Fun and more FUN!

     Dev had a great birthday party. He had so much fun playing with his friends in the pool. They played Marco Polo, chicken, and then had fun jumping in all together. The weather turned out to be really great and I'm glad I had the party early in the day. The afternoon showers came as usual in the late afternoon so the 12pm party worked out great. Apparently around age 11 is when the parents just drop the kids off for the party and come back. It was totally OK with me; we just had plenty of left over pizza to enjoy for dinner and lunch the next day.. ha ha...

On his actual birthday we went out to eat at Cheesecake factory! Yum...I had to pass on the cheesecake though since I was trying to do really good in preparation for my race this weekend. So....I owe myself a really big piece of cheesecake! ha! The boys totally enjoyed theirs and had left overs for dessert the next day!

Last Friday Bry and I had our own home movie night. Dev had soccer practice and Bry and I watched a movie. We watched Gulliver's Travels with Jack Black. I've never seen the movie before and I thought it was a really cute movie! We even watched again Sat. morning with Daddy and Dev because we enjoyed it so much.

A girl at work had a package of supplies delivered that had dry ice in it. She gave it to me to take home to have a little fun with the boys. So....I took a bucket and put some water in it and dropped the dry ice in. Voila....we had an instant witches' caldron! The boys were amazed at the bubbling smoke and had a great time watching it and blowing the smoke until it finally totally dissolved. 

First Bry was determined to teach himself cursive(which he did successfully) and now it's typing. He learned about a website from school that he can learn to type using the home keys. So he's been practicing all on his own to get better. He is very serious with it and doesn't want to be disturbed when he is practicing...LOL...I love his determination!!

IT'S TIME!!!! I leave tomorrow for my Disney weekend of fun and the race! I can't wait!! I'm so excited!! I'm heading up early and meeting one of my friends Lisa for lunch and then we will pick up Denise from the airport. We will head from the airport to Epcot to enjoy the FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL! yay!! I'm looking forward to it. Although.....there are so many countries to sample food from and I want to sample them ALL! Ha! I don't know how I'm going to narrow down my selections...decisions, decisions!!  Then on Friday we will head to the race expo to pick up our race stuff and then spend the day at Magic Kingdom. Saturday will be a day of shopping around Downtown Disney and relaxing by the pool at the resort resting up for the race. The race is at 10pm on Saturday night with the after race party lasting until 3:30 am! We get to ride the rides in Hollywood studios and enjoy music, drinks and more food until wee hours of the night....FUN!! I'm so excited! I have a few surprise goodies for the girls too, but of course I can't share those just yet!

Our characters:

Me- Ursula the Sea Witch

Denise- Malificient

Heather- Queen of Hearts

Lisa- Elsa the Frozen Ice Queen

I can't wait to see everyone in their outfits for the race! I plan to enjoy this race a little more than the Princess 1/2 marathon we did in 2011 and stop and take some pictures along the way of anything we find interesting. :-)  I have done my training so I'm not at all worried about the race and in fact I'm just totally excited!! YAY!!!

Well that's all I have for now! Happy Hump Day!! I'm headed to the "Happiest Place on Earth!"  

Eleven!

So it's the day!!

HAPPY 11TH BIRTHDAY TO OUR BABY D!!! Ha...he's not so little anymore! He is practically as tall as me and wears a bigger shoe size than me already!!

I vividly remember the day we brought him home from the hospital. Two terrified newbie parents! I didn't know what we were going to do or how to do it!! Ha ha...Dev cried literally the whole first night we had him home. Mike and I kept passing him back and forth trying to console him, feed him, change him, whatever might work. We made it through and each night got easier. Now 11 years later...wow...those long sleepless nights are hard to remember. Devin is such a sentimental young man. He is very caring, sensitive, thoughtful of others, athletic, intelligent, curious and laid back. I love every trait about him and I could go on forever. We are so proud of the young man he is today and looking forward to the man he will become in the future. It's hard to watch him grow up and become more independent, but at the same time it makes me feel proud.

This morning he woke up anxiously to see what surprise I might have in store for him. His breakfast chair was decorated with balloons, a card, some gum and a snack for school. I made him a huge pile of pancakes and even used my smiley face pan. He loved it....I haven't used the pan in forever so he had forgot all about it. Bryson loved the pancake faces also!! We sang Happy Birthday to him with candles all over the pancakes. He also took cookies to school to celebrate with his classmates. Tonight we are going out to eat for his birthday at the place of his choice...Cheesecake Factory. Ok, no complaints from me!! yum!!  He will also get to open his gifts, that he is also waiting anxiously for! :-)

I love the pics below. Yes these are him as a newborn! He was so big he practically took up the whole basinett! LOL... Love him to pieces!!

