another week done

another busy week. made even longer when Rick and I got sick with a bad cold. It didn't last long for me though. I took some Hall's defense lozenges with zinc, vitamin C and echinacea. I guess they helped. I had to lecture 3 hours one day though and my voice was about gone.
Sorry, Amy, that you are tired. That goes along with the pregnant part. Will only get worse I'm afraid but at least it will end. then you'll be tired because you have to get up several times at night. But I've never regretted any of it. Wouldn't trade you guys for any amount of rest and sleep.
I started a new class this week - landscaping. The teacher isn't really a professional but seems very nice. Wants to help us get our own landscaping plotted out. Should be fun. Rick and I have a blank slate. Lots to do come spring.
Running/walking got put on hold while I couldn't take a good breath. Guess I better get back to it soon though. Tina is up to running 3 miles by now. Puts me to shame.
Will write more later.
Love to all.

catchin' up

well, it's been awhile since i had time to get on here to say howdy. i've been so busy between school and work the last couple of weeks. and it just seems like i get more tired with everyday that goes by. mi clase de espanol is finally over on monday. it was an 8 wk/half semester course. just a helpful hint little seester, don't take a half semester of any language. there is not enough time. some of the people in my class were getting 40's on their tests. we spent 2 days on the last chapter and he ended the class by telling us that there wasn't enough time for a review day and our test would be tomorrow. i don't think i did so well on that test. the finals are monday. i have a written and oral final. and my culture essay and 2 extra credit essays are due on that day too. so i will be busy again all weekend.

on another note, i picked all that stuff up from wal-mart. tell g-pa i love the stroller mom. and juan likes the monitors. he talks to the dogs on them. it's pretty funny cause the dogs don't understand. we put one in the kitchen and the speaker in the baby's room to see how they worked. he was whispering at the dogs but they heard his voice coming from the baby's room louder. they were confused. they just run back and forth from one room to the other trying to figure it out. cooper runs and looks at the speaker with his head cocked off to the side. soooo cute. anywho guess i've wrote enough for now. my lunch break is almost over and i have to get through my blade fold/wing stow class this afternoon then it will be the weekend. i can't wait to be lazy and sleep in on saturday. love you all and write sometime.

weekends!

thank goodness for weekends! Rick and I are coming down with colds and I think I have just wore myself out. I slept for over 10 hours last night. Never get to do that. Maybe I'll fight this cold off better.
Weather here has really sucked. 2 ice storms in a row. didn't even get to recover much from the first. school was cancelled for 2 days and now we are behind in our lectures. don't know when we'll catch up. cram it in a little more I guess.
I sent in my application for nurse practitioner school this week. hopefully I will be accepted and get to start in the fall. It's a full time program so it will be extremely busy for me. Hopefully I will be able to keep teaching for the fall and spring semesters coming up. off for the summer but I'll have to quit work the last semester. No other way to get in all the clinical hours I need. But it will only be for about 4 months. Then I'll be making the big bucks. Already had 2 job offers. One for 90K/year! Just decided I needed to get this done. Rick will feel better about retiring if I'm making a good income to replace his.
grandma and grandpa doing pretty well. they keep their house so hot it's hard to do any work there. I think it would make me sick but then they seldom go outside so they don't have big temperature changes. Grandma has some difficulties. her appetite isn't as good as it used to be - she's getting kind of picky and it makes it hard for grandpa to fix stuff for her. she also has some problems going to the bathroom. I'll have to find somebody this summer to help them out. Once I start school it will be hard to get everything done for them. thought I'd try to get that worked out this summer before I start. Maybe I can get the house straightened up by then.
Met Travis girlfriend, Kat. she seems nice and pretty cute too. he says they think the same about everything and he's never met anyone like her before. it's good to see him happy again.
better get busy with housework around here. Kate, I'll get your bill paid but transfer the money asap to my checking account okay.
Love to all - Mom

Finally getting unsick

It's been a week since I started getting sick. Finally it is starting to go away. I still have a slight cough but other than that I am ok. Jeremy on the other hand just caught it from me a few days ago. Bless his heart. I feel horrible for him. I know exactly how he feels. I am kind of tired today though. I was getting up continuously throughout the night taking care of him. At one point he had a 100.4 temperature and I had to get up to go find him some Tylenol or something to make the fever go down. At that point I got him some more cough syrup and sudafed. Gave him a gatorade and a cough drop and he went back to sleep for a little while. He still tossed and turned all night. And he would want to cuddle and would be all hot and sweaty. Yuck! But I cuddled anyways because I love him and he wasn't feeling well. Got up about 930 10 and did the dishes and got some biscuits and gravy started. The boys finally got up about 11 and took showers and came into the living room. Took Jeremy's temp again and it was back down to 98.3 but he was still having chills. He's doing better though. They are off at the barber shop right now getting their weekly haircuts.
Poor Taylor had quite the time on Friday. She has been sick with pneumonia off and on since Christmas Eve. Friday morning she woke up and told her mom Mommy I have a fever call the doctor. Quite the phrase for a 3 year old. By about 2 or 3 in the afternoon she ended up having a 104.8 temp and was starting to have seizures when she was at urgent care. They stripped her down and gave her a sponge bath and gave her some medicine to make the fever go down. She had low hemoglobin when they drew her blood. Probably because when she isn't at our house she gets mcdonald's for dinner all the time. Jeremy said Lisa doesn't know how to cook. So she isn't getting an adequate amount of greens. But I think she will start giving her Flinestone Kids Vitamins. So that's good.
The boys are painting the garage this weekend. They are painting it in the Coors Light colors. Blue and grey. It looks good so far.
But other than all that I just am tired and have a headache. Threw a picture on here of Taylor. I don't really have a whole lot of pictures of the rest of our family. Suppose I will have to work on that. I need to clean up breakfast though. I will talk to you all later. Love you and miss you all!

