Welcome to the world....

Welcome to the world to our new Niece Kallianna Andrea.  She was born 10-12-12 and weighed in at 3 lbs. 16 1/2 inches long.  She suprised us a little by coming about 10 weeks early, but she and mom and dad are all doing we'll .

Coyote Call

Aragorn got an award on Friday at school.  His school follows a motto of HOWL.  Helpful, Ownership, Wisechoices Leader.  He got his award for Ownership.  Taking ownership of himself and making the right choices.  We are SO proud of him.  This is his 1st award, so he was pretty proud of him too.  We hope he keeps it up, maybe he can earn all of the HOWL awards!

Family......

A couple of weekends ago Eric's Aunt Kay and Uncle Randy came into town.  They come up a couple times a year, but usually only for a  day or so here in town and then they head to Estes park.  This year we were able to catch them before they headed back to KS and we were able to spend some time with them.  Craig and Belinda and Kay and Randy Eric and i with the boys, all met up for dinner at Freddy's and then we dropped the boys with Auntie Bria and headed out for a date night.  We met up with Craig and Belinda and Kay and Randy to do drinking and some dancing.  Belinda and Craig are fans of a local performer b the name of C. C. Collier.  They have wanted us to see him or a while, and i have to admit he was pretty good.  He's a one man show and he does really well.  We had a great time hanging out and dancing.  It was great spending some time with Kay and Randy, as well as Craig and Belinda, we all had so much fun, we may even be at the next show. 

Karate...

Yesterday the boys participated in a "break-a-thon" for their Karate school.  They each collected enough money to buy 8 boards, plus to more boards we bought at the event.  They had a live band, good food, and great entertainment, all kinds of people young and old experienced or not breaking boards.  Aragorn and Rohan both did GREAT breaking all 10 boards with very little effort.  They had a good time, we had a good time Grandma, Auntie Bri, Grandpa and Mr Martin joined in on the fun too.  Grandma brought the boys breakfast to get their gears going before the braking, and grandpa bought us all lunch with Ice cream to cool us down.  It was a really fun day.  And the best part was, all of he funds raised will got to help underprivileged children that can not afford karate :-)

8 Years

 

Eric and i celebrated 8 years of being married on Sept 4th. We went to dinner at olive garden and enjoyed some adult time, just chatting. We were home by 8:30 and just had a very calm and easy going night. He got me the newest SIMS games, and we got a card games expansion for him. It was a nice night for us. Happy anniversary Monkey. I love you!

Century 16 Shooting.......

With my time off i decided to take some time a visit the memorial. Now for anyone that doesn't know, I am Gateway class of '97. I am proud to say i called Aurora my home, and to this day i still do, just a different side of town. I grew up at Aurora mall, had one of my 1st jobs there used to ditch school to go there. It was a place we all hung out. The theatre came later, after i graduated and stopped visiting the mall, but i have many fond memories of it. I saw Titanic there, I've had dates there. It's one of the places Eric and i went on some of our 1st dates. And in one night, 1 man had almost managed to shatter all those memories and tarnish my city's name. 13 people lost their lives for reasons we may never know, and many more were injured. At the memorial, i was able to see the theatre, and memories came rushing back to me. And then i imagined my friend Adam's truck cruising down the street with me and Tiffany in the front, trying to make it to the mall and back before lunch was over. I watched as Eric and I turned into the street to see a movie. I watched as my car turned to take Rohan to the mall and play. I saw all of these things in the waves and waves of flowers and candles and stuffed animals, so out of place on the dirt. It was then that i decided, this man will not take away those memories and replace them with ones of sadness. I will grieve along with everyone, but i will also remember that love is stronger, and Aurora and all of it's residents still stand, we will not be broken by you. We will grieve, we will feel sadness, and then we will recover, and be stronger than we were.

This one hurts......

He would only stand still for the one picture

Rohan started pre-school on Wednesday, and let me tell you i was NOT prepared for that one.  But because all the pieces fall into place just right, it makes to most sense for me to go back to work.  Which means Ro had to go to school.  I am more ok with it than i thought i would be honestly.  It's a pre-K and daycare, so he's actually getting the pre-school he needs for Kindergarten, plus the daycare we need :-)  Eric took him to school yesterday and I picked him up.  He didn't have such a great 1st day, but i think that's pretty normal.  He was excited to go back today, and when I got him, he said it was better today (they even got him to try new foods!!)  hopefully the good attitude continues, as it makes my decision to go back to work that much easier.  I am going to miss spending my days with him though, taking him places and discovering new things, or revisiting old things we like.  But i am glad that he'll get to spend time with kids his own age doing a lot of fun stuff.