Happy Mother's Day

So, its Mother's Day and I'm up before the rest of the family...taking a few minutes for myself when I should be downstairs doing the laundry.
This morning, I'm thinking of my Mother. She is so tired from starting a new Resturant, I wish I lived closer so we could spend more time together and I could help her. I was so lucky to spend 10 days with her in Febuary. I know today will be a hard day for her because she lost her own mother in October so its the first Mother's Day without her own Mother. So, this Mother's Day, I"m thankful that I still have my mother!!

Matt loves to be outside

Matthew not only shares my hair color, temper and stuborness but also my love of being outdoors. I was cleaning out the front flowerbed and Matt just loved to play in the dirt and eat everything. He tried rocks, sticks and a few tulips...those where his favorite. I can't wait to take him camping in a few weeks...I know he'll have a ball!!

Go speed Racer!!!

We haven't even seen the movie yest and Kevin is already a huge fan or Speed Racer!!He is sooo proud of his new shirt!

Thursday Nigh Concert

Makenna had a choir conert on Thursday, she had an attitude and it wasn't a plesent night!! I love having a teenager!!

The Internet was down....my world stopped

Okay, so for the past two days our Internet has been down, at least I thought it was down. Thomas was out of town and got back late Thursday and so yesterday he took one look at the computer and said..."yep, it's down"!! I figured that much. Then then asked me if I restarted the computer....Duh....of course, I restated the computer. He then asked if unplugged and re-plugged the modem. UUMMMM...No! So, he did that and boom...it worked. I felt stupid but at least I'll know next time. I'm three days behind on my 14 days of blogging but I'll make it up today

In over my head....Again!!

So, when my husband is out of town, I do things that I'm not supose to....like rearange the bedroom furinture!!! Tom will be so mad when he gets home because, I totally cleaned our bedroom and then I taped the floor boards because we are painting this weekend. So, I took everything out of the closed and got rid of a lot of stuff. So, now the problem is that our bed it piled high with "Stuff" Thomas is coming home tomorrow which means Callie will stay up most of the night just putting things away. Once we get paint on the walls...I'll have post a picture.

14 days of Blogging

Okay, so one of our Pastor's at our church is trying to Blog for 14 days in a row, he's trying to become more disciplined and a little more creative.... check out his blog.
http://www.jeffkerr.net/jeffkerr/2008/05/a-fortnight-of.html
If Pastor Jeff can do this so can I.

So, for my 1st blog, I'll talk about work. I love my job! For those of you who don't know, I work at Fish & Wildlife Service in the Engineering Department. This is a great fit for me since I'm married to an Engineer and we all know that Engineers can be a bit quirky?! I have learned so much in general but I really learned what my husband does as an Engineering Manager in the Government. I learned about construction contracts, acquisitions, payments, policies and procedures. But that isn't the best part of my job, its the people. Most people at Fish & Wildlife are here because they believe in our Motto, "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. " I love nature, I love being outside....I LOVE CAMPING!! I'm currently reading a booked called, "The last child in the woods" am amazing book about children today and their disconnect with nature. I was so inspired by this book, that I'm helping our daycare take a trip to one of our Refuges to learn a little bit more about nature and just go outside and play!! So, as you can imagine...this isn't your typical place of employment. In the Engineering Department we have a Moose, Caribou, a hawk and a few other animals up on the walls. The rest of the building is the same way. These are all animals that were seized for a verity of reasons and now they grace our walls. Put away your business suits, its jeans and flannel shirts in this office. I've been here for almost 2 years and I've only seen my boss in a suit 1 time. It took me about a year to learn to dress down.
I take so much pride in my job and do it to the best of my ability. Apparently is shows because this years, I have received $1000 performance award, then last week, I received $100 on the spot award for some work I did for our Safety department. Then just today, my office gave me a $50.00 gift card for doing such a great job. It nice to be appreciated for what I do.
I'm so sad that my husband's job will be taking us to Wisconsin. The HR department will help me get a job when I move but I really don't want to leave. This will be the 1st time in 8 years that I'm not looking forward to moving to a new duty station. I know things will work out and God will provide me with another job, I just pray it will be awesome as it is here at FWS!!