I know I know it has been forever since I posted. Our camera has gone cooky, so I don't have pics of all the fun Christmas things we've been doing lately. We had Drew last week. We went to a tree farm and cut down our own tree!!! It was the first time I had done that. We had a blast. This is the pic from their website. Of course, I got so excited to do this, I forgot how allergic I am to, you know, trees. I am all drugged up and loving the tree!

We also decorated with lights all over our apt. and we put up our stockings. We've started our shopping but are far from done. What about you? If you say you are done I will throw up.

Thursday Andrew has his Christmas program. I am really going to try and take pictures, but don't yell at me if it doesn't work.

This weekend the Christmas continues. Sat. we are going to Leah's annual Christmas Extravaganza. Woohoo!!!!! I can't wait for some beer, some food, and to see my friends . I haven't seen them in years. Then Sunday we are going to do the Christmas thing with my Dad since we will both be out of town for the real thing.

In the mean time it is 4000 days and counting until I am off work for a long holiday. Ugh I can't wait.

Well, We got 2nd Place!!!!
As most of you know, I coached 5th grade girls Volleyball for CLS this year. We didn't win a single game in the season and we were in last place going into the tournament. We surprised everyone, though, and won 2nd place in the tournament. We now have the first Volleyball trophy in the CLS trophy room. I am so proud of those girls. Sorry for the blurry pics. I think our camera is set wrong or something.

Here are some Halloween Pics. I don't know why these came out so blurry...oh well. Andrew was the Red Power Ranger. He was so cute. We met up with his mom and his little sister and had a fun night trick-or-treating. Happy Halloween!!!!

Well, as most of you know, I am going back to school. Before I could do that, though, I had to take the stupid ACT again. Well, I took it Saturday. Whew I am glad that is over. On the plus side, I finally learned algebra. On the down side, It wasn't on the frickin test. Oh well, we'll see what happens.

Thankfully there was a Halloween Party to go to Saturday night. I got to dress up and get my mind off of the test. I was Lucille Ball and Jr was the tennis player guy from The Royal Tennenbaums. Well, by the end of the night we decided he was Chico the illegitimate son of Royal and the maid. Here are a few pics, courtesy of Elizabeth.

Well, this is how I felt Friday. I went to get tested for allergies. I've always know I have allergies. I've always sneezed and my eyes have always gotten itchy around cats. Lately, another symptom has reared its ugly head. I wheeze and gasp for air when I start having an allergic reaction. It doesn't help matters that we have a cat and live in a little carpet covered apt. Anyway, it was driving Jr and I crazy. It started happening every night. So, I finally decided to do something about it.

I went to an allergy specialist. They had me blow into a plastic tube as hard as I could to find out if I have asthma. They said the test didn't say I did and it didn't say I didn't. Well, that's helpful. Next, they had me lie on my stomach. They pricked me all over my back. The first one they did started itching immediately. It was pretty miserable because they left me there to itch and not be able to scratch for twenty minutes. Turns out that one was cat. I thought we were done, but they did eight more on my arm and left those for fifteen minutes. Geez, well turns out I am allergic to cats, dogs, dust mites, cockroaches, horses, trees, and weeds. Since almost everything I am allergic to surrounds me all the time, they are going to start giving me shots to take away my allergies. In the mean time I am on a butt-load of medicine. Sounds like fun, huh?

Survivor is doing their fantasy league thing again this year. So we have updated the blog with our scores. Check out who is ahead...
http://fantasyscores.blogspot.com/

survivor started last night....so did fantasy survivor...woohoo!!!!!!!!!!!

I MISS CABO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't have much to post. I am coaching CLS Volleyball again. This year I have the fifth grade. They know nothing of volleyball but they look so cute trying. No way were we ever that tiny. Our first game is Thursday. We only have six games because none of the other schools have enough girls for fifth grade teams. Oh well, wish us luck.

Oh yeah, I also lost 10 pounds on the Atkins diet. I am back on carbs. I decided I am going to crash no carb diet whenever I need to loose a few pounds. The ten only took three weeks. Jr lost a lot more than I did. He included exercise in his diet plan...whatever. I am perfectly happy with 10.

I finished.......It was frickin awesome! Everyone needs to read it. So, we can discuss.

Well, I have some news. I wasn't going to say anything until I started. I didn't want to jinx it. I am going back to school and I am going to get my nursing degree. Wow that feels strange to say. The reason I am breaking my rule and telling you now is because it is going to take longer than I thought to start. Why? Well, I just found out I have to re-take my ACT since it has been so frickin long since the first time. Ugh. I hated that thing. So much pressure...so much riding on one little test. I think I'll study this time. Who knows, maybe I'll even get a better score this time, if I can remember Algebra. Geez, I hate Algebra.

