Monday, August 31, 2009

Beauty :-) and the Beach



Ahhhhhhh....this seriously was one of the most beautiful sites I have seen. I almost cried it was so AWESOME!!!! OK yes I know I am a bit of a nerd but I just love this kind of stuff!!!! Anyway......The night launch was so much better then the day launch. It lit up the sky like it was daytime. The people in Titusville are just awesome too! The crowd is amazing. AMAZING!!!!!!!
We spent Saturday and Sundy at the beach! What a beautiful weekend here. Now back to the rain all week.............:-( yuk! Oh well! Hope Cali gets some relief for those fires. Wish we could send them some of our rain!!! Have a great week everyone!!!!!

Friday, August 28, 2009

AC/DC


Ok so I did it! I bought my little man AC/DC tickets for his birthday!!!!! Only thing is they are for the concert in Orlando. They had better seats :-) Although I will probably have his daddy take him I am so excited for him! I loved going to concerts growing up and this boy is Obsessed with AC/DC!!!!! He even dresses like Angus and rocks out to all the CD's he has (which is almost all of them) The concert is in Nov. Omgosh he has no idea how cool it is going to be! Can you tell how excited I am for him??? This is his 10th birthday too! Omgosh time has flown by...........Well his birthday is the end of Sept...............Don't know if I can hold it in that long!!!!!!! Ali if you read this DO NOT TELL HIM!!!! lol....:-)

Are you ready for some Football????????


I am!!!!! I am so ready for the fall and some football!!! I might even cheer for the hometeam Jags this year! Don't get me wrong I am and always will be a Browns fan! I bleed Brown and Orange! Love my Browns! But I am smack dab in the middle of all this teal and black! I have been fighting it for 4 years.................maybe I should just give in and be a fan? Whatever team it might be this year I am so ready. I might even try to go to a few games! I have not been to a football game since the 90's!!! It was The Bears vs. the Vikings in Chicago. Now this Florida heat is not really football weather BUT that's ok...................my blood is so thin now I don't mind...lol........

ok tonight!

Tonight? Guess it all worked out for the best....the kids can sleep in tomorrow! Then I think we'll go to the BEACH! Happy Friday ;-)

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Life's a Dance!

So I heard this song on the radio on the way to the store today! Wow it hit me hard! I always loved it but had not heard it in awhile. So now it's my new Blog title! Life for me over the last year has been rough!!! To say the least. But life is a dance and you learn as you go.............sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow..........
I have been looking into going back to school. So many unfinished dreams to complete. I would love to go back for environmental engineering or forensic science. Got nothing but time now....why not? Going to start running again too. My daddy always told me to take care of myself because nobody else will!!!!! Wow....I am very stubborn and independent BUT he was so right!!!! The last 11 years or so I have really just dedicated to my kids. Not taking care of myself at all! So they are getting older and don't need me as much and now I need to take care of myself so I can be around for them. :-) Of course they are and always will be my #1 priority in life!!! They are my life! The air I breath! Anyway......... enough mushy stuff.............just thought I'd share my old song with ya'all :-) Have a great day!

The shuttle and the Jags


Maybe tonight??? We'll see. ok The Jags play tonight. I am not a fan of Jacksonville but I am interested to see how they do this season. Wanna see how MV does tonight too. Don't like him but can't wait to see how he does. They play in Philly. Then to Titusville for the launch :-) Happy Thursday everyone!!!

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

:-( Maybe Friday?

Ok so we'll try for early Friday AM............This is reminding me of the last launch!!!! Oye Vey! At least I have not gone all the way down there! Can't wait till Friday :-)

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

My Rocker!


This is my little Rockin man! Just a few posin for pics. He already broke a few strings. Need to get him some more! Love that kid!!!!! He is left handed but plays right handed........talent!

It's a Go so far......

Discovery Gets the "Go" for TankingTue, 25 Aug 2009 03:25:02 PM EDT
The "Go" was given to load space shuttle Discovery’s external fuel tank. Discovery’s launch was postponed early Tuesday morning due to lingering thunderstorms in the vicinity of the launch pad.The current weather forecast is 70 percent favorable conditions for launch. The primary concern is cumulus clouds and showers within 20 nautical miles of the shuttle landing facility at the time of launch.Tanking commentary on NASA TV will begin at 3:30 p.m. and fueling operations will start at approximately 3:45 p.m. EDT. Launch commentary will begin tonight at 8 p.m.Weather permitting, launch is scheduled for 1:10 a.m.


So my nutty self will drag my poor kids down there tonight in the middle of the night!!!! lol....They'll thank me someday! :-)

Shuttle launch


So to Titusville or not???? Hmmmmmm........weather not looking so good??? Glad it was a no-go last night. So shall I go? No more night launches for awhile. Hmmmmm.....we'll see. At 3pm they decide to fuel or not.

