Ok Fine I just won't look at you any more.

Get away with that stupid camera!

What? It's warm here.

Well I made it though Thanksgiving and Alicia's Party!

Just thought I would share this picture taken just out side our front door one evening.




Last week end was a very busy time for me. I managed to get our family room presentable for company. There are still boxes and photos in there but for the most part it is some place that you can walk around in again and even sit on the sofa and chairs. Yeah it was that bad before. But I'm happy to say it's looking good now all I have to do is try to keep it that way! Most of the boxes are down stairs in the two spare bedrooms opps I mean junk rooms, because that's what they are right now. Now if I can go down there and try to organize it some how so this next summer I will be able to have that much needed rummage sale, the one I have been talking about for the last 3 or 4 maybe 5 years. I have not been able to do it because the garage has been full of stuff but Dwight got all that out of there this fall and so it will be possible to have enough room now for that sale! Now all I have to do is wait for the weather to change, lets see that should be in about 7 or 8 months. I'm hoping that in July I will be able to do that. Well enough of that. I also managed to cook a 23 lb turkey the largest I have ever cooked. It turned out good. I used a cooking bag, I would recommend it to any one that need to cook one. It keeps it nice and juicy. Then we had Alicia's graduation party. I can't remember the last time we had that many people in our house at one time. It was a good turn out. (Alicia if you are reading this you have gotten a couple of new cards in the mail, and I know at least one more that will be coming. So we will have to talk about what you want to do about that.) Any way I'm glad that things are back to normal and I'm not driving myself crazy wondering how I'm going to get everything done. It feels good! I think I have rambled on long enough now, until next time.

Wow a whole day of cleaning.

Well we are getting closer to being ready for Alicia's Graduation open house. It's funny how easy it is to ignore the dirt in your house until you decide to throw a party and then you start to do some serious cleaning and it's like woo how did it get so bad. I guess it's a good thing that we are going to have this party for Alicia. I got done with the entryway and the living room and 1/2 of the dining room done today. When I put it that way it doesn't sound like much, but I pulled out the furniture and vacuumed behind the couch and tables and everything, dusted and polished stuff, and even washed the plant leaves so they are shiny. So yeah I think the rooms look really good. Dwight had a busy day too. He got some work done on his pickup (so now he can get out of his pickup without rolling down the window and using the outside door handle. He finished putting the mop board around in the kitchen. Then he put up mop board around in the bathroom. Little job big improvement. So I think we both got a lot accomplished. I'm taking Monday and Tuesday off from work(so I will have like 6 days off in a row YAY!!) because we are going to go to Minot on Wednesday to get Alicia for the holiday and her party. Job Corp is having a Thanksgiving dinner and a program. I'm looking forward to that. Then I wanted to have some extra time so I can get the family room cleaned up, man that's going to be a challenge!! But I think I'm up to it? It's one of those rooms where we just started putting things and the next thing you know it looks like something you would see on that program Clean Sweep where they come in and there is barely room to walk through the room so they take every thing out of the room and have a big yard sale and then remodel. Well I won't get the remodel thing but if I can find a place for all the stuff I will be happy. I think we are going to need the room for the party. Even if only my family comes it will be a houseful. I have 6 brothers and sisters and with their family's and their children's family's it turns out to be quite a gathering. It's been a while since we have had any of our holidays in someone's home. Because of the volume of people we have found it easier for everyone if we rent some place like the parish center or TJ's ( a pizza place.) So yeah it will be interesting to say the least. Well I have to go do my dishes then I'm going to just sit and watch TV because I have earned it and there tomorrow I will tackle other parts of the house.

Just a short note,

Today Dwight is out doing what may be his last good day for metal detecting. Yeah the weather is going to make a turn for the worse. Temperatures are going to drop and I guess the snow is not far away. I hope he finds something good, he is going out to the school which has been around since 1890. He said he is going to check out where Old Main use to be. That's the first building that was put up. It came down some time in the 70's (I think?) He was pretty excited to go and left early like 8:00 this morning. I wished him good luck be for he left. But if your reading this today cross your fingers, for him. (Yes Alicia we will go looking for your ring sometime it just won't be until spring now.)

I will be leaving to pick up Alicia from JC with three of her friends that will be coming along for the ride to DL. I think I will be leaving early maybe 11:00 this morning. I want to do a little shopping. Alicia if your reading this, I will have my phone if you want to call me. If for some reason you can leave earlier let me know.
well that's it for now..... Later

Well I'm back

Not sure what I'm going to write about? Dwight got a flu shot yesterday and today he has the flu! Go figure. They want $20.00 this year and I think I might just skip it. Well that's exciting huh?

Oh we are working on planning Alicia's Graduation Party Yayyy. April volunteered to make up the invitations. I hope she can get them done some time this week and when Alicia comes home this week end we can get them ready to send out. I will have to get some stamps, and I think some envelops too.

This morning I tried to sew up the love seat, I think if I had the right color of thread it would look better. I think I'm going to go to Walmart in the morning, and see what they have. Any ways that's why I haven't been writing my life is just so interesting I can't decide what I should write about.

The whole school thing is working out better than I expected. Last night we had both of the " brothers" awake. Jordan started at 2:00 am and we just took turns sending him back to bed until his brother woke up at 4am and we figured if he could stay up we better make it fair and let Jordan stay up too. They are for the most part good kids, and well behaved they always say please and thank you. I just wish that they could sleep better. I think they will both sleep better tonight, well... I hope so anyway. Marissa woke up at 6:00am and she has a new makeup kit. So this morning I was putting on eye shadow,blush, and some nail polish. She was so happy. I brought Candace some shirts from home that no one is wearing and she loved them, she tried to wear a sweat shirt with another button up shirt over it. I had to tell her she would be too hot with both of them on so she took the top one off and said she would save it for tomorrow. She also has new glasses. They look very good on her, I hope she doesn't loose them. She seems to do that a lot. She wears them pretty well most of the time she just would rather not, and lays them down and forgets them. Well that's my life for today. I hope I have something better the next time.

Things are so different in the dorm.

There have been a lot of changes at work the last couple of weeks. There has been talk of using the boy's dorm area, in the Smith build, for some foreign exchange college students. They want to come to the US to learn English at the College here in town and possibly take college classes too. It's all a big maybe so far but since one of the counselors decided to quit. They(I'm not sure who they are) decided that it would be a good idea to move all the deaf students into one dorm. So now instead High school and middle school girls and elementary boys and girls (11)we now have all the high school and middle school boys( 7) then Tuesdays and Thursdays day students (about 6 or 7). So yeah, so much for quiet mornings. Karen the night watch from the other building has also moved over. Which is kind of nice. We each have our own TV to watch but just a partisan wall to separate them so we can hear each others TV. But we are working it out. It's nice to have some one to talk to when we start to get tired and we can take smoke breaks if we want. So that's OK. It's just so much more crowded in the dorm now and the older boys, well some of them any way seem to think that they should always get their way and pick on the little ones. But enough of my complaining it is what it is and complaining really won't help anything or change any thing. So we just adjust right? So far it has worked out better than I expected but it's only been 4 days. Oh and I get Friday off, It's the start of the hunting season. Yeah a good reason to not have school. All those kids just love that hunting season. I often wonder exactly how many actually go hunting. I mean even elementary students get the day off how old do you have to be to go hunting any way? But if it makes everyone happy who am I to say anything against it? It's a day off for me too so YAY. I'll take it, no mater what reason the Head Hunchoes come up with. Well it's my nap time got to be going.