Hi Its me again

Well it has been a wild time around here with marching season in full swing and all.

In August I received a phone call requesting an emergency placement of one of the exchange students. A little Japanese girl who was going to have to go home if they didn't find her somewhere - Okay move her in and that is when life gets interesting.

She apparently did not have the English skills she needed to be over here in the first place so we set up tutoring, etc and get her back on the path of learning. She seems to be adjusting and things are better.

I was sick for 4 weeks with something I thought was just allergies. Well after 3 seperate doctors and several prescriptions later. I am still coughing and not sleeping. Oh well

Rae visited from Florida for 2 weeks and applied for a couple of jobs

I spent a week in Austin for training and then took several days off the first of October to spend time with Rae

Catherine had been nominated for Homecoming queen for First Priorty. That meant more shopping 3 dresses, finding a car, plan a party etc.

Update on the weight lose - Catherine has lost 54 lbs and I only 8 but Dr is happy with my weight loss saying if I was an active teen running around like a chicken .... I most likely would lose it also. But since I am almost 50 and diabetic he is happy with me slowing losing weight. He said that loosing it slowing keeps it off. I think he was just trying to encourage me. However I am starting to walk the dogs again and that alone will be more activity than I have had in a while.

I need to upload some pictures but I haven't gotten to them yet.

Catherine is still talking about SFA this fall. I guess I will be making lots of trips to Nachoduches the next 4 years.

Oh big news. Rae is going to walk the boards in December. She wasn't going to because she was mad at the school but she has calmed down and is going to humor her mother.

Well take care all.

SJ

Welcome Yuting to the USA

Here is Caedee and Yuting when she first got to DFW. A long trip. It took 2 days to catch up on her sleep.

More later.

SJ

one of these days

I am going to figure out what I am doing wrong I am still not getting my comments. Darn and drat!

oh my goodness I forgot

I just realized why I had not had any responses from the blog!!!! We changed our email address so if you have been emailing me and not getting responses I am so sorry. We are with cableone now. It was a package deal that we couldn't refuse.

Sorry about that folks

@cableone.net instead of gcecisp.com

Thanks all

Greetings

Wow what a whirl wind month this has been. Chris going back to work and our short term exchange students coming. We were blessed that we actually got 2 this trip. I am so glad we had them for the period that we did.

We are getting ready for Yuting to be with us for 10 months. She'll be here Satuday/Sunday.

My work has gotten interesting and I am seriously looking for somewhere else to work. I think that the door is closing and it is time for Stella to move on down the road. I recognize that this was not where I thought I wanted to be. I am going to serious pray before I make a move but I see the end coming.

The picture is Wyatt one of our exchange student. His host family was unable to keep him so he came with us. We had the room and got the blessing too.

Loved having them.

Hi!

Hello everyone. Rae is online now so we have been I-chatting back and forth. If I didn't love my mac before I do now especially being able to say good morning to my Mom and have her show me her new shirt she was proud of getting.

I had a melt down last night. I bought 2 packages of solar lights for my front yard. $$$$ because they changed colors. Well last night we discovered that someone had stolen more than half of them. Plus out of the 4 remaining from the original set there was one uprooted and drop. There was another of the new lights in my neighbor's yard where it was drop when they took the others. Needless to say, I was upset that someone would steal them and secondly Rae had laid them out and put them right where she thought they needed to go. It was the last thing she did for me before she left the state.

Well tonight Chris got online with Home depot and ordered me 10 black tier lights that come in a kit but they are not solar so if they steal one they will have to cut the wires, etc. I was very happy that he was willing to do that for me. I wish we had enough to do down both sides but one project at a time. LOL. They are just cheap plain lights but hopefully they will leave them alone.

Caedee got her ACT scores back in and was not happy that she didn't score better in some areas. She thought she had the english nailed but they didn't mark it as well as she wanted.

We had some friends come in and go shooting with Chris and Caedee today. She did wonderfully with the pistol not so much with the rifle. Which I find surprising.

Rae got her hair cut and it is really cute I can't wait to get pictures up.

The dog walking is going wonderfully I am losing weight and the horses err I mean dogs are behaving better than ever. I guess working off that extra energy is good for all of us.

Chris goes back to work next week. I hope things go well for him.

I hope you all have a great week. I promise I'll work on pictures later. Time for bed.

Good night

Nesa's Blog Challenge

Ok if you go to www.thetreasureboxclub.com you will see that the message board is a lot of fun and friends galore. Nesa has started a blog challenge and I am taking her up on it for this week anyway. I'll do my regular blog entry on Fri/Sat or Rae can keep up with the happenings.

Challenge:

Since this month's kit is birthday themed, how about a scrap/blog challenge regarding those milestone birthday's. You know the ones i'm talking about: sweet 16, 18 and on your way, 21, 30, 40, etc. Which one of these "milestones" was the one that stands out the most to you?

Ok Milestones -

16 - Met the man who would become my husband
18 - Graduated H/S and started college
21 - Living in Lubbock, Texas with Chris and our Friend Kim joins us for a short period of time
30 - and Just given birth to my second child - H/S what?!!!
40 - Celebrated on a cruise to Mexico and scuba diving in Cozumel nothing like it in the world!!!
45 - Wait - when did that happen?!?!?! Last year?!?! Are you kidding?? where was I?


Memorable - Any involving my kids were memorable.

Thank you Nesa -