3 more weeks until California!

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Only 3 more weeks until our vacation to California! I have entered the airports, hotels, and attractions into the GPS! I am sure I will add a few more between now and the trip!

Here's last week's update:
Last week went fast and we did a random amount of things. Overall, I walked 11.4 miles last week!

Last Sunday, we went to the pool for about an hour. It was pretty busy since it was the Memorial holiday weekend. The boys enjoyed it and played! They did not want to leave when it was time to go. Roland primarily played in the regular pool while Jakob and Jeff hung out in the kid splash zone pool. I took pictures this day!

On Memorial Day, I got together with a bunch of Jakob's friends and moms and we all went to Boomerang's. It is a place with about 6-7 bounce houses and the kids played non stop for about 5 hours!! They ran and ran...the people would blow the whistles and tell them to walk. I think they got tired of telling them and stopped after a while because there were hardly any kids there!

Tuesday, I was all ready and dressed to sub for a teacher when I woke Jakob up to find he was running a low-grade fever and half sick. I turned on the closet light and he said he didn't want to get up. Okay...that is not Jakob! He's the one waking me up bright and early everyday!! I knew something was wrong. He told me he didn't want to get up and he was sick. I told him if he was sick he would have to stay home and take medicine and stay in bed. He said okay. I reminded him the 'blue' medicine (he hates it!) and he was like okay. I was sorta shocked that he said he would take the blue medicine and stay in bed. I knew he didn't feel well. I sent an email and canceled my sub job. He ended up in bed all day watching tv or movies. He didn't attempt to do much else. (However...I think he shared his cold a little, as it hit me Friday evening/Saturday.)

The Ford Explorer was coming due for it's annual inspection. I decided to take the day to go get it inspected. It is now 10 years old and I sure could tell when the maintenance employee called me outside with the paperwork. He told me it failed! I was slightly shocked because Jeff and his dad just did so much work to it about a month ago! Turns out the brake master cylinder was leaking and needed to get fixed. Great! I had just figured out that Jakob could stop going to school on June 5th to cut back a week of daycare ($175) and instead was rewarded with fixing the Ford! lol So on Thursday, we took the Ford back into the shop and they fixed it and re-inspected the Ford. It passed, so we are good for another year! Hopefully, as much work that has been done lately between Jeff and his dad, Gregg, it should go for quite some time again. I really do not want another car payment right now!!

We have started walking around the apartment complex in the evenings after dinner. It tends to be after 7pm once it is not so hot. Wednesday, we did a short walk around the complex. Jakob walked and ran the entire way. Our initial plan was to have Jakob ride his bicycle, but I forgot about the garage opener which was in the Ford. We had dropped it off at the Kwik Kar that evening so we didn't have to deal with it in the morning. We did get the car back on Thursday. I took it to get washed and vacuumed before picking Jakob up from school. Sure smells good!

I subbed on Friday for a math teacher. This week is the last week of school. I went ahead and decided I could use the week vacation before the next 10 weeks of keeping kids busy and going nonstop!

We took a good walk on Friday evening. Jeff and I walked while Jakob rode his bicycle. We decided it was nice out so we went ahead and had him ride his bike while we walked to the playground. It works out to be at least 2.62 miles roundtrip, with a playground stop in the middle! Jakob loves every minute of it!

This past Saturday and Sunday, I slept a lot! As mentioned, I think whatever Jakob had on Tuesday was shared to me! Doing better now, but still coughing and slight running/stuffy nose. Initially, I thought it was allergies, but I have no clue. At this point, I am assuming it was some bug Jakob was generous to give me!

SWA Spirit (Halloween) - January Challenge #1

I created this two page layout using the October 2008 Spooks kit from Coordinate Collections. It's titled SWA Spirit because of their fun-loving attitude. Jakob attended since Jeff is working for them and had fun watching the skits, getting candy, and playing on the outside bounce houses!

Journaling: Southwest Airlines has a reallly fun time at Halloween. The above picture is Gary Kelly, the Chairman of the Board, President & Cheif Executive Officer. He was dressed as ZZ Top in 2008!

Here were the rules to this challenge:
1- Use at least *5* photos. Any size is fine.
2- Use *2* different PP
3- Use ribbon

End of August

It was a pretty busy week for us. Roland was with us last weekend.
Jakob was happy to see him. He started school this past Monday and I
believe he is enjoying it, according to Jeff.

On Monday, I went to the DPS to renew my driver's license. It was
going to expire in September and since my last renewal was done online
I had to go in. It went faster than I had expected early in the
morning and I was happy. Now hopefully I took a good picture!
Afterwards, I headed to Target for weekly things.

Monday night was also our first Blast Ball practice. The boys did
really good for their first practice and were excited to play again.
Us moms sat at a picnic table and the men were keeping the boys one at
a time batting and then going back out to catch the ball. They were
trying to keep the practice similar to the game so they will be used
to standing and catching the ball. They are older and played last
season so I think they will do great!

Wednesday afternoon, I was able to register with LISD after attending
the required orientation to become a substitute. That same
afternoon, a sub position opened for a middle school aide position for
Thursday and Friday. I accepted it and worked with many teachers on
both days. The secretary took my information for future dates. So working those two days at the middle school was great to get my name known to other teachers and let them know I am a certified teacher. They always want certified subs when possible.

We do not have any major plans this Labor Day weekend. Think we will
just hang out around the house and take it easy.

A Walk Down Memory Lane

Today while working in the computer lab, one of my projects was to look for new software to update some of the old software we currently have in the lab. One of the old titles which was on my list was Sim City. I found a webpage on how a teacher incorporates Sim City 2000 into different lesson plans. Since the game focuses on building a city there are a variety of activities (from writing reelection for city mayor, mapping actual town, building actual skyscrapers, etc...) students can incorporate. However, the original Sim City is quite old and outdated and really does not run well on our computers at school. The concept of the computer software in the lab is to allow future teachers the resources to possibly incorporate different technology equipment into our future classroom and lesson plans.

Anyhow...I told Roland how I really liked playing Sim Farm and Sim Tower as a kid. After we ate dinner we looked online and found both games available to download for free! I remember owning both of these copies on 3 1/2 inch floppy disk. The files are only 3-4 MB! I think I played these games when I was around 13-14 years old! I was shocked to get the games installed and actually running. A few other older games did not work properly, but overall Sim Farm and Sim Tower were my favorite!

Here's a quick shot of my Sim Tower! hahah.