SCRAP TIME!!!!!!! :-)


Ok so I am going to scrap these. Very few pics of me.........So I will scrap these for my kids.......



AMAZING!!!

Did ya'll see this guy ................................AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zLkailhsqk

Monday, August 24, 2009

Beach and the first day!






Yesterday we went to the beach and took "Boy" (Peanut) with us. He was a really good boy but he hated the water....Hmmmmm....He is part Lab so I don't know why he hates water???? Anyway the kids had fun and it tired them out so they could sleep for school today. So we got up early and the kids had their first day today. Everyone was so excited. We got to wait with Nicolas this morning to take him in his classroom. I think his table was him and 4 girls! LOL he should love that! He actually has the same teacher Isabelle had in K. She had gotten married and changed her name. She is a sweetheart! He was so happy cause he knew her. Ali and Boo it was nothing but a thang.......another school year! Isabelle was excited but she is growing up. She doesn't let me do her hair anymore or pick her clothes :-( Time to let go. So I did good till the teacher handed us a paper and said to read it later at home. I opened it on the way out and it was a sweet poem and note letting me know my baby would be ok and is in good hands. I just lost it and cried. I just can't believe they are all in school! It was just yesterday I was having them all! I will miss my buddy. It is so weird and the house is quiet. I need to get a job now! I was working from home but that ended so now I guess I need a new one. :-) Well have a great week!!!!!!!! :-)

Friday, August 21, 2009

Teachers~

So today we found out the kids teachers. This is always a big deal in our house. Now I have 4 kids in the same school! This will be the only year for that. Years before and now for the years after I will have run to 2-3 different schools to drop off and pick up. Right now they actually are taking our 2 lane road and making it 4 lanes. Only good thing is I live about 1/2 mile from the school and they just put in sidewalks from the start of our housing area to the school! Wahooooooo!!!!! I can walk to take them and walk to pick them up!!! I have always wanted to do that but it was always these big ditches with no sidewalks and we couldn't do it. Now with all 4 in school all day....well from 8:30 to 2:30 I am going to try to join the Gym and start working out again! I was doing a good job working out every winter, but here it is just too HOT and HUMID to do anything in the summer! Even early AM is like insanly HOT!!!!! Can't wait for that.
So back to the teachers..............I am very involved with my kids so teachers are key! Well we have been very blessed to get great teachers most of the time! My kids are all straight A students, very good kids......if they ever get in trouble it's for talking too much!!!! Imagine that???? Anyway Ali's 4th grade teacher was awesome.....but they changed classes between 3 teachers and we had problems with one of them. She would just loose papers, mark things wrong that were not wrong, and seriously give too much homework. 4 hours a night worth and my daughter had no problems with anything it just took 4 hours! But when asked what they did in class we were told she sits on the computer and then gives all the work to the kids to do at home. She never explained anything either....we sat with her at night and taught her from the book. Science! Thank Gosh that's what we know best! I don't know who wrote some of these Florida text books but I don't know if they even had a degree!!!! They are horrrible! Anyway......this same teacher is now a 6th grade teacher and guess what??? Ali got her this year!!!!! God help me! Please don't get me wrong. I love and respect teachers. I always treat them with respect and appreciate them. I am a very involved parent, I care but I am also not one of these crazy over-involved mothers! So now I struggle with going up there and changing her teacher, if they will even let me....I heard it takes an act of Congress to get it changed....or do I let it be and just deal with another year of pure Hell like 2 years ago????? I don't want to teach my kids that you can just go and whine about things and get your way, but I do want what's best for my daughter. It's only 6th grade...........but she was so sick of 4th grade because of that teacher...I don't want her to start hating school! But that is life right???? I mean I know I hated some of my teachers!!!! I can't homeschool her, she is a social butterfly and that would kill her. So not sure what to do.....Thinking I will just see what happens and try to work with what happens and then if it gets bad again I might go up there and say something. Ugh.........well the other kids think their teachers are ok. 1 new one we never heard of but that could be a good thing! So I have one in K, 2nd, 4th, and 6th!!!! Oye vey! I hope it will be a good year. It was really hard for us coming from the European school system to Florida's but we have finally adjusted I think. Well here's to a good year! :-)

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Wicked Waves




JUST ONE OF OUR 8 PIGGIES!!!! This is Spicoli...my chubby butt!
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Kid Rock
Shuttle launch
Ali taking pics
Lynyrd Skynyrd

Kid Rock


So with Hurricane Bill off the coast we will have some wicked waves this weekend and what better way to celebrate Back-To-School then going to the BEACH!!!!!! I have spent alot of time at the beach this summer. I am really tan actually! So here are just a few random pics. Oh ya another Shuttle mission goes up on Tuesday at 1am.............really want to go but not sure. The kids have school and would not be good for their 3rd day back to be so tired. Might go by myself.