Ohhh Jade...

Last night she went to a pajama party (not a slumber party - I picked her up at 8:30). On the car ride home I asked how everything went. "Great", she says. "Except for the little bastard that chased us out of E's room".

"The WHAT?"

"The little bastard. That's what E calls her brother".

I laughed - just a little.

Our sky looks like this...

Admittedly, the summers here suck. However, just about every night we're treated to a BEAUTIFUL sunset. It almost, *almost* makes me want to stand outside and watch them. At the very least, I do open my back door shades and watch the light filter through the clouds as we eat dinner.

A side note.

So, guess who retook her final exam in hopes of reaching the highest level of graduation status? I did. And guess what I got? HIGH HONORS, the HIGHEST recognition you can get. Oh yes I did. Take THAT, MT companies who only hire "those with experience or graduated top of their class."

Tomorrow I'm resubmitting my newly-vamped resume to all those companies who refused to even test me, cause I'm good. I'm really good, and I can do this.

Another piece of awesomeness - curriculum night for Jared was tonight. His teacher says he's a total math wiz. Doesn't take after me, but I'm SUPER proud of him. I'm so lucky!

Day Trip.

This past weekend we decided to escape the 100 degree heat (minus the awesome thunderstorms becuase our monsoon season was cut disapointingly short) and head up to Flagstaff to visit my parents. It was a very nice 80 degrees up there, so it was really like our fall. Sad, right? By the way, the first picture of those wildflowers is in their back yard. They have a really amazing property, and in the summer it's absolutely gorgeous. Anyway, they have a ski resort up in Flag, and in the summer they offer rides to the top via ski lift. It ended up being a 30 minute climb to 11,500 feet and a 30 minute descent. I had no idea it would take so long but it was a really beautiful, peaceful ride. I can't even tell you how nice it was to get out of the desert and lay eyes on some beautiful GREEN vegetation! So gorgeous.

When we got back to my parents' my mom made us all pick veggies from her garden for dinner that night which was actually really cool. She's a garden prodigy, which runs in the family. Sadly it skipped me becuase I end up killing every plant I've owned. Anyway, the corn she grew was seriously FANTASTIC. I almost wanted to plant my own garden and try for beautiful ears of golden corn, but sadly, I know better.

Looking at these pictures I'm realizing our tans are fading. Darn.

Well, it's that time of year again.

They're starting their 4th week of school this week, so maybe I had better post about school. I've been neglecting my blog because our camera decided to stop working. It's reeeeallly hard to come up with posts without anything to show, and it's especially tough to find the inspiration to blog about anything positive when you're down in the dumps about not finding a job. Sigh. It's been almost 4 MONTHS people. I'm getting really sick of reading "must have at least 3-5 years work experience in xyz". I have submitted dozens of applications, and NOTHING. Seriously. When should I throw my hands up in the air and admit defeat already?

Let's get down to the REAL meat of this blog post, shall we?

Back to school!! Jared started 3rd grade and was very reluctant to do so. He really wanted me to home school him (no way in hell), and he says he really hates doing classwork. He's really awesome in academics, and I know he gets bored easily so maybe that's starting to pose a problem. School comes so easy for that kid that he really doesn't even have to try, like - at all. So then of course he slacks which becomes a really big problem. We'll see how the next few months go. I'd like to talk to his teacher about testing him for SAGE.

Jade has started 1st grade this year and she's LOVING it. Her teacher has already told me Jade is quite the helpful one to the Kindergarteners (she's in a Montessori so her class is a K/1). She has already made lots of new friends along with one sweet little boy who is absoultely in LOVE with Jade and chases her around trying to kiss her. I think this is ADORABLE, but Jade is appalled becuase of all things, this little boy is a "bad student". I mean - what could possibly be worse?