Back To School

Can I just say - HALLELUJIA!!

Nick was soooo excited - and Ash claimed she wasn't, but I was excited enough for both of us!! Jon & I spent a relaxing day at Costco, and running all sorts of errands, and it was just heavenly...However, I kept finding myself looking at my watch and saying "Crap, I only have 3 hours left!"

(Notice our glorious "landscaping" in the background from the trucks coming in & out of the backyard)

Beach Bums

We are home, and yes, we still like our friends!! We think they still like us too! In fact, we are already looking for places to stay next year!

We had so much fun, just spending the whole day at the beach. Nick & Ash were on the boogie boards constantly. Nick got "boogie burn" where no boy ever wants to, but he just boogied through the pain! The weather was great...in fact, it was so nice, we didn't realize how much sun we were getting, so everyone except Jon got a little burn. We played hard, and slept hard.

We took one day to go to Knott's Berry Farm. Nick was about 1/4 inch to short to go on some of the big rides, and he was a little bummed, but he loved the ones he could go on.

One day, the "big boys" decided to go out on a raft together...It was quite the sight to see 3 grown men on an inflatable raft in the ocean.

Who Us?!?

The planets must be in alignment, because we have had such good luck on the house this week!! The insulation is in & passed off by the county (we got the nice inspector again!), and then we got a call from the guy who is doing our sheet rock - he had originally told us that it wouldn't be until September 3rd - He said that he could start Saturday - yahoo! Then today, I have had calls from the concrete guys, and excavator and the guys who are going to be cutting in the window in Ashley's new room - it's spooky, but things are lining up quite nicely!! Not at all typical for our project!!

We are heading off to California. We are staying in a condo on the beach with two other families - our last get away before school...Hopefully we will still be friends when it's over!

Troy the Spudman!

This year was Troy's 2nd Spudman - he did AWESOME! He finished in 2:28 (21 min. faster than last year). He, of course, still he said he could have done better...there's always next year...

There were 8 guys from the neighborhood who all signed up, so there was a healthy dose of competition. Most of the wives came to cheer them on, needless to say, we had a BLAST!!

Moving Along...

We must have been living right last week, because we had our 4-way inspection on Friday, and we got the NICE inspector!! He passed us, and we are ready to do insulation on Tuesday! We started this project on October 25, 2006, and it has not been easy - we have learned a lot, and we will be so glad to have our project done, and not have any more projects hanging over our head!! Before, During & After pictures coming soon!

Potty Training

I want to be done with diapers!! We have been working on this for about a week now, and Jon is doing pretty good. It is amazing what you will bargain with to get a 2 year old (almost 3), to use the potty. He has had Oreos for breakfast, lunch & dinner, but hey - he is starting to use the potty!

The other day my people found the dress up box - so Jon was wearing his superman cape, and the Darth Vader voice changer. He would sit on the potty and say "I - AM - JON - I - GO - POTTY"

WHATEVER!!

I am totally following the crowd on this one!! I have had so much fun seeing what is going on in the life of all of my friends, so I thought I would just join along!