Rice Family

We finally got my phone switched over...Thanks to ERIN! She called the people and got everything taken care of for me. And Thanks to Aunt Nancy for the phone (it's her old one). I get lucky with hand-me-downs!! Also, Saturday was M's first day in her "big-girl bed". We finally bought a rail for the bed so she won't fall out, and on Saturday she got to sleep in it. She was really excited and did excellent! she went right to sleep. Unforturnately nap-time on Sunday did not go so well. Probably mostly because naptime doesn't go that well in general. She wouldn't stay in bed, and kept yelling to get up. After about an hour, probably, I went in and gave her a book to keep her in bed, thinking she was tired enough to fall asleep with it. I should have known better - my baby loves books. So, after 30 minutes of quiet, I went to check on her and she was still awake and reading her book. I told her we would finish is and she had to go to sleep - she sa...

These are our pictures from camping! M had tons of fun...most of the time she was filthy...of course, so were we. This might be the picture of when J took our phone fishing with him. Yes, that ruined our phone...mostly. And he didn't notice that M had taken off her diaper until I was taking pictures of them fishing. We had lots of fun, beautiful sunsets, and many bugs...but it was great. we had smores of course, which M had a good time eating...hers is lacking chocolate, purely so I didn't have to clean it up. Don't worry, I shared some of mine with her. We ate tin-foil dinners, and hot dog dinner; J made pancakes and eggs for breakfast one morning...I've never had that good of a breakfast camping before. The second morning we just had poptarts...but they were good too!

We finally got the opportunity to go camping! We've been wanting to for a while, but weren't actually capable of pulling it off...until this weekend. We went to Woodson Lake (I think) out by Toronto. It was a nice lake, and was not nearly as busy as I'm sure El Dorado Lake was. This was M's first time camping and she seemed to have a blast. She really enjoyed fishing with dad (I have cute pics I will share when I can) and swimming. J finally got to see M swimming...He hasn't seen her swim on her own with her floaties, so it was exciting. She was also keeping busy catching bugs...and incidently squishing them...as well as playing with the worms dad fished with. The first night was rough at bed time. I had to go lay down with her in the tent, but she was still too wound up to sleep. She crawled all over me, rolled all over the bed, and continued playing well into the night after J came to bed. And then all through the night, even though she was asleep, she ...

So, I'm really lucky cause I actually like all of my teachers. Mind you, I very much disliked my sub for psch. but that's because he talked more about himself, and telling stories, than he did teaching. Which is okay for a 1 hr class, but not so fantastic for a 3 hr class. And then my psych teacher is a little out there, but she's still really nice...hopefully that lasts. And so far my classes are not too hard, and the homework is manageable. so, yeah. It's also great that two of my classes are with computers, because that means I can blog more often. I'll talk more about M next time, I promise.

This is M with mud all over her face. We were playing outside and I was filling the dogs water bucket, and the ducks water bucket, and M was just having fun playing at her water/sand table. I looked back at her a minute later and she was then playing in the mud by the duck pen. apparently she dropped something in the mud and it splashed her. The splatters went from head to toe, but she was still lovin' it!

I got to see Jaxon...or Jackson...Patrick Dieker yesterday! He is absolutley gorgeous! and tiny! and I love him already. I was so excited to see him I didn't wait for J to go with me! He is wonderful and Congrats to Jessi!! Everyone seems to be well so...yay!! Sorry, but I didn't take pictures, I wasn't thinking. You'll just have to take my word for it that he is perfect. My first day of school went well. My IPS (Info Processing Systems) class is super easy so far. Mostly because I already know how to use a computer, but it will probably get more complicated later. Like when I finally learn how to use Power Point. ( I know I'm a little behind with that one.) And we'll find out how my accounting class goes today. We didn't do much yesterday. And my psychology teacher is...well...different. She's a little too loud for my comfort...and I don't really mean volume. She's just out there a bit. And not very respectful of some rules of ...

Today is the first day back to school for me, and unfortunately i am in class and it is about to start, but I thought I'd say hi first. This is my accounting one class, which is right after my Info. processing class. and tonight at 7:15p.m. I have my Psychology class. woo hoo. my classes are only on Mondays and Wednesdays though, which I'm glad of. I gotta go, tell ya more later. AND BIG, HUGE thanks to Justi for watching M for me while I'm going to school. LOVE HER!!