A few changes...

Sadly, Chelsea is no longer with us. She had to be put down on Thursday the 17th of this month. The meds were not helping her and our vet determined that she must have cancer. We could have gone through lots of tests and tried chemo and the like, but the end all result would have been the same. We chose not to put her through all of that. So she is now in doggie heaven :(

On a happier note... Keith finally lost his first tooth!!! That happened on Saturday the 19th! He got a dollar from the tooth fairy and scored $4 from Mama & Papa!
The boys will be off from school for two weeks for fall break soon. We are planning on going camping (hopefully we'll actually go this time).
Tonight is Family Math Night at school. The boys are looking forward to going because if they show up, they will be excused from doing some homework! What an incentive! We'll be heading there shortly.
I finally got some strawberry rhubarb pie!! I've only been craving it for the past week!! Seems like the only store around here that ever has it is Fry's. So after trying three other stores, we went to Fry's and I got the last strawberry rhubarb pie!! Can't wait to have some with a scoop of vanilla ice cream later!!!
What else is going on? I can't think of anything too exciting. The boys are now proud owners of BB guns - we picked those up when we visited the indoor swap-meet on Sunday. And that same day, Keith managed to break his. Is everything made like crap these days? Yeah, that was a rhetorical question.

Pics from today...

Ace enjoying some McDonald's ice cream.

Chelsea having her share of ice cream.

Keith doing his thing.

Randy playin' with the big boys on line.

Me, just hangin'.

Homie gamin'.

Aside from all that excitement we went to Denny's for breakfast.

Then we had dunch, or maybe linner at TGIFridays.

It was a nice day :)

Can you believe it's September already?

The first month of school is over - I can't believe how fast that went by. Both boys are doing well in school. We like both of the teachers. So far I've only helped out in each class once, but I do get to go in every week from here on out. On Mondays, I'll be in Randy's class and on Tuesday in Keith's. I like knowing what goes on in their classes.
I have a new phone! Jeff got me an iPhone - he wanted to get me one when he bought his a year ago, but I wouldn't let him. He was right.... I'm glad I have it now. It's very cool!
Last Saturday the boys went to a birthday/pool party. They had a great time. Yesterday I asked Randy what he wanted to do for his birthday - he said he wanted to have a pool party... in December? And I suppose it would help if we had a pool! So I guess he'll have to come up with something else. So far we have no plans of putting in a pool.
We are thinking of replacing the windows in the house. Our windows are horrible! We had some contractor/salesman/rip-off artist at the house last night to give us an estimate -- that was laughable, but it's a starting point. Jeff is going to contact others for comparison.
In other news, I've stopped painting. I'm completely slacking. Ever since cleaning up and taking all the stuff out of the house for Keith's party, I haven't been able to make myself drag all the stuff back inside. I figure somehow it will all get done by Christmas.
Well, it's time to meet some friends for breakfast...