Hello again

Good things are in the works. I'm half way thru my process of being gainfully employed again. I love staying home with the kids, but each time I take a try at being a stay at home mom I realize that it's better for me to work. Chris and I get along better because we are not so worried about money and my time with the kids is better spent because I have to make the most of every moment. It truly is the hardest job in the world to be a full time mom/housewife. So to those of you that can do it and do it well my hat is off to you. The Lord has heard many pleas for patience from me lately. The job I applied for pays 17.50 an hour. I'm half way thru the process and it seems like everything is going to work out. It just takes a little while with background checks and all. So hopefully I will be bringing in some money of my own soon. Which 17.50 an hour is a nice little paycheck. So I'm looking forward to that.



We went camping last weekend. We had so much fun that we are going back again this next week. We will leave on Sun and get back Wed. It was a great time. That was my first time to sleep in a tent. It was interesting. We camped out on a friends land near Ft Cobb. We had to drive thru 2 miles of cornfield just to get to a clearing big enough to set up camp. Luckily a soybean field had been recently plowed so we had a nice big area to set up. We built a bonfire and roasted hot dogs and had smores and the whole bit. We camped at night and spent the entire daytime on the lake. I had to laugh at Chris. I had some 50 spf sunblock and some spf 4 tanning lotion. He got them mixed up. He put the sunblock all over where he wanted a tan and put the tanning lotion on his face and shoulders. LOL. Needless to say he wound up very sunburned and very funny looking. It really was pretty funny but I'm sure he won't make that mistake again. After all, we got on the water at 9:30 am and stayed until dark. We only left the lake briefly to eat. I have these socks that go up over my knees. When we were at camp I wore them with shorts and tennis shoes. Everyone made fun of me for wearing them but I was thinking ahead. I did not have one chigger bite or mosquito bite on my legs or feet. Everyone else got eaten up despite their bugspray. I think that when we go back I might see some long socks on a few more people. :) I might look like a dork but I'm smart. The coyotes were scary at night. I have decided that coyotes are not my friend! We took a box of firecrackers with us. Everytime the coyotes started getting loud or sounded like they might be close we set a couple of them off. It did a good job of scaring them off. I was nervous to sleep though. I thought who is going to scare them away while we are sleeping? Our friend Andi's uncle lives a mile or two from the land we were on and he did a great job of explaining how many creepy things were in the woods. Heard all about the wild boars and snakes and whatnot. Needless to say I did not sleep very much at all! It was a really great time though. I can't wait til Sunday when we are headed back that way again. It's a little longer trip this time. I'm just super pumped that Dad and Chris now have a nice boat that works all the time that we can take anywhere at any moment. This is a foreign concept to dad. He's so much in the business of having old junker boats that don't run that I'm not sure what he'll do with a boat that works. He hasn't even gone out on it yet. He's been gone all summer. Don't get me wrong. I certainly don't mind keeping the boat at my house and taking it out every weekend!

I'm very thankful that my kids have so many grandparents! Without them it would not be possible to take these little mini vacations. The kids stayed with my inlaws last weekend. This time mom wants the kids to stay with her. Dad doesn't really like the kids to stay at his house more than 2 or 3 hours. He has a low stress threshold. LOL. Since Dad is coming home on the 11th she wanted to have them stay with her a few days before he gets back. I keep teasing Dad that he's going to have to learn how to hang out with the children! He is the "not fun" grandpa and we can't have that! I've worked very very hard the last 10 years trying to teach dad how to have a little fun. Life has to be more than just studying stock and reading text books. LOL. I love him dearly and I'm impressed with his intellegence. We just have to work on getting him to loosen up every now and then.

Let's see......anything else? Hmm.....Harley is doing great. We got him checked over and fixed and the whole bit. He is growing! Took him to the vet for an initial check and he weighed 50 pounds. 8 days later when he got fixed he weighed 56. That was 2 weeks ago. He's got to be at least 63 or so lbs now. We finally figured out that he is boxer and mastiff mix. Jeez. Mastiffs get to be like 200 lbs. And this dog is just a puppy now! Vet said he was abut 8 months old. So I guess we have lots more growing to do. If he gets bigger than I am he's outta here. I have a strict policy on animals that outweigh me. It makes me nervous! I guess that's all for now. This camping trip I will take a bunch of pictures. I tried to last time but the camera battery died after 2 pics. So I will put some pics up on here next week. I'm sure there will be on myspace too. Take care everyone. Hope to see my family soon!