylon last weekend when he was so tired he couldn't make it past the laundry room. he fell asleep on the way home from town (2 minutes) and when i carried him in the house he woke up so i set him down and then he crawled up on the bench, stuck his thumb in his mouth and fell back asleep. i thought it was so cute that i left him there but when jared got home he thought he needed to be in bed so he wouldn't fall off and get hurt. dads!!! geez!

idiots in schuyler county

ok, had to meet a guy tonight b/c he had to have something and he couldn't find the courthouse here in lancaster! you have got to be kidding me! i will tell you the whole story tomorrow. he got here knowing he was going to have to pay for this info he wants, comes flying in here and no money! he actually RUNS to casey's to the ATM instead of driving! UGH! and i have supper at home ready to eat and i have to be at sonlight in 30 minutes. and here i am waiting for an idiot who can't find the courthouse in lancaster when he drove right by the place!!!!! he just couldn't understand how he missed this place. HMMMM, me neither! i will have to do some extra praying for my bad words tonight!:)

BBQ Pork

has anyone made bbq pork from a pork roast? i have 2 in the crock pot and i have never actually made bbq pork so was needing some good yummy ideas for it. help me out ya'll!

Antique Tractor Ride

Several antigue tractors rolled through Lancaster today. They say there are about 160 people riding thru. That doesn't necessarily mean 160 tractors b/c there were a few with 2 people on them. I think it is pretty cool for things like this these days. I took a few pictures to share.

Grumpy!

ok, there isn't going to be much to this b/c i am grumpy!

I am grumpy b/c.....

1.)allergies
2.)tired
3.)my husband thinks i don't have anything better to do than cart his hurt dog around to get fixed after i told him 2 days ago to take it to the vet anyhow...
4.)i have to cook tonight and i don't wanna! and yes i have a whine with that wanna.
5.)i am hot then cold, hot then cold! fever? maybe! grrrr.
6.)people bitch (oops, i mean complain) too much about their work and employees, he he he:)
7.)just because i can be

so, tomorrow hopefully i will be feeling happy and i can blog something worthwhile.

i hope everyone had a good labor day. i labored (cleaned out closets) on mine so not quite sure how great it was. but it is done and now it looks so much better.