a day of fishing

Every year before school starts we take a camping trip, well this year the camping part got cancelled as Ed had a funeral to be at, so instead we just went fishing. The kids loved it, we didn't catch anything, but the kids loved to climb the rocks and loved casting the line. We had a nice time, and what a pretty lake.

Alycias first day of school

Alycia's first day of school, they had all the girls go at one time, and boys at a separate time on the first day and the parents came with them, was only for 45 minutes just to get warmed up, then the next day it was all alone. Alycia loves school, and her teacher.

first day of school

Kids first day of school was on Aug. 5th, Josh is in 7th grade and goes to the middle school, Aaron is in 5th grade and Tyler in 2nd. So far they seem to be making friends and liking school. Alycia is in half day kindergarten and doesn't start till the 10th.

painting projects

Craft area, walls are just a light tan, but is a warm feeling better then the white, LOL

Other side of the craft room, guest room.

Josh and Aaron's room, Josh loves the Chicago cubs so we painted his room red and blue, turned out pretty good.

Alycia loves the color purple so that is what her room became, I just got it painted yesterday, and she had to have it decorated right away.

Tyler and Zach's room, Got the dinosaur stickers online and they really add to the room, the boys love it.

There you go Jeanne are you happy I posted what I have been doing. LOL

Birthday

Ed brought me home these beautiful pink roses for my birthday, and then had this fruit bouquet delivered to me (that was such a surprise, never had anything delivered before). He made me a nice steak and shrimp dinner, and then last night we went and saw Harry Potter 6, was fun to celebrate all week long, LOL

Josh's Birthday

For Josh's 12 birthday we went to the Air force academy in CO springs, we toured that, then came home and Ed made a steak and shrimp dinner, was so yummy. We then had an ice cream cake which was also very yummy. Josh is a HUGE cubs fan and was so excited to get cubs tickets for his birthday, he doesn't look excited at all does he, lol. Ed and him will go to the game next week in Denver. What a great day.

COLORADO SPRINGS

We are in CO Springs now, we moved into our home on the 10th of July after much headache. Nothing can go quick and smooth, but we overcame those obstacles and got into our home. It was so nice having movers put things in all the rooms and all I had to do was unpack, if that isn't bad enough. We are all unpacked, but not fully situated. We have been fixing a lot of the things that were wrong with the house. We have a kitchen sink now, and knobs on the cupboards, and toilet paper holders, lol, We put fans in and Ed's garage is all organized and his truck is parked in it (toy garage). I decided I didn't want to decorate till I painted. So this week i got the painting bug, On Monday I painted Tyler and Zach's room, after I did that it was still early in the day so i did Alycias bathroom, I must have over done it that day cause Tuesday I finished Tyler's room the green part and cleaned up, and then was lazy rest of day, lol. So today I did the office (we are using it for a guest/craft room, so nice to have some color and not just white even though I just did a light tan lol. Funny thing is that this house has lots of COLOR and needs to be changed, but the rooms I painted were all white, trying to get the kids rooms done so they are happy, one done 2 to go, lol. We got the swing set put up last Sat and the kids are so excited to have that up, they play on it all the time. I guess CO Springs doesn't usually get very much rain so I am told, but since we have been here it has rained almost everyday and sometimes more than one storm each day. I am loving it as I now have to pay to water my yard, lol. We planted grass in the front yard about 2 weeks ago and there are tiny shoots, i am so excited I go out and look at them everyday, more and more of them all the time. Josh turned 12 on the 27th and went to his first mutral activity last night, and met some nice boys, hope he makes friends soon, he also went to 7th grade orientation and got his schedule and all that fun stuff. Sorry to babble, just boring stuff going on here. Hope to hear from you all soon, send me your blog if I don't have it. LOL