Kindergarten

Well it's official, Trinity is now in Kindergarten. We went and got her teacher today and seen her room. So far she is still excited about it. Her teacher is also the lady that is over VBS so Trin knows her and she knows that she is nice.

Monday I took Trin, her friend Makayla, Nicole and Emily to Holiday World. We had a lot of fun and it was a nice way to end the summer. Trin was 2 1/2 inches to short to ride the roller coasters but she did ride the Zinga water slide. This is the one that shoots your tube into the big funnel. She rode with Emily, Nicole and Makayla. I stood by and watched thinking there was NO way I was getting on that! As I stood on the platform waiting for them to come down, I kept thinking to myself "what have I done, letting her go on that". They thought this was the best ride and wanted to go again. Here are some pictures to sum up that day. I didn't take pictures inside the water park because I didn't want to get my camera wet.




Tuesday I had a follow up with my surgeon and he said everything looks good. He wants me to continue therapy for 4 weeks because I have a "catch" in my knee. He thinks it is from my knee cap not moving properly. If this is not resolved by October, he will go in with scopes and clean up scar tissue. Hopefully this does not have to happen.

I Graduated!

After 10 1/2 weeks I finally graduated from physical therapy! For those of you that don't know, I had ACL reconstruction done on May 13th. Clint said today that as long as my surgeon on Tuesday does not recommend more therapy, we are done. I am having a couple of problems with my knee so hopefully this does not require anymore surgeries and I get a good report.

I spoke to Jon today and he also graduated and went up a rank to Lance Corporal and got his official pin. He also said that there is a 90% chance that he will be leaving for Iraq on Sept. 25th. He will know for sure within a week. This news was kind of unexpected because when he first arrived at his new base in NC he said that he would be going in Sept. Then he was informed that his battalion had already started training and he couldn't go. Now today they said that a spot had opened up and asked if he wanted to go. Of course he said yes. When he goes he will always be on a base in an air conditioned trailer because of his job working with electronics. This makes me feel better knowing that he won't be doing anything too dangerous.

Jordan and Annie came over tonight and we attempted to play cards. Jordan always gets irritated because we normally do more talking than playing but we still have fun. It is still hard to believe that they are finally married. We like to tease her about her curfew because until the day of the wedding she still had a curfew! So far married life seems to be going ok.

Busy Day

Yesterday I spent the day working around the house, mowing and gardening. My garden got a little out of hand after my surgery but I got it back under control now. I am finally back to push mowing although I'm not real sure if I am suppose to be doing this or not. I don't like to wait on other people to do stuff for me so I threw caution to the wind and decided to just do it. So far so good! Last night me and Trin went and picked green beans so I would be ready to can them this morning. This was my first attempt at canning anything but nothing broke and my house is still standing so I think I did good. I can remember when I was little mom would either be very stern about staying away from the canner when she was canning or she would have me stand right in front of it to tell her if the pressure gauge moved! To this day I am terrified of canning but some things I just have to do myself.
Anyway, I got two canners canned and ran errands the rest of the day. Tommorrow evening we are going to pick corn to put away Sat. morning bright and early. This is always so much fun ;) but is worth it in the end.
I took some pictures of Trin yesterday to show how goofy she can be and she insisted that I put them on my blog. She thinks it is awesome that she is on the internet!
We are also counting down the days until kindergarten. She thinks she is ready but I think it will be a different story come the first day.

Trinity's Birthday Party Part 2

I have been working on this post for a couple of hours now and I can not figure out how to put my slideshow in my post. Tera or Mandi please help me!! As you can see by the time of this post I am past frustrated and I will make due with two different posts.
The slideshow is of Trinity's 6th birthday party last weekend. She had lots of fun, friends, and candy. We had silly string this year and I would not recommend. The kids wanted to shoot each other and their parents and when you shoot point blank it comes out in liquid form. Needless to say clothes where stained and the parents that had this in their hair did NOT think this was funny. (me included)
That's all for now. I will post more later. Everything sounded more interesting a couple of hours ago. ;)

Trinity's Birthday Party Part 1

Braylei Dawn

This morning I baby-sat for my niece Braylei, my step-sister Taylor's daughter, while Taylor & Tim went to Indy. As you can see from the picture, Trinity held her all morning. She told me that she didn't know what I would have done if she hadn't been there to help. Braylei is now 5 weeks old and I think she is getting a little rotten. I would have no idea who holds her all the time! With all of the people at dads house I don't think she ever lays in her bed when she's there.

Hot Summer Day

What better way to spend a hot summer day than in the pool. Trinity had a playdate with her cousin Abree today at aunt Lois's house.

Abree and Trinity

Trinity and Abree

After we got home from the playdate, my good friend Andrea and her girls came over. Can you guess where the girls headed first? That's right, the pool. They stayed in the pool until supper time, they came in to eat, then headed right back for the pool. Somehow they managed to get me and Andrea into the pool fully dressed!

Makayla & Trinity

We finally talked them into getting out and taking a bath. This was only done with a bribe for ice cream.

Please say a prayer for my friend Andrea as she and her girls are going through a tough time right now. Also, please keep in your prayers my good friend Cody (previously Emily's fiancee) who is in the Marines and will be deploying on August 25th to Iraq. He is home right now on pre-deployment leave but will be going back to California on August 2 to get ready to leave.

Heartfelt Goodbye

John's mom Anita and his sister Wendy have been here from Florida since Friday and are leaving in the morning. Trinity is not having a very easy time saying goodbye as this is normally the case. Considering we only see them 1-2 times a year, Trinity thinks she has to squeeze every possible second from them while they are here. So right now she is exhausted and the tears are flowing pretty heavily.

Tomorrow Trinity has a playdate with her cousin Abree and I have physical therapy for my knee so it will be another long day. A friend of mine has been having some problems the last couple of weeks and has been staying with us for a couple of nights at a time. Did I forget to mention that she also has three little girls; 5yrs., 2yrs, and 10 mos.? So I have been doing everything possible to make her situation more bearable and believe me, it has been CRAZY around here.

For those of you that don't know, brother Jon is now at Camp Lejuene in Jacksonville North Carolina. He has completed his electronics schooling in California and has joined the 2nd Intel Battalion. He will be in NC for at least two years and so far he likes it. He has been in the military now for 1 year and it seems like just yesterday that he left. We are planning a trip out there in a couple of weeks. He is currently a range coach which requires him to instruct other marines on the proper technique of shooting their weapons on the shooting range. (He shot expert marksman in boot camp). He just got promoted to Lance Corporal and should be getting Corporal sometime at the beginning of the year. If you ask him the military is simple and it is no big deal. As for us, the family, we have learned a lot about the workings of the military and are still learning daily how things work.