How is the year half over?

I am sitting here wondering what happened to 2009? It has been a crazy year and I am nervous my first day of law school is only 77 days away. There is so much to do. I have to finish my clothes shopping, try to squeeze in a surgery while i am double insured, take Lillian school clothes shopping for the FIRST time...YEAH, get Serena potty trained, move, enroll the three kids in school, find schools for Serena and Titus, have a garage sale, go to a family reunion, take the kids camping, get the kids to start falling at reasonable time all sharing a room, teach Titus and Lillian how to swim, and fit in reading all my prep books for Law school in my free time. . . ok I am sure tehre is more, but the list is starting to scare me a little.

Today is Adam's B-day...Happy Birthday! I am going to take the kids to get Chipotle and a cake then to see there Dad at the fire station. Titus wants to get Dad a train cake or a firetruck cake, he hasn't decided for sure.

Well Julie inspired me after reading her blogs so I am going to try to blog more...I'll save all my happy moments.


Here is my little wall project I started after I found the leaves for 2 dollars each at bookmans...I had the candle holders, but they were back so I painted them copper to match and it turned out great.







Titus was estatic when his balloon came down from the ceiling...after almost breaking my arm getting it down for the 2nd time last night...Idecided to not even attempt to try while I was home alone with the kids after he let it go this morning.

Today the kids helped me cook breakfast they broke a dozen eggs without getting a shell in bowl, then they all took turns stirring.

They were really excited to eat the breakfast they helped make.

It has been a great summer so far. We have been swimming, played at the park, and went bike riding many times...The kids are really starting to be a lot of help cleaning up the house and I think I am going to start a chore chart this summer a long with a bedtime chart were they get stickers for following their bedtime routine AND go to bed without getting back up then they can earn treats or trips to the swimming pool.

ASU!!!

I applied for Law School back in November for early admissions and the deadline is the end of January. I hadn't heard anything yet and I was feeling a little anxious because with the housing market and economy I wanted to secure my job for next year if I needed to work. With the lovely education reform passed by the Arizona congress members I wasn't sure what the job market would be like next year.

I called up ASU to ask when I could expect to hear. The wonderful lady at ASU offered to look up my information. As she was taking down my information she stopped and asked to put me on hold. Then the Dean of Admissions picked up the phone and said she had overheard her assistant mention my name. She remembered my name and application (they receive at least 500 for early admissions) and wanted to personally congratulate me and let me know that I would be receiving a letter of acceptance and that if there was anything I needed help with she would personally meet with me to help out. I was in shock and started crying. I have never been so happy or scared.

Jan

I can't believe it has been almost a month since my last post. It was a surprising month in a lot of ways, but very enlightening. Right now we are focused on getting in a better financial position. We are both blessed to have good jobs in this economy.

The kids had a great Christmas, we made it up to my parents in Show Low, and down to Adam's parents in Yuma. The kids had a blast with all their cousins and were spoiled rotten. We are getting ready to get back into the swing of things...work and school start on Monday.

Lillian and Titus have been really great about playing together. The other day they walked through the grocery store shouting "were stuck together, we love each other" and walking with their arms around each other, even though they kept falling down.

Serena has started talking...she came up to me one day and said "I want to eat now," she has also said "help please," I want that," "that's mine" and a few other sentences. It is really funny because she went from babbling to sentences without doing more than mama and Dada in between. She always waits until she feels she has mastered a skill before showing off.

I am on the last leg of waiting to hear from ASU Law. Hopefully it is good news, but I also realize that if I get an no, then that is the answer I have been praying for. Then I will start on getting my master's in Accounting online. It is funny because six months ago I felt so lost, now I am torn between two great and exciting possibilities.