salsa!!

I made 15 pints of homemade salsa this weekend. It is YUM-O!
We made salsa 2 years ago but this is MUCHO yummier! The
boys want to put salsa on EVERYTHING and to just eat it salsa
and chips for every meal. Love it.

Big day for Koda today. He got his license in the mail....the real thing!
and he is now dual enrolled in J High and Baker. He will get credits from
both....and could finish his senior year with 24 -30 credit hours towards
his PTA certification! What an awesome start ! These credits can transfer
to other colleges if he choses to move to a different school. EXCITING!
Thes BEST part....it is totally FREE to us while he is in high school. No
tuition and no books to buy! He will go to college from 7:45am-11:45am
then lunch and off to J High for 2 classes! On Fridays he only has afternoon
classes at J High - no classes at Baker.

Boys schedules this week are crazy busy! Which means I am running in
several directions after work....and of course work is NUTS! Don't they usually
go hand in hand?

Have an awesome week to all of my readers.....HA HA!
(I think everyone gave up on my blogging!)
on me.

First game of the season

and of his high school years! We played Holland West Ottawa and they mopped up the rain with the Vikings! It was a sad sad game....the score was horrible.
Ummmm.... Vikings 0 HWO 57 - YES you read that correct!

LOVE this pic!!

what's going on?

Ist foornall scrimmage....complete. Now this week we start with the 1st game of the season. JV and Freshmen at home against Holland West Ottawa!!
The poor varsity kids have to travel all the way to Holland West Ottawa Fridya night....that will be a late night!! 2 hours + travel time....wow!!




Just a fun collage from MI Adventure last weekend.

This weekend id just flying by.....

• Dad had the open MRIs done here in Jackson on Friday...then tried again on Sat for the last one....and was unable to complete....he stuggles with panic attacks. Poor guy.
• Dakoda's bday yesterday was FUN. We took him out to breakfast in town to Marrer's? (not sure that's right?) then home for some 'hometime'. Then we went to DQ for Blizzards in the afternoon for ?lunch? ha ha ....then last night no one was really hungry for dinner so we had chicken nuggets n fries while watching a movie. He bought a steering wheel cover and floor mats for his truck with the $moolah we gave him! Looks sharp!
• Today....made the kids breakfast then started baking!! Made 2 loaves of blueberry zucchini bread....making muffins to freeze and then 70+ MONSTER cookies for the dinner on Wednesday for the football team!! (yes, I have to bring 70 cookies!! still wondering if it wouldn't be easier to go to Sam's and buy 70 cookies!!)
• Koda and Steve Sr are going bass fishing this afternoon!! So we are doing dinner SOON.

Next week....

Monday - Steve Sr on vacation for the day....taking Koda to test for his license and hopefully make it to DMV before they close. Jake football from 3-6p

Tuesday - Jake football 3-6p

Steve Sr take my dad to doctor at 3:30

Wednesday- Jake football 3-6p then dinner to follow

(they feed the entire team a meal the day before the game!! and the parents all provide the food!! - which is why I am making 70 cookies!!)

Thursday- Jake's first game at 4:30p

Friday - TGIF

Weekend - Chelsea Fair truck and tractor pulls!! (earplugs needed!!)

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where did the time go?

I am so surprised how fast 6 weeks flew by? I was supposed to get so many things done....hmm, and they are mostly all still waiting for me to do them.

• I am back to work.



• Football is in full swing. First scrimmage is tomorrow at 10am. Jakob is playing freshman football....he did not want to try out for Varsity when offered and he turned down JV. He wants more play time? I did not try to persuade him....his choice this year! :-)



• The garden is producing loads of produce. Freezing loads of zucchini, beans....



• Someone stole Jake's phone out of his locker today..kicked his lock off his football locker...and it was GONE! 3rd phone this week from the football team? Jake and Jake think they know who and the coaches think they may have an idea too.



• Steve II has grown like the garden this summer....measured them a couple weeks ago....he is 13 and 6 ft tall! He was wearing a 10.5 shoe last spring...now a 12.5/13! HELP!

• We took the kids to Michigan's Adventure last weekend for Dakoda's birthday. It was H O T!! and these crazy boys did not want to visit the water park ?? They rode coasters and carnival like rides. It was fun. The extra child is my nephew Richard!

Hope everyone is enjoying the last few weeks of summer.

What do you THINK?

Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinion drown out your own inner voice. Most imporant, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
~ Steve Jobs

Thinking I am going to put this in a frame and hang in the boys' room?
Makes you think, huh? Like it...A LOT!

hmmm

I have encountered a delay in my return to work....AGAIN!
Dr. Scott is not fond of the fact that 2 of 3 of my insisons are encountering problems. However, we have come to the conslusion that my body is not dissolving the sutures..it is rejecting them! Which is causing the issues

BUT....I do have an approximate return to work date...August 17th!

What to do with myself until then....
1. Need to do list
clean
clean
plan for upsoming activities

2. Want to do list
create
visit
enjoy sunshine

3. Reality list
rest
sit
make menus ?

Today looks like a beautiful day is ahead....hoping to enjoy some sunshine.

Full of Beans!

Green beans have definitely started to take over.....I froze 51 pounds of green beans today!
YES I said 51 pounds....we have our garden in the backyard then we have more on the lot behind us. OH MY! My freezer is FULL of beans...literally!
Thinking Jake and Steve will be sitting on the corner selling green beans with the sweet corn guy!
Anyone in the area in need of green beans....c'mon over! Would you like them...fresh or frozen?
Lovin the sealer machine Dad gave us....it is perfect. The bags are a little $$ pricey but well worth it...as they freeze up wonderfully!

Back to the doctor tomorrow...thinking he may spring me soon. However, I do have a new infection in an incision and a lump under another incision (my opinion, as if it counts, I think my body rejects the sutures....seems each time I clean the sore I pull out another un-disolved suture! note to Dr. Scott...need to try a new kind!) .....and having my hormone levels checked tomorrow to see if I need the replacement patches or no?

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NOTE!
Thank you Hamlin's again for allowing us to have the boys! I had an awesome time with all of them from the time we picked them up til we dropped them off. Awesome kids. Hope we can do it again sometime...before next summer.