Fall Photos

Here’s a few fall photos from 2008, taken at local parks and the soccer complex. It’s a great season for fun.

Life Lately

Aiden shows his crabby friend,

I am done with my course work!!! Yea!!! Now all I have left is to complete my student teaching semester and I will graduate this December! I am so excited. I am planning on getting a summer job to save money for this upcoming semester of poverty.

Lilly and I got to tour her school this Saturday. She got accepted to a new all girls college preparatory school that opens this fall. She is so excited. I think that she was feeling a little anxiety (which should be expected with any move to middle school) – but at our tour she quickly buddied up with the only other girl that was accepted from her current school. I felt reassured too as the superintendent of our district explained that not only did they have the opportunity to select the cream of the crop from the applicant students, but in teachers as well. The school is small, but undergoing renovations and when it is complete, it will be equipped with the latest technology in the district.

At the tour Lilly and the rest of the new student body got to vote on the school’s colors. She voted on the combination of hot pink, black, and silver. Where else but at an all girl’s school?

Aiden is ready for summer! He often inquires about how many days are left in school. He looks forward to spending more time with his Grandma. He often declares how much he misses her. He decided to give her flowers for her birthday – “but you know, the fresh kind that you get at the market.” He also thought jewlery was an appropriate gift for a Grandma – I opted for the first suggestion. He is so insightful.

He is continuing to improve at soccer, though he has told his coach to call him Link. The first time we enrolled him in soccer he had his coaches, other parents, and the referees all convinced that his name was Link. A parent even corrected me once when I addressed him as Aiden. (I guess she didn’t know that I was Mom?? -Whatever) Anyways, the team that he has been playing with for the last year has another Aiden. In fact the two Aiden’s have the same middle name – so at times its confusing.

I have missed some of the games and practices this season because of my intensive school schedule. I was a little surprised when I took Aiden to soccer practice on Friday and heard his coach referring to him as Link. Whatever – he responds to it and the other Aiden doesn’t so I guess problem solved.

Aiden and Lilly have adopted hermit crabs. The four have been named: Clair (aka, Mr. Crabbs) Sushi, Sammy and Meany Me. Yes, it is Meany not Mini. Aiden explained that this crab is mean because it pinches hard. Aiden has been quite upset with me because I won’t by a milk snake or a tarantula. I am so mean. His life is so incomplete. I know because he tells me daily.

Kenneth is excited that I will have more time and energy to contribute to the house work. Who does he think that he married. 

Love,

Jenni

Siblings & cousins

BARSTOW, CA — So, here we are on our annual pilgrimage to visit family and friends in California. We stopped in Barstow to get fuel for both our bodies and our conveyance. Circumstances dictated that dinner was to be provided by the Colonel.

Grandchild 1, familiar with the KFC menu called in his order for the chicken nugget “Laptop” meal. Grandchildren 2 and 3 (siblings) followed suit. When the meals were delivered, they contained among other things a granola bar. Aiden, 5, hands the bar to grandpa for label screening. Aiden has a peanut allergy.

The news was not favorable on that account, so Aiden surrendered his bar. Sibling Priscilla and cousin Davis, without prompting (or necessity) surrendered theirs as well.

“And a little child shall lead them.”

It’s Christmas Time…

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If you couldn’t view these before….(from Christmas) -You need to have Windows media player or Winamp works too…

Photostory

Here are some photos from summer 2006. I have figured out how to share my photo stories with those of you that have been unable to view them via email. One small ah-ha for Jenni, one big awe for you. These include pictures from Lilly’s birthday (swim) party and pictures of the three cousins’ trip to California.

Dinner at Jenni’s

Do you ever wish you could have dinner at my house?

Tonight I baked potatoes for dinner. Lilly’s favorite, Aiden on the other hand usually turns up his nose and asks where the rest of dinner is when we have potatoes. So I made a hot dog special just for him (his favorite.) He’d just sat down at the table next to his sister as I was busy placing potato fixin’s on the table, when he asked me, “Mom. What kind of hot dogs are these?” “Oscar Meyer – Is that okay with you Aiden?”

“I mean are they meat?” (Long pause) (One time Lilly told me [Read more]