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I told the boys if they worked enough extra they wouldn't have to do school work while Mimi and Pappy Jackson were out here. The are leaving to come out Nov. 20th and staying until the 2nd of December. Because of that, it is 10:00 and my boys are doing some school work. Garrett likes school so I will probably have to make him quit when Donavan is done. Donavan hates it so I don't think he will be working much later. I told him "hate" was a strong word, but that was what he wanted in there so.....
Thankfully tomorrow is Saturday so they will be able to sleep in for a while. Who knows...maybe we'll start having school in the evenings all the time if Donavan will work better then. HA!!

um....I put a new post on here, but it didn't put it where I thought it would so you have to scroll down the page to find the new one...it's the one about the Memorial Dedication. Have a nice day!!!

Happy Anniversary to us.....

Yesterday was our anniversary. It is hard to believe we have been married 12 years! We dropped the kids off at the babysitters Friday evening....thanx Esther.... and spent the night in Mitchell. Someone told us you know you're from a small town if going to Mitchell is your idea of a celebration. Unknown to me, Scott had made arrangements with Esther and her mom and they decorated the room for him. He had roses and chocolates already there. We picked the kids up Saturday and went home. I thought all the surprises were done, but after I had been home awhile, I found out he had bought me the bedspread I had been looking at the last time we were in Wal-mart. I had wanted it then, but decided to wait awhile to get it. I was maybe going to get it after Christnas. While we were gone he had a friend from work put it on our bed. How did I return the favor? Saturday evening he wanted a pop really bad. I went and bought me a Mt. Dew and was to get him a Diet Pepsi. I brought home a regular Pepsi. Talk about treating my man right!!! I did make him some iced tea although that's not the same as pop when you are wanting it really bad ;)
I will have to say it has been a wonderful 12 years. I'm glad he puts up with me!!

Creation Museum

Here are some pictures from our visit to the Creation Museum. We only spent about 4 hours there. We could have been there longer, but Charity was tired and we didn't take our stroller with us (I didn't notice until we were halfway through that we could have rented one), and my poison ivy was driving me CRAZY!!!

Enjoying the petting zoo

What are they planning?

We probably took a hundred pictures while we were there, but I won 't post them all here ;)

Aunt Debbie

Enjoying the food

Me, Charity, Mom and Gram

The day we left PA to come back to SD, the Victims united Survivors Group had a dedication service for the stone they placed in front of the courthouse. It was a nice service. There was speeches from representatives of several government officials and some singing. Then they had the ribbon cutting ceremony and unveiled the stone. Eventually they are planning on engraving the names of the vicitims on the stone. Of course there was food afterwards :)

School Days

Do you want to come to my school?

We started school August 15th. We got off to a slow start because I was canning and we ended up making a quick trip to Cincinnati to see some friends of ours.

Overall, things are going pretty good. Garret is in 1st grade and really enjoying it. Donavan is in 4th grade. His comment the one day was that he liked when a new school year started becasue he is one year closer to being done with school. :) These pictures were taken during the week I was doing the newspaper route for a friend of ours. Donavan would get up with me at 4:30 and help deliver the papers. Usually they do school work in the Living Room, but Donavan was tired so I let him work in our Bedroom. He needed a nap anyway and this way I knew he'd go to sleep.

Let's Try Again!!!!

Hello! I am trying out this new blog to see if I like it any better than Wordpress. Scott started the blog on Wordpress, but has decided to hang up blogging. I don't like using the other one, so I'm going to try this one. Maybe then there will be more updates. Who knows?

I'll start with some updated pictures of the kids

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Garrett (7) and Antonia (4)

Donavan (9) and Charity (1 1/2)

These pictures were taken while we were back east this last trip. We went to Prickett's Fort and took these pictures and some other ones with Scott's family. When we went to my Mom's, we went to a Memorial Dedication by the Victims Witness Program. On our way back to SD, we stopped in KY to see the Creation Museum. It was nice and would have been a lot of fun, but I was dealing with poison ivy. It made travelling a pain!!! We enjoyed the museum and the kids are wanting to go again. I'm hoping to have pics of all of that, plus some school pics and some pics of Charity.

Anyway, we are doing good, keeping busy and all that good stuff. Hope you all have a good day.