Summer is finally here!!!!!!!!!!!!

Colby brought home his awards from 4th grade today. He received the A/B Honor Roll, Best Sense of Humor Award, QuickThinker Award, Excellent Attendance and a few others. He will be changing schools next year due to our move, so his last day of school was bittersweet. He has several friends that I'm sure he will keep in touch with and continue to hang out.

Although the school year is quite tough and at often times stressful, both boys did great this year and made the A/B Honor Roll. We are so proud of them. They celebrated the beginning of summer by going to the waterpark yesterday with their cousins.

Our summer weekends are already jam packed through the first part of July. This weekend Colby has his end of season baseball team party at the water park. Before he heads off to his team party, one of his good friends (who moved to a different school district) is having a birthday party and they are taking a ride in a Hummer limo. (I didn't tell Colby about that part, so he is going to be EXTREMELY excited.) Colby continues to play baseball although the season has ended. He is playing a tournament team and will be playing in 5 tournaments this summer. We've played in one already, and we have another one next weekend. We signed Tristen up for a day camp through LISD. It is an introduction to Middle School. It isn't until August, but it should be beneficial since it is right before school starts. I hope that he finds it fun and useful. He will also be starting band in the fall and will be playing the Trumpet. Should make for some interesting times around our house!

We hope to make a trip to San Antonio to take the boys to Sea World, but looks like that trip will have to be in the first part of August some time to accomdate our busy schedules and Colby's baseball tournaments.

We offically have a middle schooler!!

Tristen graduated from 5th grade today! Yikes! We now have a middle schooler on our hands. Tristen received several awards - A/B Honor Roll, Excellent Attendance, Safety Patrol, and a few other awards.

5 Things

I stole this from someone else's blog. I'm bored waiting on Jason to finish watering the yard so we can go to bed. Well, actually the Rangers game needs to end, too.

5 THINGS I WAS DOING 10 YEARS AGO:

1. I was working at WCCU.
2. I just graduated from WHS!
3. I was preparing to head off to Texas Tech!
4. I still didn't have my OWN car!
5. I was dying to get out of Wink.

5 THINGS ON MY TO-DO LIST:

1. Paint boys bathroom
2. Find me a summer hobby
3. Organize office desk
4. Go shopping
5. Plant some flowers

5 BAD HABITS:

1. Twirling my hair
2. Overreacting
3. OCD
4. Talking too fast
5. Bad posture

5 PLACES I HAVE LIVED:

1. Shreveport, LA
2. Midlothian, TX
3. Wink, TX
4. Lubbock, TX
5. Lewisville, TX

5 THINGS I'M LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW:

1. Myself typing
2. Rangers game on tv
3. Wind blowing the trees
4. Washer in the spin cycle
5. Dishwasher running

5 JOBS I'VE HAD:

1. Lifeguard @ Wink pool
2. Teller @ WCCU
3. At Your Service Catering
4. Front Desk/Operations Manager w/Tharaldson Lodging
5. Member Relations Manager/Private Client Service Advocate @ TCU

House Pictures

Here are some pictures of the house w/our furniture in it! We obviously still have blank walls, still lacking some furniture in the boys' rooms and living room, and all of the decorative touches. There obviously isn't a picture of our extra bedroom, master bedroom and master bathroom, but those are the last to be done! LOL It will all come together eventually. :) Once we finally have it together, we'll have a house party!

Excuse the crappy picture quality.

Colby's Room

Tristen's Room

Boys bathroom (walls will be painted a deep red)

Dining Room Table

Office

Living Room

Other angle of Living Room

We've Moved!!!!

Well, we have officially moved and have a new address! I'm so glad that we progressively moved over the past 2 weeks. We moved all of our big furniture on Monday. We actually started staying at our new house last Friday, due to some leak outside our master bedroom window at our apartments. The water was coming in to our master bedroom and it was 5:30 on a Friday afternoon. We said forget it, and moved our bedroom over to the house so we could just start staying over here, instead of smelling mildew at the apartment.

Jason and I both took off this whole week and it has been nice. Most of the boxes are unpacked and we are slowly organizing everything. I did a lot of purging when packing and doing more purging while unpacking.

We've purchased a new dining room table and office desk. Once I find my camera and camera cord, I will upload some new pics of the house w/our stuff in it. No one ever lies when they say home owning is expensive. Everytime I think we are done with purchasing big ($$$) items, something else always comes up. For the most part, I think we are done for awhile.

To be continued....

New Applicances & House Updates

Here is a picture of our new dishwasher and fridge. I was very adament about wanting a dishwasher with a hidden control panel. Saturday night we spent, rather Jason spent pulling out the old, yucky white dishwasher and replacing it with our new stainless steel dishwasher. I love it! The fridge is great too! We will eventually replace the white microwave and the white oven.



We spent most of the weekend at the house. We went by Friday night to drop off the fridge and dishwasher. The previous owners were still there touching up nail holes and cleaning. It was nice to meet them. They were extremely nice people and they were very particular to leave the house in great condition. Saturday we spent cleaning up the flower beds, unpacking wedding gifts that we have had in storage, and cleaning. Sunday we made our first of many trips to Home Depot to purchase lawn equpiment. This is obviously Jason's forte, so I just pushed the cart. Monday, I stayed home from work b/c we were having some minor foundation repair done (paid by sellers), and I had to be home while they were there. Monday evening we made another trip to Home Depot to buy some paint (white) so we could repaint the kitchen pantry. We got one coat done and will have to do another coat sometime this week. Jason worked on the backyard a little. It had a 3ft X 3ft hole where a sand box that went with a swing set was. Short/Long term plan is to put in a pool. Hopefully it will be sooner than later, as in maybe by next summer.

We plan on having everything excpet the large furniture moved over to the house before next Monday. Next Monday, we will move everything else over and spend our first night in the new house.

New Bedding

Here is the bedding we purchased for the boys. They got to pick it out (with our discretion). LOL! We tried to pick sets that would work with the current paint colors in their rooms. Colby's room is a goldish - yellow color, and Tristen's room is a calm blue color.

Colby's Bedding

Tristen's Bedding