Such an AWESOME video

My sister-in-law, Brooke (my brother Jason's wife)sent me the link to this video. It is such an awesome video I had to share it.

Hump Day and a lot to say!

Brian starts his radiation treatments tomorrow. He will have 15 treatments over a three week stretch, week days only. One possible side affect that he is not looking forward to is the nausea. The doctor gave him a script for an anti-nausea medicine, so let's hope that works. He will be going after work and has been told that he can drive himself. I was wanting him to be able to do it after work so he could come home and be able to crash if he needed to. Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz said, "there's no place like home."

Steven is still enjoying school. I know it is only his third day. If you would have seen him before school started you know what a big deal this is. He said a few minutes ago, that homework in the 3rd Grade is easy. He seems to be enjoying the learning aspect of stuff this year. He is such a social child and it can be difficult to get him to concentrate when there could conversation going on. Gee, I wonder where he gets that from?

Matthew is so ready to go back to school. Unfortunatly he doesn't start until September 3rd. We have his open house to that on the 2nd of September. With it being just he and Kendall home right now a strong bond has formed between the two of them. They love to play together and have found some television shows that they both enjoy together. They also are fighting like brothers and sisters fight too. I don't want you to think that we had the kids from Leave it to Beaver or the Brady Bunch kids. We don't. They do all get along very well, but when they have had it with each other it can get quite loud. Luckily they don't use too much violence.

I haven't heard from the preschool where I interviewed at, aka Matthew's school. I know at the very least that I am a sub there. I am kind of relieved to be honest. Yeah, we could use the money, but I didn't know how we would be able to swing finding someone to watch Kendall and still make it worth my while to work there. So I guess I will look somewhere else.

Ending with some pictures of the kids.

Steven is a 3rd Grader

Well, Steven is officially a 3rd grader. After much moaning and groaning and "I don't wanna go to school because they make you do homework", he made it. He came home all smiles. He did have the dreaded "HOMEWORK" but he got over it. After he had his snack and did his homework and reading he realized that he could still go outside and play. The only difference is he won't be outside ALL day long just a couple of hours. That boy loves the outdoors. I think he would enjoy school more if it was in a tent and 100 degrees. He said he made a couple new friends and saw some friends that he has had in previous years. I did get a couple of pictures and he actually let me take one of him IN the classroom where there happened to be a couple of his peers. I was shocked.

Oh Where, Oh Where, Oh Where did summer go?

Well summer break is winding down, and let me tell you I have one little boy who is not too thrilled about having to go back to school. I am hoping after the open house at his school on Thursday he might change his mind a little. Here's to hoping, huh?!

Brian had a follow up appointment with his urologist last week and he wants him to do a "short course" of radiation. Which is actually what we wanted to do. We are waiting to hear from the radiologist for a time to start and how many treatments he will have. Brian has almost healed completely from his surgery and his spirits have remained high throughout this whole ordeal.

Our new furniture will arrive tomorrow and I can not wait. I will put up pictures when the whole room is done and completely painted. A strange thing happened today, actually right before I sat down to write this. I hear a knock at the door and I just thought it might be some of the neighborhood kids wanting the boys to come out and play. Well I was finishing up getting lunch prepared so the kids would be busy so I could do this. Well, Steven was "occupied" at the time so he never answered the door and the knocking was persistent. Anyway, we opened the door and there was the man asking if we would be willing to sell our old Mazda. That thing has been sitting in my driveway, not running for about a year. I was like "yeah, how much ya wanting to pay?" Well he looked at it did a few things, got the car started and said sold. The car really isn't worth much, so we made $300.00, which is good considering even that is high. Well I signed over the title and wrote up a bill of sale. How strange was that? The guy is a mechanic and that car is a mechanic's dream. The engine isn't one big computer so you can actually work on it yourself.

We went to Illinois at the beginning of the month. We haven't been up there in 4 years. Steven goes up regularly with my parents, but as a family we haven't gone in ages. Every year we have the Conner Family Reunion and in the past we have been unable to go because Steven always starts school the Monday after. Since he doesn't start till later, we decided now is the time to go. We had a great time seeing family we haven't seen in a while. Everyone got to meet Kendall for the first time and see Matthew since he was a baby himself. I got to meet my nephew Hayden who I haven't met yet and he just turned a year old. I also got to see my other nephew, Kinnick. I don't remember how old he was the last time I saw him. It was a very uneventful trip there and back, but it was good to get home. I am such a home body that I don't like sleeping other places and I love to get back in my own bed as soon as I can.

I got a phone call on the way up there from the school Matthew is to attend this fall. I had filled out an application there and they called to see if I could come in for an interview. I said yes, so after we got back I went in for the interview. They were impressed, as was I. I would love to work there. The only thing that might prevent that is they don't have any one year classes, so I would have to find someone to watch her. This person would have to be willing to do it cheap or by trading duties. So it might be more trouble than it is worth. I am not worrying about it yet, since I haven't been offered a job yet. Everything that has happened over this summer has taught me to give it up to God, and that is what I am doing. The right job will come along. I am however, a sub right now and that is probably just fine.

I guess that catches us up. I have more pictures, but since the other summer video was getting so long I made a new video, titled Summer 2008 part 2. The pictures are mainly from our trip to Illinois. We went through some parts that had been flooded not too long before we went through. I got some good shots of that.

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