October Already??

Wow, I can't believe it is already October. The year is really flying by. Not much going on around here. Ryan finally got to have his 1st soccer game this weekend. He did great, he was very excited they won since his team did not win 1 game last year.




After the game I took the kids to the county fair. They had such a great time. I was really proud of Ryan, he was very creful not to lose his sister and made sure she was always buckled in well when they got on the rides. As much as they seem to be fighting lately it was really nice to see him take care of her and be so protective. Guess they really do love each other. Here's some pics from there. I still can't believe either of them went on the super shot. They are definitely much braver than me.

Super Shot:




Ryan & Ashlyn:

Ready for a Break

Things here have been going really well, school is awesome I am doing really well, which kind of surprises me but I'm really excited about it, I was very afraid I would do horrible, very glad I am not.

Kids are doing good, Ryan is still waiting for his 1st soccer game, they got rained out the other day and now he has to wait till Saturday. Ashlyn is still flipping out on the field but since it doesn't seem to bother her coach I guess I won't worry about it :)

Last Friday, as you Scraptowners know, I went to Raleigh to meet Rosemary and her husband Chris, who came over from England. That was so much fun, I had a great time with all the ladies and it was great to meet them.

Other than that just trying to keep up, I have 6th grade parent meetings on Thursday with Ryan's teachers to talk about how they are doing so far plus another meeting for AG parents to let us know what is expected from the kids this year. You would think they would have had that meeting weeks ago. It seems they always have these things on Thrusday nights which is the worst for me with work and sleep. Homework is starting to get crazy too. I didn't have much until this week, seems like all my teachers have decided this was a good time to start handing it out :( I am counting the days till Oct 8/9 I get 2 days off from school and the kids don't :) Is that horrible?

Ashlyn's 1st Soccer Game

Ashlyn had her 1st soccer game of the year on Saturday. Just thought I'd share some pics with you. They did great, her team won 3-0 but Ashlyn spent more time doing cartwheels and flips out on the field than she did playing soccer. She had lots of fun though :)

actually playing soccer:


mid-flip :


this is how she spent most of her 5 minutes as Goalie :)

Another week flies by...

Well, it's been a rough week. Been very busy with all the regular stuff and since I'm horrible at telling anyone no, I ended up working at my husbands office some this week too answering phones since their regular secretary had a family emergency. Duane has actually been a great help this week but I am quite frankly exhausted, i figure I've only slept about 10 hours since I got up tuesday morning, my house looks like a bomb exploded inside it, we are just about out of clean laundry and I have lots of homework to do. At this point i'm trying to figure if it's all worth it.

On the bright side, school is good, I got the score for my 1st test today, I was a little scared since I finished very quickly and everyone else seemed to be taking a long time, but I got a 94, it turns out i got the higest grade in the class!! Kind of sad that's the highlight of my life these days.

Other than that we went to the festival last weekend and had a great time, but I forgot my camera so no pictures which makes me mad because at the street dance Friday night the singer of the band brought Ashlyn & her friend Abbie up on the stage to dance with her. They were so cute.

Hi There!

Wow, can't believe a whole week has gone by and nothing to post. Things here have been really busy around here. School is going really good for both me and the kids.

We had grade level meetings at Ashlyn's school last night and quite frankly I am surprised at some of the things they plan to teach her this year. At one point while talking about math her teacher said they were going to be learning about line plots and shows us an example on the board and to my surprise it was exactly what Ryan brought home on his math test yesterday. Granted it does seem pretty simple but if they are testing 6th graders on this I am surprised they are teaching it to 1st graders. Alot of the things she talked about teaching this year are things Ryan didn't even get to until 2nd grade. Guess it will be an interesting year. Let the homework begin :)

Ryan seems to be really liking school also, he says the work is pretty easy so far, hopefully we will have a good year. It is weird for me this year with him at the junior high since I don't really know the school and teachers. I feel kind of lost about how things are done. Guess I will figure that all out in time.

My school is going well too. One of my classes drives me completely insane since all the teacher does is read to us from the book, quite frankly I can save my time and do that at home, so I hate going to that class. But I am totally loving my Philosophy class, we are discussing the existance of God right now and it is very interesting. We started this by reading Bertrand Russell's "Why I Am Not a Christian" and I was very surprised by a lot of what I read. Definitely left me rethinking what I have been taught all my life. But I will leave that for another post.

Anyway today is my day off from almost everything, we only have to go to dance class, then the town I live in is having their annual festival this weekend and tonight night is the street dance so the kids are really excited about that and then Saturday is the actual festival complete with fireworks that evening, so a busy weekend for us.