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I'm so stinkin' excited! CJ landed his first commercial job yesterday! WOOHOO! With the help of a friend of a friend, but still - it never hurts to throw names around when you can right? It's a community of quadplex's in Weatherford - 40 units, clubhouse, pool, blah blah. Anyway we're the new grounds crew!! Yeah us! And the manager there told our "connection" that we weren't the lowest bid, but she liked CJ the best. :-) That's what I'm talking about! I've always thought that CJ's biggest asset besides the fact that he won't tolerate people doing a half-a** job, is his people skills. He has a real knack for dealing with people. It's like you know instantly that you can trust him. So.........Yeah CJ! I'm finishing up a proposal for our bank this weekend and CJ's going to turn that in on Monday. Cross your fingers we get that job too. The big man at the bank actually approached CJ about it when he was in there doing our loan papers last week and asked him to turn in a bid - do a little happy dance!

Guess what? Grace and Tanner went to their first sleepover last night. They were SO excited. It was a lock in at GymKats. Apparently, GymKats has been doing an annual Halloween lock in for 18 years now. There is no age limit - as young as they'll stay to as old as they want to come, like 90% of the kids are 4-10. I did see several little ones there when I dropped off the kids, like maybe young 3's. She said last year they had 85 kids and that was definately a handful so this year they set the limit at 60. Two people were in charge of signing everyone up. Only due to a communication error they both thought the other one was writing everyone down on the official list and when they compiled it - 80 kids, not including the children of the ladies working there last night! C-R-A-Z-Y I tell ya. But they are SO good with the kids. They let them have free time in the gym, then they separated them into age groups and did some structured activities, snacks, a G-rated movie for all those who were interested, crafts, fun, fun, fun. I can't wait to pick them up this morning and hear all the fun stories.

Well, I'm gonna run. Have a GREAT weekend.

Rudolph

Yesterday Tanner says 'who's the reindeer with the shiny nose?' Rudolph, sweetie. 'Do you know the song Mom?' Yes, so we sing a round. Then a second round. Then a third round. After a few seconds he says, 'I would never be mean to Rudolph. He seems like a nice guy.'

I love my kids.

Did you think the snake came back and got me?

hehe. Truly I'm just so busy. I know, I know - no excuses. Usually what happens to me is I get up in the morning and pour my cup of coffee, check everyone else's blogs and then it's time to get the kids ready for school and I don't get around to updating my own.
I really haven't felt like I had anything to say lately, but I know that's not entirely true either. The real problem is what ever it was that I thought you all would enjoy reading - I can't remember now - HA!
So I guess for today I'll update with the mundane. We're all good. The business is managable now but we've definately got to find some more work for the winter. Most people are moving to an every other week mow now. Great that CJ is home at a more reasonable hour, not so great that we're only making about half what we really need to be. Hhhhmmmmm.
The kids are great. Tanner is reading so well. I'm so proud of him. Grace is definately blonde. I can say that because she's my daughter. Truly she just flits around giggling and I don't think she really cares about learning anything. She just smiles and does her own thing. Morgan, well he's Morgan. The smallest of three children. Fending for himself. Fighting for things if he has too. Trying to charm you with the cutest of all faces - chin tucked, eyes squinted, biggest smile ever. He makes me laugh out loud!
Nothing's really new with me. I did sit down and scrap a couple of pages yesterday. Yeah me! I wish I had some more time but not right now. Well it's about time to get the kids up so gotta go.