Wow

This just goes to show you what happens when you work too many damn hrs. It has been a month since a posted last. I just hate that. Working too much and have too little free time.
We have been busy, Brendan with his football. He made Kicker as well this year, so he is doing really well with it and already talking about playing in high school. I just want to get thru this year.
Austin is wanting a "six pack". Not the kind you drink, but six pack abs. That kid is a mess. So I took him to a trainer and he and I worked out with the trainer for a Cross fit program. Holy crap, it about killed me!!! That was on Thurs and I still hurt when I have to bend down. Austin and I were both sore for days. I told him we need to get in better shape first, otherwise the trainer will just kill us.
We have been to the zoo recently, that was nice, the weather was great and went with the boys and Tonya and Albert. The monkey's were the best as usual.
I have LOTS of pictures on my camera that I need to download. That is my goal for this week, wish me luck.

Katy Trail

Ok, so the boys and I had a great time on the trail in Washington, so my DH has the great idea that we should do the Katy trail. Now dont get me wrong I wanted to do the Katy trail as well, but.....he wants to go from Dutzow to Augusta, 7.5 miles one way. Doesnt sound too bad right....well first it was pretty, that was a plus. But my bike seat is too small for my big ass, so I spent part of the trail trying to ride standing up, not to comfortable. Poor Austin again has one speed, he just has to go at his own pace. Well my DH would call out his name and Austin would get alittle shaky and over correct and hit the dirt. The first time is was his right knee and elbow, scraped up and bloody" I am perfectly OK mom" was all he would say and he got back up and rode off again. 7.5 miles doesnt seem like much until you do it, took forever! But I was bound and determined to make it, sore ass and all.
 
Finally arrived and stopped to go to the get some more water and hit the bathroom. Nice place here in Augusta with a little restaurant overlooking the trail and the valley, with a nice band playing that day. Would have liked a glass of wine, but knew I would never make it back to the car.
 
 
On the way back, I kind of hoped it would be like any other trip back, always shorter and quick then the trip there....not so much....sore ass, turned into sore shoulders also. Funny my legs were fine, just the other parts not so good. I finally had to get off that damn bike and walk just to give the other parts a break. Poor Austin was trying to ride slower, so as to not leave me too far behind, and he crashed and burned again, this time the left knee and elbow...." I am perfectly ok mom" What a tough kid! The last mile or so Austin would ask me " Mom are you ok" and my reply would be..." Austin, I am perfectly OK"
Never so glad to have a family fun filled day be over in my life!!!!

This is what it is all about

A little back story here.....Austin is 11 yrs old. We live in a rural area, so he has had a hard time learning how to ride a bike. I have been teaching him in our yard, this way if he fell it wouldnt hurt too bad right? So after many days in the yard, I convinced him it was time to try a better surface. So when Brendan had football practice, I took Austin to the parking lot and let him try. He was scared at first, but after a few times, he loved it and went faster and faster and then he didnt want to stop.
 
So next it was to the trail in Washington by the river. Austin was so excited to go riding on the trail there.
 
And he was off, unfortunately he only has 1 speed, so I didnt see him again until we got to the end of the trail. It was 2.5 miles one way. He was happily waiting for Brendan and I at the end.
 
Yea Brendan wanted. his picture taken with the johnny on the spot in the background, he said it would be so Hoosier and cool,what a freak.
  
 
Austin was so happy and proud of himself, he made it the whole way and back w/o falling off or hurting himself. At the end he was waiting in the parking lot for us, "what took you guys so long????"

WTF

Only two posts for Aug. that is terrible, shows how much time I have been spending away from home and working. Things have been really busy at work the last 2 months. A little too busy sometimes. But it has always been feast or famine.
I will post some pictures soon of us with the boys bike riding on the Katy trail, fun but hell.

Life or something like it......