This Saturday we are having a small birthday party with a few of his friends. He is very excited! I hope the weather cooperates since the kids will be swimming and playing soccer and basketball!

Toodles.

Cooking girl and soccer galore

Well I spent a good part of a whole day prepping up meals for the freezer. The bad news...it was quite a tedious process!! The good news... it's working out really well. I have more than 2 weeks of dinners planned out probably closer to 3 weeks!! Amazing...it's been great. Yes it's a lot of pre-planning and prepping, but then you can relax for a few weeks. I've tried a few new recipes that have been pretty tasty but needed a little more seasoning for our tastes. One recipe was a flop but not necessarily for  the recipe. We had it in the crock pot all day and our crock pot apparently cooks really hot. The meal was totally overcooked and didn't taste very good. I'll have to try that one again and make sure it doesn't over cook. I guess  I'll have to try to start designating a weekend to cook stuff up for the month!

Soccer update...Dev made it on the developmental soccer team! He is very happy!! This is in addition to his school soccer team! His school team has had 2 more games and he has scored in both games. He told me they announced his name at school for the morning news that he had scored goals. He blushed....but I know he was proud of himself. The school team will be finishing up around the 3rd week of October for the season. He also played in a tournament this past weekend for the developmental team. I missed the Friday night game, the team won and he had 2 goals! He played again on Saturday and they lost. He still played great. Sunday's game his team lost 1-0 and only to a penalty kick...what a bummer... they were playing hard against the other team. Needless to say we had a full weekend of soccer!

Bry starts his soccer practices this week. He is very excited to get out there and play since he's been watching Dev play the last few weeks. He will have a busy schedule with TKD 3 nights a week and soccer practice one night a week with games on Saturdays.

It's Dev's birthday week! Wow!! He told me he wants red velvet cake for his birthday and that it doesn't have to have any decorations on top just the icing.. ha ha... I guess he's growing up!! I hoping the weather is nice for this Saturday for his party. He invited a few friends from school and a couple neighbor friends also. I'm planning a pool/soccer party in the field. It's getting tougher to figure out what gifts to get him...he told me a few things he wants. I'll take any help he will offer!

It's getting time to put out fall decorations! The funny thing is that here it's much harder to know that the season is fall. Nothing has changed, the weather is the same!! We are still adjusting to this weather...in a good way. But it makes it harder to know what season it is and they sneak up on you when the weather is pretty much the same year round!! Again...no complaints on the weather though!! LOL...

Funny kid sayings:

So the other day I was showing Bry a picture of a cake a girl made. It was a minecraft themed cake that she said was very tedious to make. I was telling Bry that the cake was around $100 because she had to cut each piece out by hand..., He said.." Wait , don't you mean she cut them all out by knife!"  LOL... too cute!


Hoping this week goes by fast! I'm so ready for Disney!! Only 9 more days!!!

Accomplishments and Productivity

Hard work and determination are paying off!!  

I've lost 31.5 lbs!! I'm so thrilled!! I was stuck at the 20 lb mark for quite awhile and finally changed things up, intensified things and became more dedicated! So since August I've finally broken through the plateau and started downhill again!! yay!! I'm thrilled!! I still have a little more to go, but I'm feeling great!! Only 2.5 more weeks till the Disney race and I'm so excited! I'm excited for the race and excited to see my girlfriends!!! It's going to be a blast!!

On another note we had another tooth fairy visit this week! Dev kept saying he had a loose molar. Well a few days later after dinner I heard him in the bathroom making some strange sounds and then he comes running out. He pulled out his molar!! Wow! I was impressed. I knew it was loose but never expected him to pull him own tooth out at 8pm at night!! Not much time for the tooth fairy to make a house call!!  Dev was very happy with his prize from the tooth fairy though. 5 gold dollar coins, each with a different president on them!! He was so happy, and so was I!!  :-)  :-) He reminded me that he even remembers one of the very first tooth fairy visits where he got a flashlight and some hot wheels cars! What a memory!! 

