Pumpkin Patch

We stopped by the pumpkin patch on our way to the game. Thought these were cute pics. For some reason the girls love pumpkins!!

Thursday....

I haven't been blogging the last few days due to lack of time so I thought I would use the few minutes I have today to type a few lines.
As usual I am still overwhelmed with my classes. On Wednesday I went with Alexis on her field trip to the Oil Ranch. It was so much fun. She got to ride a horse, milk a cow and go on a hay ride. There is one little girl in her class that refused to touch the milk cow....which I thought was ironic considering her dad is the Ag teacher at Katy High.
Today is Ryan's b-day- we got him a new laptop- he loves it!!
As some of you may know I am pretty much consumed with this years election. I still have faith that McCain will prevail. Barack Obama will be a horrible mistake for this country. He tax plan does not promote prosperity, it promotes dependency on the government. He said in the past only people making over 250k a year would get a tax hike and yesterday he came out and said now it's 200k. He wants to tax the people he considers rich and then send a check to people who pay no taxes. He calls it a tax cut- but you can't have a tax cut if you pay no taxes- it's called a welfare check. He also wants to raise the taxes on small businesses. This is a personal issue for me because me and my family are Joe the plumber. We own two small businesses and we didn't build them by getting government hand outs. We built them with our own blood, sweat and tears and because we are successful Barack Obama wants to punish that success by raising our taxes. Believe me, the self-employed are taxed enough!! Oh, and get this, my daughter Ashley came home from school today and told me the librarian read them a book about Barack Obama. So I asked if she also read them a book about John McCain and of course she didn't. Here's the deal, I don't mind if she reads them a book about Obama- I just think she should be unbiased and also read them a book about McCain. Long story short, I will be contacting her to ask her to read to them about McCain as well. I'm sorry but no one can deny the John McCain has a much more interesting life story than Obama- he was a POW for 6 years after all.
On a lighter note, tomorrow is Halloween. Ashley wanted to be a Spurs player, but finding Spurs stuff in our area is rather difficult, so she decided to be a hunter. Alexis is going to be Shawn Johnson- the Olympic gymnast.
Well that's all for now- off to the Katy game I go!!!

Ashley

So Ashley decided to enter the fair this year in the home economics catagory, something she has never done before. She baked cookies and entered a photograph of some random cow she saw in a pasture and decided to take a picture of it. She worked really hard and the only thing I helped her with was putting the cookies on the cookie sheet. Her hard work paid off. Her photo won 2nd place and her cookies won 3rd. Not bad for her first time.

Yea for me!!!!

I aced both my A&P lab exam and my Microbiology lab exam!!!! It is always a nice surprise to receive a good grade especially when you weren't expecting to do so hot!!

My weekend....

So after a busy week I was so glad it was the weekend. I didn't end up going to the Katy game on Friday....instead I baked brownies with my daughter Ashley. She entered the fair under the home economics class so we have been trying new recipes and trying to decide what to enter. Although the brownies were good we decided to go with cookies. She also entered in the visual arts category (photography) so we went out today and snapped all kinds of pics- hopefully one will be a winner!!

Saturday was Katy Homecoming and this was the first year Ryan went with a date. Let me just say homecoming dances sure have changed since I was a teenager. It is now a formal dance- at least in Katy it is. I spent part of Friday shopping for his tie and I must say I picked out a pretty sharp looking tie. He and his date looked so cute, well see for yourself.......

Robert had him ask her dad first if it would be okay for him to take her to the dance. Her dad seemed pretty impressed that Ryan asked his permission to date his daughter. Robert also told Ryan to always take her home earlier than her curfew-she was supposed to be home at 11:30 so he took her home at 11. He is way more responsible than Robert or I was at that age Thank God!! We decided to raise our kids that exact opposite than our parents did us- it seems to be working!! Oh and I love that he drives now- I completely take advantage of him when it comes to running errands!!

Busy, busy, busy!!!

This has been such a busy last couple of weeks with no sign of slowing down. I am completely overwhelmed with my classes, I have to take my daughter to gymnastics 3 days a week, Ashley is showing at the Harris county fair next weekend- so we are getting her and her projects prepared for that, Ryan is going to homecoming with a date this weekend so I have to get the mum and the corsage for the lovely young lady he is going with, Robert is taking him shopping for some fancy clothes on Wednesday- we'll see how that goes, Katy game on Thursday, Katy game on Friday, car show on Saturday, and did I mention we are having out of town company this weekend? So Friday morning, the only time I thought I had to relax, will be spent doing house work. Busy, busy, busy!!!!!

Thought this was good....

A United States Marine was attending some college courses betweenassignments. He had completed missions in Iraq andAfghanistan. One of the courses had a professor who was an avowed atheistand a member of the ACLU.

One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to theceiling and flatly stated, 'God, if you are real, then I want you to knockme off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 minutes.'

The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went byand the professor proclaimed, 'Here I am God. I'm still waiting.' It gotdown to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his chair,went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him; knocking him off theplatform. The professor was out cold. The Marine went back to his seat and sat there, silently. The other studentswere shocked and stunned and sat there looking on in silence.

The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the Marineand asked, 'What the heck is the matter with you? Whydid you do that?' The Marine calmly replied, 'God was too busy today protecting America'ssoldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid stuff and act like anidiot. So,He sent me.'

The Weekend...

We had a good weekend together. Roberts shop won a trophy for one of his trucks...hopefully that will be good for business!! Sunday was Ashley's birthday so she wanted to go to the USS Lexington. We spent 3 hours on that ship!! It's so funny when ever we go to any type of museum Robert actually educates the kiddos about what they are looking at and since he was in the military, he told the kids all about the ship and how everything works on it. Below you will see a picture of him giving the kids a lesson.

We all had a really good time. The weather was great, the water was pretty and we got to eat at a two story Whataburger...good times.

It's Friday!!!!!

I am so glad it's Friday....I had a horribly stressful week. School is really starting to get to me- sometimes I feel like I'm too old for this whole college thing. I so look forward to the day I finally earn my degree- it will be all worth it in the end.

So we went to the Katy game last night. All I can say is, "what in the world is up with Katy football?!?!?!" They are having a less than stellar season so far. It's very disappointing to watch them these days- I mean this is supposed to be one of the best football program in Texas- I've never seen them play this bad. Turn it around boys!!!! I have a house to sell next year, the better you play the higher my home value goes!! Geesh! (just kidding)

On another note, I watched the debate last night and I was so nervous for Gov. Palin, but she did really well. I have to say I am a little biased though. I hope and pray she and McCain win the White House in Nov. I don't think the country realizes the trouble we will be in if Barack Obama becomes our president. Higher taxes, defeat in Iraq, socialized health care that doesn't work- just ask Canada. If you think the economy is bad now, just wait for good old Barry Obama to raise taxes which will result in job losses. People will really be hurting then. I have to stop talking about this now because I can feel my stress level rising!

Okay, that's better. Back to this weekend, I am so excited about going to Corpus- even if it will be a working weekend for Robert- we always seem to work in some fun!! I have the best family- I just love being with them. My husband is way cooler than I am and he loves me and the kids more than anything and my kids are angels from heaven....I can't ask for anything else. I am truly blessed.

Vote for McCain/Palin on Nov. 4th!!!!!