The last day...

Today was one of my saddest days in a long time. It was a GREAT day for Jo-Boy but for me it was hard. Merissa cried a lot too. We have been at the same school for 7 yrs. It all started in 2004. We moved here and Elleda and Maya started there. Elleda had the AWESOME and most WONDERFUL Ms. M. She became one of the best friends to our family.She loved her 4th graders enough to move up to 5th grade with them. Elleda carried on with her for 2 yrs. Then she moved on to 6th grade. She stayed in the same middle school for 3 yrs and then moved to a tiny lil magnet school for 9th and 10th grade.

Maya had Mrs. Rice for 2nd grade. She was great too. In 3rd she had a teacher that while I did not like her philosophies was a good teacher in other areas. For 4th grade she had the other best 4th grade teacher Ms. Giggles (her nickname). She was the young pretty one that all the kids prayed to get. For 5th grade she had Ms. Allen. LOVE LOVE LOVE her. She never let maya slide. You go Mrs. A! Then she went to 6th and 7th grade at the local middle school, and then to 8th grade at the same school with her big sister.

Jo-boy went from K-5 in the same elementary school here. From Mrs. Gonzales in Kinder to Mrs C. in 5th grade he had a lot of great teachers. Today he graduated from 5th grade and is moving to 6th grade. We had a great graduation this morning and then met some friends for breakfast after. Then I took the kids back to the house and went back to pick up my lil Miss Buggy. Where she started crying and made it where its all I wanted to do.

Miss Buggy went to the school for 3 yrs. We loved having Ms. McC. and Ms. Angie and then Mrs. R this year.

However next year all of them will leave this district for a new one. So we wont get to see our friends much. We are leaving our favored teachers for a new adventure. It makes me so sad to know that my lil Buggy will not have some of these great teachers that her brother and sisters have had. It makes me sad that I wont see my friends of so long. It is so hard for me to leave them all. We have had so much fun with these teachers and will miss them all a great deal.

We love you Ms. Della, Ms. Dawn and Ms. Deidre, and all the rest of you. Please know if we had any other choice we wouldnt go so far away.
Once a Lion always a Lion!!!

Miss Buggy and her buddy with the school Lion!

We are the mighty mighty Lions! Hear us ROAR!

More house pics...

I found a better file with the pics so I can probably post all the rest tonight.

This is the picture of the room off the front room and the little patio off of it.

A better view of the kitchen.

The view at the top of the stairs into the Master bedroom.

The master bath from the entry.

Another view of the Master bath.

The fireplace in the master bedroom.

The Kids already enjoying the pool.

I have more pics but these are the best ones. I will take more as we go along I am sure.
Toodles...

So the big news is we are buying a house...

We have been in escrow for what feels like forever. Now the inspections are done and the appraisal is done and our fix list is almost complete. So it looks like we may close by next Friday. So here is a bunch of pics of our new house...

These are the entry and stairs. Nice round stairs instead of tight uturn stairs!!! Nice DOUBLE doors instead of one that is a paint to work.

The living room area.

These two are the kitchen area.

This is the hallway to the 1/2 bath and laundry room...

This is the pantry.

This is the nice big laundry room.

These are pics of the pool.

This is the other side of the yard that is on the other side of fences but still in the back...


There are so many more but it is late and I need to catch a shower... so I will post the rest tomorrow.

Its the end of week 2...

Still cant give any information on my news... grrr this is getting on my nerves.

In other news that I can talk about I have a 100 in my class still. YEAH! The lil kids get out of school in 4 days. I am happy. It will be nice not to have to get up at the crack of dawn every day. More news is my Elleda got her permit. SCARY! She needs to take a few driving classes and practice with us for 6 months then she can drive on her own. I also went ahead and I am not officially a California resident. Wow how crazy is that?

Keep watching we have two new things coming down the line really fast. I will post as soon as I know the complete deets....

Its Week 2 of my class...

So before I give you our news because still waiting to not JINX it. haha. So my back to my regular life. I started my Master's program back in April. It is hard. I dont think I was prepared for it to be this hard. I know my bachelors program was a tad bit hard, but not like this. Atleast I dont have to sit in a classroom.

This week my Elleda is taking drivers ed. Wow when did she get old enough to drive?? I cannot believe that she will be a Junior in high school this year. So she had driver's ed and Kung fu now. How is it that I am old enough to have a 16 yr old?? It is very strange...

Maya is off on her first vacation away from our family. She met with her cousins and her grandparents in Wyoming for a week of riding horses, rafting on Snake River, and having fun. She will be back soon. A week after she gets back both her and her older sister leave for a week at sleep away camp. She will be in high school this year too. Wow a freshman for my once lil bee...

My son Jo Boy will be finishing 5th grade next week too. He is currently doing Kung Fu. Wow so much growing is going on... next month he will (hopefully) be starting 6th grade. It is so hard to see them all growing up. We still dont know if he will get to play football this fall. We are hoping he will.

My little Miss Buggy is finishing first grade!! She is also in a cheer tumbling class too. She goes twice a week for an hour each time. She is so excited to learn but she is not happy that the older girls are out of school yet she still has to go to school. I cant wait until they are all still on the same schedule. It is too difficult to have 4 kids on different schedules.

until next time....

so update 2...

Miss Buggy and Jo Boy started football and cheer in Aug. of 2010. Wow that was insane! We had practice 4 days a week for the first month and then down to 3 days and a game in Sept. Only thing was Hubby was working a LOT of hours so he wasnt home much so I spent a LOT of time driving all around. Wednesdays and Saturdays were the worst. We had practice and church on Wednesdays. Saturdays were bad because that was game day and most of them the kids were not at the same fields haha. I found a sign that will forever hang in my living room from August until late November from now on... WE INTERRUPT THIS FAMILY TO BRING YOU FOOTBALL SEASON! This is so very true.

At the end of the season I finished my Bachelors in Accounting and my mom came out at the same time for Thanksgiving. Then there came Christmas. We had an awesome holiday season. We rang in the new year with relative quietness. At the beginning of February hubby's parent's came out to visit. We all went to the Wild Animal Park. IT WAS A BLAST! Since then we have been back once more and to the Zoo too. We have been trying to do atleast one Saturday as a family day. It is fun for all of us.

The girls finished 10 and 8th grade in June. They have been out on break since the middle of June. Since then they have been to the beach with friends several times. Jo Boy and Miss Buggy wont finish for another 2 wks yet. That brings us almost up to date. I will have to finish it next week and that post will be FULL of pictures of our newest news.

So it has been forever....

So much has changed over the past year. (or more!)I have so much to say but I dont know where or how to begin.

How about with our first move last year. We moved off base and moved into a rental house off base for the first time in our entire married life. Such a big change. To top that off my husband retired after 21 yrs in the Navy (hence the move off base!). He took a job as a civilian doing the same job he did while on active duty. So here are a few pictures of our new house.

This is the front of the house!

This is the back of the house!

This is our nice green front yard.

This is the huge backyard.

This house has been a good house for the past year. We have been through much in it. We have had a few issues with some poisonous spiders. Yeah this picture shows one of them that Maya got...

This is one of the pics and it isnt as bad as some of the other ones. I didnt even get pics of the rest of us and our spider bites. I will post another update soon. This way you are not inundated by a HUGE LONG LONG post all at once.