Be True to your School

Alright, alright . . . I have a 20 page paper due tomorrow evening which I haven't really started, yet. This semester has already been kind of crazy and I think I'm going insane. I can't seem to get my focus (which I really need right now) so I figured maybe updating the blog a bit will help me. Hopefully, it'll just take a little bit of updating to get me headed in the right direction. Unless . . . is someone willing to write a 20 page paper, single-spaced concerning Windows 7 operating system and networking technology. Ugh . . . pray for me.

Onto September . . .

The kids started school. Joey started kindergarten and Clarissa is in her second year of preschool. Joey decided he wants to grow up even faster than he really is and rides the bus. In the beginning, I was heartbroken, now it's so much more convenient. He loves the bus and enjoys the friendships he's making with the other kids he wouldn't normally know.

Here's Joey and his teacher Mrs. Hills and Joey and his best bud taken the day before school started:




Here's the kids and the preschool teachers . . . I'm not sure what Clarissa was doing.





Here they are on their first day of school:












A little bit of trivia for you: some residents still hadn't gotten their power back on by the time school started and the schools were allowing families to take showers there. Luckily, we got our power back from Irene a few days before school started and smelled like flowers.

Irene

August turns out to be an easy month to update. The first two weeks were spent in Amarillo. When we came home we spent more time at the splash pad, lakes, our friend's pool . . . same 'ol, same 'ol. The only thing out of ordinary was Tropical Storm Irene. Luckily, we received no damage except one tree did fall.

Here are pictures a couple of days before it hit:







The day of Irene:






Luckily, Keith was able to save the tree.

We did lose power for about 32 hours, but consider ourselves lucky when others lost it for a couple of days longer.

Amarillo by Morning

We did our annual trip to Amarillo during the first two weeks of August this year.







I have hundreds of pictures and since I'm so behind on blogging, this is all I think I'll post. If anyone is interested, I can send you a link to all of the pictures in my Walgreens album.

July Flame

Okay, okay . . . it's been months since I've updated. Over the next few days I'm going to try to catch up on everything.

Month of July

We had some wonderful weather and took advantage of it! We don't really have public pools here so we're constantly at the splash pad or a local beach.








Occasionally, we like dressing the kids up the same as their friends.



And poor Joey . . . look how upset he is!



I'm not a fan of having my picture taken, but check out this picture Joey took of me.



Also during July, the kids went to the annual Backyard Club with our church.






The kids took swimming lessons.








We went to Lake Chauncy.







We went to the beach at Wingaersheek. This was absolutely Fantastic! The tide never got too high and it was very kid friendly. We did learn a valuable lesson, though. Keith needs to be reapplied with SPF 90 about 30 more times otherwise he looks like a lobster.











Clarissa got to pet an alligator.



We spent days at our friend's pool. That was probably some of my favorite times this summer. Lounging by a pool? Yes, please!







The rest of July was filled with Keith's baseball games and we even threw in a Red Sox game!