Alex just cracked me up this morning. 2 days ago Rocket Dog stole a tub of butter off the counter when I wasn't looking and ate it/chewed it up. So we've been using stick butter because I'm not making a trip to the store just for a new tub.
Alex was very interested in this 'stick butter'. This morning he came into my room and woke me up (yes I use my kids as alarm clocks. I'm not a morning person, I'm not getting out of bed until they make me!!!). He asked if he could have waffles for breakfast....wish 'squished' butter. LMBO!!!! Too cute. Of course he meant stick butter but I think squished butter is funnier.
Haley is in her height of cuteness lately. She's adorable and she knows it. Alex is adorable too but Haley just acts like because she's cute she can get away with anything. She's been tempermental lately too - throwing herself on the floor crying if she doesn't get her way. It's rough being almost 16 months old.
Otherwise not much else is going on. Still plugging away at my doctorate classes. I have my class schedule figured out for next semester, it's not ideal (schedule-wise) but I am pleased that I get to teach two classes, 2 of them 201 which I haven't taught for over a year. So mixing it up a little bit will be nice. I've decided to only take 1 class again for my doctorate. I'm not sure how much trucking work Kent will have this winter. Curry kept them busy all winter, but McLeod doesn't have the coal contracts that Curry did either. And of course less work is less money....plus there is the fact that my required class is on Public Management. Something I know absolutely nothing about. I'm anticipating having to do additional research just to be able to keep up. So my tentative plan is to do 1 class this fall, my 1 required course this summer, and then next fall start on my electives.
Kent is doing well. He's training for McLeod, something that we were told was a bad idea because of the bad pay (they promised a small weekly bonus, which isn't near enough of to cover the loads he drops because the trainee slows him way down). However, they made it right and compensated him for the loss loads. I hope they continue to do so. They really seem to care about their employees and want to take good care of them. Yes the getting up at 4am sucks, and he has never once complained about it. I really did marry the greatest guy on the planet.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Let the haunting season begin!
Ok I promise the next time I post I will figure out how to post pictures!!
Life is going great - very busy! The haunted house opened last night. Usually Kent & I tag-team working out there, one of us scaring and the other staying home with the kids. I usually get Friday nights because he has to get up at 4am on Fridays and go to work and he's wiped out when he gets home. Scaring takes a lot of energy, more than you'd think. Last night I had a headache, was tired and getting over a minor virus (I felt pretty yucky Wednesday and Thursday) and decided not to push it. Kent is out scaring tonight. I will save my energies for next Friday.
This year I'm going to expand my horizons and try being a clown one night. I've wanted to try that part for a while, but we had some AWESOME clowns (who happened to be triplets) and didn't want to interfere with their magic. But they're gone now so I want to give it a try :-)
Kids are doing great, Alex still loves preschool (I've been wondering how long that would last). He got sick at school on Thursday, apparently on one of the other kids, I still feel bad about it. He played HARD all morning. He only ate a couple of bites of his lunch, I didn't think much about it because he kept asking to be finished to go play (he'd been playing monster trucks). Considering I was also feeling pretty yucky I should have realized that he didn't feel well either. Oh well, live and learn.
Haley is learning new words and just getting cuter by the day. Her newest word is "cookie" and usually accompanies her new stuffed Cookie Monster.
Overall life is great. God has blessed me in so many ways. I need to quit updating now and go work on homework. I can't wait to see what God has in store for me once I finish this degree!
Life is going great - very busy! The haunted house opened last night. Usually Kent & I tag-team working out there, one of us scaring and the other staying home with the kids. I usually get Friday nights because he has to get up at 4am on Fridays and go to work and he's wiped out when he gets home. Scaring takes a lot of energy, more than you'd think. Last night I had a headache, was tired and getting over a minor virus (I felt pretty yucky Wednesday and Thursday) and decided not to push it. Kent is out scaring tonight. I will save my energies for next Friday.
This year I'm going to expand my horizons and try being a clown one night. I've wanted to try that part for a while, but we had some AWESOME clowns (who happened to be triplets) and didn't want to interfere with their magic. But they're gone now so I want to give it a try :-)
Kids are doing great, Alex still loves preschool (I've been wondering how long that would last). He got sick at school on Thursday, apparently on one of the other kids, I still feel bad about it. He played HARD all morning. He only ate a couple of bites of his lunch, I didn't think much about it because he kept asking to be finished to go play (he'd been playing monster trucks). Considering I was also feeling pretty yucky I should have realized that he didn't feel well either. Oh well, live and learn.
Haley is learning new words and just getting cuter by the day. Her newest word is "cookie" and usually accompanies her new stuffed Cookie Monster.
Overall life is great. God has blessed me in so many ways. I need to quit updating now and go work on homework. I can't wait to see what God has in store for me once I finish this degree!
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