Homecoming

These are old, but haven't been posted. They are from Homecoming from October. There was a family event that had pumpkin carving and crafts. Jacob just wanted to play the piano in the room.







School Mascot





Trying to show our team spirit for the basketball team





Jamie came down for the weekend. Jacob was immitating him at the rugby game and it was worthy of a picture.

New Presidential Candidate

New Presidential Candidate... It's someone we know!

There's an effort to elect an unknown random person as President... and it's someone we know! Watch this online video about the surprising new nominee:

http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=46832&altf=Lfmmz&altl=Njmbop

Jot back a note to let me know what you think!

Finals are over and grades are in

AND WE PASSED EVERYTHING!!! I can't say that I passed all my finals, but that's the good thing about doing really well during midterms. It allows a bit more room at the end for when you are already burnt out. Here are the grades.
KELLY
Microbiology- C (2 points from a B. GRRR!)
Neurophysiology-B
Research- A
Philosophy B
Motion Palpation B
Gross Anatomy C
Radiology B

TIM
Microbiology- B
Neurophysiology-C
Research- B
Philosophy B
Motion Palpation A
Gross Anatomy Tim didn't have this one
Radiology B


We now have a week off. I'll be doing stuff around the house (some painting, organizing and possibly garage sale if I can get my act together) and Tim has running training camp all week! 8 hours of Rugby everyday!!!! Hopefully his shin splints are healed up enough to where he can play. They made him sit out all next week to rest them, and he went in to our sports center at school everyday so the trainers could work on it. He had lazer treatments, some sort of electric therapy and lots of hard ice massages. Hopefully it all helped at least a little bit! His first game is in just 4 weeks so he has a lot of work ahead of him with learning the game and getting ready.

Hope everyone is doing well. :)

End of Summer Party

I got this crazy idea about 2 weeks ago to do a party for all the kids in the neighborhood. I mentioned it to Tim but then we sort of brushed it aside. The kids started asking though so I decided to go ahead and do it for today. I bought invitations and wrote them out yesterday and the kids delivered them to all their friends (25 kids total, including mine) and we waited to see what the turn out would be. Well, today was the day!!!! I bought hotdogs and chips and made a snack mix sort of thing. We filled almost 200 water balloons for a water fight. We ended up having 16 kids, including mine, so it was a great turnout. One of the girls and her brother brought ice cream over so that was an extra special treat. My friend Laura from school lives down the road about a mile from here and she brought her stepdaughter over, but otherwise there were no other adults, just Tim and I and Laura. The kids really seemed to have a lot of fun. Tim really got into the action too and organized the whole water fight, telling the kids where to go and what to do/not do. He also organized a water balloon toss and helped the kids with it.

Mikayla is now spending the night at her friend Katie's house and Katie's brother, Daniel, is here with Seth.

Lunchtime



Group shot-minus Jacob


Kelly chasing Seth


Ashley, Micah and Harry. These 3 all go to school together


NJ causing trouble


NJ didn't like it so much when the kids got back at him for all the water he squirted in their faces.


That's his sister dumping water on him


Jacob wanted in the action





Tim organizing the water games


Tim playing waterballoon toss with the kids.

Tim's Caricature

This week at school there was a Caricature artist doing pictures for free for students. He's there about once a quarter and it's always fun to see what he comes up with. Well, it was Tim's turn. Here is what he created. TOO funny. It's dark because it's in a plastic covering and I couldn't use the flash of the camera because of the glare.

Micah's Birthday

It's so crazy to think that Micah is 4 already!!! Where does the time go? I remember sitting on the couch above dads store, watching the Olympics at 3am in the morning waiting for my midwife to get there. It was my first homebirth and such an amazing experience.

Being we are down here, with no family around, it was just the 7 of us for his party. Grandma and Grandpa got him a new bike and Tim and I got him a helmet and knee pads to go with it. He also got new pajamas and a couple transformers, as well as some soft foam 'swords' just so him and Jacob can go at it. We had ice cream cake and spent a lot of time riding his new bike. He was so excited to get it and has done really good at learning how to ride it.

Mikayla's New Glasses

Last week we took Mikayla in to have her eyes checked and she needed glasses. They said her eyes aren't horrible, but that if we didn't get them now, we'd for sure be in within the next 6 months to get them. She tried on about 8 different pairs and this is the pair she kept coming back to that she loved. They weren't my favorite, but everytime she put them on, she started dancing around and her personality really came out so we knew they made her feel good.

Class of 2022

Micah started PreK today! He did so amazing too and didn't shed a tear. I talked to his teacher around noon and she said he was a little sad when Tim left him, but he never cried. He's not too sure about going back tomorrow though and when I told him that it was bedtime and that he had to get up and go to school in the morning, he said "No, I'm done with school. I don't want to go tomorrow". He's got a LONG road ahead of him. Yesterday when we finished getting him registered, they gave him a magnet that says "See you in 2022". haha That is so crazy to even think that far ahead.

Here's a couple pictures

First day of School

Here's a couple of pictures from the kids first day of school. (ignore the water spots on Seth's shirt from doing his hair. We couldn't see them until the after we took the picture.) Seth is 5th grade, Mikayla is in 2nd and Katelyn is in 1st.

Harry Potter

I'm not a Harry Potter fan, AT ALL, but I found this picture and had to show yo, even though I just posted this one of Seth yesterday. If Seth's glasses were round, he'd almost be a spitting image of him! I've thought about sending this pic in to a contest or something, but haven't heard of any.