so, i was all excited!!

I mentioned to paul how much I liked the cute little Palm Pixie phone. I called Sprint to see what our bill would be if I got that. She basically said that the plan we currently have is no longer available and we would be paying only $10 dollars more!! Wooohooo!! We went to the Sprint store and basically found out they lied on the phone!! It would actually be closer to $60 bucks more a month...so needless to say I said forget it!!! Oh well!!

The start of March

Went wonderfully!! The boys are both going through scheduling choices for the next school year. Nick has proclaimed his career choice is Aerospace Engineer he was thinking of some class choices and teachers guided him in a slightly different direction. He wound up choosing honors Chemistry instead of Physics..they said Physics in senior year and honors chemistry over regular because he got the teacher recommendation and anyone in Honors is really interested in learning!. He is also choosing Accelerated Algebra II. He also wants to take some Mechatronics class that takes up 2 hours a day. He says he's up for it!!! I wish him well!!

As for Joe..he got some great news yesterday. He applied and tested and got teacher recommendations for our school districts Academy for Internation studies. its a 4 year program at a junior high and the classes are more college prep. Joe was so excited to get his acceptance letter!!! I was thrilled for him as well!

it's Friday!

Yay! It seems like it's been a long week! Let's see. There really is not a whole lot new around here. Molly had her 100th day at school they did lots of fun activities that day. We had a large snow storm roll in that day but they still had school. Afternoon Kindergarten got cancelled and the boys were each released one hour earlier then normal. Oh and Mollys swim class was cancelled due to the weather and we will make it up on Saturday morning. Wednesday we were at the church for dinner and Kids Club. Molly was very happy because she was able to bring home the CD for the spring musical. We will see how that goes!!! Other then that not much going on in our house! I will take the quiet!

Splash Village

We took the kids and my parents on a little overnight trip to Splash Village in Frankenmuth. We decided Frankenmuth was as far as we were willing to travel in the winter season! I think everyone enjoyed themselves and it was nice. I do prefer Great Wolf Lodge to tell you the truth. At Splash Village it was smaller...therefore we were overcome by the chlorine smells rather quickly....myself and I think my dad came down with a headache because of it and the kids were coughing. Can tell Molly has been spending a lot of time in chlorinated water with her swim lessons and Splash Village because she now has a cold. I am glad we went to check it out...I think it would be great for a day trip...but the overnight thing i would not do again...they charge to much for what you actually get! I have a great photo that i'd love to share of my mom! I put her in charge of the goodies and she broguth her favorite cheese puffs, she also brought some Goldfish crackers and some pretzels. She brought yummy Vernors and a Pepsi for her! It was fun hanging out in the hotel room. There were three TVs and yes they were all turned on! We had Cartoons on upstairs, Joe and Molly were watching that, my mom and dad and Nick were hanging out on the couch watching the Olympics and Paul and I had on the Olympics until he found out Lost was on!! Molly tuckered out first then Paul and I and then Joe I think. Nick went up with nana and poppop and he slept on the floor!

My Math Whiz!

I am so very proud of Nick. He has pulled himself together academically this year. I've been telling him all along this is what he is capable of but just this year he gets it I think. So anyways I pulled up his grades the other day and he had a 118% in Algebra II. Nope! Not a typo he got 118%!!! Who does that?? I dont even recall if Algebra II was required Math for me to take in High School but I can gaurentee you if it was I no where near had that type of grade!!! So today he told me "I had a Vitamin Water at school. Ummm ok...how? We don't really send him to school with money. He said that his math teacher was explaining some sort of formula and that something would NEVER happen. Well apparently Nick challenged him and said "yes it could" so he had to go up to the board and prove it. He did and so the teacher gave him the water as a reward! I know it drives me insane when Nick is so challenging to me...I am thankful he has teachers that work with him and embrace it! God bless those teachers!!!

It's a Snow Day!!

So the school district called around 11 last night. I was surprised because I was actually predicting a 5 am wake up call! I had told the boys not to bother setting their alarms. I would wake them if they had school. Molly and Joe turned their jammies inside out and Joe had a spoon under his pillow and a turtle(made out of construction paper) in his window. They had high hopes for a snow day! We did get quite a good dumping. Joes confirmation class was cancelled for last night even before it got bad! Good thing, because I did not want to try driving in it!
So today the boys shoveled two driveways. The one lady took advantage of them and I'm disappointed for them. There is a lady who Nick shovels for and they went to her house, because of the amount of snow they were charging 10 dollars per driveway, she said "I pay you 5 and you shovel over there too" well they didnt want to disagree with her so they did it. I told them they got taken advantage of...but what can ya do?? She even habded them a 20 dollar bill and said go home and bring me 10 dollars back....grrrrrrrrrrr good thing I did not know why they needed the change when Joe said he needed to give her 10 back...i did not know she had told them to do another driveway.
As for me, i just made some cookies, in a bit im going to make the filling for them they are a sandwich type cookie! Also I am trying to declutter my computer desk, i need to take the computer apart and we have a new smaller desk and a new wireless keyboard and mouse i'll rehook it up with. I am hoping the new keyboard will take care of an issue we are having with the one we have now!! Thats about all that we have going on here!

Super weekend

Molly is soooooooooooooo excited!! Want to know why?? We, apparently are having a Super Bowl party. Lets see, her and hubby(who NEVER watch sports) have planned a party lol!! Mainly it just involves the food that will be eaten tomorrow, which trust me...it's nothing way to special! Molly is so excited that as I was tucking her in and telling her good night...she gave a little squel of delight after saying "I am so excited tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday!
Of course another big event tomorrow is Scout Sunday. The 100th Scout Sunday! Scouts are supposed to wear their scout uniforms and somehow involve themselves in the church service. So tomorrow, Nick and I will be waking up at 5:30 am to get to the church by 6. This is to help with the assembly of the subs. The youth are supposed to go make them. Nick is excited to Joe has no interest! So i'll let Nick help for about 1 1/2 hours them I will take him home so he can clean up and get ready for Church Services he will be the liturgist at tomorrows service. he is a little freaked out because we both forgot and did not call the church to get the verses he is to read. I'm sure he'll still do fine!