6 Days a Week

Last week started my fun and exciting holiday schedule, which means I will be working longer shifts and 6 shifts a week. I am excited about it because it is so much fun to get in the holiday spirit at work. I started last week with working with a friend of mine, Andrea, on a training class of new servers. Andrea is going on to management and I will be able to take over the training for the server classes. All week I have been working and training new servers.

Nate spent last night finishing up his presentation for Blizzard. This week he will meet with his boss to present why he should become a full time employee with benefits. The end of November Nate will have been with the company for 6 months. Boy does time fly by fast. Please pray for Nate this week as he will give his presentation.

While I have been working longer days, Cori's boyfriend broke up with her. She was upset for the first day or two but now she is moving on. Nate and I are happy because we would rather have a few short term boyfriends instead of one boyfriend for a year or so. All in all we have had a eventful week with boyfriends, jobs, football and colder weather bringing in the Fall season!

Lady Bug and a Ninja

For Halloween this year, Joel was a ninja and Cori was a lady bug. We took Joel trick or treating and we let Cori go with some friends instead of with us. That was hard for me to do but she had fun and that was great!

Nate and I decided to dress up too!

Nate would stand in the street and scare cars that drove by. He also scared quite a few kids while Joel was out trick or treating.

Joel's Science Project

Joel was assigned to make a diagram of a cell. Nate and Joel worked together to pick out computer parts to make the cell. Here is the completed diagram and hoe Joel made it.

Adding the paste to the container

Nate helping

Adding the parts

The microchips 

The finished project

The light bulb is the vacuole. Foil wrapped around the round computer part is the ribosomes around the nucleus. The computer part in the middle is the nucleus. The small black parts are the mitochondria. The blue container is the cell wall. 

I think Joel and Nate did a good job on this project and I hope he gets a good grade. 

Spooky!

This weekend the kids decorated Halloween houses and picked out their costumes to get into the halloween spirit.

Cori decorated a group of houses and Joel decorated a graveyard. They both had fun decorating, eating icing and making everything "spooky".

Getting started

Building the houses

Joel made the cross

The start of Joel's graveyard

Getting serious about the icing procedure

Almost done

All of Cori's houses are UP!

Joel's finished graveyard

Cori's Houses

Sleepover fun

Last weekend, Joel went to a great Reptile party (see previous post), had his first sleepover in CA, and Cori babysat for a friend.

On Saturday, Joel went to a birthday party at a reptile zoo. He then had a friend come over from school. Conner (his friend) was the best house guest I have had in a long time. He maybe said 10 words to us the entire night. Joel and Conner went straight in to Joel's room, played the Wii and watched movies. They only came out for more food and for pigs in a blanket for dinner. They were up early with cereal for breakfast and then we walked him home around 10am. Both Conner and Joel had a blast and asked to do it again sometime.

Nate and I have been spending our Saturday's watching college football. We have also set up characters on WOW that we only play together. Me on the laptop and Nate on his desktop, playing a video game together. We are both having fun spending the time together.

Cori was asked to babysit her friend on Saturday. Taylor is Cori's 8 yr old friend, who lived next door. Taylor's dad asked Cori to babysit for the day while he was at work. Cori had fun playing with her friend and being able to make some money too. I can see her starting to babysit more and more in the next year or so.

We had a fun filled weekend and look forward to another one this weekend too!

Did I mention Alabama is 4-0 and my Dallas Cowboys are 2-1!

Joel's Reptile Party

Joel was invited to a reptile birthday party on Saturday. This is the room that has all the different cages with lots of different reptiles. I quickly dropped Joel off and was coming back in 2 hours to pick him up. When I went to pick up Joel, one of the employees told me I could just go on back thru all the reptile cages to get him. Why couldn't they just page him or something....Did I mention I hate reptiles and bugs and all guy kind of "pets"

So I quickly walk past the Giant White snake named Twinkie..... (she was in her cage when I saw her).


I found Joel and we started to leave, and he wanted to show me one special animal....I walked around a corner to see the 2ft tail of some kind of lizard/reptile. As soon as I saw the tail, I made a bee line for the exit. Joel was yelling for me and I left him behind. As I was running/walking to the car with Joel 6 ft behind and Nate even further behind laughing.

I think this was the animal I was running from.

Joel had a great time at the party. He was able to hold a scorpion, tarantula, and a big snake. He was so super excited to be able to have a very "guy" kind of party.

Pictures are pulled from the Reptile Zoo website. Check them out here.

1st Niece Alice!

My sister Dawn had her first child on September 4th. Alice Everett was 3lbs 14oz and 6 weeks early.

Dawn was having some complications with her health during the pregnancy and so she was in the hospital for 3 days getting meds and being monitored before they induced her labor. After Alice was born, Dawn was in the hospital for another week getting more meds and her blood pressure under control. I am so grateful that everyone is now okay and that Alice was able to come home with Dawn and David yesterday!

Alice is doing well and is just a bundle of pink.

Getting a bottle 

getting to wear clothes