Hump Day Ha's

Well, that's the name of our Wednesday night events at SC. For garage sale, first weekend in May is better. Have the Adult Learning Graduation Dinner the 9th so that weekend is out. The 17th is commencement, so that's out, too.

Em, what sizes are the boys? Brady has proudly outgrown his pants from Christmas already. Makes me ponder- just how high are highwaters? Remember mom sewing on material to the bottom of our jeans? We thought it was fashionable & cool. Now I can relate. Lucky for Brady I can't sew. We have size 6 & 7, if you can use them.

Chrissy, let us know how the big show goes!

Kenzie got her new mattress yesterday. You'd think it was Christmas. She will let you try it out if you visit. :)

We are planning to take the kids to Fun City in Burlington March 20-21. Will then head to Quincy later Friday for Easter weekend. Hope the bunny can find us. Memorial Day looks good so far too.

Happy Wednesday!
Love,
The princess

Garage Sale

Good Morning all! Hope the week is going well for everyone. It's kind of slow here at work again. Still working on a new training manual. Not fun! Didn't do much over the weekend. Worked at the zoo, which in a of it self is fun. As Megan and I were sitting in the penguin house, I saw one of our lionesses run by (in the lion exhibit of course.) She was playing with one of her balls. It was funny, I've never seen the cats as active as they were Saturday morning. Of course all this was happening before the zoo opened... Went to Brady's basketball tournament Sunday afternoon. The came in 3rd, but wow when Brady decides to go after a rebound he's all over it. Had TKD (Tae Kwon Do) Monday night. Somehow, I ended up with bruises on my legs. Don't know how that happened as we weren't sparring. Friday night class I'll start working on my board break for this session. Hopefully, it will go better than last belt level. Anyway, Leslie and I will be having a garage sale in the Spring. (Les, I'm thinking the first or second weekend of May) If anyone has anything they want to sell, just tag it with the price and your initials then get it to one of us. I know Mom and Dad have been working hard on sorting things in their house to sell and throw.

Tuesday :- P

Hey everybody! This weekend was rather uneventful, but maybe that's a good thing for once. Lori and I shopped from 2 in the after noon until 8:45 at night. We didn't get a lot, but at about 7 we went and picked up Payton and Lisa & Savannah and the kids made out like bandits!! So all in all the day was a success, poor Lori was exhausted by the end though. Lisa parked back a ways at wal-mart and as lori was complaining of the long walk, lisa pointed out she had to carry savannah and lori's reply was she had to carry her own kid (referring to the one in her belly as I was carrying Payton at this point) and Payton said no mommy im right here, your belly is too big to carry me, la lala la la la. and made a little song out of it. Lisa & I had a good laugh over that, lori did not. The things that come out of that childs mouth never fail to amuse me! Sunday rocky and i joined grandma & grandpa and sherry & dale for lunch at the golden corral in hannibal, then we basically just worked on the house. the shower walls are just about completely gone now, it is much wider and rocky finally sees how much more open it makes the room feel and agrees i was right to want to do this. We also got a new ceiling fan for the very front room which i think already makes the room look better. however, yes leslie the walls are still white. i am forever trying to convince rocky we should go get some paint but he seems to think we should finish the bathroom first. well, its about time to head to meet for tuesday night dinner, im solo again as rocky is working at the pet store. hope you all have a quick week to reach the weekend!! i know im hoping for it!

Monday is over...

Good evening...

The weekend went by too fast. Bryan and I went up to MN this weekend for my neice's 2nd birthday. It was nice to get a chance to see my family and spend some time with the kiddos!

The house that Bryan and I were interested had an offer put down on it last Friday, so we're back to looking, but that just motivates us to continue our efforts in putting the finishing touches on this house so that when the next house we want comes along we're ready to take it.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Nikki

It just keeps snowing!

We went to the cabin Friday night. So much snow, but beautiful blue skies and clouds Saturday until about 3, then wham. It started snowing and kept it up until we decided we better get out while we still could Sunday at about 11. I snowshoed around the cabin and was at the height of the top of the first floor windows! No kidding. It is amazing. 

Hannah started softball practice last week and was tired and sore, but very happy. Looks like she may be playing 2nd base on the JV team. Great group of kids and fabulous coaches. Plus she has the advantage of weekend workouts with her Dad, who knows a thing or two about throwing, catching, and hitting a ball. Love to you all. Keep your fingers crossed. It looks like Jon and Emilee are getting their house. We will let you know how it plays out. 

Photo captions: Dog says, "Lemme in." Cat says, " Lemme out." Hannah and Dad say, "It's your turn to shovel, no, it's your turn to shovel, no, it's your turn to shovel....." 

The Only One Glad the Weekend is Over!

Hey lil sis! I can understand your feelings about leaving your old job behind. I think it is just natural after so MANY years of doing our jobs that it is downright scary sometimes when we are adjusting to something new. I am still learning after a year and a half-of course we are adjusting to new manager, etc this fall as well. I love my boss dearly, but she is hugely competitive and very much a perfectionist. After Trent who was so laid back you barely knew he was there it is quite an adjustment! I know for me it just makes me work harder to prove whatever it is I feel the need to prove. It really is a good thing that I love what I do and have no other life :)
So my weekend obviously was spent at work-straight through to Wednesday-but then a long weekend. We are using our 'free"night in Tunica Thursday night (is it free if you gamble what you would have spent on the room? My husband seems to think it is still a deal!) Actually we really enjoy just going over and playing the penny slots, it is a great escape place.
The weather is absolutely crazy here-in the 70's this weekend, storms tomorrow, snow on Tuesday and then back to the 60's-no wonder everyone is sick! Sara and I had the sunroof open and windows down on Friday and were loving every minute of it!!
Hope you all have a happy Monday!
Love ya!

I'town

Hi guys! It's Sat night in Indianola. Doesn't get much better :0. Went to see "Fool's Gold" w/ Laurie tonight. I give it 2 out of 4 stars although Matthew McConoghay gets 4 because he rarely had his shirt on.

Kenz had a meet to today. Got a 3rd in tramp & 7th in double mini (touched the darned red stripe again). She did do her flip dismount finally in dm- she had this skill down but since Christmas has choked up. Discovered that's common though.

Simpson women (ranked 10th in the nation) won big today & they start the NCAA tourney next week. Last year they made it to the sweet 16. With luck, they could host the next games up to the Final 4. Big news on campus but it will mean extra work to host that level of games with loads of rules.

Brady has his bball tourney tomorrow. Michelle's boys will be here hanging out for the day as Maria plays vball in town for a tourney. They are going to church with us in the morning. I'll send those Catholic boys home with Luther's small catachism. Just kidding.

Having some panic attacks this weekend about leaving my perfectly good, sane and under control job for this one. I like it but there is so much to do. Decided maybe I'm grieving a bit which I guess is natural after 21 years. I left my beloved boss and staff & now have a male boss which is an definite adjustment. He's a good guy but it's just different. Parts of the new job I really like but I had things at my old job so well under control. I know I need a year under my belt to learn the cycle so will try to be patient. The kids, bless them, rubbed my feet & tucked me in bed last night. It was very sweet.

Love to all,
Les