School is nearly out! Lotsa updates!!

Friday, 29-May
Well...today I let Rich know...IT IS HIS LAST FRIDAY TO BE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL!!! (Lord willing...). He got his official paper saying he recieved COMMENDED on his Science TAKS test. He has worked hard all year studying his science. We would copy his book by chapter so he didnt have to wag it home everynight. He totally deserved it and we are so happy for him. He actually found out 18-May, I think, but we got the paper today!!!
Kiley's little face is starting to peel. That nasty, thick dark peel. Lucky for her, she is still as tan underneath so she won't be spotty!

Thursday, 28-May
Mike took the day off to go to Rich's field day...since it is his last one we'll be allowed to go to. Mike had fun and got to visit with Kiley a little bit as well. At one point Rich's teacher let Mike know he needed to go to the cafeteria to check on her. Can you say DRAMA QUEEN!?!?!?!
WE PAID OUR LAST YMCA $55 for the school year!!! We get to save $220 for 2 1/2 months.
At work today An called to let me know mom's angiogram/catheterization is set up for next Friday morning.
Rich had a game tonight. They played awesome. He was in on some GREAT plays as well! Very fun to watch when you are winning.
Afterwards we met up with Tricia and family for dinner at Jimmy's! YUM-O!

Wednesday, 27-May
Today was Kiley's field day. Since they split field day up among the grades, I took Kiley's day off and Mike is taking Rich's day off work. First graders still wear you out! Rich and most of the 5th graders came and helped out during field day so we go to see Rich, too. After the festivities were over, Kiley and I snuck out of school and came home to nap (me) / watch tv (Ki).
We had 'Pa's Special' for dinner tonight. Kiley out of NOWHERE proclaimed that Pa had been gone 8 weeks and he has to come back NOW! We have missed him being around here since he is working out of town. I think we are all ready for him to come back!

Tuesday, 26-May
Back to school and work with our sunburns! OUCH!!! We were all slow moving. We are all ready for school to be out. A break from the hustle and bustle we have done the last 9 months.
Kiley is looking forward to field day tomorrow.
She had a game tonight. I didn't get to see all of it, but we ended up losing in the end. Bummer! It is a team we have beaten once already....double bummer.

Monday, 25-May Memorial Day 2009
The last few years we have gone over to Aunt Reda's and Uncle Billy's and cooked out and swam. This year was no different...except An and her family joined us with Kae bringing a friend and Storri, too. Jason and Erin and the girls joined us. Bertie loves her Aunt Jenny and let me take her around the pool. Belle wasn't so in to the water. Levi didn't like it until Aunt Ninny jumped in and then he wanted to. At least it got him in the water. It was a great day and we all had fun. It was nice and warm out, pool was cool, and we all got our 1st sunburns of the year. :) Grand!

Sunday, 24-May
More painting on the house. Finished all he could reach...I think. Not sure! I ended up leaving and going to Tricia's to visit since Andy and family were up.

Saturday, 23-May
Mike started painting the trim on the house. Hopefully it will last a few years!!! Now we need to get that deck top cut off and the storage building painted. Erin, the girls, and I set out for shopping. I forgot what it was like to shop with 2 little ones. Erin is such a trooper! I had a great day spending it with them. Even though we didn't really find what we were looking for...bottle caps! Erin bought or was given some cute frames with the girls' names on them. I'd love to duplicate them and give as gifts. Just gotta find those caps!

Friday, 22-May
He lugged his big project into school this morning, but didn't have time to make his presentation on PA. He'll have to wait til Tuesday.

Thursday, 21-May
Met Tricia and family in town for some good ole Mexican food! Rich has a game AND Kiley has a game........same start time! Lucky for us Kiley's started right on time and Rich's started about 20 minutes late! Kiley's team won and I flew over to the baseball fields (not literally...I drove the posted speed limit...you know I'm on probation for my speeding ticket....). Rich's team WON! Gotta love a double win! Rich played a great game defensively! He has got to get that bat going!!!

Tuesday, 19-May
Today is the day of the Math retest. He seems so confident he did well on it. Makes me feel a little better..but I won't feel good until I get the results of 'met standard'.

Monday, 18-May
Rich found out (not officially on paper!) from his science teacher he made COMMENDED on his TAKS test!! (Later we found out he missed only 3 out of 40 questions!!!).
He has a game tonight, but won't be playing. It is a late game and he has his Math TAKS retest tomorrow. I am praying the Commended on his science will boost his self esteem and really get him to score great on his math TAKS. I'm praying anyway!!!!
His team ended up loosing the game. It was against the 1st place team. Fortunately (being the WANNA WIN MOM I am...) we won't play them again...unless we meet up in the championship game in the end of season tournaments!!!

Sunday, 17-May
Gotta head back home. Rich and Mike have a report, presentation, and visual to finish about Pennsylvania for his Social Studies class.

Saturday, 16-May
We were supposed to have a baseball game.......but the rain came! So we decided to load up and Road Trip! We drove in the rain to Waco. We visited the Dr. Pepper museum and the Texas Sports Hall of Fame. Both were great places. We packed clothes for overnighting somewhere and ended up at Ma and Pa's house. We enjoyed dinner with them and Bill, Shana, and Weston. The kids were disappointed when we told them we weren't going to hotel, but they sure seemed to forget about it once we got to Hico.