Happy 1st Birthday Colton

I seriously cannot believe its been a year already!  Colton has his year checkup in September so I will post his state then.  We celebrated tonight by having a fantasy football draft and a football cupcake cake (more pictures will follow soon).  Earlier today I did turn his carseat around.  He was looking and pointing everywhere before I even finished buckling him in!  I think he's going to really like facing forward.

I will post more in a few days.  Right now I'm exhausted and need to go to bed ASAP!

Tuckered Out

She was awake one minute and asleep the next.  I guess the zoo really tires her out!  Better get her up and moving to avoid a crazy night.  Maybe we'll go to target.

21, 22, 23

THREE NEW JOBS TODAY!!!!! They are all in Eureka and all of them are for reading intervention. I am really hoping for the 80% position. I believe it is the position that is in charge of all the other ones....but really, I'm getting ahead of myself and should just be hoping for an interview. I will also find out Wednesday or Thursday if I get an interview for planned parenthood.

On another note, we had a fabulous weekend! We went over to Redding and Y-town to visit family and also celebrate my step-mom's 70th and brother's 50th birthdays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was one RAGING party!!!! Caitlin stayed up for the WHOLE thing which meant she didn't got to bed until midnight! We also stopped by and saw my really good friends on our way home and to drop off some baby clothes. We didn't get home until 5:30 and we're pretty tired today.

Alright, I hear my printer has stopped. Back to it!

Lucky Number 20?

So, it looks like I didn't get an interview for either one of the HSU positions or an interview at Pacific Union Elementary or Eureka City Schools. I have one outstanding application at Planned Parenthood for a Health Education and tonight I just submitted my 20th application to Enterprise Elementary for a position that is practically identical to my old one at Ferndale. Some sort of break (any break) would be really nice at this point. And since I have depressed you all again, I will leave you with some adorable pictures of the children!

Yard Sale Round 2

Saturday morning started off with Colton sleeping in and me getting up an hour late to start our yard sale! It was the one time I actually didn't set my alarm clock because I was sure Colton would wake up at his normal 6:30am time....and I was so wrong! Dennis came in at 7:30 and asked when I was getting up. Panicked, I dressed as fast as I could and rushed to the garage to start putting out all of our stuff. At that point, I was SO happy we weren't starting until 8:30!

Our neighbors were also having a yard sale and had lots of furniture for sale. Well, those people interested in furniture, are not the same ones who are interested in baby clothes. I started cleaning up our sale a little after 11am and put about 90% of our stuff along our fence with a big 'ol FREE sign above it. Turns out, that was a pretty good tactic. When I got back form a movie a few hours later, a lot of our stuff was gone!

But here is the funniest thing of all, as I was leaving for the movies, I saw a lady with a whole pile of shirts slung over her shoulder. Perfect, I thought. Someone is benefiting from all these free clothes. Then I saw her turn the corner and go to her house down the street and put them in HER yard sale! WHO DOES THAT?! I couldn't believe what I was seeing! I wasn't mad at all, I was in more of a state of shock at the b@ll$ on this lady! In the end, she probably needed the money more than we did and as long as she didn't bring them back, I didn't care.

And with all our leftover stuff, I will be donating it. We still have so much girl clothing left that I'm really hoping my friend finds out she's having a girl so I can give it ALL to her...hehehehehe!

:(

Defeated, yet again.

Bounce House Fun

Caitlin's new bounce house arrived yesterday!  She was  so excited to see it on the porch, she could hardly wait until Dennis got home to set it up....and neither could I!  Colton loves it too!  He loved the slide and would squeal with delight.

And now, at 8 am, Caitlin is asking to bounce!  She needs to wait a bit until my coffee kicks in and it warms up a bit.