Well it's been an interesting month to say the least! Work, yea has sucked! Every Friday this month has been really tough,(today was no picnic either) so tomorrow being the last Friday of the month, I am going with the attitude that, it's just another day and a new month is coming so I am just going to turn a negative into a positive and do the job I was hired to do. Repeat after me, I love my job, I love my job....yea whatever!!!!!!!
A close and very dear friend lost her son suddenly, so spent last week at the funeral home, not my favorite place, but she is one of my favorite people in the whole world and I love her dearly. She is a true inspiration on how I want to be when I grow up.
Brendan started football practice, and he is doing well. Unfortunately it is from 6-8pm every night, and we cant eat a big dinner before practice, and I cant eat a big dinner after 8:30pm, just too late for me. So we are working on getting on a better schedule.. yea the best laid plans just get shot to shit sometimes.
Havent done anything creative in far too long, makes for a crabby me. My girl Erin has had to change our plans the last couple of times...sick kid...sick her...hope she is feeling better this week. So my hope is to lock myself in my room and just have alittle me time. Just send me to room for the weekend and I will come out a new person.
"let not your heart be trouble", good things will come.

A visitor in the back yard

I woke up the other morning, enjoying the peace and quiet and Harley started barking and would not stop, so I yelled at him to shut up. He kept on barking, so I got up to tell him face to face to shut up, seems to be more effective ( yea whatever) and I looked out the window to see if there was a reason for him to be barking and that is when I saw this out in our field

 
 
 
 

Isnt she pretty. She stayed out there long enough for me to take several pictures, she was eating leaves off of the tree, that I was able to go back inside, to put on my zoom lens and take some more pictures.
I guess I can thank Harley for being a noisy pain in the butt, otherwise I would have missed this.

WOW, I totally suck!!!

In my defense life is out of my control lately. Yea I still suck, suck at blogging, suck at being a mom, suck at being a wife, suck at being a daughter, suck at being a sister I have been non stop at work most of this month. I have been working until at least 7pm, by the time I get home all I want to do is sit and stare at the tv with my mouth hanging open. I am so tired, so behind and feel like crawling in bed and staying there for a week.
So to all of you I have neglected, Happy Father's Day,Happy Birthday, Happy Anniversary, Happy whatever day. I love you all!

Where has my time gone?????????

This is one of the places I have been spending extra time. Farm town on facebook. You build your own little farm, raise your crops, get animals, harvest your crops and sell them at the market. It is fun. check it out sometime.
Yea this week has pretty much sucked otherwise. I worked late everyday, too late and had little to no fun at all, people were crabby, DH was whinny. I think I was spoiled by my week off without being aggravated.
The workout room, downstairs is functional and I need to make sure I use it first thing in the morning or I will not make time later in the day. I will post some before and after pictures soon
For DH to hook up the satellite tv in the workout room, he had to run the wires from the box to the tv in there. To run the wires, he had to remove some ceiling tiles in my scrapbook room. Did he say anything before hand so I could cover stuff up????Hell no!!! Did he break some tiles removing them? yes! Did he make one hell of a mess ALL over my tables, supplies and even some PICTURES??? What the hell was he thinking???? Oh that's right he wasnt!!!! I could not believe the MESS! I wanted so bad to clean it up right away....but since he had to replace the broken tiles and would make a mess again, there was no point. So I blew the dust and crap off the pictures and covered everything with sheets. Since I worked such long days all this week I have not made it down there yet to clean up the mess, I am just sick over it and my hope is to get it done this weekend.
It's late and I am tired. I will post more over the weekend.

Summer Time

Aren't they BEAUTIFUL?!? And do you know why they are so much nicer than your usual strawberries?? Because these BEAUTIFUL strawberries came out of our garden!!! And they are delicious!!!!!

Happy Dance

Yea been doing a little happy dance lately, and why you may ask, well on Sat morning at 4:15 am my DH and son (Brendan) left for a WHOLE WEEK. I got up when they left to say goodbye and to also savor every single second that DH is gone. Is that terrible of me?????? Dont get me wrong I do love the DH and I am sure I will miss him at some point. But I can watch what I want on tv. When I clean the house it will stay that way. ( Austin, my youngest is home with me, but he is not the messy one of the bunch and he is a people leaser) So I have been doing some extra cleaning up and throwing away, I figured if he hasnt used it, seen it or thought about it in the past 5 years, it is out of here.
So I am going to enjoy every moment I can between now and Friday night at 11:30 pm, when they are due back.
Maybe a little extra Happy dancing will help me lose some more weight also.

