Scholarships

Nanette is doing way awesome in school. I constantly can't believe the measure of success of that she is having in her studies. This evening, Nanette and I went to the "Goddard School of Business and Economics' Awards Banquet." I would estimate that of all the students that pass through the business school that less than 5% receive a scholarship from the business school itself. This is fantastic for Nanette because she is becoming an academic elitist. She received a 4.0 last semester and she is poised to receive another 4.0 this semester. Although this scholarship is not a 'full-ride' scholarship, it will definitely take a bite into tuition and fees.

Way To Go Nanette. You're Awesome. I'm Very Impressed.

yard work

Chris has been working hard on our yard the last two days and it is starting to look really nice! Once we get flowers and plants in there than it should look great! I wish that I would've been able to help him more. Here are a couple of pictures of how it is coming along:

This is the flower bed in the front. It doesn't look like much yet, but it was full of weeds. Chris also added the brick around the edge.

This was just a big pile of dirt. We lined it with brick, raised the back section, and added a pond. It is going to look way nice with flowers and bushes!

One of my pretty tulips. They are my favorite flower.

Onto other news:

Ethan went #1 in his potty! I'm so excited. He got to pick one of his prizes and play with it and it made him want to sit on his potty again, but than he was way too tired and wouldn't hold still... so we will work on it again tomorrow.

He also said something pretty funny today. We were sitting in the front yard watching Chris dig dirt and the neighbors walked by. Well, Ethan stopped what he was doing and just stared at our neighbor. I said, "Ethan", (I was a little embarrassed that he was just staring).
Ethan: What?
Me: What are you doing?
Ethan: I'm looking at people Mama.

It was really cute how plainly he said it. We learn that it isn't polite to stare at people, but kids are so curious about everything and they just can't help it.

News

The Good News...

I got a summer scholarship so I will be going to summer school and will be able to knock a few more classes off of the huge list that I need for graduation.

BUT

The Bad News(for me)... :(

I am going to summer school (Luckily 3 of the classes are online.)

More Good News...

We are leaving in about 2 weeks to go on a fun little road trip to Portland, Oregon. It will be our first road trip with the kids.

BUT

The Bad News(for Chris and I)...

We will be driving 13 hours... all in one day... with 2 kids under the age of 3. We are going to leave at 5 a.m. so hopefully they will sleep a lot. I also plan on bribing them with a lot of goodies. :)

Even more Good News...

We have lived at our house for 2 1/2 years and we are finally doing something about our yard. We went to Home Depot and bought a bunch of bricks, soil, and even a little pond. And in a couple of weeks we are going to get a bunch of plants and flowers. It should look really nice when it is all done. :)

BUT

The Bad News...

It is going to take a lot of work, before it will look nice. Luckily our yard isn't very big.


DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY NEWS (GOOD or BAD) ?