update

I have been wanting to post, but not really because I enjoy looking at the photos of the girls modeling. And if I post, then they move down. So sad.

Maddy is at preschool today. She is doing great and loving every minute. She talks about the calendar and asks questions like "what month is this? what month is next? what month is my birthday? what month is christmas?" so on and so on. She is very curious to piece together preschool with reality. Her teacher is having parent conferences next week. I can't wait to see what she has to say. We ordered school pictures today. I can barely believe that I will be 30 this year and have a child old enough to be in preschool. Most of my childhood friends are barely married (except for Kim!).

Katelyn is getting sooooo big. She knows what a cow (moo), a dog (ruff ruff), a horse (whee) and a lion (raaa) say. She can do them on command. She says "uh oh", "whoa", "night night", and of course "mama" and "dada" and sometimes "mom". She also says something when she talks to Madison but I cannot make it out quite yet. She has 14 teeth, wears 12-18 month clothes, size 4 diaper2, size 5 shoes, and likes to wear lots of dress up clothes!

We are headed to College Station this weekend for the Tech Tard game. We have 4 tickets and will be sitting with the Sawyers... then tailgaiting with all of the family, the Sawyers, the Daughertys, and all of the thousands of people in Aggieland. It should be mucho fun.

Eric and I took the girls to Sea World on Sunday. The park was decorated so cool. There were skeletons everywhere with clowns hanging from the trees. We saw the Shamu and sea lion show, rode rides, visited the penguin house, ate lunch, and tried to feed the dolphins (they ran out of food).

The house is still for sale. We have had 8 showings most of them in the past few weeks. Hopefully something will come along soon because we are dying to move on base.

That is all for now. Bye!

say cheese!

Misc. photos

Fun times at Incredible Pizza.....

Ike....

My mom and great aunt are staying here until they are cleared to go home. My bro is in College Station and my dad is in Shreveport, La (our old stompin' grounds..well actually Bossier City..but still close). We had a great day here today. The weather was beautiful and sunny. My parents live in Anahuac and are waiting to here how their house made it in the winds and rain. Hopefully they were spared and the animals (donkeys and llamas) found shelter in the barns (if they are still standing). Best wishes to you and yours!

It is Tuesday and my mom left today for Houston. She has been on the road for nearly 3 hours and isn't even to Bucees yet (it is 45 miles from our house). She said that the traffic is traveling 30 miles per hour. SUCKS to be her! She has ice, groceries, gas, rakes, trash bags, gloves, masks, etc to help my dad with the clean up. Their house in Anahauc is pretty bad although still standing. The paint is peeling off of the walls, the carpet and flooring is soaking wet, the wood furniture is started to swell from the moisture in the house. The roof may collapse in one of the bedrooms. HHHHMMMMMMM so they have a lot of work ahead of them. They are going today to get the mattresses and clothes out of the house before they mold or mildew. I wish that I could help out but Madison and Kate don't need to be around that.

P.S. The animals are fine. They weathered the storm just fine. I can only imagine what they were thinking as they stood in the wind and rain!

The Artist

So Madison has a creative side to her...

This was her art from Thursday. They were talking about family and in the house, she got to paste cutouts of her family. When asked she says that the top one is Katelyn "how she is growing so big", the small pink cutout (where the date is) is Maddy, the blue one is mommy and the red one is daddy. The other two were painted with yellow and blue paint...and she learned that yellow and blue make green. Very cool!

Today, she brought this lovely self portrait home. The lace is her hair, 2 buttons for eyes and the pink with flower ribbon is her smile. The feathers and string are her clothes. Very cool! They also made PLAYDOH today with Koolaid (of all things...and some other ingredients)

We are in charge of snacks for Thursday. I had to get 14 bananas from H-E-B. I hope they are still good by then because there wasn't much to chose from.

First Day of Preschool and Aggie Fun

Today was the day. Madison was so excited and we were all happy for her to start her own, new adventure. While the cat is away, the mice will play. Gwen and I took the little kids to the gym and worked out.

We spent the weekend in College Station and had a blast. Madison asked to attend Midnight Yell so Eric, Mimi, Peepaw and Pops took her. I stayed at the hotel with Katelyn while she slept. On Saturday we tailgated all day and then spent some time chillin at the pool while Mimi, Peepaw and Eric went to the game.

Pick me pick me...

So Classy Chaos is giving away a fabulous pair of Crocs. Please visit her website because she is waaaaayyyyyy cool.


Oh Shucks! I didn't win! Maybe next time....

Welcome Kaylea

Kaylea Marie Michaelson
7 lbs. 20 inches
August 21, 2008

Congrats Clint, Angi and Big Brother Nicholas

playing the waiting game

I absolutely hate waiting for other people to do something. Our fab realtor said that our house would be on the market by lunch time today. In my book, lunch time is over....and we are not on the market yet. A house around the corner had 4 showings in 5 days, and one down the street (that is waaaayyyy over priced) hasn't had one scheduled showing. I am very optimistic since we are priced in between both homes. We had photos on Saturday and they looked good from what we could tell. I will post some here once we are active.

The happenings...

So we are selling our house to move on base. Wish us luck in the process! We will be able to save tons of money each month in with less bills, less house repairs, and less gas. They say that Less is More! We are willing to find out. After spending one week on the housing list, we were offered a 2 story, 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom house that sits on a beautiful corner lot for a September 30 move. NO WAY! We really hated to turn it down but the timing is just too soon. So we will wait until another house is offered and hopefully have a contract on this one before we accept.

Maddy is getting ready for 3 year preschool. It starts on September 2nd. I can't believe it. I am super excited for her to meet new friends and grow as a little girl. But I will definitely miss her for 3 hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays. She packs her school backpack every day in preparation!! It is so cute.

Katelyn has an ear infection. Not a huge deal but she was waking up in the middle of the night and not eating very well so I took her in to the doctor today. SURE ENOUGH--ear infection. I will be glad when she outgrows this stage. Madison went through the same thing at the age and one day I looked back and she hadn't had one in 6 months. WOW--time flies when you are having fun.

We were in College Station for my brother's graduation. WOW talk about feeling old when you little brother by 7 years in graduating college. And just before we left, my first roommate from college, Erin and her 2 little girls, were in San Antonio and we met for lunch. It had been eight years since we last saw each other in person. It was actually at her wedding to her college sweetheart. I was a cake cutter and Eric was my date. They got married in their hometown of Victoria and it was our first out of town weekend trip together. So needless to say, I am feeling old lately. My hair is looking frumpy and my skin is acting all crazy---I think I need a make-over. Wink WINK!