May 31st

Hi All,

Hope that this finds you all doing well and enjoying your summer! Ours is going good. Kristian and I are getting ready to head out to space camp in the morning. His school is having their last incentive trip and this is the big one. It is about a 7 hour drive. Luckily I will be in my own vehicle and not have to ride the bus with all the kids!! He is looking forward to it! Dylan wanted to stay with his daddy, so I am really looking forward to the trip! It will give me a break for a bit.

We had a great weekend. Mike worked in the shop all weekend on his cars and I cleaned up the yard. I got some mowing done, tried to get the pool up and running and picked up trash. On Memorial day we went over to Tracy and Mike's house for a BQ. We had a great time.

The weather is warm one day and cold the next. If you can believe it, it actually snowed last week. It only stuck overnight and then melted off the next day. I just shook my head.

I don't have any pictures this week, but I will probably have lots next week after camp.

Have a great weekend.

May 21st

This has been a busy month...

Our trip back home went great. The wedding was beautiful. We wish Tandi and Drew many years of happiness. Kristian did great as the ring bearer, although if you blinked you would've missed his walk down the aisle. He was ready to get it over with! Our flight went great. It was a non stop flight from Denver to OKC and still they lost Dylan's car seat! Amazing I know.

Last week Kristian had an award assembly. They went all out for the kids. It was called Circus Circus and they decorated the whole gym in that theme. They also had games set up and cotton candy, it was so neat. I took the little ones with me and they enjoyed it too. He had an A average for this nine weeks.

This weekend we went camping. We had so much fun. It was so relaxing just to get away, even for just a day. We were going to go next weekend, but Mike is on call and has to stay close by. The place we went to was about 2 hours away. Dylan and I caught the fish, but they were too little to keep. Mike did get to reel one in, on MY pole, when I took Dylan to get a drink! Oh well, at least he had some excitement.

This is the last week of school!! Kristian is on an incentive trip today. The kids that had good grades and no office referrals we allowed to go. They are going bowling and swimming. They let the kids pick this trip and that is what the majority picked. I was surprised since they had the choice of going to Six Flags too! Tomorrow is his field day and he is looking forward to that too.

Here are a few pictures from the last couple of weeks. The pictures are of Mike's family, Kristian and Drew, my sisters and me, my family, Kristian at his awards assembly, Max relaxing at the camp, the great fisherman, Me and Dylan and the 'big one'.

Have a great week~

May 8th

Wow! It is May already!! Where has this year gone...

Ok, lets see where do I start for the past two weeks....

I guess with Kristian's birthday. He turned 11! That is hard to believe. He had a sleepover and had 3 boys spend the night. Two other kids, Kellie and Russell came over the for the cookout that night and to hang out. We sat the tent up in the basement and they had a "camp out". They had a great time. The next day I took them to see the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie.

The next big thing that happened, would have to be the blizzard that hit and no one, including the weather man, knew it was coming. They had called for a rain/snow mix. Well what we got was 3-4 foot of snow! I had Tracy's kids and she ended up with Kristian over night, because there was no way to get to each other. Mike ended up getting stuck about 5 miles from home. He got a ride with some people that live about a mile and a half from here. When he realized that they weren't going to make it out to bring him home, he WALKED the rest of the way. IN his dress clothes. Luckily he had his ski jacket with him. It took him about an hour to walk it. It was in the middle of the blizzard and the wind was about 50 mph. I had no idea he was even trying to walk this way. About half a mile from here our neighbors were stuck in the road with their twin 2 year old girls and their other two girls who are 10 and 12. They were stuck from 1 p.m. that afternoon till the next morning about 8 when Mike went and dug them out. We had lost power around noon that day and they had decided to drive into town and stay in a hotel, but they didn't make it. Fortunately they were prepared, just in case they didn't make it and had blankets, snacks, etc. There were about 60 cars stuck on the highway from here to town, which is about 3o miles. We ended up being without power until Thursday evening, but we had the generator, so it wasn't as bad as it would've been. They had over 200 power poles down because of the snow and wind. It was a mess. Hopefully that was the last of winter for us. Of course I say that every time. The weather this week has been A LOT better. We hit 80 degrees on Sunday. The kids were playing in what was left of the snow wearing shorts. Just another day in Colorado!

I did my walk for March of Dimes on Saturday, the 28th. Between the 3 of us, we raised $1255! I still can't believe we did it. Thank you to everyone who donated. I truly do appreciate it!

We leave tomorrow to go to Oklahoma for Mike's sister's wedding. We decided because of the high price of gasoline and because we have a gas guzzling vehicle, that we would fly home. One it is faster and two it was almost the same price. Now how sad is that? Anyway, we are looking forward to the trip home. It will be a quick one, but it will be nice to see everyone.

I don't have any pictures this time. My camera wasn't charged for Kristian's party, but my video camera and it takes pictures too. But I haven't figured out how to download them to the internet.

Other than that, not a lot going on. Just taking it day by day and little by little. I hope all is well with you all. Until next time...