So, yesterday Jr convinced me that we should have some cheap physical activity that we can do together. His choice was Tennis. I had never played before. So, I was worried about making a fool of myself. He used to play with his mom when he was younger, but he hadn't played in a while. Verdict: Awesome! I really enjoyed it. It was very good exercise and it was a lot of fun. I did better than I thought I would. I guess playing Volleyball all those years helped. I can't wait to go back.

Sunday Andrew turned 6 years old! Our present to him was season passes to Magic Springs. We drove up early in the morning to beat the crowd, only to discover they don't open until Noon. So we had to think quick. We decided to visit The Mid America Science Museum which was nearby. They have changed it a little. Jr and Andrew have never been there. They really got a kick out of it. There was a demonstration where they had to go up front and make their hair stand straight up. I got a picture, but my stupid camera's flash is broken and it was too dark in there. I tried everything I know to lighten it. Nothing I did worked. Any ideas? Anyway, we finally got to Magic Springs. They have rides on one side and a water park on the other. I rode a bunch of the rides with Andrew, but I left the water park stuff to Jr. I am not a big fan of large public swimming areas. Just me? Anyway I got a good nap on a chair beside the wave pool in the shade. It was a good day. So here are all the pictures...enjoy!

Ok I am updating. Recently we took a roadtrip to Kansas City to visit my mom. We went with Brent and his girlfriend Tamara. We had Andrew and Tyson in our car. We all had a blast.

We went to a Kansas City Royals game. The stadium was massive. Andrew bought a little bat with his own money.

Andrew took the picture of the infield. Pretty good.

Poor Andrew. Today Andrew is a graduate. He is set to graduate from Kindergarten this evening. Unfortunately, he is very sick. He went to the doctor yesterday with a 104 fever. It turns out he has strep for the second time in two weeks. His white blood cell count was way off and they almost admitted him. They are trying a new antibiotic. We will have to see how this one works. Of course, now he won't be able to walk in his graduation. It really sucks, but hopefully this new medicine will work better.

So, this weekend was good. Sunday we found a new spot. My brother Brent and his girlfriend Tamara let Jr and I in on their favorite spot. They wanted to do a little fishing and I wanted to do a little Tecate and lime drinking in the sun. So, we were all happy.

It was a good time. Jr caught the only two fish and this was the first one. It was pretty funny. Isn't it cute? Well, we let those go of course but it was a good time anyway.

We stayed and cooked burgers as it got dark. None of us thought to bring a light, though. So this candle that someone left behind was our only light. So smart.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PRINCESS KAT!

CLASSIC

I watched a really good movie last night. It is on Encore. Search for it. I know I heard about it when it came out, but I totally forgot about it. It is Lords of Dogtown. I would have been so in love with these boys when I was younger. Everyone must watch it. Surprisingly good.

St. Patty's Day was a blast! We went to Leah's and had a great time. I did not bring my camera. So, I am totally stealing these from Leah. The first one is later in the night when we broke into Leah's costume closet. Oh yeah, we had a gooood time.

By the way, I totally miss my short hair. You can see it both ways in these pics, which is weird. So, what do you think? Which is better?

Ok everyone, What are we doing this St. Patrick's Day?!?!!? Whatever we do...we have to do it big. Who's with me? Jr's got the Colonial Discount. We can cook good food and drink good drink somewhere, or we can go downtown, or...I don't know. Ideas?

Allow me to introduce you to DinoDog. This mysterious creature is half raptor half dog. He is extremely dangerous; especially when it comes to protecting his monkey shoe. Freaky!
Also, everyone please send good luck thoughts to Jr today. I won't go into it here, but he needs happy thoughts today.

Happy Belated B-Day Leah! I was not at work yesterday. Sorry. I thought it was so fitting that the only day it snowed this winter was on your birthday. I love it!

Just some random pictures jr took of andrew.

Happy Birthday, Baby!

I am finally posting pictures of the Cruise. Halfway through the trip we ran out of room on our camera. So, we had to download our pics onto Jr's step-dad's computer. He is supposed to be sending us a disk with them on it. We haven't gotten it yet. So, I don't have any pictures of Cozumel or Roatan. You will just have to pretend that this part of the cruise came first.

Here is our ship...the Grand Princess.

This is the big screen on the top deck by the Main pool. It was annoying during the day, but pretty cool at night. I got to watch the Eagles kick the Cowboys butts surrounded by people from Texas. Awesome!

Here is one of the four pools. It was on the very back of the ship.

This is just the ship at night.