A UPDATE, FINALLY

Well, HI Y'all! It sure has been a while on my part, and I'm sorry, if i have any readers left :)... TONS has happened since I last posted... I promised pics of Brice's party & never got them to you... maybe if they r still on mom's camera I'll post them sometime later...

Well, the last few weeks of summer semester were CRAZY busy!!! We had tons of papers & projects to do in those last few weeks, I thought I was gonna die & never get it done... plus we had finals on top of papers... But w/ God's help, I made it.... got it all done, did great on finals, and got all A's (in all 2 of my classes! lol) .. I am in NO way taking credit for the A's... w/o God i definately couldn't have done it!!! Just for the record, they weren't nursing classes, just gen ed.. Fine Arts & Microbiology (w/ lab)....

2 weekends before school let out my great friend Lalia came over for the weekend (bcuz it was the last she could come b4 school was out, the nxt wknd was West Virginia for us)... She came over and we had a fun time :) .. that Saturday I had to go to the Art Museum w/ my Arts class & to pick out a painting for our paper for that class (that I had a week to do, not procrastination on my part, he just posted the guidelines then 4 the paper)... after that we ate at Sonic & met some of my family at the mall.... Actually we met mom & tonya who had sedona w/ them... we hung out w/ sedona :-)...then other random stuff for that weekend...

In the mall, Sedona saw this jumpy ride thing & had to ride it.. so i paid and she rode it, but I think this smile on her face made it worth the 4 or 6 dollars or whatever I paid...
That next weekend before school let out was our weekend to go to West Virginia... on the way home I noticed the BEAUTIFUL sky & mom snapped some pics.. the pics def don't do it justice, but WOW what an amazing God we serve!!!

Anyways, Finally school let out for summer... a surreal feeling let me tell you and i am/was OFFICIALLY halfway DONE w/ nursing school.... so now i admit i am PROUD of the fact that I am a 2nd year! I'm looking forward to the beginning of school cruise where this year I'll be a 2nd year & know a lotta stuff, whereas just last year i was this scared 1st year who didn't know anything!... did that sound really immature?? i hope not! lol...

Summer hasn't been TOO eventful! A lot of relaxing & reading books & etc! My first week off however, my brother in law, Bill, had to go on a trip for work & my sister, jess needed my help w/ the kiddies... So of course i went and stayed the week w/ her... i didn't go insane like i originially thought I would (as much as i love those kids)... and i learned a LOT about raising kids! lol.. I didn't take many pics... but i took a few... On the Wednesday of that week we took the kids to the Cincy Museum Center (Kids museum & science museum) I did snap a few pics on that day...

"Drivin" Daddy's mower, while waiting on Mommy (to leave for the museum)



Cam in the van.. it was still parked in the garage btw I (or Jess) do not let the kids run around w/o seatbelts while driving like some people do that I see ...

"Riding" the bus at the children's museum...

Science Museum... I'm not sure if these mounds were made to be climbed on .. but there wasn't a rope or a sign...soooo....

And since Big Sister climbed on these mounds of COURSE our little copy-cat, Brice had to too....

But how could I resist sucha cutie??

All 3 kiddies watching the "puter" about dinosaurs.. Sedona LOVES dinosaurs! I took this pic bcuz i thought it was cute, the 3 lil "stairsteps"

That next week on Tuesday evening we babysat the kids so Jess n Bill could go out ALONE for supper! I decided to do a "photoshoot" (and i use that term loosely i do NOT claim to be one of those aspiring photographers that we have soo many of now, i simply mean grab my camera & take some pics of the kids in places i tell them to stand, sit etc)... Anyways when i got the brilliant idea, i was gonna take pics of sedona but by the time i got my camera and came back outside she didn't wanna take pics so Cam was there and willing... and Brice is always ready to say "cheese"...

The first place Cam wanted a pic was this swing... not exactly the place i had in mind, but hey gotta make the kid happy...

By the way, I did take other pics but I just included the best ones on here...Most of them are on my FB if you wanna see more...

I LOVE this pic & thanks soo much to Lorna for helpin me edit it a little :) i LOVE how it turned out!

Despite Cam's expression I like this pic of the boys.. Brice in the background but lookin right at the camera....

My 2 favorite men! :-)

This is not a pose, the boys just looked down on their own.. trust me I am NOT brilliant enough to think of great poses.. however i LOVE this pic, how they both were lookin at the same thing!!!!!!

Awww.... my little cutie!

Sedona finally decided to cooperate w/ me & i tried to take a group pic.. this is the first of 4 attempts...

The only pic w/ all 3 looking at me... i know it's not centered esp w/ where the boys r sitting and it does bug me (lol) but kids are kids & at least they looked & smiled...

Haha..i thought this was great... how he looked away w/ his eyes just as i took the pic.. so funny

And now w/ him looking at me...

Again .. NOT a pose, but i thought it turned out good how he looked away..

Sedona & Brice or "Baby" as he is known by- Cam wouldn't cooperate 4 this one... I have 2 pics of these 2 together & had a hard time deciding which one to post (the other is on FB if you wanna see)

Brice was tryin to pick up a bug....literally he was chasin it.. boys will be boys... one time i told him to pick up a worm and he did.. then i told him to give it to Mama (my mom) and he did! HA..

So, back to my summer... one other week Bill was gone just one night, so i spent the night again.... we have to do 360 NCLEX (big state board test we have to pass after grad to be RNs) style questions and get an 80% or above this summer before we can start next year (no, we never get a true total "break")...i started these one day and got 2 REALLY horrible scores! i began thinking what if i can't pass these??? later that week I prayed before starting, and made it my goal just to pass 100... and PRAISE GOD he helped me get an 81%!!! I tried more today and got a bad grade on some, but then got an 81% on 100 more! So 200 down, 160 to go :-)...

Well, that's pretty much it.... summer's goin great, can't believe i've been off school a month already!!!

I'll try to post pics of Brice's party sometime.. even though they are WAY late they still r cute...

oh, and i'm sure you all know this already but I'm gonna be an aunt again in September... It's a boy.... But it's by Tonya & Craig this time (finally) so that's exciting :-)

Well, that's all for now.... hope you enjoyed