He's home and Shelby's Birthday

Well suprise suprise getting Mark home was a day and a half of nothing other than delays.  But after a very frustrating day of nothing but delays he finally made it home on Shelby's birthday....which is the only thing she had asked for her birthday btw.  We got to pick Mark up at the airport early in the morning and then we went to breakfast and then home for a lazy afternoon.  We went to dinnner to the Texas Roadhouse (her favorite) with Grandma and Grandpa and then cake and present time.  Then time to get packed for our annual trip to Oregon the next day.

Fun with family

I always look forward to the summer cause it means two things:  warm weather and my sister comes and visits.  This year we got to do a couple of movies with all the kids:  Kung fu panda 2 and cars 2 and we got to do dinner at the Mayan Adventure mom and dad and it was so much fun. We were even able to get a smile out of poor little sick Jayson!!!  At the end of the visit instead of blubbering cause I was so sad they were leaving I actually got to leave with them to help Jackie drive home.  For the most part the kids did very well.....that is such a long drive.  And on the way in I got to experience the singing road...loved it!!!!  I am so glad to have such a great relationship with all my siblings and that we are all pretty close epecially where these are the people I will be spending eternity with...Love you guys!!!

Happy Birthday!!!

Well the girls ask me the same thing every year:  "Do we get a birthday party this year" so this year when they didnt ask I figured it was the perfect time to suprise them.  It worked out perfect because all their cousins were here.  Aunt Marrianne came and got them to "help her clean".  Meanwhile we took the rest of the clan down to fat cats and got set up.  Jackie and I had made icecream cupcakes....something I have always wanted to do and they were so cute and  easy.  Then Marrianne and the boys came to "turn in a job application for Jacob"  AND THEN: SuPrIsE!!!!!  They were so happy and excited and then they all got pizza and got to bowl.  I must say we are very fortunate to have all our kids very close to eachother.  The girls love spending time with all their cousins!!!

Life in a nutshell

Well school is finally done for the girls and the weather is finally good...yea!!!  I got an awesome letter from my college and guess what?  I made the DEANS LIST!!!  This makes me even more excited for school in the fall to start.  I fell like I have finally found my glitch in life...I love my job and I just want to learn more and start doing more hands on work at my job.  The girls bday is coming up soon and since all thier cousins are here I am planning a surpise bday party at the bowling alley and they dont suspect a thing...I cant wait to see the looks on their faces.
Mark is almost done with his time in Iraq...YEA!!!  And what does this mean...not to much longer and we get to see him...and the butterflies are back... cant wait to see him!!!

I know I know blah blah blah she is so sappy right?  Well for the first time ever I have found a man that treats me and my girls so good.  I have found what I have always wanted...I guess sometimes the best things in life comes to those that wait.  Next we went and got new pictures taken of me and the girls and they turned out so good...I love them..Cat Palmer took them and they turned out so good.

Now my sister is here with her six kids and we have another week and a half of fun planned.  I am hoping that we get to do at least the zoo while they are here.  We took the kids to kung foo panda yesterday and that was a ton of fun.  July will be busy I have girls camp and then I am going to be taking golf lessons and I am so excited about that...something I have wanted to do for a while.  Well I am off...untill next post....:)

Customer Service?

Ok first of all let me say if anyone out there has verizon wireless all I can say is good luck!!!!  I had them for 5 years and all I can say is wow.  I got a phone and supposedly it was the "top of the line"...well lets see 5 phones later and hours on the phone with various customer service reps. I am done.  I was told by one representative that "Ma'am you are one person in a multi million dollar company, do you really think that what you pay makes a difference?  Pretty sure we survived before you and will survive after you as well"  HMMMMM.....I have worked in customer service for 15 years and most of those years in managment, all I can say is if someone under me ever treated a customer like that they would have been fired.  Well now I am done and I am with Sprint....I guess all is well that ends well right?

My first term of school...done!!!!

Ok so this year I really wanted to make some of my new years resolutions acutally happen.  One of my resolutions was to go back to school.  Ok this is a really scary thing when it has been so long...13 years to be exact.  I love my job and what I do so I decided to become a certified optometric tech and get my prereq. done for graduate school for Optometry.  I am doing online classes which are nice cause it allows me to work and be a mommy....but wow does it leave me worn out.  I work all day come home for mommy time and after the girls are in bed mommy stays up and does her homework.  Well I am proud to say I survived the first term with A's in both classes...yippee!!!!  Now I have a break for the summer ....school again in September.  I really wish I would not have waited for so many years but I guess what they say is true....better late than never!!!