not tired, but busy

we have the terminex guy coming over today and we forgot until the last minute. so i've been cleaning house all morning. at least we don't have to worry about cleaning later. sunday is usually our cleaning day but we don't go back to work until wednesday. we were gonna clean tomorrow.

anywho, i'm running outta room in the baby room. i don't know where i'm gonna put everything. after the stroller and carseat we don't have anymore big stuff so i'll get it figured out. i think i'll go ahead and put the bassinet in our room so it'll be outta the way. juan still has to get my glider/rocker too. don't know where that is gonna go. i really don't wanna get rid of the chaise lounge, good for nursing, but i really don't have room for it.

other than that, i have the pics you wanted mama. we re-did our computer and deleted all kinds of crap so it's gonna take a miracle to get them emailed to you. all i should have it figured out by the end of the week. love you all and miss everyone.

Busy? or tired of blogging?

Hello to anyone that visits here. I'm still working but not busy right now. Getting late, my head hurts and I'm ready to go home. Just a few more minutes and I'll be on my way.
What a week. The weather sure did turn it's rear and fart on us! Ice storms, loss of power, UGH! Had to stay in a hotel one night and not even a nice one. But we were lucky and ours was only off for a day. I guess there are still about 6000 in southern Illinois still without electricity since Tuesday(4 days ago!)
Sorry I missed sending Valentine wishes to all my Valentines. I'm not a very good correspondent. In my defense, my internet is out at home. So this is a belated Valentine wish for you all. LOVE YOU!
Hopefully will talk to all this weekend.

Mondays

Another weekend passed by. Got a lot done I guess. Mostly cleaning. Another work week begins. I must be hesitant to start cause I came in here to read my email and here I am 30 minutes later. Coffee getting cold. Lots to do today and need to get going.
Travis here last night. Off to work in Benton, IL with Dad putting together an alcohol plant. He seems to be doing well. Met a girl this weekend and seemed positive about it. He's driving back tonight. Weather is supposed to get bad today so hopefully he'll make it fine.
More doors put up here. Now the only doors left are the closets and upstairs. Still plenty of work to do. Rick keeps plugging at it. Hopefully we'll be done by spring so we can move the work outside. Landscaping time! I'm hoping to put out a garden this year. Just a small one. Few tomatoes and peppers, my herbs of course, and some squash (that stuff is always easy to grow!)
Time to hit the showers. Love the new pictures. Where are yours little sister?!!!
LOVE TO ALL!

HEY SEESTER

PUT SOME FREAKIN' PICS ON HERE TURD

Long week

This week seemed like it was never going to end. I had an extremely long week. Can you believe that they gave me authorization and a license to tow a multi-million dollar helicopter. That's what I worked on this week. I didn't want it because it's just more stuff I have to do at work but I had to get it because we only had one guy and his wife has something wrong with her appendix so he couldn't work the past 2 days. Anyways. It's worn me out driving helicopters around for the past 3 days. How is everyone after this dreadful week? We are ok in this house. Jeremy went to get his flight physical to see if he is still in good enough condition to fly and they told him he couldn't because he needed glasses. But he got that fixed today so he can fly again. He is leaving the first week of March to go to weapons and tactics instruction or whatever in Yuma, Arizona. He will be gone for 2 months. I'm going to miss him a lot but I have other things that will happen in his absence. For example the arrival of my wonderful niece Hannah. Can't wait to see her finally. She ain't even here and I love her so much already. Can't wait for her to get here. I'm going to spoil her so much. Hehehe! Poon(the guy that lives with us) is doing good. He has a boat so him and Jeremy and our friend Sean go fishing every weekend for a boys day. I usually either clean the house or go somewhere with Sean's girlfriend Tiffany. She's just like me. Just a good ole country girl. Everything is good here though. They aren't going fishing this weekend though because Sean and Tiff went out of town to Florida this weekend to visit Tiff's folks. So instead of fishing this weekend the 3 of us our going to do a mass cleaning from top to bottom on the house and repaint all the molding throughout the house. It's going to be a long weekend but at least I'll be away from work. But we are going to eat at our friend Stacey and George's in a bit so I'm going to get off here and get out of my oorah military attire and get in some comfy jeans and a t-shirt. I love all of yall. Write soon!!

