Writing

Well today Olivia wrote me a note...I wasn't ready for it...

Note #1

No is no

The No is No was because last night and yesterday Olivia wasn't being the best listener and following directions.  Therefore today she lost the privilege of playing the paw patrol game and I kept telling her, "No means no" No you don't get to play it...at ALL! Then it was time for lunch....

Note #2

I'm Not

I kept telling Olivia I am hungry I am going to eat lunch and then she came to me with this, "I'm Not" I told her not was spelled wrong and then she edited it and fixed it...

Growing up way too fast!!

Classroom Helper

This week Olivia and I went to school to start setting up.  Monday was the 1st day the air conditioning was on.  We did some cleaning and moved some stuff.  Yesterday we did the big job of painting my bulletin board.  It was painted red...but there were staples that were painted over and paint drips, so I fixed it with grey.  I really just wanted to paint it black, but the school was out of black paint so I settled for the grey.  We had to put 2 coats on it!! Today we went back after my dentist appointment.  Paint was dry and started hanging some stuff but then realized I needed the stuff to hang that would be laminated later in the day...then on to another project!  Olivia was pretty excited the first 2 days going but today she really didn't want to go...but I did let her play on the playground for a few minutes when we were done!  It was so hot!!

Here is the start of the new bulletin board =) (I also ran out of border... =( while working on it!!!)

Hunting Island 2015

Last week we did our annual family vacation in Hunting Island, South Carolina.  Such a great place for us to vacation.  We had a great time and it was hot and we had some pretty bad storms in the late afternoon/dinner time EVERY day.  But we had a great time!!

 And the pictures got all out of order...

Our new camper

Beach walk

Feeding a friend

Lunch!

Post storm damage

Pier fishing and crabbing

Nature center

Post storm swim

Post storm bike ride

Beach bike ride

Beaufort

Lagoon bike ride

LCB

Ice cream at Southern Sweets in Beaufort

Dentist

Olivia had her 6 month dental visit.  I could tell she was more nervous than last time.  She did good.  She had the grip of death on the chair but no tears and she was happy to get a balloon after.  We dropped off the rest of her paperwork for Pre K after the check up since that was all we were missing. 

Could not get a smile out of this child...AT ALL...

ABCs

Tonight we did some chalk on the driveway...and then we did our ABCs with chalk.  I would write the letter and then Olivia would write it.  She actually wrote all of the letters.  I just did capital letters but I was pretty impressed that she didn't get bored and had some fun with it!  So proud of her!!

I did the yellow letters and she did orange.  Kind of hard to see...but they are there.

So proud of herself!

Movie Night

Friday night we decided to go to Grayson Park for the Lego Movie outside.  Olivia remembered going last year to see Wizard of Oz.  She even remembered that Brendon and I played Rummy before the movie.  The weather this year was a little dicey...had some thunder and saw some lightening...but it was south of us...the movie played and we actually stayed the whole time! It helped that our friends were there too!

Trying to wait patiently for the movie!

Much happier with a friend!

Continuing the worst week

Well the we thought losing Jake was pretty bad...now the kicker.  My truck decided to kick the bucket too.  I had a doctor's appointment on Monday and the truck was fine on the way there.  On the way home I noticed my a/c went AGAIN!! Not happy about that...but also I noticed it was not getting a lot of power when I pushed the gas.  Brendon and I decided to trade vehicles on Tuesday because I had to take Olivia somewhere.  Well....Brendon barely made it to work...and on the way home my truck decided to kick the bucket on 10th Avenue in Atlanta...great...but then it took 3 HOURS for the tow truck to come!! The next day we found out the repairs for the transmission + the a/c were going to cost more that the car was worth...we decided 12 years and 181,000 miles, the car had done its time.  I was sad...I was probably the saddest person to ever buy a car!!

10th Avenue...stuck

Bye bye car! Thanks for all the adventures and good times!

The new wheels...