18 years!

On August 8 we will be married 18 years! Happy anniversary, Norm!

I love you!

My own soap opera

This will be a non-photo entry today. I decided to fill you in what's been going on in my life rather than fill with photos.

First off, MariK, did you see that girl from the Philipines(please forgive me if I mispselled that) on Oprah? She sings really good!

We had been having medical issues with Norm over the summer but that is finally all working out. He's on meds for his b/p which is great since I have been trying to get him to the dr for that for awhile.

My grandfather fell recently and ended up in the trauma center. He ended up with brain surgery to drain the pool of blood on his brain. He is now in rehab and soon going home.

My oldest, Nicole, started having issues with blacking out the second day of school in phys ed. Now she can't take phys ed until the cardiologist sees her which won't be till September 30. This caused huge issues with color guard but the doctor worked out something that will probably be okay with everyone. She may take it, but no flags...only marching..... and she's to stay well hydrated. I am hoping the cardiologist clears her. It has been a very stressful two weeks because of that.

I put up prayer requests in the right side bar. There are a few children in our district struggling with some form of cancer.

Our dog does not take well to the kids being in school. Trying to solve those issues as well.

Hurricane is due to hit tomorrow although we won't have it as bad as some of my other net frinds. Keep Donna, Joy and Ruth in your prayers for that as they will get it worse.

More birthday photos

Norm brought home some watermelon for picnic on Sunday. Coby found a dropped piece and then wanted more.









At a local park












































Went home for some Birthday cake

End of August

August 25, 2008

First Day of School!

Tyler needed an About Me paper done for school and wanted a photo of himself



August 29
Football Game and band's first public performance

It was really raining at some points so we looked like drowned rats!

August 30

Today Lexi turns SIX!

I will have more photos later. She has friends coming tonight and we want to take a picnic tomorrow.

School Stats tomorrow!

My oldest is starting high school tomorrow and my youngest is starting kindergarten. Ty will be in fourth grade.

Whenever Nicole is is the kitchen, things get a little messy.












Sprit Day recently at our high school. It involved all the sports teams and marching band.








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Our local fire company had their Open House yesterday. We worked really hard to prepare for it. We planned for 100 kids, figured we'd only get fifty and got waaaaay more than that...... we ran out of crafts after two hours. We had to make two runs for food in addition to the food we already had bought. For the first three hours, it was wild! There was so much going on, we didn't even think about how exhausted we were. The first three pics were from the fire company website. We had story time with a firefighter and a local clown also gave presentations on fire safety.

Aeriel Lift rides...... very popular!

Sparky the Dlamatian teasing my son, Tyler

Kids having fun with Pluggie.

My daughter, Nicole, resting outside fire safety house.

Nicole's friend, Nia, also helped with the fire safety house.

Smoking up the fre safetyhouse to train people to get out of a smoky building.

Norm and Tyler

Pin the badge on the dalmatian.....

incidently this is actually a blow up pic of the dal we usd to have.

crafts

My mil brought Lexi to the Open House for a little bit.