Look what he can do now!!

 
It is a little hard to see in this picture,yea I know what the heck is this a picture of, right. Well this is Austin's mouth/tongue. Right above his bottom teeth is a "Short Frenulum" which caused him to be tongue tied. Austin is now 11 years old. He started speech therapy at his school in 2nd grade, 2 times a week. His progress was slow. I consulted the speech therapist where I work, Kelly (love ya, mean it, your the best) and she wanted to work with him for a while. In a few short weeks she mentioned he was "tongue tied" and if he got his tongue clipped it might help. I looked into it and figured why not, it could only help and not make things worse. In this picture you can see the the short frenulm keeps his tongue from raising up any higher, and he is unable to stick his tongue out all the way.
 
He is actually excited about having this done, especially if it helps him talk more clearly, he is obviously nervous and a little scared it is going to hurt.
 
In this picture this is the highest he can stick it up in his mouth, and it cause the tongue to puff up in the back.
 
This is a happy camper after the procedure. The Dr did the clipping in his office and a matter of minutes, numbed it first, the snip with the scissors. I was so proud of him! Here he is able to touch his up to the roof of his mouth. Something he could never do before and I had no idea he couldn't do this. His brother asked him "dude how did you get peanut butter off the roof of your mouth before" he answered " with my finger"
 
Here he can stick up for the first time.

 
And here sticking it out and down. He was so excited, all the way home in the car he played, moving his tongue around. He said he was so happy & excited that he could have ran a mile, no 3 miles.
Everyday he gets alittle better, practicing his words and his tongue exercises.
It's a shame that he spent so many years in therapy before and no one noticed his tongue before. Now all that matters is that Kelly discovered it, made a great recommendation and he can only get better from here.
Every couple of days he will say, "hey mom, look what I can do now"

Who can you trust anymore????

The boys are always asking if they can go spend some time with Tonya and Albert. I thought is was because they enjoy their company, cause they are just big kids themselves and like playing video games. Or because they LOVE their dog Buddy, he is just a big lap dog.....but no, it is none of those things....Tonya and Albert, the sweet young couple from West Virgina,that we met through church, that we have welcomed as our own family....let our boys DRINK!!!! And this is a picture of the results!!!!!!!!!!

I got a call from Brendan the other night, he and Austin were spending the night at Tonya and Albert's home. Brendan calls and says "mom check your email, we sent you a picture" I am thinking oh how cute, a picture of the boys with Buddy maybe. I open it up and this is what I see. What the-----!!!!
I laughed so hard...love the belly Albert! The bottles are actually grape soda.

The "men" go hunting

The guys went turkey hunting the other day. Austin needed some camo clothes to go, so I checked down in Bud's room and he had a camo pair of overalls, figured Austin could try them and just not button up the sides, since Bud is so tall and skinny and we were so surprised that they fit him just fine. Really proud of how well he has done with his wt loss!


Unfortunately for them all the came back with was the turkey decoy. I wonder why???? It looks SO real!! If I was a turkey I am sure I would be fooled!!! NOT!
Anyway at least they had a good time together.

And he sleeps

 
DH and I were out Friday night until around 10:30 pm to set up for our fundraiser crop. When we got home I noticed, from his bedroom door, that Austin's TV was on and he was lying on his belly. " Are you still up? you need to get some sleep" no answer, so when I stepped into his room this is how I found him.

Prom

Busy couple of weeks here lately. Tim has gone back to work, thank god. He went back last Monday and is doing ok. The Dr never found anything, which is good news. The diagnosis is hypertension. So I told him he is going to have to take up yoga and meditation. We shall see.
Erin and I had our scrapbook retreat this past weekend. It went fairly well, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and got alot done. We are looking for a different hotel to have it at in October though. Somewhere with a bigger room to crop in.
Unfortunately I missed seeing Bud & Melissa this past weekend because of the retreat and he had taken her to her prom. The pictures are ones his dad took and emailed to me. He looks so handsome in the black tux and grown up. Melissa looks just beautiful. Wished I could have seen them in person, but the pictures came out great.