And we're off....

Matt leaves tomorrow morning at 4:30 am to scout camp. He is packed and so excited to go. I leave in about an hour. Steve is driving me to Spokane where I take a flight tomorrow morning at 6 am. (yuck). I'll get to Sacramento about noon. Then I'll spend the next few days in training sessions with all my principals and a few teachers. Fun????? I'm bringing 6 bookds with me. That can't be a good sign. Steve picks me up in Seattle Friday where we'll have his birthday dinner. Matt comes back on Saturday. Can't wait for HP6! Hugs to everyone. Miss ya, Deb

July is here already???

Ok, so I've kinda been in denial since school let out. We have spent many days pulling weeds out of the flower garden area, shopping and then planting new plants, laying down fabric and moving 6 yards of rock into the flower gardens. It looks great, but let me tell you that my arms have never hurt that badly before. I'm just glad that project is finished.

Then on June 27th, we had Matthew's 12th birthday. He had 7 friends over for a big splashing pool party in our backyard (pictures to follow). Linda came up for the afternoon. I love birthday parties at this age because I can pretty much say, "Pool. Go." The boys swam for about 2 hours. Then we brought them inside for cake and ice cream and presents. After all that, the boys had about 10 minutes to play foosball in the basement before parents arrived.

Starting Wednesday, I had jury duty this week into Tuesday of next. I had to go in on Wednesday, but we were dismissed by 10:00. I haven't had to go back yet, but we'll see how my luck holds.

I've been taking advantage of this "bonus time" by cleaning out my scrapbook room. I was within 6 months of being caught up before we moved to ML in 2005. Since then, I've gotten really good at piling things up, but not scrapbooking. As a result, I have 4 years of certificates, birthday cards and papers seemingly everywhere. So I've been sorting through and basically stuffing papers into sheet protectors and putting them in the right books. I figure I'll address the picture part of things when I am caught up on all the paper. It's a start anyway. So for three days, I've been holed up in my room. My favorite moment was when I opened a birthday card from Steph (at least two years old) and found a ten dollar bill. I had opened the card when I got it, but obviously not taken the money out. So that is my payoff for getting organized. :) A pleasant surprise anyway.

I'll try to get the pictures posted asap. More soon, Deb