Merry Christmas

Hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas and the coming new year is filled with glad tidings. Christmas day here was laid way back this year. It was our first Christmas without all the children home as Amanda is in Great Falls with Greg's family. Hopefully next year they will be here for the baby's first Christmas. We ate turkey dinner, opened gifts and just hung out as a family today. It is still really cold and snowy outside.

Merry Christmas everyone.

GRRRRRR...................

I am tired of getting sick just when I am suppose to have time off. The week before Thanksgiving I came down with a heck of sinus infection and spent the entire holiday and days off from school sleeping and coughing. Well low and behold we get out of school for 2 full weeks on Friday and I have come down with another sinus infection. I am so plugged and coughing again. I am so sick of being sick.


Christmas is next week and I could care less. I really need to find some mojo to get my shopping down. My tree is looking pretty bare right now because I just haven't gotten much stuff. I really need to figure out some shopping time. Maybe on Saturday, I will head to Dickenson for the day to do some shopping.

Craftshow

Jill and I worked hard at the craft show this past weekend. It was a great succeess and worth all the effort. Here are some pictures from the show.
This is our booth and you can see a varity of the items we had.

Co-Ed 2008

Tonight was Jerad's co-ed. His date was Naccona Frame. Here are a couple pictures from the evening!

Okay I didn't drop off the face of the earth!

Update on some things: Amanda is suppose to be having a boy, but at her last two doctors appointments the dr. said that based on the low heartbeat he would think it was a girl if the ultrasound didn't show it was a boy. So we wait and see what she has. I am not counting either way until I see parts for myself!

Megan is busy at college with school work and tennis practice. I can't wait to go watch her play tennis in the spring. Hopefully tomorrow we get to drive up for the day to hang out and spend some time with her. She came home last weekend and we got to hang out with her.

Jerad just finished up his football season. His season was pretty low but hopefully it will be better next year. They ended the season at 1 win, 8 loses.

My job is going great. I am loving it, keeps me really busy. Jill and I are busy getting ready for the craft show in a couple weeks. Hopefully we sell a lot of stuff and don't have a bunch of stuff left over. I will post some pictures before the show. We are both busy finishing up stuff these last couple weekends.

It's going to be a boy!!

Amanda had her ultrasound today and she is going to be having a baby boy! I will have a grandson!! The name they have picked out is Brayden Michael. I can't wait till February!!

Back from Butte

Well I spent a week in Butte where I was doing training for my new job with AltaCare. It seems like it will be a great company to work for. I am excited to get into the schools tomorrow and start working with the kids. I have a meeting right away in the morning to transfer some cases over to me from the middle school program. Than I will be busy setting up the therapy rooms and making phone calls to set up parent meetings. I am excited and nervous at the same time. This is probably the most challenging thing, I have ever done in my life. I am excited about working with the kids, hoping that my therapy with each of them makes a difference in their lives. I am nervous about all the paperwork and work that I need to do.

When I was in Butte it actually was snowing there! I am so not ready for winter yet. It is hard enough to believe it is already the end of August and school has started. Jerad has his first football game this coming Friday in Livingston. He is pretty excited about football and sports this year. Having that year off with his broken humerous was pretty hard on him. It really made him appreciate things he couldn't do during that time much more.

So next weekend, we take Megan to Billings for college. She is all packed and ready to go. She is pretty excited about it. I will post more about it next week after we get back from dropping her off next week.

Deep in Digi class layouts

I am taking an advanced digital scrapbook class online. These are two of the layouts I made during that class!!

So do you have olympic fever? I am loving watching the olympics. The swimming has been awesome.

So I only have 2 more days before my job ends and I am busy getting ready for my new job. I have been spending the last couple weeks getting ready with lesson plans and stuff to be ready for the kids. Next week I am off to Butte for training all week.

:( Laptop

Well my laptop has died. I took it into the computer shop and they said I might as well just buy a new one because it would cost more to repair than the cost of a new one. I am so bummed out because I use my lap top all the time. I love sitting and working on my digital layouts with it. I am lost with out it and probably will be picking up a new one next week. I don't know if I can make it without my laptop. I figured I would be using it all the time in my new job so I have my case files with me and I don't have to run back and forth between the two schools and can work on my files at home.

We got home from Billings earlier today. Just great to go up and spend the night taking in the fair there. We got up this morning to go to the farmers market. It was great. I got to eat a crepe. Hummmmm heaven. We did a little shopping and headed home.

The end of summer

Wow it is hard to believe that I only have about a week and half before I start my new job. I am getting really excited about it. I did go to the schools this week to check out my "room". The one is going to be a big storage/old classroom in the basement. It will take some work to get it feeling bright and cherry to work with it. I am excited to see what I can do to turn it around and make it a fun place for the kids to hang out. The other school the room is really more like a closet that we will be in. It will have a table and chairs, but no real room for floor space to play or anything. I am going to have to be creative in figuring out what to do with the kids there because the space will be really tight.

I am looking forward to building the program and really hoping that it makes a difference in the lives of these young children. I am glad to see that some of my parents are pretty excited about the program and the good it can bring to their family.

This week I am done working, have to burn up some more of my vacation hours. We are off to Billings to the Fair! The kids have concert tickets to Puddle of Mud and while they are doing that, Sam and I will be sitting in the beer booth having some fun listening to the Bad Larry's. I can't wait to walk around the fair and just enjoy some time together as a family. The older the kids get the harder it gets to have that fun family time together. Hard to believe that Megan leaves for college in just over 3 weeks.

Anyway even though it is only Wednesday, it is going to be a great weekend. Well I am off to get some stuff done around the house and have some play time.