It’s almost that time of year again.  Yep back to school.  My wife is a teacher and after having the entire summer off she is not ready to get back to the daily grind.  I always remind her that I continue to work every day and she should be really lucky to have a few months off in the summer time.

I think in about 2 weeks she has to start going back daily to get her classroom ready.  She will need to dust and clean.  Get the textbooks organized and ready.  And then she will have to put on the final touches when she gets the list with kids names on them.

I think she is going with her Frog theme again this year.  It was really cool last year.  I know her mom is coming down to help her which she loves and I’m sure I will pitch in at least one night to help out.

I actually cannot believe it’s been this long..  I have been rather busy and there has been a lot going on this last month.  I have a lot to write about just don’t have a lot of time lately.

Here is a small list of things:

* Soccer season just started
* Weekend getaway to Fredericksburg, tx
* Trying to adopt a child

Over the next day or two I will post some write ups on these things..

At times I can have a lot of things going on.  Some things I can forget about and some I wait and procrastinate and wait till the last minute.  But last night despite the busy schedule I finally said forget it.  I grabbed my iPhone and put some music into my ears and just sat back and relaxed.  It was pretty nice.  I really don’t do that enough I think.

The last couple of weeks have been really long.  For starters my wife left on Thursday 11th to head up and help her mom take care of her dad during back surgery.  I know that took a lot out of her.  I think she is actually coming home today.  I hope so, I miss her.  We missed her birthday and our 8th Anniversary.  I love you Leslie…  We have had lots of soccer practices lately and in this heat it can wear you out.

A couple times I have tried to go out and do some clothes shopping, but wow I will be honest I hate it.  Not to mention things are just so expensive.  Maybe if I wouldn’t have bought the new iPhone it wouldn’t be so bad after all.

And finally, work is work after all.  I’m trying to get mentally prepared for a few big projects that might be coming up in the next few weeks.  Although I did want to start these back in March, it has taken this long to get what we needed configured on the hardware side and to get some good deals going.  For those who know IT work, we are getting ready to switch over to VMware on a blade server.  And I also have to get a new backup server prepped and ready to go and last but not least, learn server 2008 and exchange 2007 so we can migrate our existing email system.

See a lot going on huh?  Not to mention that I seem to need about 1 hour a night to play WoW.  I’m up to level 33 now.  Still a long ways to go to hit 80 and be elite like the others…  hehehe

I was talking with a friend/co-worker the other day about security systems, etc.  It turned out to be a good and lengthy discussion about it.  I guess what got us on the topic is all the work we have recently did getting out work place secure.  In the last few months we have installed 20 some regular cameras around various places inside and out started to use these systems to record activity, etc.   So we started talking about home systems and what there is to have at the home.  And there is quite a bit of options.   Of course there are the traditional cameras, like we just talked about.  There are various alarm systems out these days, including, wireless alarms.  And one can also get a really big and loud dog too.  Or a combination of all of them.  I also cannot forget the smoke detectors and carbon monoxide sensors.  I think those are a must.

It’s getting close to that time of year where my mom goes out on the weekends to bizarres and sets up shop for Saturday and sometimes Sundays to try and sell her home made earrings.  She used to do really well, but with the economy the way it is, we will see how well she does this year.  I have been trying to piece together a web site for her so she can try and sell them online.  That might help out also.  One thing that might benefit her is the use of a portable credit card machine.  That way she just take credit cards on site and that might attract more people.

I truely hope she has a good summer and sells a lot of goods..

Back  on Memorial day weekend we went up to Oklahoma to my wife’s parents house for Friday night and Saturday night.  We went to celebrate her grandmothers birthday and mine.  But the real emphasis was on Nany.

It was a little humid that day with a couple brief spats of sprinkles.  Then during the party I kept watching these cells building off in the distance which provided (in my opinion) awesome pictures.  It was kind of hard to pay close attention to the party.  Which for me was tough cause I love storms, storm structure, etc.

Here are a few pics from that day.

Last week we were short listed for a possible adoption of a 4 month old girl. We are 1 of 5 families that were picked to be potential parents. Our Agency advocate will meet with CPS tomorrow and find out more about the child and then show off our home study and our life book (scrap book) that we created. We have been praying ever since we found out about the short listing.

I’m not sure if they will actually make their decision tomorrow night but it’s a possibility. If we are awarded the adoption there is a good chance we will have her by this weekend or sometime next week. We are prepared and looking forward to this life changing addition that may be taking place. Sitting here thinking about it, I’m pretty excited at the chance and still extremely nervous at the same time. I’m not sure when the meeting is tomorrow, but I’m sure I will be thinking about it every minute tomorrow until I hear from our advocate.

I will update the blog of any possible news we get in the next few days.

We are trying to figure out what we should do this summer.  We usually make an annual trip up to Seattle to see my family.  Now we have or maybe I should say I have thought about it, but there is so much going on I’m not sure we can get away for at least one week and head up that way.  Also thought about checking out some Las Vegas hotels since my cousin still lives in Vegas. Hmmm, another idea was to head down south to Fredericksburg, Texas to a bed and breakfast. (I found a Gluten-free one)

I really wish we could go one a REAL vacation, but we are trying to save up as much money as possible since we are hopefully adopting a child this year.  Maybe we should just take a few short weekend trips, instead of expensive long range flights..  Hmmm  we will have to continue the debate on this one.