Well not too much planned for this weekend which is a good thing! I'm hoping for some organizational time around the house and probably lounging around by the pool. One main thing on my agenda though is something new. I am going to attempt to pre make some meals for the week. Mike and I talk about this all the time but we never seem to get it done. So....I figured this is a great weekend to start. I'm planning up some menu items for the week and then I'm going to spend some time this weekend cooking, splitting out portions and freezing up some meals. This will help tremendously with our busy weeknight schedule of soccer and TKD practices. Like I said, we always say we want to do it but just don't get around to planning it all out. So I'm planning a very productive weekend ahead! I'm also excited to make up some quick heat and eat healthy snacks to help keep me on track towards the rest of my weight goal. It also helps that the boys tend to like many different foods, they will usually try just about anything we cook. They don't always like it of course, but sometimes they do and it even surprises them! 

Ha ha! Happy Friday and have a great weekend!!

Lotsa lotsa

OK so here are some pics...

I really like this saying!!

Also you can view my shutterfly album of some of anniversary fun just click  HERE

Once on the link click view album and then slideshow, this is the easiest way to view them :-)

It's quite a few pics, hope you enjoy....

AND GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS??!!

Part II

Well I'm back with what we've been up to the last couple weeks. I don't have the pics to post yet to go with everything so I'll have to upload into an album hopefully night to share.

The second part of our anniversary celebration was wonderful. Mom watched the boys for us and Mike and I spent Sat and Sunday in Miami. Wow...what a city!! We drove over early Saturday morning and went to a Museum/Botanical Garden. Wow...truly breath taking! It was gorgeous!! The house was about 32,000 square feet and right on the bay. Fabulous! We took the audio tour and it was well worth it. Instead of just wandering around marveling at all the beauty we at least got to hear a little history about the house. It was such a great tour!! Then we headed up towards Ft. Lauderdale to have lunch at a great little place right on the A1A which is right on the ocean except for a street between the restaurant and the beach! It was another gorgeous view! The lunch was great too! We got to enjoy our lunch with a great view and also watch some crazy expensive cars go by and interesting people walk by. Mike had actually been to Ft. Lauderdale many, many years back and remembered taking a great water taxi ride to the mall. We called about it and then walked to where we needed to be picked up. It wasn't far at all from where we had lunch. The water taxi pulled right up to like a sea wall type spot and picked us up. We rode it to the next stop which was the one to get off and go to the mall. We walked around the mall a bit and did a little anniversary shopping  :-)   then we headed back to the water taxi. We decided to take a little longer tour on the water taxi so that we could see the million dollar homes and yachts. Well let me tell you.....what a site!! The houses were unbelievable but for me the yachts were the spectacle! I have seen mansions, but these yachts were huge! The water taxi driver gave us some history as we were riding and one of the yachts were 52 million! yes..52 million!! Crazy!! We also saw a yacht that had a helicopter pad on it, two small boats, 3 or 4 jet skis and a 3 man submersible submarine!! Really??!!! Crazy!! It looked just like this!!

Our day lasted longer than expected in Ft. Lauderdale but we had a great time.  We finally finished with the water taxi around 8pm, only because we had missed one of the pick ups but that's ok. We enjoyed the sites and the weather while waiting on the next one. We were spending the night in Boca Raton so we drove up to our hotel, changed clothes and headed out for dinner. Needless to say the evening went fast and we were exhausted. Morning came early and we enjoyed  a wonderful poolside breakfast at the hotel restaurant before he headed to Miami South Beach to check out the sites. It was pretty hot, so I'd really like to go back when it's a few degrees cooler. It would be more enjoyable to take in the sites and we could explore a little more with more time. We walked up and down Ocean Drive and saw fancy cars, crazy people and a $45 drink! Ha! No we didn't order it! Are you kidding, we got up from that street side cafe and kept walking! ha ha!! It was a fun experience though and we had a great time!!

Well Dev made the core soccer team at school!! yay!! We are very proud of him. He is one of only two 5th graders that made the core team!! His first game was last Thursday. He played great and even had a shot or two on goal. He didn't score but he had great effort.  After the game another kids parents approached Mike about Devin joining the developmental league. He had seen Dev play and wanted to see if Dev was interested. Dev stayed and played a scrimmage game with the team. I wasn't there for the scrimmage but Mike said they played a U12 girls team. Dev is U10. He said the girls were awesome and played hard against Dev and the team. Dev did score a goal in the scrimmage though..wow!! Great job. We will find out a little more information this week about the developmental team and see if Dev will join them or not.

