August/September

We were pretty busy this fall with all the school schedules and activities. I was ever so grateful that Ashley is driving now and we were able to get a little car for her to drive around with. Now I don't have to be her taxi driver for her demanding schedule- and I just taxi the other kids around. :)

August started with a bang, and the schedule pretty much has been rolling since then: Band Camp started, Rich was gone for a business trip. Then Alyssa had her birthday- and we took a quick trip to Oklahoma to celebrate with friends:

We were home for a couple of days and got some work done on our opening from the kitchen to the living room.

Then had floors installed in the kitchen and laundry room.

With Sunday off to breathe- we then moved everything into the kitchen on Monday while we had wood floors installed:

I had to leave to go out of town for a funeral before they even finished it, but they got it done!

Then Rich jumped into the next project and worked on replacing the ovens:

Rich, Angela and I made a quick trip to play at Disney for a few days, while the older kids had band and cross country camps, and took care of the house.

Alex had his birthday and turned 18! 😲

School started- Here are the obligatory First Day of School Pictures:

We actually bought the car from my sister- Ann- who lives in Nashville. So I got to take a quick trip out and visit and then drive the car back to TX.

Me and my niece Hope as we were "test driving" it around. ;-)

Cross Country

Football games:

Angela got glasses so she can see the boards at school better now. :)

And we painted, and painted, and painted, and painted... :)

Comments

House projects

After a few weeks of Rich working from home, we decided that we needed to do some moving around of stuff in the house. The exercise equipment needed to be taken out of the office, and we made the decision to dismantle Alex's room since it's downstairs and that would become the new exercise room. His stuff got packed up, and the room was painted and the treadmill was put into that room (which was a feat of it's own! It won't come out of that room until we move away, and maybe not even then! lol! The office got a coat of paint as well and two of the bathrooms. Now the entire house (except for closets) has been painted since we had moved in 3 years before. But then the biggest house project was thought of, and debated and decided on. We had always said that we would like to redo the kitchen in this house, and decided to tackle the project. We found cabinets online we liked and worked with a company to decide on our cabinet layout, and we ordered them....

2013 Tour of California: days 12, 13- Six Flags Magic Mountain, Hollywood

Sunday, June 2nd. After church in Santa Rosa, we made our way south to Six Flags Magic Mountain. Monday, June 3rd. Ashley had been waiting forever to go to this amusement park. She is the thrill ride queen and can't ever get enough of the fast crazy rides. Rich's brother Dave and his family (who the kids and I stayed with on the drive out) drove out from Arizona and joined us as he and Amanda are thrill ride junkies too. :) We had a great time- so good that I didnt take very many pictures, but we spent two and a half days at Magic Mountain and had fun the whole time. Tuesday, June 4th. After spending a few more hours at Magic Mountain, we drove down to Hollywood. We stopped and walked along the walk of fame and found the stars and handprints of famous actors we like. Most of those pictures are on Ashley's phone, so I'll have to add them later. :) That evening we checked into our home for the next four nights- Disney's Grand California H...

Our Dog Tale...

So... we have spent the last three weeks looking at puppies online, finding one that would be great for our family. We found an adorable little 4 month old black lab from a lab rescue in Tulsa, about an hour and a half drive away. We contacted them, and filled out the adoption application paperwork. Sent pictures of our fenced back yard, and got approved to adopt her. The lab rescue had named her Regina, for their records mainly- they generally called her puppy and girld so that she would easily adapt to a new name. We bought a large crate (she would get big!) and food bowls and a collar, leash and tag for her and on Saturday we drove to Tulsa to pick her up. The lab rescue was doing an adoption fair, so they had all the dogs they were trying to adopt out at a Petsmart and we meet them there. We got there around 1pm. As I was walking over there were a few people asking about a cute little puppy, and I overheard that it was Regina, and she was being adopted... I then said that I was Jul...

THE NEWTON'S

Search This Blog