First Day of Middle School

This post is about a month overdue - oh well - better late than never! This is Kenneth all ready to tackle his first day at the middle school. I think he is pretty excited about rotating classes (he has 8 classes a day) and he is happy to have a locker. So the day started off great.....until we tried to get him on the bus - but he eventually made it to the right school.

Then around 4:30 I was starting to get a little concerned because he wasn't home yet. I had already called the bus department twice that day, because his morning bus didn't pick him up where it was suppose to.......All I got was conflicting information and no one really knows what is going on........I still don't know if they have figured it out yet.

Finally around 5pm this is how he arrived home:

Nice!!!! I send my happy kid off to his first day of middle school and he ends up coming home in a cop car!!!! At least he didn't do anything bad......the bus system was even more screwed up in the afternoon and the resource office (who is also our neighbor) ended up bringing him home. At least he made it home safe and had a good first day!

Garden Harvest

A sample of what we got out of our garden this year. Mike dug the rest of the potatoes up and we had home grown carrots, corn, and potatoes with our roast for dinner tonight - YUMMY!!

Kenneth Playing Football

Kenneth has been playing football for the last 6 weeks and is really enjoying it. He saved up a lot of his lawn mowing money to pay the $90 fee to be able to play. Then he had to invest another $100 for all of his gear. He practices 3 days a week and has a game once a week. For the most part he has played hard and learned a lot. Some days it is frustrating because he doesn't get to play the position he wants or he is just physically exhausted - but he always looks forward to his next practice. This particular day he came home from practice just a mess! He got a bloody nose and of course got it on his white jersey. Luckily, Mike was there and able to help him take care of it. This picture shows how happy he is after a grueling 2 hours of practice.

He said that their cleats kept tearing up the soft grass and he was just covered in mud - I don't think you can see it in the picture very well.....but notice he is standing with muddy cleats on the cream colored carpet.....(sigh) oh boys!!!

My Friends

I have been thinking about friends a lot lately. I have made several friends during my life, but eventually time moves on and things change. This picture is of me and my friends Anna and Jamie. I laugh every time I see it because it reminds me of all the great times that we had together. I actually have it hanging up on my office wall at home. Jamie and I met about 6 1/2 years ago at work and I think we became instant friends, she is so likable and easy to get along with. She even invited my family to her extended family campout (which was a ton of fun)! I interviewed and hired Anna for a job at the beginning of 2006 and at first we weren't too sure about her, but she proved to be one of the most hilarious people I have ever known. They have both moved on to better and more exciting things in their lives, but most days at work I think about how much I miss having them around. These are just 2 examples of how blessed I am to have such great friends that bring joy and happiness to my life!

Work??

So, one day I come in to the office and sit down at my desk and this is what I see........

What the crap??? Why is Connie under her desk?? I thought maybe she had finally been buried by piles of paperwork, but nope - she was just repairing her desk or keyboard tray or something......she doesn't believe that she needs help doing any of this "manly stuff" and she fixes all of her own stuff - notice the blue tool kit on the floor - that is the one that she keeps at work, just for jobs like this.

Now, as for the following, I had nothing to do with it!

These are a couple of salesman at the store I work at. Their manager had them wear these lovely, bright green "hats" on the sales floor. They weren't allowed to take them off until they made a sale that morning.......hhmmmm...they look like dunce hats to me.

I thought that Tanner looked like an elf with his hat on.....