Devin also had his first week of safety patrol at school last week. The fifth graders rotate in helping the other younger kids cross the street at school and even walk the really young ones to class. I hid in the parking lot one morning after I dropped him off so I could snap some pictures! Ha ha!! He knew I was going to be doing it, but I wanted to try to stay out of sight so I didn't embarrass him in front of his friends. He really likes helping the younger kids.

This past Saturday Bry competed in his 2nd TKD tournament. We are so proud of him!! He did great!! He fought two matches and won both of them. The 1st match he won 3-1 and the 2nd he won 10-0. So he won 1st place in his division. I could really tell that he wasn't as nervous as he was for the 1st tournament that he competed in. Bry will start soccer practice in a few weeks and I know he is ready to play again. He has been wanting to play more tennis at our clubhouse. Who knows, we might need to find him some tennis lessons! He told me he wants to do other sports so he can be good at more than just soccer. Love it!! Bry was also student of the week last week for his class  :-). The boys are doing wonderful in their new school!!

So only 2 1/2 weeks away and Dev will be 11 yrs old!! Wow!! I think we are going to have a pool party for him at the club house with a few of his friends and some snacks and cake.

4 weeks and it will be my race in Disney! yay!! I'm so excited!! The boys and Mike will also be in Disney that same weekend visiting a friend of Mike's. I'm hoping maybe Sunday I can meet up with them and weather depending we can go to Blizzard Beach water park. Yes, I know it's October but we are in Florida remember!! The last time we went to Blizzard beach our day was cut short by thunderstorms. The boys are much better swimmers now and enjoy the water slides even more so it would be a blast!

While cleaning out some boxes this past weekend I found some old VCR tapes. I also found our VCR so after some trouble shooting and replacing a fuse we actually got it to work! Fun! We watched an ultrasound of Devin in my stomach, some of our wedding reception, part of a Jamaica trip, and some old TKD tourney and testing stuff of Mike and I before kids! Wow! Now I need to get these all transferred onto DVD before something happens to the tapes!

Well I think that's all for now. I'm hopeful to upload some pics to share tonight. Toodles!

Anniversary weekend part I

So I got a little idea in my head to surprise Mike for our anniversary. It was a week early but it was a good one!! So to give you a little history, Mike loves Porsche! 10 years ago on Valentine's day I planned a surprise for him by renting a Porsche for a day or so. Well when I went to pick up the car someone had wrecked it and they rented us a Corvette instead. Don't get me wrong the Vette was great but NOT what the plan was. So....I found a place in Naples for Exotic car rentals and voila....surprise!! Mom drove me to pick up the car and when Mike got home I pulled up in the driveway behind him in the Porsche!! He isn't one much for surprises or crazy reactions, but I could tell by the look on his face he was happy and surprised! The boy's reactions were priceless also!! They were so excited!! Of course at first they thought I had bought it...uh....no! ha ha...! We had a fabulous weekend driving all around town!

I have more pics to share but I don't have them uploaded yet. So I will have to re post later with the pics!! Saturday Mom watched the boys for us and we took a long drive and went to the tip of an island right off of Ft Myers. It was great, we had a quaint little lunch/snack and drove back. This was our view at lunch and we could see dolphins swimming and saw a guy almost catch a huge fish but it got away.

Later we enjoyed a great night out for dinner. Some great restaurants around here give out great coupons when the snowbirds aren't here to keep the locals coming in. We used our coupon and had a fabulous dinner. I had told them on the reservation that it was our anniversary but never expected this!!

When we opened our menus this was on the inside page!! Wow!! How adorable!!

We enjoyed great food and then a fabulous dessert!! They even gave us a special dessert plate with Happy Anniversary written on it, took our picture with their camera and printed it out and gave it to us in a frame. Wow! I have pics of that also that I will share later. It was great!! Thanks again to Mom for the babysitting! Here are a couple yummy dinner pics. Sushi roll appetizer and a great fish over rice and cabbage dinner. Photo of dessert later!

The boys are still enjoying school and seem to be adjusting well. Dev is still practicing soccer and should find out what team he is on next week. Bry will start soccer practice in a few weeks with the recreational team. Well I think that's all for now. Another post will be coming soon with fun pictures from the weekend!

We made it!!

