Life

Life Is A Gift
Life is an opportunity, …. benefit from it.
Life is beauty, …. admire it.
Life is bliss, …. taste it.
Life is a dream, …. realize it.
Life is a challenge, …. meet it.
Life is a duty, …. complete it.
Life is a game, …. play it.
Life is a promise, …. fulfill it
Life is sorrow, …. overcome it.
Life is a song, …. sing it.
Life is a struggle, …. accept it.
Life is a tragedy…. confront it.
Life is an adventure, …. dare it.
Life is luck, …. make it.
Life is too precious, …. do not destroy it.
Life is life, …. fight for it.
by Mother Theresa

My worst nightmare

I wish that I had a picture to help you understand my mortification I hate Marigolds they are a small flower (I use that word loosely) they should be called a weed. They are not pretty, they stink and I am not sure why anyone would plant it.
So you can imagine my mortification when I drove past a house in Clay Center and noticed that their entire front yard was completely full of Marigolds. Really? I can understand not wanting to mow your yard but Marigolds, plant your yard to rocks or musk thistle but Marigolds? I will now have nightmares...thank you!!

Update...boring

Ok yes I know I need to update, but what do you people want to know???? I have a mental block lately when it comes to blogging. I don't know why I just don't think there has been in major moments to blog about so I will give you a little run down on what we have been doing.

Jacob is taking college classes and working part time doing construction. Allissa is playing volleyball and cheering. Kaylee is playing volleyball and doing gymnastics (she just moved up a level) Duane is welll...hmmm (just kidding), Duane is working with the sheep and his honey-do-list at the house. I am coaching cheer, completing college classes and working plus we follow the kids to all their stuff.

So busy but very boring for blogging purposes. I will look for things to blog about this week and post again soon.

True love

"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life" Oscar Wild

Life

OK update on life:
Financial aid went through had to take another class to get it done but oh well who needs sleep. Kaylee loves her teacher am sure that we will have rough spots but anything has to be better then last year.
Allissa and Jake seem to be settling into high school as a freshman and a senior, they are both tired but think that will get better as we get back into routine.
I love my school schedule it is really busy but that makes my days go much quicker...got to love that.
The hubby has been awesome about helping to keep laundry done and getting suppers fixed with every ones crazy schedule if this keeps going the year will be great.

Why??

Ok so this hasn't been the greatest two weeks. I put in 60 hours last week for work between Monday through Sunday, then had a bank mix-up (no blame), then financial aid is soooo slow and the girl that I talk to says well you could just make the first payment and we will pay it back...really? Do you know how much that first payment is?? Do you know I have limited income in the summer??
The topper for the week is the car overheats am sitting on the side of the road and the preacher drives by and waves without stopping to see if I need help.....God's sense of humor is really starting to get to me!! Next week has to get better.......doesn't it??

Summer afternoon 2009

In my quest to find fun things to do this summer that won't break the bank I took the girls to Milford Nature Center. We spent about two hours there, it was a great afternoon.

The girls are watching baby catfish feed in the runs under the netting, they would get to splashing and the girls would have to jump back to avoid getting wet.

We went on a nature walk and this dock was part of it, we also saw a soft shell turtle, a lizard and a dung beetle...not a bad walk.

Allissa on a giant spider, this is as close to a spider as she will ever get.

Kaylee pretending to be an eagle, this was a replica of the actual size of an eagle's nest, very kewl