Mornin'

Thank God it's friday huh? I don't think i could take anymore this week. we have a retirement ceremony we've been practicing for all week (i'm the narrator), had a spanish test, and juan has been talking about trading his truck off. it's so hectic trying to keep up with everything. i am ready to have a stress free weekend. anywho, i saw that denise posted something about abs so i posted a good ab workout book for you all. anywho, just thought i would get on here and say howdy and good morning. love you all.

OOPS!

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Hello out there

I know we're all busy. So I won't gripe about anybody not writing. Usually my problem. Things going pretty well here. Enjoyed some weather breaking weather on Monday with a high of 74! Then tornadoes and storms came through last night. South of here got the worst of it. Never enough hours in the day for all I'd like to do of course. I got my walking in twice this week and plan on tonight too even if on the treadmill.
Students must be getting as tired as I am - they are all getting so whiney! End of March I am done with lectures and only have to follow up weekly with the students. Yeah!
Grandma and Grandpa doing well. Both went to doctor last week and everything was good. Grandpa saw his doctor that controls his steroid dose and seems to be reducing without any problems. Almost on a maintenance dose now. They are glad to have Mary back. He looked and acted half starved but once his belly was full he settled right back into the house cat routine (laying in the rocker).
If you click on the settings tab you will see options for changing the site or whatever. Look for ways to add pictures. I'd love to see you guys put some pictures on. Mine are older photos but plan on getting some others on here soon.
Love to all. Write.

Superbowl plans

Superbowl Sunday is here. Rick and I have gotten into making it an event every year. So far it's just the 2 of us. But still fun. I have my Bud light, wine or Pineapple-orange and rum - whichever I feel like at the time. I think though that beer should be the beverage of choice for the Superbowl. After all, you don't see commercials for rum and wine. I have my wager - not for any team but for scores at each quarter. Here's my numbers: NY 4, NE 8 and NV 1, NE 6. what this means: if the last number of the score at the end of the quarter matches my numbers I get $125. It's random drawing of numbers so we don't get to choose. Keep your fingers crossed, I could always use an extra $125 or $250 dollars!
Went to Walmart today and Petsmart. I think I'm going to enroll Ginger in beginning obedience classes. They told me that by the end of the 8 weeks, she would behave well at home - no jumping up on people and no barking! She really needs to learn to behave. Classes start the 18th. Hope it works.
Now I'm back to work. Lessons for Tuesday and Thursday. Takes me so darn long! Oh well, next semester I'll finally be a little ahead of the game.
Love to everyone (even the snake I guess, though I will never show it any affection!)

Internet outage

Not just busy. My internet was off for the last 4 days. Just came on last night after several mad messages left to the people I get service from. A__holes!!! As soon as they get the rest of the tvs hooked up I'm going to try to get a different internet service. I don't think we signed a contract or anything.
Rick and I are well. Still working on doors and trimwork. Took Gma to her hair appt this morning since it was icy/snow on Thursday. She looked pretty. She's had a bad couple of days before this. I had to work at the hospital on Wed and missed seeing as much of them for several days. I think she was missing me. Anyway, I visited last night, helped her get a bath and she was in much better spirits. Gave me a hug and wouldn't let go. Loved it!
Brenda and Lindsey will be here for an overnight stay and visit with Gpa and Gma. Not very long but they will enjoy the company. Hopefully the weather will be good and they can get out and drive around or something.
Travis called this morning. Still hell bent on self destruction. I guess my "nagging" ran him off from the house but hopefully he knows I care and will be there when he needs me. I try to reinforce the fact that drinking and driving isn't all about him. There are lots of other motorists on the road. I left him just this morning buying more beer. So I just told him to go somewhere and drink it and call me if he needed to go somewhere. He just called and he's at Dad's so maybe it will be okay.
Getting anxious about Hannah's arrival. Did you girls know that you had a great, great, great, great grandmother named Hannah also. Not exactly sure how many of the greats there should be but it is pretty far back there. She was a Beanard by birth, married 4 times and had about 10 children. Most of them are Bargers. Actually, thinking about it she is probably not a grandmother but a distant aunt. Anyway, Grandpa got another history book so we can look it up and find out. I'm wondering if she wasn't killing her husbands off. Only one of them lived more than 4 years after marrying her! Hmmmm?
Well, lots to do today - laundry, cleaning, writing lectures, cooking, getting ready for the SuperBowl tomorrow, more cleaning, and taking care of Mom and Dad and more lecture preparation (takes me a long time to get all my info together!)
Will check in and write more when I can. You guys need to post some pictures.

Wooooo Hoooooo

I think that this has turned into our blog. Mom never gets on here anymore and Juan don't want to. He thinks this is our gossip network and don't wanna get invloved in woman things. He's so funny. Anywho, what I was going to say is that before you rent a movie call me. Juan has some club he's in where he can download movies. We watched Saw IV a couple of weeks ago. Well, my boys are good. We take them for a walk for aobut an hour in the woods every other day now after work. They love being able to get out of the back yard. As far as Hermy, we are having a hard time with keeping the humididty right. But that will be fixed this weekend. Well, I'll get off here but if you want to go eat with us Saturday, sis, give me a call. I'm trying to avoid Sheena. She asked if she could have a BBQ at my house. She has her own damn house. Turd.