Well we finally made it to 1st grade! Yay! Austin was so excited today he wouldn't LET me walk him to the bus stop. He wanted to go all by himself!



We finally made it to the point where he can pack his own lunch. I'll never understand the excietment behind packing a lunch for school but for whatever reason he was really looking forward to taking a lunch!



New backpack and lunch box... Transformers... BIG surprise!



YAY for the first day of school!

Gilmore-isms....need I say more??....

Apparently this is what we get for $4500 and admission to the Police Academy.... A stack of very dead cardboard men... :)

I'd just like to say that it SUPER bugs me that the new posts go on the top...I want it the other way around...old on the top, new on the bottom. If anyone knows how to do this let me know! :)

I've been reading a LOT in the last month or so. I love it! It keeps my mind functioning on a little higher than a 1st grade reading level! Here's just a PEEK of what I've had my nose in:


"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"
Of course I had to read this again after watching the Half Blood Prince...needed a little refresher! :) LOVE IT!


"Graceling" by Kristin Cashore
Great book...a little slow in some places but that can be easily overlooked when you get to the happy ending. :)















"The House of Night Series"
www.houseofnightseries.com
Can't miss these books! They are awesome! I read all 5 in about 2 days! :) I was super disappointed to find out that the series isn't finished yet. I mean, yes it's great that there's another book (or two) but it's always a disappointment to find that there's another book that you can't read YET!! The next one, "Tempted" comes out 10.27.09! Can't wait!



"The Mortal Instruments" series. Great books. Completely different than you expect them to be. There were a couple times when I skipped pages... ok bad idea I know but I can't stand the suspense!! Check out the website http://www.mortalinstruments.com/mortalbooks.html for the run down.


And now, to get my nose out of the vampires, wizards, and fallen angels, I've started "Puccini's Ghosts". I'll keep you updated on it's worthiness.

There's more, believe me there's more, but that's a good enough "taste" for now. :)

First blog...

Well, welcome everyone to our new family blog! It's wierd, I know, me messing with a blog. But hey...everyone's doin it, right?! :)
So here's the family update...



LaMont & I were married in January of 2002. Almost 8 years...wow...time flies! We have 3 kids, Austin (7), Matthew (6 in October), and Carter (turned 2 in March). Yes, it's a LOT of boys under one roof (one might say TOO MANY boys under one roof, especially on a Saturday!), but I love them and couldn't imagine my crazy life without them.

LaMont started the police academy in January and has been going FULL time (with the exception of a month off between the SFO and LEO blocks) since then. He works in Cedar City and then rushes home, jumps through the shower, and heads to Hurricane for school (from 6-10 every night). It's a challenge and the kids are starting to wonder if they signed up for the single parent family dynamic but the GREATEST news of all is that he'll be done September 18th! Right around the corner! We may just make it to the end with everyone still alive! He really loves it! He's great at it and I am so proud of him!

As for me, I'm just hanging out at home. Before LaMont started school I was going to school full time trying to get my nursing
pre-reqs out if the way. When he started in January it was too hard for us both to be going at the same time so I put my school on hold (ahhhhh the sacrifices we make for love :) hahaha). So for now I am hanging out at home. I'm watch a few daycare kids to keep me busy and I've been doing a lot of "projects". Making quilts, knitting, baking, cross stitch, gardening...oh wait...that's not me! That's the lady on Nick at Night! I'm just having fun hanging out with the kids! :)

Austin turned 7 in July. He's going to start 1st grade next week, which he is very excited about. He's very smart and LOVES to read or watch anything on TV. I swear it's not normal behavior for a little boy to be engrossed in a documentary on National Geographic about Egyptian Mummies but that's where I found him the other day.....strange.....not bad, a very intellectual activity for a 7 year old boy, which is GREAT.....but still a little strange. :)


Matthew will turn 6 in October and will start Kindergarten next week. He's just as equally excited about starting school as the rest of us are for him to start school! He's our "boy" for sure in all sense of the word. He's active and roudy and loves to be right smack in the middle of all the action. We love him, but man, that kid needs a creative outlet...karate, soccer, basketball, yoga... something! :)

Carter is the "baby" of the family. He turned 2 in March but he talks like a 4 year old jabber jaw. He is too smart for his own good, and I thought for sure that he was my favorite until...the terrible 2's. Who makes it through the terrible 2's anyway?? I would like to meet the person that can give me the handbook. I've resorted to, "...well okay then, if you're going to THROW yourself on the floor just make sure you do it on the carpet because it could REALLY do some damage if you hurl yourself head first onto the tile...". Ahh motherhood, isn't it wonderful?! :)

Well, that's our "catch up" in a nutshell. Just run of the mill, normal people (or so you think...'till we snatch you and drag you in to our totally top secret/tell someone and I'll have to kill you/boys only(excepet for mom) club)!