Hello

Hello everyone! I just finished having a tupperware party at my house tonight. I don't think I seen a couple of faces that were invited? Ha! Ha! Just kidding. I'm sure Sue had some kind of sporting event and Lou was probably working. Anyway, you can make it up to me in the near future because Leigh Ann just insisted that I sign up to sell. So, I will be needing some parties. I wasn't really interested in selling since I also just signed up to sell pampered chef. Whatever! I guess I was just saying I needed something to do!

Anyway, I talked to Jonathon today and he said he's pretty sure that he got his top secret clearance. He has been working on this for quite a few months and is relieved that he got it. He said sometimes it is really hard to get. He also said that he got nominated to go in front of the Merit board to be promoted to Corporal. This is a really great honor for him and says a lot for how far he has come in the Marines and what all he has accomplished. Normally you are promoted based on time in the corps and scoring in different fields. Considering that he has only been in the corps for a little over a year and might be promoted to corporal already is awesome! For those of you that don't understand how his rank works (we didn't when he first started) in boot camp he was known as recruit, then upon graduation he went to private, then private first class, and now lance corporal. Considering he spent three months in boot, he has only had ten months to advance this far. He said he has a list of things he had to get done before deployment to Kuwait in January, including his anthrax and small pox vaccines. He said he wants to wait as long as possible to get these because the small pox vaccine normally makes you a little ill for a while.

Trinity gets to go on her first field trip tomorrow. They are going to the Washington library to listen to a story and then off to Eastside park for a picnic and a "bear hunt". They have really been talking a lot about bears in class so far. I have yet to figure out why but I am assuming that they are learning from this. I always tell Trin that by the time kindergarten is over she will know everything there is to know about every kind of bear that there is. I have gotten called to sub at the HS three more times. They are all scheduled in the next couple of weeks but I do go tomorrow for half of a day. Tomorrow I am filling in for the spanish teacher so maybe the class can teach me a thing or two.

Anyway, gotta go to bed. Talk later.

I Went Back To High School!

After 5 weeks I finally got called to sub. at the high school today. I was a nervous wreck this morning and kept telling myself "I am 29 yrs old, and graduated 11 yrs ago; they will not hurt me"! The classroom had definately changed alot in 11 yrs! Needless to say I made it just fine and it was not near as bad as I was afraid it was going to be.

Jean, I got your message and I will show Jordan the big buck as soon as I can. As for coming to Lou's for dinner, I am so sorry. We are trying to keep Trinity on a pretty tight schedule for school so it was a little late in the evening for her and I didn't know exactly what we were going to do since it was raining. As for Annie and Jordan, she doesn't get home from school until around seven on Thursdays and I know they hated to miss you too. Anyway, sorry I missed you guys but thanks for keeping up with us on my blog. I read yours every time!

Just Checking In

I haven't posted in a while but as I say, I don't have alot to post about. Today I met up with Lou and Sue to eat at Dairy Queen in Loogootee. My b-day was in April and Lou has been wanting to take me to lunch since then and we just now made it today. It has been a busy summer. We are now in our 5th week of kindergarten and Trinity still loves it. When I pick her up from school and ask her what she learned today she says "you'll see" referring to when I look through her folder when we get home. She is so funny and has picked up on so many new sayings! I am trying to get a position as a sub. in the school system because I am getting bored. So far I haven't been called so hopefully that will pick up soon. My brother Jon is doing good in NC with the Marines. He said he will be on the shooting range all week because he is also a range coach. When another marine in Jon's battalion needs to shoot, Jon has to go with him to "show" him the correct ways. As of now, Jon will be leaving for Kuwait sometime the first of the year and his tour will be 1 year instead of the normal 7 months.

Just got a call from Jonathon in NC and he said that they barely even got rain from tropical storm Hanna. The county that he is in had a 7:30 pm curfew last night so they had to stay in their barracks until this morning. He said that they get more rain from a thunderstorm then they did from this storm.

Anyway, today John and I went to look at another repo house to clean. We are friends with a guy that works at a bank in Bloomfield and we just got done cleaning a house for him. Now he wants us to do this one also. I guess we did too good of a job. John and I go in and remove the large items into the dumpter and then Emily and I go in and do the cleaning. Emily actually enjoys herself and never complained. I was so proud of her. After we got back from looking at the house, we changed and headed over to the Antique Show. We normally go on Sunday but I thought maybe it would not be so busy on Saturday. Wrong! At 1:30 there were still lines for ALL food stands at least 30 min. long. We ate and enjoyed ourselves never-the-less. Tonight we are babysitting for my friends three girls. John is sitting outside with Trin, Makayla, and Brooklyn while I am sitting here listening for the baby. I think I got the better end of the deal. Well, I need to go and get the girls inside and in the bath.

Labor Day Party

Sunday we had our annual Labor Day party. We always have so much fun with our friends and family. Jonathon came home for the weekend and we all enjoyed seeing him again. He won't be back home until Thanksgiving. Here is a slideshow of who was here and the fun we had. This was my first year of sitting back and watching everyone else play because of my knee surgery. I still had fun watching everyone else. If you don't know who someone is, click on the link and all of the pictures are captioned. I can't get them to show up on the slideshow.





Jonathon headed back to NC Monday evening around 10:00pm and he had to stop in KY to pick up another guy on his way back. I talked to him this morning and he was within 1 1/2 hrs from base. Depending on what direction hurricane Hannah takes, Jon's base could get hit. His base sets on the ocean and is located in Jacksonville. (He is on the southern part of NC)