Long time No post!

So I've been lazy lately! There hasn't been much going on since I last wrote. The kids are having their usual on and off days, John is having his usual crappy time at work and I am doing my usual complaining about not getting any help around this place. I really wish I had something better to say on this thing. I told one of my girlfriends when I started reading her blog (before I started one or two of my own!!!) that blogs are really only for people who have lives exciting enough to fill their blog with the tons of cool things they did in the day. And because their life is so much more interesting they are able to write everyday!

I am going to have to do a run through of my blogs and update the posts that required pictures I was too lazy to load at the time. I'm sure that eventually I will get my blogging act together and do what is suppose to be done to make my read more interesting.

On the old news front, John and I took Phil and Tara skiing this past weekend. It's
the end of the season and we wanted to get one more good day in up there before it closed for the Summer sessions. And we thought how much more fun could it be than to go with our friends? Well it turns out that it wasn't as much fun as we all thought it would be. Phil and Tara, who had never been skiing before decided to take lessons that were suppose to be only one hour. That ended up being about 3 hours and they didn't get much ski time in with us. John and I found a new slope that we didn't know about before and it was cool going down when the snow was more icey instead of slushey and before all the people found the same slope! I also saw an old boyfriend of minr from highschool. He completely tried to ignore me which just made things ackward. And to make it even more uncomforable, Tara wasn't having a good time and by the middle of our day pass the place was so packed the medics were out trying to clear paths for the skiers coming down the hill to get through! Seriously it was rough.

Also a few weeks ago I might have posted about taking the kids to the TN aquarium in Chattanooga. It is suppose to be the #1 aquarium in the nation but I have to say I wasn't that impressed. It is located in two seperate buildings and one is so small that is doesn't even seem worth walking through and the other is so large it is just a hassle to drag two small kids through on the weekend! We didn't get to take many pictures but here are some that we did manage to get.




Let me see what else......John is taking his first class test tomorrow. He has been studying for the past two days so the kids and I have been forced to stay upstairs while he and Ray did practice tests. I will be glad to return to some sort of normal tomorrow after his test. Also we get to pick orders on the 11th. It will be so wonderful to see what is open and hear what John put in for. The only crappy thing is that we don't get to find out right away what we will get. John told his dad he won't know until about May but he told me he wouldn't find out what he got until April. So I'm not sure which is true. I'm assuming we will find out around Chelsea's birthday and the 1st week of May will be the latest. I'm just really anxious to know where we will be going.

I have Christie's baby shower to go to this Saturday and also Tara's little girl, Aly, is having her birthday party this Sunday. It will be nice to be busy for once! I hate being stuck out here in the middle of nowhere because we never get out of the house. I miss living in Knoxville, so close to everything. I miss being able to pick between 2 or 3 different playgrounds instead of only one that is 40 minutes away. It's hard.
I was talking to Rachel the other day online and she's having a rough time too. She and Eric are sick, Trent is stressed to the max between school, interviews, home-life, etc. I feel their pain and I wish we lived closer together so we could be miserable together! At least with her close she could bring Eric over and get some relief. Tag-teaming when it comes to kids is much easier than just watching tons alone! Plus she is my best friend and I really enjoy her company. I hate living so far away from her. Well I have to go get the crying baby. That's the end of things for the night. I hope to get my act together and get more regular with the blog.