RIP Spidey

Poor Spidey. What did he do to deserve this? Spidey has been without his 8 legs for weeks now (those didn't last longer a week), but he's still been a legless pillow pal. But...I got this pic from Dustin when I was in California.

Spidey lost his insides. Apparently Duke was pretty freaked out by this and stood back reluctantly staring and sniffing for awhile. We had to put Spidey to rest.

And another one bites the dust...

Fighting Pointers

Luke texted me Monday morning..."The fighting pointers are coming to Bryant. Hide the women and children." Such a nerd! So...we headed to the baseball field Monday to watch the showdown! Dustin, Jessica, Duke, and I sat out in the chilly weather watching the Pointers keep a steady 1-0 lead. But those dang Hornets hit a triple in the bottom of the 6th with 2 men on and that was all she wrote.

Ah well! I got to see my brother, watch some baseball, hang with two of my favorite peeps, and Duke got to go to his first ballgame!

SO CAL

I have the privilege to work for such a great school district! They sent me to San Antonio last year, and this year, I got to go to San Diego, CA! And bonus....miss 3 days of school!

The NCTM (National Council for Teachers of Mathematics) Conference was held in San Diego this year, and my math specialist asked me to go with her (umm..let me check my calendar...OKAY!)

It was a group of 13 great ladies, 5 math specialists and 8 teachers, from the Bryant School District. We had a great time. Yes, we had classes during the day, but at 3:30, school was out! Here are some pics from my "work vacation".

This was the view from the convention center where the conference was held. Eating lunch on this balcony was not bad!

We stayed at the Hilton in the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego. We were right across the street from the convention center and within walking distance of some of the greatest restaurants. The ocean was less than a half mile from our hotel.

My roomie, Taylor, got a call from her neighbor (former guitar player for Evanescence, from AR) and he said he was playing at the House of Blues in San Diego and he thought she mentioned that she was going to be out there. We were! He got us free tickets to his show. Evanescence broke up after they made it on National radio (apparently the lead singer went a little crazy) and the three guys in the band joined forces with Carly Smithson from American Idol to form this new band, "We Are the Fallen". They sound a lot like Evanescence with the female singer and all. It was a great show! Here's Gail, Me, our hometown rocker and my roomie, Taylor.

We went to La Jolla after class one day to walk around and eat dinner. Here are the seals on the beach. There were so many and they were so darn cute! This one was nursing. Awww!

Sleeping seals

The water was COLD!

Renee, Me, Lindsey, Nikki, and Courtney

Pretty La Jolla

Eating dinner on the rooftop of George's at La Jolla Beach

I could get use to this!

I had such a good time, but it is always great to get home! I missed my 3 boys so much while I was gone! I swear, Duke grew so much in 4 days!

Hope ya'll had a great weekend!

Duke, 4 months

This is me, Duke. I weigh 48 lbs. and I turned 4 months old on the 11th. When mom and dad got me 3 weeks ago, I only weighed 33 lbs. They say I'm a growing boy.

I'm super scared of loud noises and things with a long handle that mom rubs all over the floor. I also don't like that thing shaped like a gun that she blows her hair with. It makes me pee on myself it scares me so bad! And she wonders why I was shaking like crazy the first night she tried to use it on me!

I also don't like that thing that she uses in the kitchen when she makes those round things that smell heavenly and she drinks with that white stuff with. When she used that kitchen thing, I jumped on the back of the couch like my brother, Rudy the cat, does and hid underneath the cushions until she quit making that loud thing buzz.

This is me hiding from that big machine she pushes around on the floor. Why would she push a big machine toward me? I don't get it. What did I do to her? She confuses me when she tells me it's okay but she's shoving loud machines towards me!

This is my new toy, Spidey. He suppose to have 8 legs, but I've already ripped 3 off them off. Spidey makes all kinds of cool noises that drive me so crazy I just have to rip him apart, but he's a good pillow at night too.

I'm starting to figure out what mom and dad want from me. I go in my crate when they walk into the bedroom, because I know it's bedtime and they'll give me a treat if I do. I never whine, because it's bedtime and mom says she needs her beauty sleep.

I don't poop where we live anymore. I got that hint real quick, but I peed in the house today for the first time in a long while cause I didn't know what else to do! How do I tell them I need to go? I tried to go on my bed and in the bathtub...that's not the floor, but I guess it wasn't good enough because mom still yelled that word in that mean voice.

Maybe I'll be a "good dog" for good when I turn 5 months. I'll keep ya updated.

-Duke

I'm 1,2,3 My Name is Addi, My dog is Riley, Welcome to my Party

Addi loves to dance and I made up this song for her birthday (to the tune of Britney Spear's 1,2,3 of course!)

I don't have the energy to write anything else. It took me forever to upload these photos. For some reason my computer isn't letting me upload more than 1 at a time. When I do, I'm loosing my internet connection and having to start over.

Anybody??? I haven't a clue.

I'll let the pics tell the story of Addi's awesome birthday.

Beautiful Nieces

Here is Miss Braelyn Grace Riedel's birth announcement.

Isn't she lovely?

What a cute announcement, Amber!

Mary Addilyn is turning 3 on Friday!

She's been asking me if I'm coming to her party. So cute!

Good job on the invitations, Tiff!

Easter 2010

We celebrated Easter on Saturday with Dustin's family at Amber and John's house in Danville. We all brought something simple to eat and just played outside! Despite the rain the night before, it was a beautiful day!

Emilee checking out her Easter basket from Nana

Miss Braelyn slept through most of Easter, but came to hang out with the big kids outside for awhile!

And they're off!

a dollar egg!

Miss Thang

Silly cousins!

Morgan and Drew decided to play a little ball outside with Uncle Dust and Uncle Jerry. Morgan just started T-ball with her Mommy as her coach!

On Easter Sunday, Dustin and I didn't do much at all. It was our first weekend at home in 2 months, and we sat on out butts and watched Entourage, New Moon, and Law Abiding Citizen! It wasn't planned that way. In fact, we had a long to-do list of things we wanted to get done around the house. But after getting up early Saturday morning to weed and feed the yard, Dustin's allergies started getting the best of him Saturday night.

And, I got a little dose of mommy medicine Saturday night, which made me quite the couch potato Sunday. Duke had an upset tummy Saturday night. When we went to bed, he cried in his crate for an hour, which is pretty unusual, but we had fallen asleep on the couch and then went to bed at 1am, so I just figured it was because we were off of our routine. I was really frustrated and delirious by 2am, so I cursed as I got out of bed, thinking he better have to really use the restroom and not be playing the sympathy card on me.

He wasn't playing the sympathy card. He flagellated all the way to the backdoor, all the way back to the fence (his dump area), and then....he exploded. I.felt.awful. He just looked at me with these blood shot eyes like I had just tortured him for an hour. I couldn't put him back in his kennel after that, so I slept with him on the couch. If you can call sleeping by the hour and getting up to let him go explode again sleeping. Ewww...poor baby. Now I know what it is like to have a sick baby boy! Two in fact! I was giving Dustin medicine and heating up washcloths for him to open his nasal cavity so he wouldn't snore so loudly!

It's hard being a mama...Am I sure I want to be one? One night kicked my butt.