We made it through the 1st week of school and the boys did great. The jumped up ready to go the first week for sure. The both told me after the first day that it was great and Bry even said it was awesome!! They also said the food is much better than their school last year! This morning on the way to school, one week after school started, Dev told me that he is really enjoying the school and that it is smaller and that you get to do more things and also have Religion which is a good thing! I love his attitude! They both ended up knowing some kids that they had met in summer camp at the Church, also some from soccer too. They seem to have made friends very easily and they said everyone is really nice. They both said they don't have any bad kids in their class. Ha...that's a change from last year for sure! Granted it's only the first week, but I'd almost think that you would know by now if kids are going to act out. I am so pleased that they are truly enjoying their new school and are making friends. It makes my heart smile!!

Dev even decided that he wanted to join the school soccer team. Originally...before school started of course...he told me he didn't want to play for the school. I think once he realized that kids from his class are playing then he wanted to play. We had to go get him some new cleats last night because he has already outgrown the ones from last season. Wow...a size 8 in mens!! really??!! He tickled me so much though because he put the new ones on as soon as we got in the car to go home. Then he put one on his nightstand as he slept and then even put one on the seat beside him on the way to school! I guess he really loves his new cleats!! Too funny!! He is having practices right now to see what team he will be on. There are 30 kids or so and the coach is splitting the team into 3 separate teams based on skill level. We will see what team he gets on in the new few weeks. Nonetheless, he is happy to be playing! 

You have to be in 5th grade to play soccer with the school so Bry will be playing with the same rec league again this year. We really want to get him in competitive instead but with the new school change this year we decided to wait and see how things go. He is excited to play though and it won't be long before his season starts. I was able to get a picture of him yesterday at TKD with his poster!! I love it!!

Bry did come home a little disappointed because the rest of his class knows cursive writing. He did not learn it at his school last year and apparently the kids at his new school did learn it. I asked his teacher for some suggestions of websites that maybe I could print some practice worksheets out. Instead she sent home a workbook that he could practice in and keep at home! wow!! That was great! Let me tell you...he was serious about it. Bry sat down and spent an entire evening up until bedtime practicing on how to write cursive!! The next day he came home with his homework assignments written in cursive!! He was so proud and will tell you in a heartbeat that he learned cursive in 1 day!! He basically did!! :-)  

The boys will also be getting a really good year of work with computers and media at school. Bry is going to be learning the home keys to start to help him with typing. Dev has his own school email address and google drive account. Last night Dev had to do his homework as a document in google drive and then email a copy to his teacher and to his computer teacher...WOW!! I love it!! 

I bought a cute little thing this past weekend. So our refrigerator is not magnetic on the front so I can't put anything up on it with magnets. I found this cute stick on chalk board sticker. It has been working great. I write what things the boys are doing for the day afterschool and also whats for dinner...etc. By the way the dinner is Brats (like hot dogs) not to be confused with brats...(like whiney kids)...LOL... 

The boys were totally confused by this dinner menu...ha ha.... too funny!

I also got adventurous and decided to attempt my tutu for the October race in Disney. I watched a few tutorials on utube and then went out to get my supplies.. yippee!! It turned out really great!! I made sure to make the pieces a little longer. I didn't want the super short tutu.... I need some coverage..ha ha..

It was actually pretty easy!! I'm so excited to wear this with my super cute shirt for the race!

I love my morning drive into work! Not only do I get a beautiful water view but I also am going the opposite of traffic!! YES!!!

We went to the water park again this past Sunday. We used the rain checks that we got from our last visit and Mike went with us this time! The weather was beautiful! The boys were excited to be able to show Daddy all the fun stuff. Bry even got brave and rode the slide in this pic that is on the far left. wow!! He inspired us all and we all rode it!! I have to admit I was terrified but I did it! Mike rode the one on the far right!! No way...me and the boys stayed to the far left! I thought about the middle one but chickened out! Maybe next time though!

Finally headed to get my hair done this Friday!! It is way over due and the gray is taking over!! Ridiculous!! I used to say I'd never color my hair...whatever!! I wasn't gray at the time!! LOL...

Well I think that's all I have for now....hope it's a great week for everyone! Toodles!

Today is the day

 So as of today we have a 3rd and 5th grader! Wow...it's school time!! The boys were so excited! They set their alarms to wake up at 6am! They jumped right up out of bed and got dressed and wanted breakfast and were ready to go by 630! ha! We didn't have to leave the house until 7. They were so excited for their first day! I can't wait to pick them up and hear all about it!!

I'm so excited that things are working out just perfectly at work. Since my hours were cut back it now works out that I can pick them up from school 3 days a week and Mom will get them the other 2 days. No payment for aftercare!! yay!! I also like the fact that I'll be able to be home with them after school to work on homework and hear all about how their day went. I am a very happy camper!!

