Labor Day Weekend!

First three day weekend (and probably the last) of the school year! It's about the only three day weekend we get off work since the rest of the school holidays aren't ones parents necissarily get off, so we have to work full days on those.

Friday we went and hung out with Emmy, went to Taco Mac and got some yummy wings (even though our overall service was decent, the cooking was questionable) and then went back to her place and watched "Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist" which was really cute. I don't know who played the drunk chick, but she was SO good! We dropped by the K's on our way home and hung out for a short while there, then headed home to get some sleep.

Saturday we got up early to go to race number pickup for Jeremy and Michael out at the Galleria. There was a whole little carnival type thing set up for the kids that was a lot of fun. Jeremy talked Julian in to the big slide, and I taught him how to shoot a wrist shot at the Thrashers tent! We finally headed out when Julian started getting grumpy and tired and Jeremy and I stayed and watched Violet while Michael took Jules to Dragon*Con-- since she crashed out pretty quickly, we watched "Iron Man" (IMO, the best superhero movie yet) and chilled on the couch. Then we just kind of hung around, watched some "30 Rock" and drank some wine!

Sunday we were going to go to OBC for services, but mom had swine flu (maybe, really, possibly actually did?) so we decided it was best if we stayed in-- there are so many old people AND little kids with all the adoptions there, no sense in us getting them sick (since we thought maybe we'd been exposed to it, or at least what the K's had last week) so instead we looked around the weak Labor Day sales. Jeremy did find some AMAZING deals on tools-- if he hadn't gotten the discounts he did, it would have cost him almost twice as much!! Now I can let him buy me a real engagement ring ;) since he's bought what he needs for work. I shopped around, got some more stuff at Target and Michael's for crafting and the wedding, a couple of tank tops at New York and Company.

Monday was Jeremy's 10k which he ran with Michael in under an hour (which was just for fun for Jeremy, but a new record for Michael!) and ended at White Water! We went in and I actually got to ride some of the rides this time, and had a lot of fun. Can't wait to go next summer!!

Well, my elbow is kind of hurting, so I'll just leave you with some pictures from this weekend. Ciao for now!

Julian-- not so much with the wrist shot

I don't knooooow about this, Jeremy!

Me and Jeremy taking Vivi on Lazy River

Vivi and her favorite "uncle" ever!

Julian's long weekend treat-- a popsicle.

Leapin' Lizards!

Pictures of Julian's 3rd Birthday Party-- we got there a little late because we had to pick up the pizza, but we still had fun!

Pictures! Yay!

I've got all my pictures up from last week-- all 103 of them! Thank goodness I got Flickr's Pro Account, I've taken so many more pictures since then! I also took a picture last week of my pepper plant-- it's gotten so much bigger!! I need to transplant it, and I just keep on forgetting... or walking outside and realizing how miserable it is. I know it's hot in other places, too, but we have gotten next to NO rain this summer and it is unrelenting!



Tonight, I went to Eats with the Kavanaugh's and Michael's sister and brother in law and niece. It was the first time I've ever been there, which is funny because all my friends in high school went all the time. That is exactly what I said to my mom before I walked out the door, and about a half hour before I ran in to... all the kids I hung out with in high school at Eats. I got to spend some time with the baby, which is always fun-- she's started laughing so much now, and thinks it's hilarious when I tap her nose and make a "boop" sound. It's pretty ridiculously adorable. Hopefully, Michael will put up pictures from last weekend soon enough because there was a really cute one of us making the same face at each other. I haven't had a picture with the baby in months, so I made Michael take a couple!

After dinner, we got his sister and her family settled at the Kavanaugh's and went to Meg's mother's house to hang out (they're staying there tonight) and chat. Turns out Nan's a big beader, so she's going to help me make the bridesmaids gifts for the wedding! I'm so excited!

Tomorrow is Julian's 3rd birthday, he's very excited, and he even got to talk to Jeremy on the phone tonight. We're going to Leapin' Lizards (which is full of moon bounce type stuff) and having pizza (which Sarah and I will pick up after moving her mattress and box springs in) and cake from Publix, so needless to say there will be *plenty* of pictures!

Ciao for now!

Hoo...

This week was camp out week... I hope for Richard's sake and everyone else's that never happens again. Tuesday the K-2nd graders camped out, Wednesday the 3-7th graders camped out, and Thursday was a lock-in with the whole camp in the gym. Now, camping out is a good experience for a lot of the kids, but putting them in tents... *sigh* it was a bad decision for all of us. I think Richard is just going to do the lock-in next year, which will be better for him. Wednesday, I ended up falling asleep in some of those fold-up stadium chairs in the center of some of the tents because their inhabitants wouldn't stop talking! OR sassing me! And most people I know will tell you that I don't take well to being sassed. At all. I think I made that mistake once when I was a kid and my mom picked me up and popped me.

Needless to say, I only got about 2 hours of sleep. Thursday, therefore, was just about hell on earth. We went to the new World of Coke, which was totally awesome, but the boys were just as badly behaved and wore me out. Chris, my partner for this week, was really helpful, though. He can be a little goofy sometimes, but when it comes to making sure people aren't taken advantage of, Chris is right there on it. Thursday night was the lock in and it went SO much smoother than the night before! We had the girls on one side, the guys on the other, and put on a movie right at bedtime. We did get a break that afternoon-- I tried to take a nap at home and just couldn't fall asleep, but DID go buy my NEW COMPUTER!!!

I LOOOOOVE IT!

It's pretty and shiny and has amazing graphics and is convenient and almost has all my old pictures and all my music on it because in a stroke of good luck, the old computer decided to give it one more go and turned on! I'm stuffing the important things on my jump drive and transferring them directly on to the new one (aka, pictures and music).

I'll put up pictures of it tomorrow, right now I'm so engrossed in True Blood (season finale, season one) that even though I'm entirely drained from the last few days I can't seem to fall asleep! I'll also have pictures from this week up, and then Sunday I'll have pictures of Julian's 3rd birthday up!! I'm so excited-- he's such a sweetie, and he's going to be my ringbearer. We'll have to make a special pillow, though, unless he loses his affinity for rings; last time I was over, he took Meg's wedding band (one of the reasons they just got cheap-o Target bands!) and started playing hide and seek with it, put it in the baby seat and we had to turn the thing upside down and take the liner out to get the ring back! It was pretty hilarious. I think he and Ana will make quite an amusing little pair!

Alright, we're about to finale on the finale and I'm about done with my water quota for the day, so I'll wrap it up.

Ciao!

PS- Richard walked on my back a couple days ago and popped that nasty little bugger back in to place!! There's still a little bit of stretching to do, but it feels soooooo much better!