Ian's Play

Ian was one of the smaller lead parts in his play last night. he is very excited about drama and performing. it was a musical play about composers.

my old pipes

first of all, no, i am not refering to anything in my body. yesterday ian woke me up holding his shoe over me which was soaking wet. i figured that one of the kids had brought water in their room and spilled it in ians shoes since the other one was dry and in a differnt place. there was a puddle on the floor so it seemed logical. i did have to go to wal-mart before school to get him another pair of shoes to wear to school (they can't wear flip-flops). so we went on about our day................... last night nikki came and got me and said that someone had to have spilled water again because there was another puddle on the floor and it was in the hall too. (i had to check this out because everyone got the "no eating or drinking anywhere but the table or outside" speech.) not only were there puddles, but the entire closet was soaked and it had spread into the dining area and almost into the kitchen which is through a wall. so, mike is meeting a plummer at the house right now to try to see what we should do. having no money and a 2,000$ deductable (1% of the coverage amount) on our insurance doesn't help either. we are losing our floor which we have already replaced and who knows what else. that is what happens when you buy old houses too. makes me feel better that it is not a new house and this is happening or i would be concerned. i just think the timing sucks on this! my roof is not doing well in the wind right now either, but that is another story. so, wish me luck (yes, the kind cheryl has) and send me some lottery tickets so i will have a chance to win............ just kidding.

ian nesby

i just got back from the 5th grade school play(which ian was in). he loves acting and is really good at it. he is so animated naturally that i think he should be in drama anyway. so, he had a reasonably large part- not a lead part but a speaking part for awhile. he was very happy to see me there, owen was happy to see me, but wouldn't give me a hug in front of his class (he was in line with all of them) and jule ran out of line and gave me a big hug when he saw me. funny boys.......

tuesday and more

yesterday ian had baseball on the island at 6, soccer practice at 5:30 and i had a board meeting for soccer at 7:00. mike had to leave and pick up owen and jule at school, get ian and go to the island. i closed the shop up, walked most of the way home until a friend saw me and gave me a ride. i then got a ride from neil to my meeting then had another friend pick me up and take me home which was about the same time mike finished at baseball also. today jule has a game at 5:30, ian and nikki have games at 6 and ian is supposed to be in a school play at 6. someone please tell me how this works........................

lucky 7's

so cheryl from tank fabricators just walked in my shop just as giddy as she could be. she sends me work regularly(tank is an extremely successful awning company) and we are friends. she bought a 2$ lucky 7's ticket from the circle K down the street today and won 7,777.oo. she is going to phoenix tonight to go claim it tomorrow. there are only 3 of these tickets in arizona. she got married last week on a week long cruise so i guess she can use it to pay her bar bill. ha ha. she is the first person i have known that has won the lottery, with the exception of the 14 million (yes, i said 14 MILLION) winners i met yesterday to buy some sewing machines off of. they have spent all of the money and are selling everything to buy some more meth. the bobbin casing is missing from the machine i am interested in, but i told them to find it and i could help them out................... we will see. sad case there. what the hell do you do to spend that kind of money? greed and stupidity do terrible things to people. lesson? if you win the lottery, give your money to me and i will make sure that it goes to good use! no, really.................................................i am very happy for cheryl. she deserves to win the lottery. she is a funny girl.

nikki

this is nikki! she got 7th in her cross-country meet out of all of the 6-8th grade girls. she ran really hard and i couldn't be more proud of her. she rocked it out.

owens game

owen loves to play soccer. he did pretty well at the game this week. the top picture is him intently watching from the head spectator point. owen is on the main stitch upholstery team.