Last week me and the boys checked out the local water park. It was a blast! The boys loved going down all the slides and especially the lazy river. The storms started to roll in around 230pm and the park temporarily closed. We ended up getting a rain check to come back another day for free. So... 2 days for the price of 1 ..yippee!!

That's all for now. Time to pick up my school boys! Toodles.

What a small world!!

So last week I was in my local Chick Fil A to get lunch and look who I ran into!! WHAT??!!! It's our neighbors and great friends from Olive Branch MS!!! We haven't seen them in about 2 1/2 years since we moved from there! Ironically, Emily was here for a swim meet at the local college!!! Wow!! It was such a shocker and great surprise!!! What are the chances really that we would be at the same place to eat at the same time. Rhonda was gonna give us a call while they were here, but we ran into each other first!!! wow!!

Mike took the boys to watch one of Emily's swims. They really enjoyed it!! Too bad she wasn't standing up straight to see how tall they all have gotten!

This is how Emily and the boys remember each other! wow...Look how they've grown up! Too bad Zach wasn't here too!

Sunday we picked Emily and Rhonda up and headed to the beach. It was a beautiful day!! Everyone had a great time! Emily and I did some snorkeling to find her some shells. We saw tons of live sand dollars! Wow..I've never found a dead one on the beach yet alone been able to see them alive on the ocean floor! It was so cool. We picked one up to look at it and show the boys but then put it back in the ocean. We also saw tons of conchs alive in their shells. I thought they were hermit crabs but in looking it up later online, they are conch. Very interesting!! I found a leg of a starfish also. Too bad I didn't take a picture of it. A guy and his daughter told me and Emily where to swim to see the sand dollars and also some red coral. We were kinda scared but the girl showed us and even swam out to it to help us find it. Wow..who knew there was such bright coral not far off the beach. It was so cool!!

Then as we were leaving the beach parking lot we got to see this!!

It's a gopher tortoise. Thanks to my sis's boyfriend Buckey for letting me know what kind it is. Wow..this guy was chomping down on some serious grass. He wasn't very afraid of me at all. I didn't get too close, just used my zoom. It was so cool to see such a big guy. It was such an amazing day!!

The boys got to experience a roll up window this weekend in a moving truck! They were fascinated with it!! ha ha!!

Last week we did make it to the indoor trampoline park. The boys had a blast! One hour there is plenty of time for them to gett very sweaty! I need to figure out how to get the videos from my phone over here to the blog. They had a blast doing flips and playing some slam dunk basketball and dodge ball.

Bry is on a poster at his TKD school! How cool! He told me they took his picture for it and here it is! I want to try to get a pic of him standing next to it in the school. Very cute!!

The other night Dev and I played several games of Monopoly. This version is really fun and pretty easy to play. Bry tried to play but he gets upset too easy if he starts to lose. Dev had one episode where he got upset and I just tried to explain to him that it's a game and to enjoy. He is getting much better though at playing games and not getting so upset if he loses.

It's a kinda short week again. I get to be off 1/2 days on Wed and Fri. to spend with the boys before school starts on Monday! Wow, I can't believe it's here already! Thursday is the orientation for their new school. I hope the weather is nice so we can try out a local water park afterwards. Hopefully we can get some fun in at the water park before the afternoon rain comes. I think they are excited about their new school. They both got personalized letters in the mail from their teachers welcoming them to the new school year. Dev found out in the letter that he will get to participate in safety patrol. He was a little worried but we explained to him that he will know everything he is supposed to do before they send him on duty..ha ha.. I'm excited to meet their new teachers and I pray for a great school year ahead! I did get to the uniform store and bought them each 2 uniforms. The school is having a used uniform sale this Friday so I'm hoping I can finish up getting their uniforms from the sale at much cheaper pricing! I plan to be there when the doors open to get the best picks..ha ha...

Mike and I are trying to plan our anniversary weekend. I think we might take a short 2 day trip to Miami to be tourists. Neither of us have been there and it's only 2 hours away, so it would be a perfect short weekend trip. I am most interested in seeing the well known "South Beach" and to do some people watching! ha! Maybe we might even see someone famous! who knows...

Well, the next time I'm blogging will probably be pictures of my new 3rd and 5th graders headed to their first day of school!! Wow..time sure does fly by!! Toodles for now.