11/29

Life.....

Well let's see....

we had the boys b-day party 2 weeks ago. It was a blast. We had it at our house this year, thinking we'd keep it small....NOT A CHANCE...too many friends/kids. Anyway Missy and I did a joint b-day party since Kaiden's b-day is only a few days away from mine. We did cake, ice cream, pizza, pinata, presents and then saw Madagascar II, freaking hiliarous. All the kids did wonderful and we all had a great time.

I'm still studying for my exam....Dec 9th is the big day. I'm down to studying the crap that isn't sticking....and taking lots of practice tests.

Work is busy so that's good considering economic times...pray that stays that way.

Last weekend we just hung around the house and chilled.

Thanksgiving was 2 times this year in one day. Once at Matt's family and once with mine. Usually we go to Chicago but this year we wanted to stay home which was great.

Got up at 3:30am on Friday to hit Kohls along with everyone else, I got some great deals but it was killer.

Today I met Darcy, Christi and Jenny for breakfast as Darcy was in town so great to see her as its been months and months.

Went to Amber's for an after Thanksgiving get together, fun....then we did family time at home watching Wall E and chillin....

11/13

Well I've been a busy girl as you can see by no blogging for a while....

Let's see work has been insane and will only get more before its over. We are working on a 3 schools in Avon doing renovations and all due by end of year more or less...freak out!!! I am getting a designer for 3 days a week so thank god I will actually get to take time off at Christmas.
We went to the pumpkin patch the weekend before Halloween. All was good.





I took Halloween off and we went to the Zoo. It was great, 70 degrees and probably 50 people in the entire zoo.


Halloween was fun. Boys were Venom and Spiderman.



Lets see saw Amber's band Greta Speaks last weekend with Cheryl. Great as usual. So funny to be around a bunch of young people at the bars....lots of people watching that night.

Been studying for my LEED exam, Dec 9th is the date!!! Getting alittle freaked out but I'm getting ready. Bought practice tests online so doing that like the real thing.

Boys birthday party with Kaiden is this Saturday. Movie themed, pizza, cake and seeing Madagascar 2 afterwards.
We gave Hunter is Wii last night since it was his birthday. He was estactic!!! Went over very well.

Later

10/12

So its been a busy few weeks.

Last weekend I went to Chicago for the New Kids ocncert....it was a blast!!!! It was like they never left.





Let's see work is going well. Business is finally starting to pick up so its time to hire a designer. I've been interviewing for about 2 months now. I think I found the right designer so 2nd interview is this week..... I went to an interview with Avon the other night so that was cool....love those....fun to brag about what your company can do. I don't ever talk just be the designer.

Hunter and Grant are doing well. Hunter is doing awesome at school and Grant is now officially fully potty trained.

Well my new mission is to find a Wii for the boys. Today I got the Wii Fit board and Mario Cart which apparently are harder than the game to find, just walked into Blockbuster. So now I'm on the mission to find me the gaming system..wish me luck. So stupid that you have to hunt down a gaming system.

Layta

9/29

Sooooo what's been going on.

Well let's see. 2 weekends ago we had our summer party....crazy!! It rained of course, that is my luck. It was alot of fun hanging out with my girls and just talking.
Hunter is doing well in school and soccer still.
Grant is my crazy child still.
Work is OK. I'm going to IU tomorrow to get work...booo IU but hey its work. They are doing like 1200 jobs so hopefully we can get a piece of the pie there. Higher Ed is the way to go these days.
Still studying for my test, I need to set a date soon.
Going to New Kids on Saturday in Chicago with Dana, Amber and Cheryl. I'm beyond excited. I was a hardcore fan, 6 concerts and tons of crap. So this will be my 7th concert and I'm soooo excited. There new CD is awesome and they are really putting out no stops on this tour. So yes I'm a dork but I don't care because they are still HOT!!!!!

9/15

Sooooo.....

let's see its been a quiet but busy last few weeks...

We got the playground done. Cj/Matt built the main frame and Matt worked on it for about 2 weeks until complete. The boys love it.



Our next project was our deck. We have been talking about it forever, and I mean since we built the house 4 years ago. Matt does not have time so we hired someone to build it, the guy has a small crew and they do the decks for Salbery Bros (Matt's work)........



We are having an end of summer party next weekend, very excited to use our backyard FINALLY!!!

Hunter is doing well in school...sounding everything out...catching up quickly. He is exhausted everyday from school, falls asleep most days on the bus. Luckily Hunter is in the front seat so she can't miss him.

Soccer started this weekend, Hunter scored a goal!!!! He worked it down almost the entire field, first time for that. Glasses and summer camp are finally paying off. We are so proud of him!!!



Work has been steady, wish it would pick up so I can hire a designer. The referendum thing for school work has been things on a hold for most school districts that want to built....not good for those of us that do K-12 design. It will turn around next year once the schools can hold voting sessions......

I'm studying for my LEED exam (green design). Hoping to take that before end of year...need to actually as they are changing the exam to be harder and it sucks ass right now as it is. So hard to study though but I'll manage.

Later

8/21

So its been quite a while since I blogged.......

Well let's see..
8/6 we went to the State Fair with friends. We had a great time, didn't make it all the way around though. We saw most of the animals....rode fair rides...had great food...came home and took a nap







Then Kindegarten started last week......I was fine until he got on the bus and I lost it. We discovered he needed glasses the week before so that has made a huge difference. He likes it and alreayd has 2 girlfriends. He has good teachers. One I think is 12... ;-)






Next came my trip to New Mexico. I was invited by a Carpet company to attend a confernce of sorts with all designer that do K-12 design. We were from all over the US. I learned a great deal of what other firms do, what I shoudl be doing and got very energized to do more creative design. New Mexico is so beautiful. I stayed in Santa Fe. I've never seen so much jewelry in my life......

8/5

So its been a busy past week......

First, forgot to mention that Missy is prego....SOOOO excited for her (just as I predicted)

Hunter will be going to full day kindergarten now, afternoon program to help him out a bit with his letters and such (damn letters!!)
Cannot believe its almost a week away!!!

We are going to the State Fair this weekend!! Whoo hoo!!!

Sunday I'm doing lunch/movie with my girls Missy and Mel and whoeever else wants to go...GIRL TIME!!!!

Next week is so busy....Monday Ice cream social...WEd school starts...Thurs-Sat I'm in New Mexico!!!!

Well work laid off 7 people last week so that was scary...economy leads people not to build and stupid property taxes have schools in shock about building too. Until we get more work things will be slow...