Volleyball is over!

For a few weeks anyway! HA And baseball starts tonight! Oh my! I'm liking that exclamation point today huh?
Makayla played in KC at regionals this weekend. We went up Friday night so we would be rested Saturday morning. We woke up to find out the the coaches had to go home due to a family emergency. Oh my! They needed to be home and I'm so glad they both made the choice to go. So we played with a coach we have never even practiced with. The girls did a great job. They worked together like clock work. No one was injured. We played 4 matches which are made up a 2 games each. They lost 1 game on Saturday. We placed 1st in our pool. Played all day Saturday and lost the last match to.... CARTHAGE! Can you believe we made it all that way to play a team 15 miles away that we scrimmage with at practice? We had just beat them 2 weeks before. So out of 85 teams we came in 2nd.... still a very respectable finish! Nice way to end the season. Last year we headed home after the first game. That was not fun. Much better this year!
I am down to the end in school. I teach a lesson on Wednesday and have a paper due and that's about it! What will I do with myself? Well.... this house need a good scrubbing and I bet I could find a good book to read!

Humm just when you see the light at the end of the tunnel...

they move the tunnel. Ha!
The end of the year busy season is on. Parties, field trips, test, papers, baseball, wrapping up volleyball, staying lighter at night which means its harder to get kids to bed... You know that time of year right?
I am supposed to be working on a paper for next week since we will be gone all weekend to KC for volleyball regionals. But... with 3 drivers in our house and only two cars you can not always count on your car being home. And I was not smart enough to grab my school bag out of my car before it went to boy scouts. So now I'm wasting some time.
I have a stack of forms to fill out. Hannah is walking in a Payne Stewart walk Saturday and needs a form. Jordan and Hannah both have field trips coming up and they need forms filled out.... and don't forget to add a check to all those forms by the way! Oh and summer camp sign ups need to be turned in ASAP.
Tomorrow is our last grandparents day at school. Jordan will be in middle school next year. How is that possible?
This will be a busy weekend. BUT... I think it will get better after Sunday. I am really winding down at school and we wont have anymore volleyball practices.. for a month anyway.
I'm going to make an attempt to at least act like on working on the paper for 40 more minutes... Greys Anatomy will be on one of the two channels that we still have. I sure am glad it's almost summer and we don't watch much TV in the summer. I might be having withdraws otherwise. I'm still not sure if we are going to buy the converter or try and live like those who eat tofu. haha... if you eat tofu I'm sure you are not reading this blog!

Black powder rifle for me!

Jordan had a great time at his first Boy Scout Jamboree this weekend... even the rain didn't bother them. That's why he is a boy scout and I'm not... ok there may be a couple of other things that keep me from being a Boy Scout but you get the idea right? He is a bit itchy from all the tick bites though.

I'm back... I know... it's shocking to me too!

Well I have shirked all my responsibilities this weekend. I have read a book and.... wait for it... wait for it... I SCRAPBOOKED! Yep I sure did. I wasn't sure I had it in me. I'm still not sure I still have it in me. But I did whip out some pages. I'm not sure why it is bitter sweet but it is a little bit. I miss scrapbooking with my friends. I miss getting out of the house and making plans and all the fun stuff about going to crop. But it was good to go through my stuff and play for a bit.
I did do some homework and house work too. It just had to be done...Leland and Jordan are camping out this weekend....in the rain. Glad I wasn't invited! Hannah went to the movies with some friends and Makayla is on a date. So it's been kind of quite. I'm not sure how I feel about that! Here are my pages. The last 2 are form some other time. I can't even remember when. I have not scrapbooker since October. That is sad... Hope I can start finding time to play more often.

Well I did it!

I enrolled for the last time at MSSU. I'll have two classes this summer... more whining about that to come. And I will student teach in the fall. I will have three classes to take during that time. I am still in shock. It is not any where close to down hill yet. They make sure that there is no down hill to this race, but the end is in sight. I am not sure that they can teach me everything I still need to know in only five classes. Those had better be some amazing classes. I am still doubting my ability to be released into the classroom in just a few short months.

Not just an average Sunday....

We went to church with mom and dad in Arkansas today. I did not even take any pictures today. It was rainy and it just isn't the same now that the kids are older. I was setting in church thinking back to life a year ago. We had no idea last Easter how different our lives would be today. Or that we only had about a month left before we found out about the changes that were in store for us.
Last Easter I had to lead songs at church. I was not happy about this. It's wasn't that I didn't enjoy singing I just didn't feel that as an alto I could do a very good job of leading. I'm sorry that I was not in a very good mood about it. We always had breakfast together before church. Sure did miss that this morning. I had Zebra cakes as we ran out the door.
I know time moves by quickly. Yet it still amazes me how fast things can change and how unprepared I am to deal with it.
I really missed the egg hunt we used to have for the kids. They are just too old for it. They would have enjoyed the eggs filled with money but some how it seems wrong to give the kids money because Jesus died on the cross for their sins.
We always have a family dinner on Easter. You know... ham, potatoes, green bean casserole. But since we went with mom and dad we had to just grab something to eat on the way back. Hummmm.... don't get me wrong. It was nice to have dinner together... but something just wasn't the same. I know I'm being whiny. I am grateful for my family. I'm thankful that everyone has a job and is healthy. I'm so relieved that my babies have all accepted Jesus as their personal Savior. Yet, I was feeling a little bit sad for myself today. Maybe even a little bit melancholy. And definitely still sad about some of the changes that have taken place in the last year.
So... I came home and took a long nap.
Tonight I register for my last classes I will take a MSSU. Can you believe it? I could go on and on about how freaked out this makes me! I probably have some chemical unbalance!

Whoa... I dont think I've ever gone this long without blogging...

At least not since I started a blog that is anyway.
I've had a these pictures ready for a week. Last Thursday I spent the evening getting pictures ready. Then when I was ready to load them... I lost the Internet. It didn't come back for a whole week.
Anyway... we have just been living life here.
Hannah is done with volleyball as of last weekend. Makayla has volleyball this weekend and again in 2 weeks. Then she is done until June. Jordan finished up pre-season baseball last night. Regular season started last Tuesday. So as usual there is always something going on.
I have about 4 more weeks of this semester left. I enroll for my LAST semester at MSSU on Sunday night. Can you believe that? I am shocked! Time is going WAY too fast. I hope I'm enjoying it. I'll let you know when this slow down if I really got to enjoy it! HA!
I promise to check in more often now that the Internet is back.
I was looking through the pictures to remember what I was going to post... then I remembered that my baby turned 11. Oh my... back to that time flying thing. Jordan will be in middle school next year. Where has the time gone? I remember worrying about the fact that he was in 3rd grade and still sucked his thumb. He might not be very happy with me mentioning that... ha! But he did finally give that up. There are a couple of other thing that I am glad he has learned to do... but I had better not mention everything on here. Those of us who had to endure it know exactly what I'm talking about! He really is growing up. He still likes to snuggle with his mother though. Thank you God for giving me a sweet boy who has been such a blessing.