Pheasant Hunting Trip to Kansas

Fun Trip details coming soon :) ...

A & P Study Group

So I've gone back to school this semester. I graduated the first time from Texas Tech in 1998 but have recently decided that I need a career change so I'm back in school completing prerecs for nursing school. Anatomy and Physiology I is the first class I've taken in 12 years and I'm having SO much FUN!

Yes, the class is difficult but not why you'd think. It's difficult because of the amount of material that we have to learn in the amount of time we have to learn it. The material is actually extremely interesting. I was worried going into the class that I wouldn't study properly or that the class would be too difficult but I've found a FABULOUS study group which makes it 10x easier and a heck of a lot more fun :) We've all signed up for A & P II next semester so study group and the ridiculously fun study sessions will continue!
















Here are me and the girls and then a picture of the girls studying




















Here is K being an oligodendrocyte and D showing how neurons are connected





















Here is A being an astrocyte and me showing how neurons communicate.

















Here is D teaching us about the spinal cord and the owner of the place that we study at likes having us there so much that he offered to reserve our "section" each Monday night so that we'd have a place to study. So we showed up this past Monday and he had made this sign :) He made us a name and everything - How fun is that :)

Camping with Friends

We typically like to go camping a couple of times a year but for one reason or another we've missed the last THREE camping trips with our friends! So when planning this most recent one we were determined to make this one happen. Even when it turned out that we picked one of the coldest weekends yet :)

Ryan found a fabulous place for us to camp called Pilot Knoll Park and we were excited to try it out. So we loaded up the car and headed out to campsite number 22 to set up camp around 2pm yesterday. The weather was actually nice and sunny when we set up camp but once the sun went down we were COLD. I had brought hand and foot warmers for all along with a couple of larger warmers that we all put in our sleeping bags to keep us warm. They actually worked pretty well.




This camping trip was a lot of fun. The kids fished with worms on their hooks, made worm habitats for some of the luckier worms, & fed the ducks.
We all grilled burgers, spider dogs and beans for dinner, made s'mores, snuggled into our sleeping bags at night (made that much warmer by the handy warmers placed at the bottom of our sleeping bags), and had hot chocolate and breakfast burritos this morning.


Everything you'd expect from a camping trip and more!

Halloween & Pumpkin Carving 2010

Yay! We're all well this year and were all able to go Trick or Treating :)

This year we had a lot of fun in our costumes. Little Miss was invited to a fabulous Halloween party at one of her friend's houses. The next night we had a family Halloween party at a friend's house in Dallas and then we went out trick or treating tonight. Super fun Halloween for our family this year!

As for costumes, Little Miss went as Cleopatra, Little Man was Batman, I was an F-15 fighter pilot, and Ryan went as Poncho Villa. Luckily the kid's costumes still fit! We've had these costumes since last year since we didn't get to go last year because Little Miss and I had swine flu.

Ryan and the kids carved and decorated our pumpkins this afternoon while I was at a friend's house sewing on Little Miss's Daisy scout patches. Once I got home we had dinner and got ready to go out trick or treating. We took the kids door to door in our neighborhood and they were a hit!

Daisy Scouts go horseback riding

Today the Daisy scouts went horseback riding! The girls had a ball. First the girls learned all about horses, saddles, and what to call different parts of a horse and his hooves. Then we got to go outside and take turns riding a horse.

After that the girls all heard a story about Daisy Scout founder, Juliette Low, because her birthday is this weekend. We learned how she founded the Daisy Scouts and why and then we made a necklace to represent who she was and what kinds of things the first Daisy Scouts did. Very educational and fun afternoon!

Ryan's 38th

Ryan turned 38 today :)

It was actually a pretty uneventful, normal day.

Church in the morning followed by general house stuff (Ryan weeded the garden). Then we went to our group connect meeting (church group) and then it was home for a delicious dinner of hamburgers, baked beans, fruit, and potato salad. Then we all cozied down to watch our newly purchased How to Train your Dragon.

We did presents when we did the group birthday dinner for Ryan, my father in law and Little Miss at the beginning of October. As a family, we gave Ryan a Texas Tech flag to fly on game day :) We've already used it twice! WRECK 'EM TECH!

I hope you had a fabulous day honey. I love you!

Little Miss turns 7

Today is Little Miss's 7th birthday. She's truly becoming a beautiful, intelligent, sassy and articulate young lady.

We had her 7th birthday party last night and it was so much fun! This year we decided to have a smaller party - she only invited 6 girls. It was a faux slumber party from 6-9pm. The girls were dropped off at 6pm. They ran through the house and played up and downstairs until everyone had arrived. Then we started with our first craft. We all made necklaces with our names on them. This was followed by a dinner of pizza and breadsticks. Next we made sleeping masks out of felt, purple sparkly fabric, sequins, and jewels.

Now time for our fashion show. Little Miss and I had gone to Goodwill and picked out 8 oversized dresses that she liked along with purses, jewelry, and hats. The girls each picked out an outfit and accessories and then I announced each one of them as they came through the sparkly door hangings to show off their ensemble. After the fashion show they ate birthday cupcakes and then it was upstairs to brush their teeth and change into their pajamas. While they were getting ready for bed, Ryan and I got the downstairs ready for "slumber". The girls then came downstairs and chose where they wanted to sleep and we put on the brand new movie "Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale".

Little Miss (and the girls) had so much fun and honestly, so did I :)

Tonight we had Little Miss's family birthday party. We celebrated Little Miss, Ryan, and Mark's birthdays by grilling burgers and hanging out at our house!

Happy Birthday to my sweet young lady!