Back to School

So my wonderful kids went back to school. Becca and Aidan went back on the 24th. Becca is going into 4th grade and Aidan is going into 1st grade. Kaliska starts on the 30th, she will be in afternoon preschool. They all are very happy to be back, and hang out with there friends. (Side note: Becca is in the middle school now, it is very strange!!)

It will seem strange not to have anyone at home in the afternoons, when I have had someone with me for the last 6 years.

Here is to a great school year!

Baptism

Our sweet girl Becca was baptized on Saturday afternoon. We are so proud of her and the hard work to get to this point in her life. She has her own struggles, yet she faces them with a bright smile and lots of love. We love you Rebecca!!!

Underground Salt Museum

Yesterday, I took the kids to the underground salt museum. Becca and Aidan went last year with grandpa and grandma. Kaliska and I went for the first time. The salt mine is 650 feet below the main building, we take a mine elevator down which takes about a minute and half to go to the bottom(it is dark the whole way down). You have to wear hard hats and have a breathing apparatus with you at all times. Once you get down in the salt mine you can take a train ride and a dark ride into areas that was once worked in the early 1930's and 1940's. They also are a underground storage area which houses movies, costumes, props, and other stuff.

The kids and I had a blast underground! Next time we need to take dad with us, it was a good way to end the summer before school starts next week!

Mother/Father's Day

Yes, you read that right!

Mother's Day
So being the silly mom I am, I enjoy getting stuff that I would use for around the house. So this year I wanted to get some jewelry with my three wonderful kids birthstones. So we went into a local jewelry store to see what they had. They did not have anything I liked, put they could order from a vendor called "Posh Mommy". They make tags with the kids names and birthstones. I loved it, two in one! So we ordered it a few days before Mother's day. They told me it would take 4 to 6 weeks.

I had not heard from them in over 8 weeks, so I gave them a call and they did not have the necklace. They said they would call the company and find out were it was. After I had talked to them I called my husband to let him know, he said he would stop by. When he got home he told me they shipped it over a week ago. Come to find out they shipped to a post office in California and lost it.

So they said the company would remake and we would go to the top of the list. They said we should have it in 10 day. It took another month to get to me, and on top of it they told us it would cost more then what they said. SO my wonderful husband went into the jewelry store to make sure they charged us the right price and the store honored their original price and gave us the silver chain. I finally have my mother's day gift three months later, I think I am not going to ask for jewelry for awhile.

Even after all the madness to get my mother's day gift, I love it very much. I am very grateful for my three wonderful kids!!

Click on Photo for better view!


Father's Day
OFF-ROAD REMOTE CONTROL TRUCKS!!! Whoo-hoo! I got a new Traxxas 1/10th scale Rustler off-road truck. I loved it so much I got one used for Becca and Aidan got one for his birthday and we can drive them together. One of the used ones worked fine as delivered, but the other one took hours of work and $$ of parts to get it running. Once I got that one running though, it's crazy fast (40 - 50 mph! where the others are 20 - 35 mph). It's a crazy hobby and if I let it, it will eat up lots of time and money, but it's a ton of fun I can share with the kids. Since we moved into our new house I haven't had much time to spend working on the trucks. I've been too busy with home improvement projects!

Freak Storm

So all summer we have been in the triple digits for weather and no rain. Over the last few days we have been having thunder and lighting storms with some rain. So yesterday morning it rained and then cleared up. About 5pm it started to storm, thunder and lighting, rain, etc.. Then all of a sudden the winds picks up to at least 100mph, you could not see outside it was raining so bad, then the power starts to turn on/off a few times. So I happen to look out back and notice the fence has blown over on either side of the house. Not to soon after it all dies down. Yet we are the only ones with damage to the fence.

Dedrick was not home for any of this, so when he got home he was shocked.

Here is a some pictures and video!