Fun in Mr. Kent's Garden

My parents and my aunt and uncle are building houses beside each other on like 8 or 9 acres they purchased last year--it is such a great spot!! Anyway, it has lots for the kids to do and discover, so we go out there whenever we get the chance and play in the dirt piles or go on adventures!

Sweet Mr. Kent and Mrs. Camille let us go play and pick fresh vegies from their garden any time we want to, and the kids love it! We all put our boots on and explore! As you can see, the dogs love to participate, especially Cruise, the Haney's lab. He loves Riley Kate and she loves ALL animals! We always have so much fun!

1st Day of Junior Kindergarten

Pics today--4 year old Preschool

Being silly before school!

My little boy is growing up! Grayton started his first day of 4 year old preschool or as they call it now, junior kindergarten? (It wasn't called that when I was in it!) I found these pics from last year and it made me happy and sad to see how much he has grown! He is such a blessing to Jason and I, and we love him so much!

Pics from last year--3 year old

Willie Nelson and Dave Matthews Band Concert

This was taken before the concert--Wille Nelson was getting ready to start singing--he was really great! Oh! and it was about 100 degrees too! Can't you tell we are burning up!?!

Here are some pics of the stage and all of the people down in center field with general admission tickets--boy, I am glad I got us seats--I can only imagine how BAD it smelled down there! We were burning up and sweating up in our seats with a breeze blowing on us! Our seats were great--we were right under the box seats, and we could go inside anytime to "cool down" and get a drink or something! We really had a blast!! The concert was so awesome--there were so many different people there--some fully clothed, some not! Lots of hippies and "DMB followers!" Dave was so awesome, and he played so many of our favorites from his first couple of albums and covered some awesome songs like "Burning down the house!" I would definitely love to go to another one!!

WE STILL LOVE YA, DAVE--YOU STILL ROCK!!!

Summer Days

Pics of swimming in the backyard

Pics from the Library

I am trying to relax now that school is over, BUT I can't seem to do that for some strange reason! So I am running the kids ragged with projects and activities, but the good news is the kids are exhausted at the end of the day. Yesterday, we jogged 5 miles, swam for 2 hours, had a picnic, went to the library and to get ice cream, and finally swam again! WHEW--busy day, but everyone was alseep by 9:15, including me! (For those of you who may not know, that is an amazing bedtime in this house! We have 2 little night owls who think they are supposed to stay up until 11:00!) Well anyway, here are some pics of some of our activities!

Pictures to come

Okay, so I am such an idiot! I suprised Jason with two tickets to the Willie Nelson/Dave Matthews Band concert this past weekend in Memphis. It was amazing, but I forgot my camera! We stopped on the way, and bought a disposable camera--so I don't know how the pics will turn out, but anyway we had an amazing time! We went shopping all day Saturday, and stayed overnight--just the two of us! We both had such a wonderful time! I have loved DMB since highschool when his first album came out, and he is so amazing live! We were having so much fun that we danced with the "hippies" that follow the band around from city to city!! Weird!

The Children's Museum

Yeah! Since I am out of school, the kids and I went to the Children's Museum in Memphis today with the Ramgoolams. We had so much fun! I am ashamed to say, but this was their first trip to the Museum-I have been so busy this past year that we have not gotten to do much of anything! I did not think that Riley Kate was going to leave! Andres and Anu are so sweet, and they helped me feed and "round up" my 2 little monkeys all day since Jason could not go with us! We always have such a wonderful time together, and Siva and Grayton play so well together! We just love hanging out with them-they are so adventurous!

It's Official This Time!

Pictures of us at the "Celebration Dinner" after the thesis presentations!

Here we all are-the new FNP's of 2008--yeah!!!

I am not going to miss class, but I am going to miss all of my classmates-you guys were awesome!

Finally, it has happened-I have finished Family Nurse Practitioner school! I know that I should be excited, but reality has just not set in yet! I guess that I am numb and afraid to relax because I have not been able to do that for 15 months! All of the FNP's I know have told me that it takes a couple of months for you to realize you are done and don't have to rush home and write a paper, study, or work on your thesis! By the way, to anyone out there who has ever done a thesis-you know what a thorn in your side that thing is! I am just so happy to be home and be MOM again! I have really missed being here with my babies and my husband! Remember, I went from working 2-3 4hour shifts per week in outpatient surgery to the equivalant of working a 50-60 hour work week! AND the one who really deserves the congratulations is my amazing husband, Jason, who over the last 15 months has been Mr. Mom. He has cleaned, cooked, and tended to children, so I could study or do whatever I needed to do, AND I kid you not, he has NEVER complained!! I am so blessed and thankful to have such an awesome and loving husband! Thanks to all of the fam and friends for putting up with me this past year-or for putting up with my absence! No joke-the other day, someone told me they thought I had moved somewhere else-haha! Well, we did it-we survived-praise the Lord!!!