Today after church

Here's my little "Dapper Dan!"
He's happy to be here! You'd never know that he's only had a half hour shoulder nap all day!
ROAR!!
Summer had a new dress on today, but she wouldn't be still long enough to get a picture of it!
Twirling! T Jay was already stripped down to his digs by the time we were taking these, so there aren't any pics of him from church.

The difference between Monday and Saturday!

Matthew enjoying the slide at Oak Park. Jess and the kids were off on Monday for Veterans day, so we headed into town to the park.
Summer loves the fast slide!
T Jay is quick on the bridge!
Snow for Saturday! The kids were ecstatic about this!
T Jay rolling around in the snow!

Student of the Week

T Jay was student of the week last week in his class! He was so excited about this! He woke up on Monday and kept asking me to congratulate him for being the student of the week. He also would say,"Here's the student of the week!" The parents of the student of the week get to come in and talk for about 10 minutes about their job. Here, Jess is telling the kids about the B-52.
Jess and his helmet. The kids loved this.
T Jay got to model the helmet. The kids got a kick out of T.Jay saying, "Luke, I'm not your father!" No, I didn't misquote him, that is how he says it!

Matthew's First Haircut

Before: You can sort of see the scraggly hair in the back.
The clippers didn't scare him a bit! I think he is thrilled to look like a big boy!
My sweet Angel Boy!

Trick or Treating

We were so busy getting ready for our trip that I forgot to post a picture from trick or treating! They all loved it! Matthew had it backwards though. He kept trying to put his treat from one house into the treat bowl of the next house. For some reason he didn't get much candy. T Jay and Summer also fell victim to candy theft! I put a good portion of their candy into our bowl to re-give away! I know it's terrible, but they (and me) are such candy fiends that it's best if it's not around too long! I wonder how many more Halloweens I will get away with this?

T Jay & Summer-isms

I was sitting at the computer yesterday morning and overheard this conversation between TJay and Summer:
Summer: "I need to ask Santa if I can have a tiny baby girl."
T Jay: " You mean a baby doll?"
Summer: "no a tiny baby like this one." (I assume that she pointed to Matthew because he was right there.)
T Jay: "Oh, baby's come out of Mommy's tummies, and she doesn't have a baby in her tummy. After we move and get settled, then she can have a baby in her tummy.
Summer: "This baby is out." (Matthew) "and when it comes out, it will cry."
*As I was telling Jess this story, T Jay was standing there listening and clarified, "No, when the baby girl comes out you'll cry Mom, cause it's gonna hurt."

*What are they going to do if there isn't another girl in our cards?!! I love my little peeks into their thoughts, although, I am not sure where they get all of their information!!!

We're back!

We are back from Austin! What a trip! A couple of people joked that we should eat and go to the bathroom before we come, and boy were they right!!! When we arrived, Jess was given a packet of info that was about 9 inches thick and directions to read it. Saturday began at 7am and we spent the day in orientation and company information meetings learning what each company is all about. We finished at 8 pm and headed for our room for some additional studying. Saturday was more of the same. We worked from 7am until about 8:30, followed by more study and interview prep. Monday was the first interviewing day. Jess was scheduled for nine 45 minute interviews. I helped keep him organized and where he was supposed to be. Tuesday he had six interviews and they went well, too. He had a results meeting and 12 of the 15 companies wanted to further pursue him (fly him out to the company and interview again). Five companies that really interest Jess are: FPL Energy in Juno beach, FL, CCS Fundraising in NYC, Shell Oil Co in San Fransisco, ExxonMobil in Houston and General Mills in Minneapolis. He will spend the next few weeks following up with these companies and hopefully we will have job offers and be able to choose what we are going to do by the end of the month.