Last day of 5th grade and 1st grade

 HaiLee getting her pin for the citizen award that she received.  So proud of her for getting this award!

 Yvonne and HaiLee, Yvonne is such a great friend to HaiLee and is so supportive of all she does, We are very blessed to have Yvonne in our lives. 

HaiLee and TJ on 5th grade graduation day,  TJ is on a lower step that is why he looks so much shorter. 

This is their cake,  it had the whole 5th grade class on it, way cool!! couldnt figure out how to put it the other way :)

So now that I am done with such an emotional day of having my kids promoted to 6th grade it makes me feel so happy that they are so well rounded as kids.  They did a video of the 5th grade and it was so fun to see all the pictures looking back at how much they have grown.  TJ has really became an excellent student.  He got great grades and has many friends and loves his sports.  Is so nice to have teachers come up to me and tell me how much they like my kids.  It means alot to me that they go out of their way to tell me this.  HaiLee got a citizenship award and it is for being a well behaved student.  She was never in trouble all 6 years she has attended elementary school.  So proud of her as well that she is so well behaved and that she got great grades as well.  She has many great friends and loves school.  Treavor also did really well this year and again every adult, teacher and staff know Treavor because he is always there to help out when needed.  He holds the doors open for the ladies ( that what he calls them).  Alot of them tell me that they wish they could take my kids home.  Dont get me wrong i do know they do have their quarks but this is a bragging post and so that is what it is.  I am so proud of them and so grateful that they are mine!!!

Now what!

OK now that i have updated my blog with photos.  I am going to update as well.  I did not get into the online college that I was hoping too.  I guess you need some sort of college before you can get into this one and I don't have that.  I worked since I was 16 so college was never an option for me and I had done very well in the mortgage industry with out any college.  now that I am unemployed I am trying to figure out what I want to do.  I have been researching colleges and what the ratios of what I want to do and get a a job and right now in today's market it is not looking so good.  I thought that I had wanted to go to school to be a teacher but looking into stuff there are more unemployed teachers. If I do go to college for that I will still have a student loan and not a job.  So I have decided to take the summer off and spend time with my kids and finish my kitchen up and some other little project and take time to figure things out.  I will just start taking classes in September when the kids go back to school and not stress to much about what I have to become.

My GrandPuppy

This is Caliber, He is my grand puppy.  BreAnna and Penn got a puppy and when they came to visit i was on puppy sitting.  I had a good time with him, he was only like 4 months old and kept me on my toes but when he would come lay on me and sleep it made it all worth it.  I know it is just a puppy but knowing that its my daughters and that she loves him like a child makes it so different than "just a puppy".  He was alot of fun!!!

My Flowers

with me being home I have made a little time in the front yard for flowers.  I have not been one to plant flowers but this year i got some for mothers day and have been having fun seeing them grow.  It is alot of fun sing that them bloom. 

Let the construction begin!!

unloading the first set of cabinets

arnt they pretty!!

measuring were they need to go

putting them up!

still putting them up

measuring were the stove hood will fit under the cabinet

the first part of them being up. 

Treavor helping out

So here is what we have been up to these days.  My Father in law is building me cabinets for my kitchen.  They are so beautiful.  We are moving the sink back to the window were we believe it was when the house was originally built.  It is suck a mess right now but looking at the cabinets in the garage were they are being built makes me know that i can hack the havoc and am so excited to have them done.  With the help of my mother in law we picked out the paint and the counter tops and it is all coming together.  I can not thank my in laws enough for all their help and work that they are doing for me. 

A New Year

So I am a year older.  What a way to start my new year.  I was sitting watching some TV right before Tim went to work on Friday and I got an email from a school that I was trying to get into that I was not accepted.  Reason being is that I have not attended college before.  It was an on-line college and they want you to have at lease some college experience or your AA.  So now I sit there alone because Tim has to go to work and the kids are still at school and I don't know what to do now or were to begin.  Were does one start when they are older, how do I begin?  What does all this lingo mean when I am looking up things online?  I am so confused and don't know were to begin. How am I able to take assessment test when I cant even help my kids with math?   Now I am another year older and need to start some were but just don't know how. 
I did have a wonderful birthday though.   My Brother in law had a party for his 50th birthday so we had a party for him on my birthday.  As we were getting ready in the morning my in laws come over and brought me homemade cupcakes. As a family we celebrated it today.  The kids decorated the house with signs, Tim made a great dinner for me and HaiLee made a cake that even she could enjoy with me.
One thing I do know is that at the end of the day, I have a wonderful family. They love me know matter if I have a job, if i am going to college, if i am making a difference in the world they love me for me and that is the best present that i could ever ask for. 

What am I going to be when I grow up?

Being unemployed has made me have alot of time on my hands to think about what I really want to do.  I see people and they ask how is it going and I don't know exactly how to answer them.  I have met friends for lunch, Went with Melanie to to take her daughter to horse therapy, visited with some friends, and been able to pick the kids up from school every now and then.  Treavor was able to stay home today from school because he wasn't feeling well.  Spend time with Tim with out kids around.  Gone grocery shopping after dropping the kids off to school, volunteered to help Treavors Teacher help cut some projects for her.  I have always said that I bow down to stay home mothers, there is no way I would be able to do that.  It is a tough job and I don't like my kids enough to stay at home with them. :)  Now I am there and it is hard and even harder than I thought it would be but at the same time I love it.  The kids do like that I am at home (I think)  they are able to have dinner before we rush off to baseball practice for all 3 of them.  That is a huge change.  Normally I rush home from work and we rush getting dinner done and out the door and don't have time to even talk about their day.  There are alot of projects that I have wanted to get done for many years but didn't have the time.  One my one I am getting them done.  I am not rushing to get them done.  I am taking my time to get them done and enjoying it when I do, do them.  One more thing that I am working on is going to school to be a teacher.  I am in a position for the first time in my life that I have options and get to take things slowly to make sure I am able to do something that I can retire at.  Thanks to my father in law too we are redoing our kitchen.  New cabinets, flooring and a paint job.  I will be posting pictures as the construction begins.  As I spend more time figuring things out I will take this time to really reflect on what it is I want to do when I grow up.

MAJOR CATCH UP!

Hailee was in the school play again and she had the part as the mom.  She did really good and she had a lot of fun.  The play was called Whip Out and they had a surf competition to save the mommy and pappy surf shack.  In the end they saved their shack and all was good.

For the past few years for HaiLees birthday her Aunt Gina has taken her to go ride horses.  HaiLee has a great time. Thanks Aunt Gina!!

So this year when we went to the tulip festival Tim talked me into letting the kids take a helicopter ride,  I have a video of them taking off and landing but not sure how to get them on here :)  soon i hope.  i was a nervous wreck but the kids had a blast. 

The first mow of the year.  TJ did a great job and i am so thankful that i have a kid that can do it :) 

Treavors first baseball game.  The other kids have not had a game yet so stay tuned for more pictures of my athletes.  I love going to the games and watch them have fun.

Treavor and his best friend Jaden went to an Easter egg hunt.  TJ stayed home because he wasn't feeling to well but it was crazy and fun at the same time. 

Ran into Albertsons to get stuff and an Easter Bunny showed up, so it was a Kodak moment :)

Dying Easter Eggs

Last but not least my grand puppy, BreAnna and Penn got a puppy and BreAnna said to "Smile for Grandma" and he sticks his tong out. Calibur is so tiny and cute.