April 15- 29th

Hi everyone!!!!!

The day after the concert I had to get Sierra to the orthodontics by 8:00 UGH!! I realized very quickly that I was going to hate the drive when Sierra starts school next year in Grapevine, but I will survive.

Ryan had another race this weekend in west Texas. It was miserably hot and dusty but he came in 4th in all but first in his division. Charlie ended up breaking his foot in the race.

The girls and I ended up doing a whole lot of nothing while he was gone mainly working around the house. Halie had a friend over Friday night and they spent the day eating out and watching a movie in Frisco (what a life). He got home late Sunday night dead tired and feeling like crap. He ended up sleeping in on Monday morning. I took the kids to school came back home was going to lay back down with him for just a second and we both ended up sleeping until 11 o'clock. But since I never sleep well when he is gone I guess we both needed it.

On Wednesday Cindy came up for a few days, she is getting lasik done and she had her first appointment on Thursday. We took her out to eat Wednesday night then she went walking with us while Colby came over and watch Sweeny Todd with Halie. FYI very gory movie. Thursday I drove her to her appointment then to the mall to get a new RX for glasses (she cant wear her contacts while waiting for the surgery) while we waited we grabbed some lunch and we had our eyebrows threaded (its where they trim your brows using nothing but thread) she thought it was the neatest thing. That evening she went with Sierra to watch Katie in a program at school. Friday morning she headed back home.

Halie spent the weekend at Chealsys house. It was our anniversary weekend and we had thought about going out of town but Sierras plan for spending the weekend away fell through so we stayed at home. Friday we picked up Sierra from school and took her to met her new friend at the bowling alley for a few hours then came home and watched a crappy movie with her. Saturday we went to lunch with her then bought some summer clothes came back home. That evening we burned the burn pile had hotdogs and two bottles of wine it was actually a pretty great anniversary , but all the smoke made both of us sick or Ryan even sicker and Sunday we hung around the house with unknowing to us sinus infections. But I have to tell you a horrible story about the fire. The brush pile that we burned had been there awhile because of all the rain so about 5 mins. after we started it a baby rabbit hops of the fire of course I panic and run towards it trying to shwww it away and yep you know it it turned around and ran right back into the fire. Of course I am freaking out an about 30 seconds later you can hear it squelling in the fire I am going nuts by now and of course cant do anything about it, well the noise stopped and Ryan says its over he`s dead WRONG the poor little baby came crawling out all burned I thought I was going to cry. But being raised on a farm I knew what had to be done so I went and got a shovel so Ryan could put it out of its misery. Poor little thing Ryan said its little eyes had burned out I was horrified. You would think I would be used to things like that but it was a baby. Any way my mom and dad came by for a quick visit on Sunday he made me two chairs and footstools to match and they brought them by.

Monday morning I was too sick to take the kids to school so Ryan offered for me. He ended up going to the doctor and found out about the sinus infection and Lisa asked how I was doing and he told her I was sick with the same thing and she wrote me prescript too. YEAH so we are both on the road to recovery.

Tuesday I was up and around but still felt and sounded like crap. Wednesday I had another Dr.`s appointment for my hand and its finally time to do the surgery, its scheduled for the day after Mother`s Day. After the appointment I met with the principal of Sierras school and finalized my job with them for next year. They are going to pay me salary but its not come to come close to paying for tuition so I will get a monthly paycheck again and at least it will pay for

the gas down there. Later that night some people came over to help Ryan work on his bike and then Brent and Mitch came over and helped pull the pool cover off. I cooked out some burgers for everyone and we sat around ate and had a few drinks.

A couple of quick funny stories at Sierras expense.

One day last week I picked up Halie from school and she went with me to buy grocery's which I wont do again I spent at least a hundred dollars more with her going .... She picked out these reeses peanut butter cup ice cream sandwiches, that night after our walk Sierra had ice cream all on her pants she said she had eaten one of halies ice cream. Later that night Halie asked who had eaten two of her ice creams. Ryan and I both knew we hadnt and Sierra said she had eaten only one so guess the ghost ate it ( we figured it was Seirra) the next night Ryan caught her trying to get in the freezer again he asked what she was doing and she said getting one of Halies ice cream an Ryan said But you had two last night and she said How did you know ? He said i didnt you just told me. You should have seen her face.

The next story is also about things Sierra says. I made myself a cup of hot tea an put it in a to go cup with lid and set it on the arm rest in the tahoe. I turned around to tell Seirra something and knocked the cup over and it spilled all over my back and it hurt like hell too. I raised my shirt to get Halie to look at it and she said it looked bad. So I drove on to the shop cursing from the pain all the way there. Once there Sierra ran over to my side and said let me see so i turned and pulled my shirt up for her to see and she winced and said im going to tell dad what happened. As i walked in front of her she said "Mom your shirts all wet" I couldnt help it I said "DUH Sierra remember the hot water that spilled on me" It was funny later when I told Ryan but at the moment I was exhuasted by her. I ended up having second degree burns on my back two big blisters came up later that day and its still blood red.

Both of the girls are doing great at school AB honor roll for both of them. They are taking the TAXT (SP) test this week.

Ryan has a race this weekend last one until the fall HURRAY.

The only picture I have is of us on our anniversary (after the bunny incident I needed some wine)

Hope to see you all soon.