2012-2013 School Year

Tuesday was the first day of school for our school system. The morning was too crazy, I did not get a picture on the first day of school. However, I did on the second day of school.

Adam is now in 3rd grade with Mrs. Brown. He seemed really excited about learning cursive this year. His teacher is new this year, so I do not know her--Hoping for a great year!

Austin is in 5th grade and started Middle School. The first day he had a bit of trouble with his locker. Yesterday is was better in the morning, but still had some trouble in the afternoon. Today he said, "my locker was so easy today. It was like liquid. (I thought that was a great analogy!) He changes classes, and has 2 that are on an A/B schedule (even days he has A classes, then on odd days he has B classes. I think that would be confusing, but he seems to have the knack of it.)


Here is this years "beginning of the school year picture." Let's have a great year!!

Important Verses

The fair was here last week. We went on Friday evening. Before I left that evening, I went through the exhibit booth. There was a lady handing out "little Bibles." It was a booklet that had about 15-20 verses from the Bible.

Adam found this and was asking what this book was. I said, "it is a little book that has important Bible verses in it."

Adam responded by saying, "Aren't all the verses in the Bible important?"

Good point! How do you argue with that?

5K

This summer Lana encouraged me to do something I never thought I would do. RUN. I had done this a few times with her and she started to casually mention that there was going to be a 5K near my house--"we should do that," she would say. It took a little convincing, but I finally agreed to it.

Over the next few weeks, I would run, run a little longer, train this way and that. The day of the race I felt ready.

During the weeks that I trained, I had come up with some goals that I wanted to accomplish during the race. 1. I wanted to finish. 2. I did not want to be the last one to finish. 3. I didn't think I could do this one, but I wanted to finish the race in a time that was under my age. (37 minutes).
While running the race I kept looking over my shoulder to make sure that other people were behind me (goal #2), if too many were passing me I would get nervous and keep going even though I really wanted to stop, if only for a quick breather.

I could see the finish line (goal #1), others were still behind me (goal #2), I had NO idea what my time was so goal #3 was still up in the air.

As I got closer to the line I could see...
Adam waiting ever so patiently for me to finish.

As I crossed the line, he went under the rope,

and came to me with open arms.

I loved the end to that race. I will continue to run if that is my reward at the finish line!

**I did make goal #3. I finished in 35:51. I had 1 minute 9 seconds to spare.

And Then There Were None

Well, maybe I shouldn't say "none." He does have a FEW teeth left. Adam lost another tooth last week, so now he has quite a large hole on top.

I'm not sure if he could eat corn-on-the-cob, however I do know that there are some advantages to missing so many teeth.

You can make a "Rat Face"
or even do a "Vampire Face." The fun really does go on and on.

I just hope that some teeth come in before school pictures. Who knows what face he might choose for the yearbook.

When You Have Little Boys...

...you never really know what you might find.

This evening I went to set the table for dinner when I found this.


I'm not exactly sure what crime this poor man committed, but it looks like his punishment is to be bound to the pepper shaker. (I do think he is remorseful, just look how he is hanging his head)

Little boys certainly do add a little "spice" to their parents lives

Photo Shoot

Over the weekend, we went to Mike's parent's for a visit. I figured the next time I saw them would be around the holidays, so I went ahead and asked for ideas for Christmas. His mom said they really did not need anything, and anything they do need his dad would right away order from a catalog. We came up with the idea of having some updated photos of the boys. I had a quick photo shoot with them today. Some turned out better than others, and I did all the poses on my computer with sepia, black and white, and color. I'm having trouble deciding what I like best. Mike has given me his opinion, but I can't make up my mind. Here they are:

Oops, had this pose in twice.

Good thing I have a few months to either decide, or to take more pictures!

To Terminate The Blahs

The past few days Austin has not felt very well. Last night, I was on the phone rearranging some plans for today since he had a fever. While I was on the phone, Austin wrote a note, handed it to me, and headed to the bathroom. I read the note. It said, "I'm going to take a bath to terminate all of my blahs."

I love the vocabulary he chose for his note.

**He really did not feel well. I took him to the Dr. today, turns out he has bronchitis. If a bath doesn't take away his blahs, the antibiotic he is on should help.