Monday Morning..........

I just wanted to pop in and let you know, that nothing new to report about my mom. I have not even talked to anyone yet today. The kids are off to school and the house looks pretty good today. I just finished a graph for the maintenance man at work and thought that it would be nice to post some more pictures and just to chat a little with my friends...

Christi is growing and talking all the time now. She is such a blessing...

John, Allison and Traci are looking forward to the end of school and the summer break. I think I am as well, just for the down time. Although I have a feeling that this will be a busy summer!!

Frank is still job hunting, not much luck, but still looking..

Work is good. I am enjoying it...

Okay, until I hear more, I will go for now and get laundry folded and put away...



Senior Pictures of Raelene...

Raelene and Christi at the Prom

Our Churches fellowship hall, during the pre-prom dinner..

Prom, Senior Pictures, and the Hospital...

I can't believe that it has been over a month since I came on and posted. So much as happened in the past month.

I am working, although only part time right now, school is days away from being out and Raelene is day's away from graduation. Prom is over and done with once again. It appears that spring is finally starting to spring here in Maxwell. And as I write this, my mom is in the hospital with an rapid/irregular heartbeat. PLEASE PRAY. She will be under going some more tests tomorrow and could be in the hospital up to 5 days. We are all sort of numb and just in a waiting pattern until we know more.

Raelene did have her senior pictures taken today. We have waited on this for ever and finally had a warm and sunny, although very windy morning in which to get her pictures taken, (my mom was already in the hospital, but had not been put into a room yet, so we got her pictures taken within an hour and headed right to the hospital.)


Prom was nice, our church hosted a dinner before prom and served chef salads. We fed close to 25, which for Maxwell is really good. Raelene took two dates to prom, as her boyfriend could not get home for college for the weekend. (he comes home for the summer in about 2 weeks). Both of the young men she took are in the 9th grade. One is a family friend, she actually used to baby sit for him, and the other is a friend from FFA and the son of the man that Frank does odd jobs for. They all looked really nice and had a great time, dancing and laughing and enjoying themselves...




Graduation is just around the corner. I can't believe that my little girl is that age!!! WOW.

Okay, again, please keep our family in your prayers and I will update as I can and know more..

SPRING, NEW JOBS? AND FFA......

Good Saturday Morning!

Yesterday was overcast and cool, but today is sunny and pretty. Raelene and Allison are at an FFA meet about 100 miles away today. John and Traci are vacuuming out cars, and Frank and I are enjoying a little down time. Christi is watching "toons" and kicking back on the couch...LOL



I worked last week at Village hall, as the clerk is on vacation. Not sure what will happen from here, but I am learning a lot and having fun. It is wild to work again after not working for almost 12 years.WOW. I am having to relearn so much!! Frank is doing some odd jobs and might even have a lead on a full time job as well. I think he is ready!!!

Spring is starting to spring here in Northeastern New Mexico. My tulips and daffodils are coming up and there are even some buds on the fruit trees on the yard. It is getting green and pretty out there.

I hope to pop in again soon...

SUMMER????

Watching the news this morning, I see that back east there is snow! Can you believe that here in New Mexico, northeastern New Mexico to be exact, it is suppose to be 74 today? That is so weird as, we normally don't have that kind of weather this time of year. I just can't get over the temps!
We had a nice, but busy weekend. We served at a funeral dinner on Friday, for a church member in her 80's who had passed away. Saturday was busy with events and a little grocery shopping and Sunday was spent with my family celebrating my fathers 70 birthday. We had a nice time and a nice dinner together. I posted some pictures of my family and the kids.

HOMECOMING 2009

Homecoming 2009 was tonight!!!

As I have shared before, both Raelene and Allison were on the homecoming court.

WELL, GUESS WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THEY BOTH WON!!!!!!!!!

RAELENE IS THE 2009 HOMECOMING QUEEN and ALLISON IS THE 2009 HOMECOMING PRINCESS!!!!!!!!!!

BUSY THURSDAY.................

We have a busy day today. We will be leaving this evening for Frank's school board conference, because I have to babysit until about 5pm. We are packed, except for the last minute things and I need to repack the diaper bag. But everything else is done and ready to be loaded. We will be home sometime on Saturday, as the conference ends around noon that day. Here is a picture of one of the rooms at the Hilton we will be staying at.

Frank asked me what I wanted for Valentines day, this morning. I really want the new Duggar book, and the one by the Gosselins, so that is what I am getting. I ordered them from Wal-Mart this morning. I had priced and priced and shopped and shopped and all in all Wal-Mart was the cheapest. They will be in the mail sometime next week. I know, I know, not too romantic, but I love books and I love to read, so that was and is something that I would not just buy for me, since they are not my normal cheap books.
I have been really down this week, I am having some issues with my sister, just younger than myself and it has really hit me hard. I think the only way to really get some peace and some closure with this is just to avoid her and to stay away from her, I know this is not the best fix to the problem, but she has really hurt me so much over the years, that I need to stay my distance and not continue to feel bad at her hands. Pray for me, this has really been rough for me and hard on me and it is really eating me up.
I hope that you all have a lovely Valentines day..We will go out to a nice dinner tomorrow night, since Frank's conference stuff ends at 5 pm tomorrow night. I really plan just to rest and relax and read tomorrow. I think I really need it, no fighting kids, no phone calls ( we will be roaming in Santa Fe, so I don't have to answer if I don't want too) and just a nice big fluffy bed to relax in and enjoy the quiet and the control of the remote....

NO SNOW YET, TUESDAY!!!!!!!!!

So far we don't have the snow that we were due to have. I was all ready. We did our running around yesterday and planned it to stay home today and be ready for that snow storm that was due us..Oh well, the day is not over yet, so we shall see.
My dad has the stomach bug now, along with my sister that is in college. My other sister and her husband and little boy had it really bad as well. I think we have finally gotten rid of it here. I bleached and lysoled everything!!!!!!!
The girls are getting excited about homecoming. I think I am too..I ran for homecoming queen here in Maxwell too,(did not win, but had fun all the same) so it is neat to be on the other end as mom this time around. We got dresses for the girls off of eBay. Alli's is short and cute and Raelene's is the same color as her class colors, not sure if she will wear that one to homecoming or save it for prom and then wear her old prom dress to homecoming. Frank's class is being honored that night so pretty neat night planned. I will be sure and post pictures and details. Allison is running for junior high princess and Raelene for homecoming queen at the high school level. This is Raelene's first time to run, she has lost out nominations by one vote and never got this far, so she is thrilled. Allison of course is up for the first time!!
Frank and I are getting sort of excited about this weekend and his conference. It will be nice to get away and stay in a hotel that we did not use coupons for..Not that there is anything wrong with coupons for motels..gotten some great deals and stayed in some nice ones, but this will be a treat and the rooms look so pretty!!!..LOL.. We will take the baby with us, just because the girls have ball games, plus she will keep me company during the day and she is pretty much my shadow anyway. His first board meeting will be the 19th.
My mom and I are on a committee to plan a party for our Baptist Association's 100th birthday. It will be here in Maxwell since we are right off the the interstate, plus we will be renting a building at the school to use. In the 100 years this Association has been active, our family has been involved in over 50 of it, so I am looking forward to this event.
Okay, I need to go and get the mail, so I am out of here..